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Understanding effects of corruption on law enforcement and environmental crime
TNRC Publication | Dec 2019
Law enforcement agencies monitor and enforce laws that protect landscapes, seascapes, and the species that inhabit them. Corruption helps violators circumvent ...
Anti-corruption, law enforcement, environmental crime, impunity, legal sanctions
Rule of law and environmental justice in the forests: The challenge of 'strong law enforcement' in corrupt conditions
U4 Issue | Jun 2013
Widespread illegal forest activities have contributed to deforestation, forest degradation, economic losses to nations and injustices for forest ...
REDD+, Forest governance, Corruption, Anti-corruption, Law enforcement, natural resource management, Indonesia, Cameroon
Enhancing anti-corruption performance of law enforcement institutions
News | 28 Jun 2016
In February 2012, the Department for International Development (DFID) launched its Strengthening Tanzania’s Anti-Corruption Action (STACA) programme. ...
Tanzania
Election observation as informal enforcement of political rights
Project | Sep 2003 - Aug 2004
This project examines election observation which has evolved as an informal enforcement mechanism with respect to several articles contained in the Internatio ...
Democratisation, Human rights, Election observation, General, Africa
Legal enforcement of social rights: Enabling conditions and impact assessment
Journal Article | Jan 2010
This article commends the concise and useful analysis of courts and the legal enforcement of economic, social and cultural rights given in Christian Courtis’ ...
Election observation as an informal means of enforcing political rights
Journal Article | Jan 2004
This article argues that election observation has evolved as an informal enforcement mechanism with respect to several articles contained in the Internatio ...
Election observation, democratisation, political rights
Taxation, coercion and donors. Local government tax enforcement in Tanzania
Journal Article | Jan 2001
This paper presents three propositions about tax collection by local authorities in Tanzania. First, revenue performance depends on the degree of coercion ...
Africa: Tanzania
Taxation, coercion and donors. Local government tax enforcement in Tanzania
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2000
This paper presents three propositions about tax collection in local authorities in Tanzania. First, revenue performance depends on the degree of coercion ...
Africa: Tanzania
Should Deliberate Democrats Defend the Judicial Enforcement of Social Rights?
Book Chapter | Jan 2006
Should Deliberate Democrats Defend the Judicial Enforcement of Social Rights? Roberto Gargarella De
Dialogic justice in the enforcement of social rights: Some initial arguments
Book Chapter | Oct 2011
Dialogic justice in the enforcement of social rights: Some initial arguments Roberto Gargarella Li
Ending child marriages: Not only a question of law
News | 4 May 2016
The new Marriage Act in Malawi has been hailed for raising the legally prescribed age of marriage to 18, yet the truth is that there is no absolute minimum age of marriage in Malawi and that legal inconsistencies threaten the enforcement of the law.
Malawi
South Africa: Rethinking enforcement narratives
Book Chapter | Feb 2017
South Africa: Rethinking enforcement narratives Malcolm Langford, Steven Kahanovitz Social Rights Ju
Taxation, coercion and donors. A study of local government tax enforcement in Tanzania
Report in External Series | Jan 1999
(Paper prepared for the CMI/ World Bank Conference "Local level institutions: Social capital for development, Bergen, 5-7 May 1999)
Africa: Tanzania
Project Leaf and addressing corruption in REDD+
U4 Brief | Sep 2013
Project Leaf (Law Enforcement Assistance for Forests) was launched on 5 June, 2012 – on World Environment Day. It is an initiative to ...
REDD, South America, Central America
Electronic Sales Register Machines, Tax Enforcement and Tax outcomes
Project | May 2015 - Apr 2016
The research examines the role of information technology (IT) in tax administration in a setting with limited fiscal capacity. Increased use of IT is ...
Steps to limit the endemic corruption around junior mining companies
News | 4 Oct 2015
High environmental risks and questionable development outcomes characterise the mining industry. A myriad of small companies operate in competitive, high-risk, high-reward settings with weak institutions that fail to enforce regulations. Such conditions are highly conducive to corruption, violence, and environmental destruction.
Junior mining companies, Environmental impact assessments, Environmental governance, Corruption, Violence, Bribery, Natural Resources, Guatemala
Coverage of the emergency health care law and the Compulsory Insurance against Road Traffic Crashes (SOAT)
Journal Article | Jan 2010
Objective. The aim of this study was to ascertain, from patients’ perspective, the degree of knowledge and the actual coverage of the Emergency ...
Emergency medical services, Law enforcement, Accident insurance, Insurance benefits, Accidents, traffic, Peru
Corruption and Commercial Fisheries in Africa
U4 Brief | Dec 2008
Heightened competition and considerable illegal fishing by commercial boats, suggest that incentives for corruption in African fisheries are high. Dependence ...
corruption, natural resources, fisheries, natural resource management
How Do Courts Set Health Policy? The Case of the Colombian Constitutional Court
Journal Article | Jan 2009
On July 31, 2008, the Constitutional Court of Colombia (the Court) handed down a decision (T-760/2008) that ordered a dramatic restructuring of the ...
Health rights - Colombia - Courts
Can national identity be built on local democracy?
CMI Working Paper | Jan 1997
In Ethiopia, with 85% of the population in agriculture, most of them illiterate, democratisation has to work against adverse experience: Peasants can ...
Africa: Ethiopia