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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