Angola’s capital Luanda is a city of stark inequalities and contrasts. While it offers opportunities and wealth for the few, people in ...

A capital de Angola, Luanda, é uma cidade com fortes desigualdades e contrastes. Embora ofereça oportunidades e riqueza para uns ...

This article explores how working women in Sudan's capital negotiate legal constraints placing them under the guardianship of their husbands, ...

Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has granted 15 million NOK to fund a three-year research and capacity building programme between CMI and the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) focusing on Inclusive Growth and Good Governance.

In the biannual Bergen Seminar in Development Economics, Professor Clive Bell of Heidelberg University, will talk about a rural roads program in India. Professor Basanta Pradhan of IEG-Delhi will discuss transfers from the central government to the states of India. There will also be two papers on entrepreneurial success, by Professor Mirjam van Praag from University of Amsterdam and Ivar Kolstad, CMI.

A thwarted industrial policy, poor economic governance and external tensions have brought Iran's industrial class to the brink of extinction. They are trapped in between the revolutionary rhetoric of the Islamic republic and unfulfilled attempts of economic pragmatism.

This project aims to study the policies, practices and impact of humanitarian diplomacy (HD) as conducted by select state actors that are new ...

This report, commissioned by the Southern Africa trust, seeks to present and analyse policies and prasctices in donor support to civil society ...

The U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre is a permanent, donor-funded centre that promotes a better understanding of anti-corruption ...

This study identified and analysed current trends in donor support to civil society in Southern Africa with a particular emphasis on how aid ...

This is the 5th annual seminar in cooperation with UNDP focusing on critical themes for policy development in UNDP. The 2005 seminar took the ...

In September 2000, the international community set for itself a series of ambitious Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and attendant targets. ...

This project explores the facts behind the buzzwords 'globalisation' and 'the new economy'. In general we associate these concepts with a borderless ...

The project builds on recent empirical evidence suggesting the importance of strategic donor behaviour for aid allocation to develop theoretical ...

The present decade will be the worst ever with regard to AIDS morbidity and mortality in Africa. The exception is Uganda, which was early at ...

After years of drought, the water levels of Lake Malawi and Shire River have decreased considerably, which may in its turn have dramatic consequences ...

At lunchtime 25 April Nepal was struck by a devastating earthquake. Following high death tolls, numerous charitable organisations scurried to the South Asian country in order to provide humanitarian aid on the ground. The United Nations alone made a flash appeal for close to half a billion USD in emergency support.

Channing Arndt is a Professor of Economics at the University of Copenhagen and the leader of the climate change pillar at the World Institute for Development Economics Research. He will present recent approaches developed for analyzing the implications of climate change and appropriate policy responses.

Donors often depend on middlemen and local partners in aid and humanitarian operations. A number of incidents have shown that being dependent ...

Name: Merima Ali Research interests: Micro- and small-scale enterprises, cluster development and informal networks Geographical areas: Ethiopia ...