Search results

Poor revenue forecasting: A major challenge for sound fiscal policy in Angola

Angola Brief | Feb 2014

Fiscal policy is the use of government revenue collection (taxation) and expenditure (spending) to monitor and influence the nation’s economy. ...

Angola

Intergovernmental fiscal relations in developing countries. A review of issues

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2001

Fiscal decentralisation - the devolution of taxing and spending powers to lower levels of government - has become an important theme of governance in ...

Intergovernmental fiscal relations in the developing world: A review of issues

Book Chapter | Jan 2001

Fiscal decentralisation - the devolution of taxing and spending powers to lower levels of government - has become an important theme of governance in ...

Dilemmas of fiscal decentralisation: A study of local government taxation in Tanzania

Journal Article | Jan 2000

Local taxes represent less than 5 percent of total tax revenues in Tanzania. However, the large number of these taxes, together with their unsatisfactory ...

Africa: Tanzania

Options and Trade-offs: Means and Measures in the Implementation of Norwegian Human Rights Policy

Report in External Series | Jan 1999

This report reviews the full range of policy instruments available to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in pursuing its policies in the sphere ...

Human rights, Policy instruments, Global

Policy, poverty and inequality in Namibia: The case of trade policy and land policy

Commissioned Report | Jan 1999

(Nepru research report, No. 18)

Corruption in natural resource management: Implications for policy makers

Journal Article | Oct 2009

Corruption is the main reason why resource-rich countries perform badly in economic terms. Corruption in resource-rich countries takes two main forms, ...

Resource curse, corruption

Organisational ethics policies: A primer

U4 Brief | Apr 2009

Most people are familiar with codes of conduct. Often overlooked, however, is the important role that organisational ethics policies have not only as ...

ethics, anti-corruption

Protective strategies in the 1990s: A review of the policy discourses in UNHCR and the executive committee

CMI Report | Jan 1998

The study examines changing policy doctrines for protecting refugees, as reflected in the official documents of UNHCR and its Executive Committee (ExCom) ...

Refugees, Refugee policy, Asylum policy, UNHCR

China in Africa. Implications for Norwegian Foreign and Development Policies

CMI Report | Jan 2006

China's development will affect the history of the twenty-first century, and perhaps nowhere more importantly than in Africa. The emergence of China introduces ...

Africa, China, Development, Norway, Oil

'Follow the money!' Policies and practices in donor support to civil society formations in Southern Africa

Report in External Series | Aug 2011

In 2007, the Southern Africa Trust commissioned a study on the trends and impacts of changing aid policies and shifting financial flows to civil society ...

Aid, Southern Africa, Civil Society, Financial Crisis

Exploring the Research-Policy Linkage: The Case of Reforms in Financing Primary Education in Tanzania

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2006

Tanzania abolished school fees in primary schools as from 2002. This move was made possible because of shifts in the policy of major donors, not least ...

Educational policy, Development, Role of research, User fees, Tanzania

Active private sector development policies revisited: Impacts of the Ethiopian industrial cluster policy

Journal Article | Jun 2019

We analyze impacts of a cluster policy aiming to increase firm growth through maximizing agglomeration benefits and improving production facilities. Firms ...

Agglomeration, Productivity, Profitability, Networks, Micro and Small Enterprises, MSE, SME, Ethiopia

A Reluctant Warrior. The German Engagement in Afghanistan.

Report in External Series | Jan 2011

Germany’s engagement in Afghanistan post -9/11 is a milestone in German foreign policy. It is historically significant, as it marks the first deployment ...

Dealing with politics for money and power in infrastructure

Report in External Series | Dec 2010

Policy recommendations for infrastructure provision usually build on a well-established understanding of best practice for sector governance. Too rarely ...

Political economy, sector governance, infrastructure, corruption

Gender Policies and Feminisation of Poverty in Mozambique

CMI Report | Jan 2008

This study is the first in a series of three on gender policies and feminisation of poverty in Mozambique, to be carried out in the period 2008-2010. ...

Mozambique, Gender, Poverty

Issues in contemporary refugee policies

Book Chapter | Jan 1999

Issues in contemporary refugee policies Astri Suhrke and Aristide R. Zolberg Migration and refugee

Public Interest Litigation, Social Rights, and Social Policy

Book Chapter | Jun 2008

Can social rights litigation contribute to more equitable and socially sustainable development outcomes? This chapter investigates the potential ...

Social rights, Litigation

Donors and "zero tolerance for corruption": From principle to practice

U4 Brief | Feb 2014

Bilateral donors often use “zero tolerance for corruption policies” to signal a tough stance against corruption, but staff often experience ...

aid

Security and remilitarization in the name of democracy: The impact of global crime control policies in Honduras

CMI Working Paper | Sep 2015

During the past decade, the Honduran government has introduced hard-line security policies in order to reduce the alarming levels of crime and delinquency ...

Military, civil-military relations, security politics, Honduras