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The institutional impact of aid dependence on recipients in Africa

CMI Working Paper | Jan 1999

Heavy aid dependence can have significant effects on institutions and governance. In Botswana, Mauritius, Korea and Taiwan, high levels of aid ...

Africa: Sub-Saharan Africa

Controlling fiscal corruption. Theoretical approaches and illustrations from Tanzania

CMI Working Paper | Jan 1999

The primary concern of this paper is to discuss the role of various economic factors in explaining corruption in tax administration. The emphasis ...

Africa: Tanzania

Angola 1999/2000. Key Development Issues and National Research Capacity

CMI Report | Jan 2000

This is the first report on Angola under the Country Advisor Agreement between the Norwegian Agency for Development Co-operation (NORAD), the ...

Angola, Political economy, Social sciences, Africa: Angola

Intergovernmental fiscal relations in developing countries. A review of issues

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2001

Fiscal decentralisation - the devolution of taxing and spending powers to lower levels of government - has become an important theme of governance ...

Energy cooperation in Southern Africa: What role for Norway?

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2002

This Working Paper contains a full report from a Seminar on Regional Energy Co-operation, Luanda, 12-14 February 2002. Norwegian involvement ...

Africa: SADC

To Pay or not to Pay? Citizens' Views on Taxation by Local Authorities in Tanzania

Report in External Series | Jan 2006

Widespread tax evasion reflected in persistent public resistance to pay is seen as part of the problem of raising local government revenues ...

Taxation, Local government, Tanzania

Does Social Development affect Poverty? The Role of Participation in Income Dynamics in Indonesia 1993-2000

CMI Report | Jan 2005

The objective of this study is to assess whether there are any effects on household income changes and poverty reduction in Indonesia from living ...

Income, Household income, Poverty reduction, Indonesia

Food security as a political issue: the 2009 elections in Malawi

Journal Article | Mar 2011

African electorates are expected to use non-evaluative rationales, like patronage and ethnicity, when casting their vote. In famine-struck countries ...

Food Security, Elections, Poverty, Africa, Malawi

Implementers or Governors? The Expanding Role for Private Military and Security Companies within the Peace Operations Network

Journal Article | Jan 2014

This article explores the role of private security and military companies within the wider confinements of peace operations governance. To do ...

Malawi: A Political Economy Analysis

Report in External Series | Jan 2017

This report provides a comprehensive political economy analysis of contemporary Malawi. The country epitomises the primacy of patrimonial politics ...

The Impact of elections: The case of Uganda

Book Chapter | Jan 2017

The comparative democratization literature is divided on the effects of multiparty elections in non - democratic regimes. Early analyses assumed ...

Elections, Authoritarian regimes, Crises, Uganda

Midterm Evaluation of NPA-Cambodia Office's Development Programme

Commissioned Report | May 2018

This report presents the findings, conclusion and recommendations of a mid-term evaluation of Norwegian People's Aid's (NPA) development programme ...

Development aid, civil society, Norwegian NGO, Norway, Cambodia

Corruption in Montenegro 2007: Overview over Main Problems and Status of Reforms

CMI Report | Sep 2007

Despite the impressive figures that point to a booming economy (with real GDP growth unofficially projected by the EBRD at 7% in 2007), not ...

Corruption, Montenegro

Mid-Term Review of the Country Programme (MoU: 2003:2008) between Norway and Bangladesh

CMI Report | May 2008

This report provides an assessment of Norway's bilateral development assistance to Bangladesh, covering the period 2003 to 2007, based on information ...

Development aid, Aid evaluation, Bangladesh, Norway

Can the Sudan Achieve the MDGs Given its Past and Present Expenditures Allocation Patterns?

Sudan Report | Jul 2008

In recent years there has been enormous concern about whether or not the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs) and non-HIPCs will be able to ...

Sudan

Shady traffic: Part three: Review of the portefolio supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on combating trafficking in human beings

Report in External Series | Feb 2009

As a response to the growing international and national focus on combating human trafficking, Norway developed its first action plan on trafficking ...

trafficking, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia

Rukwa Ruka. The attempt of a foreign donor to uplift a neglected region: A study of the impact of Norwegian aid to Rukwa Region, Tanzania

CMI Report | Oct 2009

From 1978 to 1996 a close link existed between one of Tanzania’s least developed regions and Norway. Norway provided aid to the tune of ...

Tanzania, Aid impact, Rural development, Norwegian aid

Benefits and drawbacks of per diems: Do allowances distort good governance in the health sector?

U4 Brief | Nov 2009

Per diems, or daily allowances, are an important mechanism for reimbursing work‑related expenses, encouraging participation in professional ...

corruption in aid, health

The Politics of Women's Representation in Sudan: Debating Women's Rights in Islam from the Elites to the Grassroots

CMI Report | Mar 2010

The international discourse on gender and peacebuilding presupposes a common agenda among all women across religion, ethnicity and class in ...

Sudan, Women, Islam, Peacebuilding

Courts and power in Latin America and Africa

Book | Mar 2010

Why do courts hold political power-holders accountable in some democratic and democratizing countries, but not in others? And, why do ...

Courts, power, political accountability