During the peace process in Sudan women were merely "guests at the table. The role permitted to women during negotiations was based on a perception of ...

This brief examines changes in citizens' perceptions of local taxation over time in Tanzania based on survey data from 2003 and 2006. It investigates ...

Indian Cinema and ‘Audience’ Perception: Will PM Biopic Sway Voters? Saumya Pandey The Quint saumya

The Chinese entry into the African continent and the subsequent effect on soft power in global relations are of increasing interest to many scholars. ...

This paper proposes a model how individuals form beliefs on inequality based on their own and their family’s experience. A person’s income ...

Political psychologist focusing on rhetoric, perceptions, foreign policy decision-making, identity, and the links between political ideology, power and violence.

Strengthening civil society has had a prominent place in the international community's strategy for the West Balkans. Rather than creating an independent ...

This study examines factors that determine business people’s attitudes towards paying taxes in Ethiopia. Based on data obtained from a survey of ...

Anti-corruption efforts introduced in Ukraine in recent years have predominantly been imposed from the outside. They have been vague, all-inclusive and ...

Tim Ingold has emerged as perhaps the most interesting theoretician of Man-Environment relations. This essay traces the intellectual history of the study ...

 China's Media and Soft Power in Africa: Promotion and Perceptions, edited by Zhang, Xiaoling, Wasserman, Herman and Mano, Winston, is recently published ...

This paper emphasizes the importance of collecting information on corruption, while still stressing critical aspects of the most applied sources of such ...

The Local Government Reform Programme (LGRP) in Tanzania aims to restructure local government authorities so that they can respond more effectively to ...

The current Islamic revival is frequently associated with fundamentalism and radical politics. This reinforces Western perceptions of Islamic women as ...

A study of diagnostic effort documents low worker effort in both churchbased and government health facilities. Despite a strong perception among ...

This project presents contributions on local democracy by a group of Ethiopian and European scholars, addressing the following questions: How can people ...

Traditional authorities were recognised and revitalised in several African countries in the 1990s. Based on conventional perceptions of the nature of ...

State invention and community protest: Nature conservation in Hunza, North Pakistan Are Knudsen Asi

This study details the perceived benefits, problems, and risks of abuse of per diems and allowances in developing countries. Drawing on 41 interviews ...

CMI presents the first report in a series of three qualitative studies on poverty in Mozambique. The study looks into people's own emic perceptions of poverty, and offers a host of policy implications.