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Angola's rapid economic growth over the last decade has been driven almost exclusively by the oil sector: 98% of Angola’s exports are linked to this sector. Yet, Angola has also seen explosive growth of its financial sector. Why has the Angolan financial sector grown so rapidly? How are Angola’s natural resource sector and its finance sector linked? How does Angola’s financial sector interface with the global economy?

In this study of the political parties of Bangladesh we will assess the quality of the political parties and party coalitions along a number ...

The project started in 1992 and is financed by NORAD. The project provides technical assistance to the Tanzanian government in the budgetary ...

Citizens' access and right to information on local government budgets and accounts is often considered a necessary condition for good governance. ...

Trust in public finance: Citizens' view on taxation by local authorities in Tanzania Odd-Helge Fjel

Tanzania abolished school fees in primary schools as from 2002. This move was made possible because of shifts in the policy of major donors, ...

The growth of Africa's towns and cities has outpaced local authority capacity in terms of management, infrastructure, and financing. Many African ...

The growth of Africa's towns and cities has outpaced local authority capacity in terms of management, infrastructure, and financing. Many ...

On 27 December 2007 the fourth general elections were held since the democratic opening in the early 1990s. They were widely considered to be ...

What connections exist between natural resource wealth and violent conflict? What do such connections imply for policies to build peace in resource-rich ...

This is an evaluation of the Released Prisoners' Project (RPP) in Rwanda, a project that was financed and facilitated by the Norwegian Church ...

Coffee is one of the most important Third World export commodities, and 70% of the producers are small-scale farmers. Coffee producers are often ...

In urban Africa, informal employment constitutes 90 per cent of all new jobs. Informal work is characterised by being unrecognised, unprotected ...

The issue of so-called “tax havens” is controversial and has been on the international political agenda with interest peaking at ...

The Afghan Ministry of Education estimates that there are presently 8.35 million students (39% of which are girls) in primary, lower secondary, ...

Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys, or PETS, are recognised as an effective tool to improve accountability in public finance and service delivery. ...

An effective tax system is required to implement and finance current government policies of diversifying the Angolan economy and providing quality ...

High levels of faith and finance have been invested in REDD+ as a promising global climate change mitigation policy. Since its inception in ...

All societies develop their own norms about what is fair behaviour and what is not. Violations of these norms, including acts of corruption, ...