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Urban poverty and inequality in Luanda, Angola

CMI Brief | Nov 2016

This brief shows that the poor in Angola’s capital Luanda are effectively trapped in poverty through material deficiencies, limited income opportunities ...

inequality, Angola, Luanda

Measuring inequalities in the distribution of health workers: the case of Tanzania

Journal Article | Jan 2009

The overall human resource shortages and the distributional inequalities in the health workforce in many developing countries are well acknowledged. However, ...

Wathne Cecilie

(U4) Senior Adviser

Development economist focusing on how to plan, measure and evaluate anti-corruption interventions

Measurement and Evaluation, Results-based management, Anti-corruption

'What does not get measured, does not get done'. The methods and limitations of measuring illicit financial flows

U4 Brief | Jun 2010

Estimates of the size of illicit financial flows have been questioned because data used to measure the phenomenon is fraught with problems. However, such ...

international drivers of corruption

The Kinship in Public Office indicator: Kin connectivity as a proxy for nepotism in the public sector

U4 Brief | Dec 2014

Measuring nepotism in the public sector is challenging because of its elusive nature. This brief reviews methodologies developed to measure the extent ...

evaluation measurement

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 efforts ...

evaluation measurement

Results measurement and evaluability: a comparative analysis

Journal Article | Jan 2014

We compare the procedures and structures for supporting results measurement and evaluation between the Norwegian aid administration, the World Bank, Danida ...

evaluation, foreign aid, methods, review, monitoring, M&E systems

A cost-benefit framework for allocating SPS-related technical assistance. The Globalisation Project

Report in External Series | Jan 2002

Sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures designed to protect human, animal and plant health, constitute a significant barrier to exports of agricultural ...

WTO, nontariff barriers, technical assistance, cost-benefit analysis, market access

Assessing aid impacts revisited: results measurement in Norwegian aid

Journal Article | Jan 2014

We compare the procedures and structures for supporting results measurement and evaluation between the Norwegian aid administration, the World Bank, Danida ...

counterfactual, interventions, institutions, foreign assistance

Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis of governance and anti-corruption activities

U4 Issue | Jan 2014

Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis methods are currently underutilised in evaluations of governance and anti-corruption reforms in developing ...

evaluation measurement

A cost-benefit framework for allocating SPS-related technical assistance

CMI Report | Jan 2002

Sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures designed to protect human, animal and plant health, constitute a significant barrier to exports of agricultural ...

WTO, nontariff barriers, technical assistance, cost-benefit analysis, market access, Norway

Measuring Private Sector Corruption

U4 Brief | Oct 2007

How can donors engage effectively with new kinds of corruption - both in their home countries and in developing and emerging economies - and why is it ...

private sector, corruption

Exploring the relationship between socio-economic inequality, political instability and economic growth Why do we know so little?

CMI Working Paper | Feb 2012

The hypothesis that socio-economic inequality has a detrimental effect on economic growth by breeding political instability has been subject to empirical ...

Socio-economic inequality, Political instability, Economic growth, Investment, Gini variable, Diverging empirical findings, Methodological robustness, Measurement differences

Fairness and global inequality

Event | 13 Mar 2014

With Ingvild Almås, NHH Norwegian School of Economics

The effects of disasters on income mobility: Bootstrap inference and measurement error simulations

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2003

We evaluate the impact of disasters on income mobility by drawing on "natural experiments". While the poor have a much higher probability of remaining ...

Income mobility, Effects of disasters, Bootstrap, Measurement error, Simulations, Natural experiments, Control group, Treatment group, Poverty

Defining, Measuring and Explaining Political Regimes: Central America 1950-2000.

Master's Thesis | Jan 2005

Defining, Measuring and Explaining Political Regimes: Central America 1950-2000. Anette Walstad En

Measuring the performance of health workers

Book Chapter | Oct 2016

Measuring the performance of health workers Kenneth Leonard; Ottar Mæstad Health Labor Market Analy

Children’s Rights’ Indexes: Measuring Norway’s Performance

Book Chapter | Jan 2019

Global indexes are commonly used to measure a country’s performance, including on the implementation of human rights conventions. Such audit-like ...

Children's rights

New ways to measure institutionalised grand corruption in public procurement

U4 Brief | Oct 2014

Public procurement, one of the largest areas of public spending worldwide, gives public officials wide discretion. It is therefore unsurprising that it ...

high-level corruption, measurement, public procurement, spending efficiency

Reconciliation in a Transitional Justice Perspective

Journal Article | Sep 2012

Reconciliation is one of the most contested concepts in the scholarly debate on transitional justice, and arguably also the most difficult to measure ...

transitional justice, truth, justice, reconciliation, impact assessment