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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, ...
'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
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
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
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
Fairness and global inequality
Event | 13 Mar 2014
With Ingvild Almås, NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Asplund Ida-Elise Seppola
Master's student
Master's student in political science focusing on financial measures to increase gender balance in politics.
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