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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