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Rethinking access. Key methodological challenges in studying energy companies.
Journal Article | Jan 2018
Understanding the role of large energy corporations in society is a crucial, yet challenging task for the social science of energy. Ethnographic ...
Energy, Corporate social responsibility, Multi-sited ethnography, Access, Positionality, Tanzania, Turkey, Norway, Brazil
Comparing peer-based anti-corruption missions in Kosovo and Guatemala
U4 Issue | May 2019
International missions brought foreign experts to help local partners tackle corruption and organised crime in Kosovo and Guatemala. With unprecedented ...
Kosovo, Guatemala
Transparency in Health Programmes
U4 Brief | May 2008
Transparency is an important tool for good governance, helping to expose abusive practices including fraud, patronage, corruption, and other ...
corruption, health sector
Strengthening Nordic development cooperation in and with Afghanistan
Report in External Series | Mar 2009
The meeting of the Nordic Foreign Ministers in Stockholm on 18 April 2008 adopted a Plan of Action for Nordic Cooperation in Afghanistan to ...
Afghanistan
Responding to the challenges of supreme audit institutions: Can legislatures and civil society help?
U4 Issue | Feb 2009
The gaps between approved budgets and the realisation of policy and development goals stand among key governance challenges in many developing ...
Supreme Audit Institution, external audit, financial audit, compliance audit, performance audit, audit, public resources, accountability, public financial management and procurement
Faryab Survey Comparison of Findings from Maymane, 2006 and 2009
CMI Report | Feb 2009
This is a follow-up to an earlier survey conducted in Maymane district by the Organization for Sustainable Development and Research (OSDR) during ...
Afghanistan
Understanding the Private Side of Corruption: New Kinds of Transparency, New Roles for Donors
U4 Brief | Oct 2007
Do we know enough about corruption in the private sector? This Brief discusses gaps in our knowledge and how donors can help tackle the problem. ...
private sector, corruption, World
Approaches to teaching and learning about corruption in the health sector
U4 Brief | Dec 2009
Training and education programmes which deal with the topic of corruption and health can help change the way people approach their jobs as public ...
anti-corruption, health sector
Whistleblowing in the financial industry: The right means to curb illicit flows from developing countries?
U4 Brief | Mar 2011
Information provided by insiders can contribute to the goal of reducing illicit capital flight from developing countries. It helps address one ...
international drivers of corruption
Review of and recommendations for Norwegian support to good governance in Pakistan
Report in External Series | May 2011
The report introduces a theoretical framework for analysis, and then discusses how Pakistan and Norway define governance and good governance ...
good governance, Pakistan
How to make rural jobs more attractive to health workers. Findings from a discrete choice experiment in Tanzania
Journal Article | Sep 2011
The geographical imbalance of the health workforce in Tanzania represents a serious problem when it comes to delivering crucial health services ...
human resources for health, discrete choice experiments, rural-urban imbalances, Tanzania, Tanzania
The Proxy Challenge: Why bespoke proxy indicators can help solve the anti-corruption measurement problem
U4 Brief | Jul 2013
Practitioners working in anti-corruption face perennial challenges in measuring changes in corruption levels and evaluating whether anti-corruption ...
evaluation measurement
Capital flight from Africa - with a little help from the banks
Book Chapter | Jan 2014
Africa is a source of large-scale capital flight. The purpose of this paper is to shed light on how banks facilitate capital flight from Africa. ...
Capital flight, illicit capital flows, international finance, banking sector, Africa
Angola: negative peace and autocracy in the shadow of impunity
Book Chapter | Apr 2015
Angola has not addressed violations committed during almost three decades of war following independence, in which hundreds of thousands of people ...
transitional justice, democracy, peace, human rights violations, accountability, conflict, post-conflict, Angola
Understanding effects of corruption on law enforcement and environmental crime
Report in External Series | Dec 2019
Law enforcement agencies monitor and enforce laws that protect landscapes,
seascapes, and the species that inhabit them. Corruption helps violators ...
Anti-corruption, law enforcement, environmental crime, impunity, legal sanctions
Reducing bribery for public services delivered to citizens
U4 Brief | Nov 2015
The literature on corruption tends to focus on grand corruption for contracts and licenses worth large sums of money. However, 1.6 billion people ...
petty bribes, service delivery, public sector, anti-corruption approaches in sector work
Beyond 'zero tolerance'
Newspaper Op-Ed | Jun 2016
Some donor interventions, like supporting public financial management, seem to help combat corruption. Others are ineffective. This opinion article ...
Anti-corruption, aid effectiveness, corruption risk assessment, corruption risk management, development policy, foreign policy, economic policy, zero-tolerance policy
The Gatekeepers: Political Participation of Women in Malawi
CMI Brief | Aug 2016
All over the world, there are gatekeepers with the power to facilitate – or restrict – peoples’ access. We have studied the ...
women, politics, political parties, Malawi
Petro-Governance in Tanzania: Opportunities and Challenges
CMI Brief | Oct 2016
Recent significant natural gas discoveries have pushed Tanzania into the international spotlight as a new petroleum producer. How can the country ...
oil, petroleum, gas, economy, Tanzania
Trading in corruption: Evidence and mitigation measures for corruption in the trading of oil and minerals
U4 Issue | Jun 2017
Between 2011 and 2013, sales of government oil from the ten biggest producers in sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 56% of these countries’ ...
natural resource management, oil, minerals, resource curse, commodity trading, corruption, national oil companies, state-owned enterprises, extractive revenue misappropriation