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Casting the Net Wider: Human Rights, Development and New Duty-Bearers

Edited Book | Dec 2007

This edited volume brings together scholars and practitioners to address the question as to whether, in our globalised world, the protection ...

Human rights, Developing countries

Why multi-stakeholder groups succeed and fail

Book Chapter | Jan 2011

Theories of corruption incidence hold that sectors with a high degree of complexity are particularly prone to corruption because it is difficult ...

Corruption

Donor Support to Political Parties: Status and Principles

CMI Report | Jul 2007

Political parties are indispensable for the functioning of liberal democracies. However, the political parties of many transitional and developing ...

Corruption, Political corruption, Politics, Public finance

Myopic preferences or subsistence income? Why do rickshaw cyclists rent the cycle?

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2012

One year rent is sufficient to buy a rickshaw in the plains of Nepal, while a rickshaw will last many years, so purchase appears very profitable. ...

Investment behavior, Poverty, Time-preferences, Nepal

Hunting for Per Diem: The Uses and Abuses of Travel Compensation in Three Developing Countries

Report in External Series | Apr 2012

Cash is a great incentive. The last decade has seen a boom in various forms of cash incentive programmes, from the conditional cash transfer ...

Tanzania, Ethiopia, Malawi

Economic Prospects for Ethiopia and Challenges for Poverty Reduction

CMI Report | Jan 2006

The report analyses Ethiopia's economic performance and expected future development. The economic growth rate is likely to remain high despite ...

Economic growth, Poverty reduction, Ethiopia

Contrôler l'aide à la coopération : enseignements tirés d'un programme sur les ressources naturelles en Tanzanie

U4 Practice Insight | Jan 2011

Cette publication s’intéresse à la décision de l’ambassade de Norvège en 2006 d’évaluer ...

natural resource management, Tanzania

Maximising the efficiency and impact of Supreme Audit Institutions through engagement with other stakeholders

U4 Issue | Aug 2013

The effectiveness of Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) is not determined solely by resources and capacity levels. A range of other factors ...

Accountability, Audit, Audit cycle, Media, NGO, Parliament, People's engagement, , Public financial management, Public participation, Public resources, Supreme Audit Institution, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia

For the love of God: Care-giving in the Middle East

Journal Article | Nov 2010

In Jerusalem in the 1960s two nuns belonging to the Polish Order of the Sisters of St. Elizabeth experienced a calling to help relieve the suffering ...

care giving, gift, orphans, resilience, war, Israel

Tax and development: Donor support to strengthen tax systems in developing countries

Journal Article | Jan 2014

Recent years have seen a growing interest among donors on taxation in developing countries. This reflects a concern for domestic revenue mobilisation ...

Tax policy, tax reform, tax administration, tax effort, technical assistance, Sub-Saharan Africa

Fighting corruption in anti-deforestation programmes: The case of REDD+

Newspaper Op-Ed | Jan 2015

The protection of tropical forests is a hot topic, particularly in light of the pressing threat of global climate change. The 2014 UN Climate ...

REDD+, forest governance, climate governance, corruption, anti-corruption

Revenue authorities and public authority in sub-Saharan Africa

Journal Article | Jan 2009

Since the early 1990s, many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have established semi-autonomous revenue authorities (ARAs), organisationally distinct ...

Taxation, Tax administration, State authority

What's trust got to do with it? Non-payment of service charges in local authorities in South Africa

Journal Article | Jan 2004

A major financial problem in many municipalities in South Africa is the inadequate collection of service charges due to widespread non-payment. ...

Public finance , Service charges, Trust, Compliance, Local government, South Africa

Saving by Default: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India

Report in External Series | Mar 2015

A growing share of the world population is getting access to a formal bank account. This allows a move from cash to account based payments. ...

Savings, Finance, Behavioral Economics, Default, India, India

REDD Integrity: An evidence based approach to anti-corruption in REDD+

U4 Issue | Mar 2015

Schemes for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) have emerged as a means to address deforestation trends in ...

REDD+, corruption, anti-corruption, forest governance

National-level corruption risks and mitigation strategies in the implementation of REDD+ in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: An overview of the current situation

U4 Issue | Apr 2015

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the first REDD+ target countries due its huge forest ecosystem potential. Since 2011, the ...

REDD+, Forest governance, Anti-corruption, Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, natural resource management, Democratic Republic of Congo

The Financial Action Task Force: An introduction

U4 Brief | Jan 2015

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is a Paris-based intergovernmental organization that was founded with the objective of promoting effective ...

international drivers of corruption

Experiences with Results-Based Payments in Norwegian Development Aid

Report in External Series | Jun 2015

The aim of this report is to summarize the experiences from results-based initiatives in Norwegian development cooperation and enhance the knowledge ...

When the terrain does not fit the map: Local government taxation in Africa

Book Chapter | Jun 2015

Fiscal decentralisation – the devolution of revenue mobilisation and spending powers to lower levels of government – has become ...

Taxation, local government, fiscal decentralisation, Sub-Saharan Africa

Clustering as an organizational response to capital market inefficiency: evidence from microenterprises in Ethiopia

Journal Article | Mar 2014

Absence of a well-developed capital market has been listed as a key obstacle to industrialization in developing countries in the development ...

Microenterprises, Finance, Entry barrier, Clustering, Africa, Ethiopia