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Macro-economic effects of development plan expenditures. A framework for analysis, with special reference to Uganda

CMI Working Paper | Jan 1993

Development plans are mainly concerned with the financial aspects of development projects, while the economic aspects are often neglected. This ...

Development plans, Economic models, Development projects, Uganda

Mid term review of cooperation between Norway and Malawi in statistical development

Project | Jan - Apr 2006

The review shall comprise, but not necessary be limited to, the following tasks: Review how the terms and procedures related to administrative ...

Statistics, Economic Modelling, Economic Planning, Africa: Malawi

The ways of maize. Food, poverty, policy and the politics of meaning among the Chewa of Malawi

Doctoral Thesis | Aug 2012

This ethnographically grounded study of Chewa people’s foodways traces the involvement of the Chewa people in global development politics ...

Malawi

Comment évaluer la mise en oeuvre réelle des conventions de lutte contre la corruption: Leçons du continent Américain

U4 Issue | Jul 2009

La Convention des Nations Unies contre la corruption (CNUCC) est le plus abouti des traités internationaux de lutte contre la corruption. ...

Mécanisme de révision, convention anti-corruption, suivi de la convention, indicateurs de performance, CNUCC, IACAC, MESICIC, UNCAC, French

A Different Yardstick: The Gendered Political Discourse in Malawi

CMI Brief | Apr 2016

The 2014 election campaign in Malawi focussed on gender rather than facts. In this brief we argue that the campaign showed a strong, conservative, ...

election, Malawi, gender, Joyce Banda

The participatory aspects of poverty reduction strategies in Malawi and Zambia

Project | Oct 2002 - Dec 2003

In 2000 both Malawi and Zambia were pronounced as eligible for debt relief in terms of the Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) initiative under ...

Poverty reduction, Civil society, Participation, Policy-making, Africa: Malawi, Zambia

Why technology transfer and new industrial structures may accelerate economic development

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2001

Countries within a region often experience a similar rate of industrial development. Do foreign direct investments have any influence on this ...

Foreign direct investment (FDI), economic development, technology transfers

Aspects of androgyny

Book Chapter | Jan 1993

(Cross-cultural perspectives on women series vol. 8)

Afghanistan. A snapshot study

Book Chapter | Jan 2003

This study examines particular aspects of the overall Afghanistan mission. It represents a 'snapshot analysis' of the planning, establishment ...

UN, UN operations, UNAMA, conflict, post-war aid, relief, recovery, reconstruction, Asia: Afghanistan

Med rett til å drepe: Æresdrap i Midtøsten

Journal Article | Jan 2004

The article (in Norwegian) provides an overview of the legal and cultural aspects of honour killings in the Middle East. Based on ethnographic ...

honour killings, retributive justice, human rights, Middle East, Pakistan

From nation-building to popular culture: The modernization of performance in Tanzania

CMI Report | Jan 1995

This study focuses on Tanzania's efforts to use elements from ethnic expressive arts in political propaganda and in the creation of a national ...

Dance, Performing arts, Traditional culture, Theatre, Tanzania, Africa: Tanzania

The UN and post-crisis aid: Towards a more political economy

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2000

This paper reviews certain aspects of the post-crisis problem, as seen from within the UN. It outlines the wide variety in cases that fall within ...

Is it Wrong to Rank? A Critical Assessment of Corruption Indices

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2006

This paper emphasizes the importance of collecting information on corruption, while still stressing critical aspects of the most applied sources ...

Corruption, Index, Data

Dharma power: Searching for security in post-new order Indonesia

Book Chapter | Oct 2010

The chapter examines how security concerns are infiltrating new aspects of daily life in Indonesia, giving rise to new organisational forms ...

Indonesia

Zanzibari Islamic knowledge transmission revisited: Loss, lament, legacy, transmission - and transformation

Journal Article | Jan 2013

This article revisits aspects of knowledge transmission within the 20th century Islamic scholarly community in Zanzibar. It particularly adresses ...

Islam Tanzania Zanzibar Sufism, Tanzania, Zanzibar

Socio-economic effects of HIV/AIDS in African countries

CMI Report | Jan 2002

This desk study was commissioned by NORAD to review recent literature on socio-economic consequences of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan ...

HIV/AIDS, Social aspects, Economic aspects, Development aid, Africa: Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia

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

Introduction: Performing the State

Journal Article | Jul 2016

Seeking to expand the domain of the political beyond normative understandings of the state, the articles in this special edition examine the ...

Performance, governance, religion, militia, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Southeast Asia

The voice of China in Africa: media, communication technologies and image-building

Journal Article | Mar 2016

There is a fascination with the increasing economic and political importance of China in the global economy, in international ...

Media, soft power, Africa, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania

Dharma power: Searching for security in post-new order Indonesia

Journal Article | Aug 2009

Security concerns are creeping into new aspects of everyday life in Indonesia, resulting in new organizational forms and ways of perceiving ...

Dharma wisesa, ontological uncartainty, power, security, spirit, army, Indonesia