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Integrity Building and Social Norms in Kosovo’s Municipalities

Book Chapter | Jan 2018

Why do 'integrity building' interventions in development settings rarely induce governance practices that are consistent with the standards set out in ...

Prostitute as metaphor in gender construction; a Gambian setting

CMI Report | Jan 1990

Prostitute as metaphor in gender construction; a Gambian setting Heidi Skramstad CMI Report heidi

Gender and Violence in Post-Conflict Settings

Book Chapter | Nov 2019

Gender and Violence in Post-Conflict Settings Torunn Wimpelmann Handbook on Gender and Violence Laur

Lifetime QALY prioritarianism in priority setting: Quantification of the inherent trade-off

Journal Article | Jan 2014

Background Multiple principles are relevant in priority setting, two of which are often considered particularly important. According to the greater benefit ...

Priority setting, Prioritarianism, Cost-effectiveness, Equity weights, Quality-adjusted life years, Political philosophy, Empirical ethics

Impact of mangement scenarios and fisheries gear selectivity on the potential economic gains from Namibian hake

CMI Working Paper | Jan 1999

This paper develops a model for Namibian hake, which incorporates the biology, gear selectivity and the economics of the hake fisheries in a framework ...

Africa: Namibia

Non-resource taxation in a resource-rich setting

Book Chapter | Nov 2019

Non-resource taxation in a resource-rich setting Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Cornel Jahari, Donald Mmari an

Tanzania

Revenue Authorities and State Capacity in Anglophone Africa

CMI Working Paper | Feb 2008

Since the early 1990s, many countries in Anglophone Africa have established (semi-) autonomous revenue authorities (ARAs), organisationally distinct from ...

Taxation, Tax administration, Privatisation, State capacity, Africa, JEL classification: H10, H29, 020, 038

Economic analysis of land degradation in Indonesia upland

CMI Working Paper | Jan 1996

The objective of this research is to determine factors affecting land degradation in the upland in Indonesia, and to suggest appropriate policies regarding ...

Asia: Indonesia

Brothers in faith: Islamic food activism in Egypt

Book Chapter | Jan 2013

This is the first book to examine food activism in diverse local, national, and transnational settings, making it essential reading for students and scholars ...

Egypt

How Do Courts Set Health Policy? The Case of the Colombian Constitutional Court

Journal Article | Jan 2009

On July 31, 2008, the Constitutional Court of Colombia (the Court) handed down a decision (T-760/2008) that ordered a dramatic restructuring of the ...

Health rights - Colombia - Courts

From Norm to Action: Standard-setting and Technical Co-operation in the Field of Child Labour

Book Chapter | Jan 1999

The article discusses the International Programme for the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) of the ILO in light of theories about organisations and their ...

Child labour, International Labour Office, International labour standards, Development aid, , Global, Bangladesh, Nepal

Community mobilization after an earthquake: case study of the use of the IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings on mental health and psychosocial support in Peru

Journal Article | Jan 2008

Community mobilization after an earthquake: case study of the use of the IASC Guidelines on

Peru

Fighting for Patronage: American Counterinsurgency and the Afghan Local Police

Doctoral Thesis | Jun 2015

My doctoral research explores the role of government-backed militias in the security and political dynamics of three provincial settings (Wardak, Baghlan ...

Afghan Local Police, counterinsurgency, Afghanistan

Afghan oil. A source of development or conflict?

Newspaper Op-Ed | Oct 2010

Norad has been assisting the Afghan Mines Ministry with capacity building and technical support since 2007. With growing international interest in hydrocarbons ...

Natural resources, conflict, corruption, Afghanistan

Community mobilization after an earthquake: case study of the use of the IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings on mental health and psychosocial support in Peru

Journal Article | Jan 2008

This article describes and analyzes the first comprehensive case study of the application of the IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support ...

Mental Health, Emergency settings, Peru

Local Revenue Mobilization in Urban Settings in Africa

Book Chapter | Jan 2006

The growth of Africa's towns and cities has outpaced local authority capacity in terms of management, infrastructure, and financing. Many African towns ...

Taxation, fiscal decentralisation, urbanisation, Africa

Artificial Intelligence – a promising anti-corruption tool in development settings?

U4 Report | Jun 2019

There are relatively few examples of how artificial intelligence has been deployed in anti-corruption work. Such tools are normally deployed by financial ...

Underdevelopment and labour migration: the contract labour system in Namibia

CMI Working Paper | Jan 1997

This volume reproduces, with minor changes, a set of previously published papers on the history of the origins, formation and evolution of the contract ...

Africa: Namibia

Transitional Justice for Human Rights: The Legacy and Future of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions

Book Chapter | Mar 2018

Truth commissions are an integral component of transitional justice, that is, formal and informal mechanisms set up by the state or civil society to address ...

Truth commission, Transitional justice, Human rights, Peace, Democracy, Reconciliation, Impact, Latin America

Political economy of the mining sector in Ghana

Report in External Series | Aug 2011

With a focus on the institutional set-up and the political environment as central to understanding and rectifying the poor impact of mining on Ghana’s ...

Political economy, corruption, mining, Ghana, Ghana