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Urban poverty and inequality in Luanda, Angola
Urban poverty and inequality in Luanda, AngolaCMI Brief | Nov 2016
This brief shows that the poor in Angola’s capital Luanda are effectively trapped in poverty through material deficiencies, limited income ...
inequality, Angola, Luanda
Measuring inequalities in the distribution of health workers: the case of Tanzania
Measuring inequalities in the distribution of health workers: the case of TanzaniaJournal Article | Jan 2009
The overall human resource shortages and the distributional inequalities in the health workforce in many developing countries are well acknowledged. ...
The Proxy Challenge: Why bespoke proxy indicators can help solve the anti-corruption measurement problem
The Proxy Challenge: Why bespoke proxy indicators can help solve the anti-corruption measurement problemU4 Brief | Jul 2013
Practitioners working in anti-corruption face perennial challenges in measuring changes in corruption levels and evaluating whether anti-corruption ...
evaluation measurement
The Kinship in Public Office indicator: Kin connectivity as a proxy for nepotism in the public sector
The Kinship in Public Office indicator: Kin connectivity as a proxy for nepotism in the public sectorU4 Brief | Dec 2014
Measuring nepotism in the public sector is challenging because of its elusive nature. This brief reviews methodologies developed to measure ...
evaluation measurement
Proxy indicators for the corrupt misuse of corporations
Proxy indicators for the corrupt misuse of corporationsU4 Brief | Oct 2017
Winners of the U4 Proxy Challenge 2016
We need more imaginative ways of addressing corruption. It is important to generate indicators that ...
private sector
Wathne Cecilie
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
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 ...
WTO, nontariff barriers, technical assistance, cost-benefit analysis, market access
'What does not get measured, does not get done'. The methods and limitations of measuring illicit financial flows
'What does not get measured, does not get done'. The methods and limitations of measuring illicit financial flowsU4 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. ...
international drivers of corruption
Exploring the relationship between socio-economic inequality, political instability and economic growth Why do we know so little?
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 ...
Socio-economic inequality, Political instability, Economic growth, Investment, Gini variable, Diverging empirical findings, Methodological robustness, Measurement differences
A cost-benefit framework for allocating SPS-related technical assistance
A cost-benefit framework for allocating SPS-related technical assistanceCMI Report | Jan 2002
Sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures designed to protect human, animal and plant health, constitute a significant barrier to exports of ...
WTO, nontariff barriers, technical assistance, cost-benefit analysis, market access, Norway
Assessing aid impacts revisited: results measurement in Norwegian aid
Assessing aid impacts revisited: results measurement in Norwegian aidJournal Article | Jan 2014
We compare the procedures and structures for supporting results measurement and evaluation between the Norwegian aid administration, the World ...
counterfactual, interventions, institutions, foreign assistance
Results measurement and evaluability: a comparative analysis
Results measurement and evaluability: a comparative analysisJournal Article | Jan 2014
We compare the procedures and structures for supporting results measurement and evaluation between the Norwegian aid administration, the World ...
evaluation, foreign aid, methods, review, monitoring, M&E systems
Female Empowerment and the Education of Children in Nepal
Female Empowerment and the Education of Children in NepalJournal Article | Jun 2016
There is sufficient evidence to say that female empowerment affects economic and social outcomes, in particular for girls. There is, however, ...
Intrahousehold, female autonomy, South-Asia, Nepal
Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis of governance and anti-corruption activities
Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis of governance and anti-corruption activitiesU4 Issue | Jan 2014
Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis methods are currently underutilised in evaluations of governance and anti-corruption reforms in ...
evaluation measurement
Supporting child rights. Synthesis of lessons learned in four countries
Supporting child rights. Synthesis of lessons learned in four countriesReport in External Series | May 2011
This evaluation was commissioned jointly by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) and the Swedish International Development ...
Child rights, Guatemala, Kenya, Mozambique, Sudan
Supporting child rights: Synthesis of lessons learned in four countries
Report in External Series | Feb 2011
This evaluation was commissioned jointly by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) and the Swedish International Development ...
child rights, civil society, mainstreaming, targeting, Guatemala, Kenya, Mozambique, Sudan
Corruption and state-backed debts in Mozambique: What can external actors do?
Corruption and state-backed debts in Mozambique: What can external actors do?U4 Issue | Nov 2016
The average annual cost of corruption to Mozambique was recently estimated to be up to USD 4.9 billion for the period 2004-2014. Some analysts ...
international drivers of corruption, illicit financial flows, Mozambique
Trading in corruption: Evidence and mitigation measures for corruption in the trading of oil and minerals
Trading in corruption: Evidence and mitigation measures for corruption in the trading of oil and mineralsU4 Issue | Jun 2017
Between 2011 and 2013, sales of government oil from the ten biggest producers in sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 56% of these countries’ ...
natural resource management, oil, minerals, resource curse, commodity trading, corruption, national oil companies, state-owned enterprises, extractive revenue misappropriation
Political Terror: How do we measure and deal with human insecurity?
Political Terror: How do we measure and deal with human insecurity?Event | 16 Mar 2015
International human rights law promises to protect “everyone.” Yet, there is no country in the world where citizens enjoy the human rights protection promised to them by law. Professor Mark Gibney will speak to the importance of measuring political violence and how it has been carried out.
Fair distribution of health
Project | Aug 2006 - Mar 2007
A central question in the allocation of scarce resource for health is how to balance the desire to achieve the maximal aggregate health benefit ...