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Bistand og næringsutvikling. Noen kommentarer til St.meld. Nr. 19 (1995-96)

CMI Working Paper | Jan 1996

The recent White Paper on Norwegian north-south policy (St. meld. nr. 19 (1995-96)) argues for an increased tying of Norwegian development assistance. ...

Elite behaviour and citizen mobilization

Journal Article | May 2019

This paper studies the relation between self-serving elite behaviour and citizen political participation. We use a fixed effects approach to ...

Elites, citizens, portfolio investment, tax havens, voter turnout, political economy

Teachers and Taxis: Corruption in the Education Sector in Honduras

U4 Brief | May 2008

Honduras invests large sums in education,but powerful teachers' unions and political appointments hinder reforms in a sector vulnerable to corruption ...

education, english, corruption, Honduras, Honduras

Regional variation in livelihood strategies in Malawi

CMI Working Paper | Aug 2009

Livelihood strategies are identified at the household level as a function of assets held, using survey data. Only endowments that are likely ...

Livelihoods, Non-farm employment, Multinomial-logit, Malawi, , Jel-classification: D130, O120, Q120

Addressing corruption in the health sector: Securing equitable access to health care for everyone

U4 Issue | Jan 2011

The development community is striving to achieve results and value for money with its investments in health around the world. Yet, donors ...

health, corruption

China and Angola - Strategic partnership or marriage of convenience?

CMI Brief | Feb 2011

In 2004 Angola’s Ministry of Finance and China’s Ministry of Trade signedthe first of several financing packages for public investment ...

trade, fdi, oil, financing, Angola, China

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

Taking stock of the tax reform process in Angola, and why tax incentives should be avoided

Angola Brief | Jun 2012

Angola is currently implementing a tax reform. The main objective of the reform is to increase non-oil tax revenues by broadening the tax base, ...

Angola

Poverty reduction through microbusiness

CMI Brief | Nov 2012

Microbusiness can be an effective way out of poverty. Returns to capital for microbusinesses in poor rural areas can be so high that people ...

Nepal

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

Competitive in the lab, successful in the field?

Journal Article | Jan 2015

A number of lab experiments in recent years have analyzed people’s willingness to com-pete. But to what extent is competitive behavior ...

Corporate Social Responsibility in Islamic Economies – the Case of Sudan

Sudan Working Paper | May 2016

Introduction Since the 1950s, there has been a growing international awareness of the need for business organizations to commit to a social ...

economy, Corporate Social Responsibility, Islam, ethics, philantropy, Sudan

Business Climate Surveys: Experiences from Ghana, Mozambique, and South Africa

U4 Brief | Feb 2008

Improving the Business and Investment Climate (BIC) has become an important topic in the international discourse on private sector development. ...

corruption, anti-corruption, private sector, Ghana, Mozambique, South Africa

Should developing countries establish petroleum funds?

Journal Article | Jun 2018

Many natural resource abundant countries have established sovereign wealth funds as part of their strategy of managing the resource wealth. ...

Fiscal policy, extractive industries, resource curse, sovereign wealth fund

Benefit Streams from Mining in Tanzania: Case Studies from Geita and Mererani

CMI Report | Jan 2006

Tanzania is a 'new' mining country, and foreign investment in the mining sector has caused controversies. Government revenues from mining increased ...

Mining industry, Gold mines, Natural resources management, Corporate social responsibility, Tanzania

Elite behaviour and citizen mobilization

CMI Working Paper | Aug 2015

This paper studies the relation between self-serving elite behaviour and citizen political participation. We use a fixed effects approach to ...

Elites, citizens, portfolio investment, tax havens, voter turnout, political economy

Development success in perspective: A political economy of REDD+ and corruption in Vietnam

U4 Issue | Jan 2016

Vietnam has become a key target for donor REDD+ investments. It has been estimated that the forest and climate scheme could generate an annual ...

Should Tanzania establish a sovereign wealth fund?

CMI Working Paper | Jul 2016

Abstract Many natural resource abundant countries have established sovereign wealth funds as part of their strategy of managing the resource ...

Fiscal policy, extractive industries, resource curse, sovereign wealth fund, Tanzania

Norwegian aid to food security, nutrition and agriculture

CMI Report | Jan 2018

The report reviews available research on the links between agriculture and the rest of the economy, with a focus on structural adjustment and ...

Norwegian aid, Food security, Nutrition, Agriculture, Malawi, South-Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa

Peacebuilding in Africa

Event | 22 Mar 2006

The founder and executive director of ACCORD, Mr Vasu Gounden, and the programme manager of ACCORD's peace and security unit, Mr Kwezi Mngqibiza, is visiting CMI on March 21 and 22. Their seminar presentation will focus on Africa: Destination for Conflict Resolution or Investment? and the African Union and Conflict Management: Lessons Learnt