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Grand designs: Corruption risks in major water infrastructure projects

U4 Brief | Nov 2009

Multi-million dollar water infrastructure projects carry some of the largest corruption risks in the sector linked to the procurement of civil ...

natural resource management

"If men and women were equal, we would all simply be people" Gender and Poverty in Northern Mozambique

CMI Report | Dec 2009

This is the second report in the series ‘Gender Policies and Feminisation of Poverty in Mozambique’. While the first report went ...

Mozambique, Poverty

The impact of wealth and female autonomy on fertility decisions in Nepal: An econometric analysis

CMI Working Paper | Jul 2010

Over the last fifteen years, the fertility rate in Nepal has declined significantly. In the same period, the country has, despite political ...

DHS-data, Family planning, Fertility, Nepal

Afghan hydrocarbons: A source for development or for conflict? A risk assessment of Norwegian involvement in development of the Afghan oil and gas industry

CMI Report | Aug 2010

Norad has been engaged in capacity building and provision of technical support to the Afghan Ministry of Mines since 2007. A part of this engagement ...

Natural resources, Petroleum industry, Conflicts, Risk Assessment, Afghanistan, Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Political and cultural complexity

Book Chapter | Feb 2011

Why is it that we have not seen more positive results in Afghanistan since 2001? What are the major challenges, for the Afghans and for us? Security ...

Security for many or surplus for the few? Customary tenure and social differentiation in Southern Malawi

Journal Article | Mar 2009

It has been argued that the ambiguities in Malawian customary tenure may aggravate processes of social differentiation and class formation. ...

Malawi

Supporting child rights. Synthesis of lessons learned in four countries

Report in External Series | May 2011

This evaluation was commissioned jointly by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) and the Swedish International Development ...

Child rights, Guatemala, Kenya, Mozambique, Sudan

Supporting child rights: Synthesis of lessons learned in four countries

Report in External Series | Feb 2011

This evaluation was commissioned jointly by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) and the Swedish International Development ...

child rights, civil society, mainstreaming, targeting, Guatemala, Kenya, Mozambique, Sudan

Developing an NGO corruption risk management system: Considerations for donors

U4 Issue | Sep 2011

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are often on the front line of aid delivery, managing a significant proportion of aid funds. The risk ...

aid

Real-time evaluation of Norway's international climate and forest initiative. Contributions to a global REDD+ regime 2007-2010

Report in External Series | May 2011

This report is an output of the first iteration of a process of real-time evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative ...

Brazil, DR Congo, Indonesia, Tanzania

Evaluation. Support to development research

Report in External Series | Oct 2009

This evaluation of Finnish development research was commissioned by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (MFA), which supports (a) research ...

Finnish development aid, Development research, Evaluation, Commissioned research, Finland

Ten challenges in public construction. CEIC-CMI public sector transparency study

Angola Brief | Nov 2011

Nobody questions Angola’s need for infrastructure and housing – and compared to many other countries in the region, the level and ...

Angola

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

Exploring the relationship between socio-economic inequality, political instability and economic growth Why do we know so little?

CMI Working Paper | Feb 2012

The hypothesis that socio-economic inequality has a detrimental effect on economic growth by breeding political instability has been subject ...

Socio-economic inequality, Political instability, Economic growth, Investment, Gini variable, Diverging empirical findings, Methodological robustness, Measurement differences

A joint response to corruption in Uganda: Donors beginning to bite?

U4 Practice Insight | Mar 2012

Given the stagnating trend on corruption in Uganda and the need to consolidate accountability reforms ahead of the inflow of oil revenues, international ...

aid, Uganda

From "Enemies of the Revolution" to Unfulfilled Ideal: Private Industrial Entrepreneurs in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Book Chapter | Sep 2012

Private sector industrial entrepreneurs are usually perceived as “victims” of the Iranian revolution. This reading has been shaped ...

Iran

Destructive Competition: Factionalism and Rent Seeking in Iran

Journal Article | Jan 2008

The literature on the ‘‘resource curse’’ suggests that the quality of institutions determines a country’s ability ...

Un análisis de las reformas judiciales de la Argentina, Chile, y Uruguay

Journal Article | Jan 2003

This article is about judicial reform in the Southern Cone in the 1990s. It shows that for Argentina and Chile, procedural code reforms were ...

judicial reform, Supreme Court reform, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Americas: Argentina, Chile, Uruguay

Mainstreaming anti-corruption into sectors: Practices in U4 partner agencies

U4 Brief | Feb 2014

Integrating anti-corruption measures into sector work – known as mainstreaming – receives increased attention from the development ...

Collective donor responses: Barking or biting?

U4 Brief | Mar 2014

In 2006, the OECD Development Assistance Committee Ministers of Development expressed a desire to move towards more effective collective responses ...

aid