Search results

A review of Norwegian evaluations

Project | Mar - Dec 2007

The Norad strategy announces the decision to prepare an annual report on the results of Norwegian foreign aid, a report that is due in late ...

The country boats of Bangladesh. Social and economic development and decision-making in inland water transport

DERAP Publication | Jan 1985

The country boats of Bangladesh. Social and economic development and decision-making in inland wate

Asia: Bangladesh

The country boats of Bangladesh, social and economic development and decision-making in inland water transport

Book | Jan 1989

The country boats of Bangladesh, social and economic development and decision-making in inland wate

Asia: Bangladesh

The role of participation and empowerment in income and poverty dynamics in Indonesia 1993-2000

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2004

The objective of this study is to assess whether living in a community that has a more democratic decision making system or in a society with ...

Household income, Poverty reduction, Indonesia

Turnaround: The National Resistance Movement and the Re-introduction of a Multiparty System in Uganda

CMI Working Paper | Dec 2007

This article addresses the process behind the National Resistance Movement's (NRM) decision to open for a reintroduction of multiparty politics. ...

Political systems, National resistance, Elections, Uganda

The Impact of wealth and female autonomy on fertility decisions in Nepal: an econometric analysis

Master's Thesis | Jun 2010

The Impact of wealth and female autonomy on fertility decisions in Nepal: an econometric analysis

Dealing with politics for money and power in infrastructure

Report in External Series | Dec 2010

Policy recommendations for infrastructure provision usually build on a well-established understanding of best practice for sector governance. ...

Political economy, sector governance, infrastructure, corruption

When "participation" isn't participatory: current health reforms in colombia

Journal Article | Jan 2009

Colombia is a country marked by extreme social inequalities and high levels of violence, with a government that has brutally repressed social ...

Shifting cultivation expansion and intensity of production: The open economy case

CMI Working Paper | Jan 1994

This paper studies decision making in shifting cultivation, in particular labour inputs, length of rotation or fallow period (intensity of production), ...

Cannibalism and the optimal sharing of the North-East Atlantic cod stock: A computation model

CMI Working Paper | Jan 1998

This paper shows how intra-stock relations, such as cannibalism and growth enhancement, define the optimal sharing of a fish resource between ...

Bioeconomics, Cooperatives, Fishery resources, Cod, Harvesting, Norway, Russia

Korrupsjon. En studie av skatteadministrasjonen i Tanzania

CMI Report | Jan 1998

The primary concern of this study is to discuss the role of various economic factors in explaining the causes, consequences and scope of fiscal ...

Corruption, Public administration, Tax collection, Tanzania, Jel classification codes: E62, H1, H3, K4, N4, Africa: Tanzania

Corruption in petroleum - within and beyond the sector

Book Chapter | Mar 2012

This paper addresses corruption in the governance of petroleum and underscores the importance of treating this problem as a result of factors ...

Corruption, natural resources, capital flight

Business Corruption, Uncertainty and Risk Aversion

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2006

The presence of business-corruption in a market provokes firms to make choices between legal business approaches and illegal bribery. The outcome ...

Rent-seeking, Corruption, Firms, Risk, JEL D81, F23, K40

Usufructuary Mortgages as a Source of Funds in Need: Some Theory and an Empirical Investigation

Report in External Series | Apr 2017

The usufruct mortgage has received little attention from economists. This paper develops and analyzes a theoretical framework in which the borrower, ...

India

Health rights litigation and access to medicines: Priority classification of successful cases from Costa Rica’s constitutional chamber of the supreme court

Journal Article | Jan 2014

Although Costa Rica has no explicit constitutional right to health, its constitutional chamber of the Supreme Court (Sala IV) has become increasingly ...

Costa Rica

End-review Norwegian Embassy Support to the Blue Diamond Society, Nepal

Commissioned Report | Jul 2018

This report presents the findings, conclusion and recommendations of an end-review of the second phase (2015-2018) of the Norwegian Embassy ...

development aid, , health, LBGTI, civil society, Nepal

Ethiopia. The challenge of democracy from below

Edited Book | Jan 2002

Constitutionally Ethiopia is a federal democratic state although in practice it is dominated by one political coalition. The opposition parties ...

Strengthening Nordic development cooperation in and with Afghanistan

Report in External Series | Mar 2009

The meeting of the Nordic Foreign Ministers in Stockholm on 18 April 2008 adopted a Plan of Action for Nordic Cooperation in Afghanistan to ...

Afghanistan

The impact of the international financial crisis on the economy of the Sudan

Sudan Report | May 2009

The ongoing international financial crisis has forced experts, economists, politicians, and decision-makers to assess what is happening and ...

Sudan

The impact of wealth and female autonomy on fertility decisions in Nepal: An econometric analysis

CMI Working Paper | Jul 2010

Over the last fifteen years, the fertility rate in Nepal has declined significantly. In the same period, the country has, despite political ...

DHS-data, Family planning, Fertility, Nepal