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Issues in contemporary refugee policies

Book Chapter | Jan 1999

Issues in contemporary refugee policies Astri Suhrke and Aristide R. Zolberg Migration and refugee

Towards a comprehensive refugee policy: Conflict and refugees in the post-Cold War world

Book Chapter | Jan 1994

Towards a comprehensive refugee policy: Conflict and refugees in the post-Cold War world Astri Suhr

Towards a comprehensive refugee policy: Conflict and refugees in the post-Cold War world

CMI Working Paper | Jan 1992

This study was prepared for a joint ILO/UNHCR meeting in Geneva, May 1992, on international aid strategies to reduce emigration pressures. The paper analyses ...

Refugees, International politics, Social conflicts, International conflicts

A Comparative Study of the Refugee Convention Article 1 F (exclusion) and Articles C-E (cessation)

Project | Oct 2004 - Oct 2005

The right to seek asylum, and the conflicting interests that may arise between the rights of the asylum seeker on the one hand and the recipient country's ...

refugee, refugee status, human rights violations, terrorism, international law, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Canada

Options and Trade-offs: Means and Measures in the Implementation of Norwegian Human Rights Policy

Report in External Series | Jan 1999

This report reviews the full range of policy instruments available to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in pursuing its policies in the sphere ...

Human rights, Policy instruments, Global

Policy, poverty and inequality in Namibia: The case of trade policy and land policy

Commissioned Report | Jan 1999

(Nepru research report, No. 18)

Corruption in natural resource management: Implications for policy makers

Journal Article | Oct 2009

Corruption is the main reason why resource-rich countries perform badly in economic terms. Corruption in resource-rich countries takes two main forms, ...

Resource curse, corruption

Organisational ethics policies: A primer

U4 Brief | Apr 2009

Most people are familiar with codes of conduct. Often overlooked, however, is the important role that organisational ethics policies have not only as ...

ethics, anti-corruption

Protective strategies in the 1990s: A review of the policy discourses in UNHCR and the executive committee

CMI Report | Jan 1998

The study examines changing policy doctrines for protecting refugees, as reflected in the official documents of UNHCR and its Executive Committee (ExCom) ...

Refugees, Refugee policy, Asylum policy, UNHCR

China in Africa. Implications for Norwegian Foreign and Development Policies

CMI Report | Jan 2006

China's development will affect the history of the twenty-first century, and perhaps nowhere more importantly than in Africa. The emergence of China introduces ...

Africa, China, Development, Norway, Oil

'Follow the money!' Policies and practices in donor support to civil society formations in Southern Africa

Report in External Series | Aug 2011

In 2007, the Southern Africa Trust commissioned a study on the trends and impacts of changing aid policies and shifting financial flows to civil society ...

Aid, Southern Africa, Civil Society, Financial Crisis

Exploring the Research-Policy Linkage: The Case of Reforms in Financing Primary Education in Tanzania

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2006

Tanzania abolished school fees in primary schools as from 2002. This move was made possible because of shifts in the policy of major donors, not least ...

Educational policy, Development, Role of research, User fees, Tanzania

Active private sector development policies revisited: Impacts of the Ethiopian industrial cluster policy

Journal Article | Jun 2019

We analyze impacts of a cluster policy aiming to increase firm growth through maximizing agglomeration benefits and improving production facilities. Firms ...

Agglomeration, Productivity, Profitability, Networks, Micro and Small Enterprises, MSE, SME, Ethiopia

A Reluctant Warrior. The German Engagement in Afghanistan.

Report in External Series | Jan 2011

Germany’s engagement in Afghanistan post -9/11 is a milestone in German foreign policy. It is historically significant, as it marks the first deployment ...

Dealing with politics for money and power in infrastructure

Report in External Series | Dec 2010

Policy recommendations for infrastructure provision usually build on a well-established understanding of best practice for sector governance. Too rarely ...

Political economy, sector governance, infrastructure, corruption

Gender Policies and Feminisation of Poverty in Mozambique

CMI Report | Jan 2008

This study is the first in a series of three on gender policies and feminisation of poverty in Mozambique, to be carried out in the period 2008-2010. ...

Mozambique, Gender, Poverty

Public Interest Litigation, Social Rights, and Social Policy

Book Chapter | Jun 2008

Can social rights litigation contribute to more equitable and socially sustainable development outcomes? This chapter investigates the potential ...

Social rights, Litigation

Donors and "zero tolerance for corruption": From principle to practice

U4 Brief | Feb 2014

Bilateral donors often use “zero tolerance for corruption policies” to signal a tough stance against corruption, but staff often experience ...

aid

Security and remilitarization in the name of democracy: The impact of global crime control policies in Honduras

CMI Working Paper | Sep 2015

During the past decade, the Honduran government has introduced hard-line security policies in order to reduce the alarming levels of crime and delinquency ...

Military, civil-military relations, security politics, Honduras

Powerful donors and foreign policy: The role of multilateral financial institutions

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2004

The opportunity for a powerful donor country, such as the United States, to use a multilateral financial institution (MFI) strategically in order to promote ...

Foreign policies, Conditionality, Unilateralism