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Women and legal pluralism: Lessons from indigenous governance systems in the Andes
Journal Article | Jan 2017
The shift towards legally plural multicutural and pluri-national citizenship regimes in the Andes formally recognised indigenous peoples' community-based ...
Using legal empowerment to curb corruption and advance accountability
U4 Issue | Feb 2020
Legal empowerment refers to the use of laws and rights to increase relatively powerless populations’ control over their lives. A growing field, ...
Reforming tax systems: The foot soldiers of tax
Reforming tax systems: The foot soldiers of taxImpact Series | Oct 2018
Inefficiency and corruption used to be a trademark of the tax systems in many African countries. CMI research has influenced the way governments and donors ...
Tax, Tanzania
Reciprocity networks, service delivery, and corruption: The wantok system in Papua New Guinea
U4 Issue | Feb 2020
In all countries, informal systems of reciprocity influence the distribution of state resources. These social networks help people cope with adversity ...
From dominant to competitive party system: The Zambian experiences 1991-2001
From dominant to competitive party system: The Zambian experiences 1991-2001Journal Article | Jan 2004
In this article we analyse the changes in the party system in Zambia in the period 1991 to 2001. Based on changes observed in terms of the number of parties, ...
Political parties, Politics, Africa: Zambia
Lessons from Zambia – From a profit-based tax system, to a revenue-based tax system
Newspaper Op-Ed | May 2016
Lessons from Zambia – From a profit-based tax system, to a revenue-based tax system Caleb Fundanga,
Tax, mining, Zambia
Anti-Corruption in the Health Sector: Reducing Vulnerabilities to Corruption in User Fee Systems
Anti-Corruption in the Health Sector: Reducing Vulnerabilities to Corruption in User Fee SystemsU4 Brief | Jan 2006
Designed to promote efficiency and expand access to health care services by leveraging financial contributions from patients, user fee systems are in ...
corruption, health, World
Capacity building for politicians in contexts of systemic corruption: Countering ‘wasta’ in Jordan
Capacity building for politicians in contexts of systemic corruption: Countering ‘wasta’ in JordanU4 Issue | Jul 2019
The design of one common integrity-building intervention – capacity building for politicians – can be adapted to respond effectively to systemic ...
Towards feasible social security systems in sub-Saharan Africa
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2004
The international community is devoting increasing attention to social security issues in developing countries as part of its preoccupation with poverty ...
Social security, Africa South of Sahara
Why can we not demonstrate the difference that Norwegian aid makes? An evaluation of the results measurement system and practice
Why can we not demonstrate the difference that Norwegian aid makes? An evaluation of the results measurement system and practiceJournal Article | Mar 2016
We assess why the Norwegian aid administration is not able to document its results. We find that the system is not designed to provide the necessary documentation ...
Evaluation, foreign aid, methods, review, monitoring, M&E systems
Reintroducing a Local-Level Multiparty System in Uganda: Why Be in Opposition?
Journal Article | Jan 2009
In a referendum in July 2005 the people of Uganda voted overwhelmingly in support of reintroducing the multiparty system. As a result, one expected an ...
Opposition, Local Governance, Elections, Dominant Party Systems, Uganda
The vagaries of descent-reckoning: Father's right is mother's loss
DERAP Working Paper | Jan 1990
"Pure" matrilineal systems are said to be "doomed" because they are incompatible with economic growth. The author argues that descent systems are not ...
Zambia, Matriliny, Agricultural development, Gender, Africa: Zambia
Electoral System Design and the Effects on Representation and Regionalization in Malawi 1994-2004.
Master's Thesis | Jan 2005
Electoral System Design and the Effects on Representation and Regionalization in Malawi 1994-2004.
Elections, Electoral systems, Africa: Malawi
Mitigating corruption in informal justice systems: NGO experiences in Bangladesh and Sierra Leone
Mitigating corruption in informal justice systems: NGO experiences in Bangladesh and Sierra LeoneU4 Brief | Feb 2014
Informal justice systems are the principal mechanism for dispute resolution in many societies, but they suffer from two drawbacks. First, in individual ...
justice, Bangladesh, Sierra Leone
The tax systems in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia: capacity and constraints
The tax systems in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia: capacity and constraintsCMI Report | Jun 2011
The purpose of this study is to systematise and analyse existing knowledge of the capacity and constraints of the tax systems in selected African countries, ...
Taxation, tax administration, tax reform, resource curse, state-building, accountability, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia
Fissions and fusions, foes and friends: Party system re-structuring in Malawi in the 2004 general elections
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2005
The issue of presidential term limits is emerging as an important political norm on the African continent, but the effects of the third term debates on ...
Malawi, Political parties, Party system, Elections
International money-laundering regulation of alternative remittance systems - why the current approach does not work in developing countries
International money-laundering regulation of alternative remittance systems - why the current approach does not work in developing countriesJournal Article | Jan 2012
This article examines the recommendations of an influential international advisory body, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), towards regulation of ...
money laundering, alternative remittance systems, Afghanistan, United Arab Emirates
The relationship between the state, family and household. Consequences for women's participation in the education system in Kerala, India
DERAP Working Paper | Jan 1990
The theme of this working paper is gender and education in India, and more specifically the question why there is significantly higher participation of ...
Gender relations, Education, Kerala, India, Asia: India
Access to What? Legal Agency and Access to Justice for Indigenous Peoples in Latin America
Journal Article | Jan 2019
In this paper I issue a call for a primary focus on expanding and strengthening alternative, community-based justice systems, as a strategy for securing ...
The role of ICT in property tax administration: Lessons from Tanzania
The role of ICT in property tax administration: Lessons from TanzaniaCMI Brief | Jun 2019
A key problem facing revenue administrations in many developing countries is that they operate manual paper-based recording systems. This is particularly ...
ICT, Property tax, Tax administration, Tanzania