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Do you want to write your MA thesis at CMI?
News | 15 May 2012
CMI offers private working space in an inspiring and challenging environment with dedicated development researchers and a specialized development studies library.
Angola’s Financial Sector: A Roundtable Report
News | 30 Oct 2015
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?
The Political Parties in Bangladesh: Political Dynasties and Democratisation
Project | Sep 2010 - Dec 2013
In this study of the political parties of Bangladesh we will assess the quality of the political parties and party coalitions along a number ...
Political parties, good governance, politics, clientelism, political finance, Bangladesh
Macroeconomic management in Tanzania
Project | Jan 1996 - Jan 2000
The project started in 1992 and is financed by NORAD. The project provides technical assistance to the Tanzanian government in the budgetary ...
Citizens' access to information on local government finances.
Report in External Series | Jan 2004
Citizens' access and right to information on local government budgets and accounts is often considered a necessary condition for good governance. ...
Infomation dissemination, Local government, Budgets, Africa: Tanzania
Trust in public finance: Citizens' view on taxation by local authorities in Tanzania
Report in External Series | Jan 2004
Trust in public finance: Citizens' view on taxation by local authorities in Tanzania Odd-Helge Fjel
Africa: Tanzania
Exploring the Research-Policy Linkage: The Case of Reforms in Financing Primary Education in Tanzania
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2006
Tanzania abolished school fees in primary schools as from 2002. This move was made possible because of shifts in the policy of major donors, ...
Educational policy, Development, Role of research, User fees, Tanzania
Local Revenue Mobilization in Urban Settings in Africa
Book Chapter | Jan 2006
The growth of Africa's towns and cities has outpaced local authority capacity in terms of management, infrastructure, and financing. Many African ...
Taxation, fiscal decentralisation, urbanisation, Africa
Local Revenue Mobilization in Urban Setttings in Africa
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2006
The growth of Africa's towns and cities has outpaced local authority capacity in terms of management, infrastructure, and financing. Many ...
Local government, Decentralization, Urbanization, Taxes, Business licenses, User fees, Africa, Tanzania
"I Acted Under a Lot of Pressure": The Disputed 2007 Kenyan General Election in Context
Report in External Series | Aug 2008
On 27 December 2007 the fourth general elections were held since the democratic opening in the early 1990s. They were widely considered to be ...
Elections, Kenya, electoral violence, campaign financing, political party manifestos, Kenya
Natural resource wealth, conflict, and peacebuilding
Report in External Series | Feb 2009
What connections exist between natural resource wealth and violent conflict? What do such connections imply for policies to build peace in resource-rich ...
Natural resource management, natural resource wealth, resource curse, rentier state, oil, diamonds, armed conflict, war economies, conflict financing, CSR, peacebuilding
Evaluation of the Released Prisoners' Project in Rwanda
Report in External Series | Jan 2005
This is an evaluation of the Released Prisoners' Project (RPP) in Rwanda, a project that was financed and facilitated by the Norwegian Church ...
reconciliation, development aid, peacebuilding, Africa: Rwanda
Coffee, co-operatives and competition: The impact of fair trade
CMI Report | Jan 2004
Coffee is one of the most important Third World export commodities, and 70% of the producers are small-scale farmers. Coffee producers are often ...
Fair Trade, Coffee, Co-operatives, Developing countries, Case studies, Mexico, Americas: Mexico
When women grow wings: Gender relations in the informal economy of Kampala
CMI Report | Jan 2003
In urban Africa, informal employment constitutes 90 per cent of all new jobs. Informal work is characterised by being unrecognised, unprotected ...
Gender, urbanization, micro credit, taxation, Africa: Uganda
En skattepolitisk konfrontasjon med skatteparadiser. Det norske Finansdepartementets narrativ om nasjonalpolitisk avmakt i møte med et globalt fenomen 1970-2012
Master's Thesis | Sep 2012
The issue of so-called “tax havens” is controversial and has been on the international political agenda with interest peaking at ...
Financing education in Afghanistan: Opportunities for action
Report in External Series | Jan 2015
The Afghan Ministry of Education estimates that there are presently 8.35 million students (39% of which are girls) in primary, lower secondary, ...
Education, Afghanistan
Following the Money: do Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys matter?
U4 Issue | Dec 2008
Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys, or PETS, are recognised as an effective tool to improve accountability in public finance and service delivery. ...
Corruption, Public Expenditure Tracking, PETS, public financial management and procurement
Why collect local taxes in oil rich Angola? ... and the challenges of doing so
Angola Brief | Jun 2011
An effective tax system is required to implement and finance current government policies of diversifying the Angolan economy and providing quality ...
Angola
Will REDD+ safeguards mitigate corruption? Qualitative evidence from Southeast Asia
Journal Article | Jul 2019
High levels of faith and finance have been invested in REDD+ as a promising global climate change mitigation policy. Since its inception in ...
REDD+, , Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam
Corruption, grabbing and development: Real world challenges
Edited Book | Jan 2014
All societies develop their own norms about what is fair behaviour and what is not. Violations of these norms, including acts of corruption, ...
Grabbing, Corruption, Development Aid, Accountability, Utilities, Construction, Ports, Extractive Industries, Finance, Health, Pharmaceuticals, Education, Law Enforcement, Land, Elections