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What's trust got to do with it? Non-payment of service charges in local authorities in South Africa
Journal Article | Jan 2004
A major financial problem in many municipalities in South Africa is the inadequate collection of service charges due to widespread non-payment. The prevailing ...
Public finance, Service charges, Trust, Compliance, Local government, South Africa
What has trust got to do with it? Non-payment of service charges in local authorities in South Africa
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2003
A major financial problem in many municipalities in South Africa is the inadequate collection of service charges due to widespread non-payment. The prevailing ...
Public finance, Service charges, Trust, Local government, South Africa, Africa: South Africa
Entitlement, Affordability or a Matter of Trust? Reflections on the Non-payment of Service Charges in Local Authorities
Book Chapter | Jan 2005
In this chapter Fjeldstad reflects on the non-payment of service charges in local authorities in South Africa. The main question he explores is how trust ...
Local government, Service charges, Non-payment, Africa: South Africa
Judicial Independence and Human Rights in Latin America: Violations, Politics and Prosecution
Project | Sep 2009 - Dec 2010
In many Latin American countries, former military officers are now facing charges of torture, murder, forced disappearance, and genocide committed under ...
transitional justice, trials, judicial reform, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay
The Ethiopian "model family": Primary Health Care Provision in the Developmental state
Project | Sep 2014 - Jan 2016
Aiming to provide universal access to basic health services and empower communities to take charge of their own health, the Ethiopian government has during ...
Ethiopia
Judicial independence and human rights in Latin America: Violations, politics and prosecution
Book | Jan 2011
In many Latin American countries, former military officers are now facing charges of torture, murder, forced disappearance, and genocide committed under ...
human rights, transitional justice, military trials, judicial independence, judicial reform, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay
How does information about elite tax evasion affect political participation: Experimental evidence from Tanzania
Journal Article | Jan 2019
We present results of a randomized field experiment where voters in Tanzania were given information about elite use of tax havens. Information provided ...
Elites, citizens, voter turnout, political participation, tax havens, political economy, Tanzania
False Prophets? Ontological Conflicts and Religion-Making in an Indonesian Court
Book Chapter | Nov 2016
This chapter examines a blasphemy trial on Lombok in 2010, in which a Muslim who claimed to have received revelations from the Angel Gabriel was charged ...
Blasphemy trials, ontological conflicts, religion-making, Indonesia, Indonesia
A Human Rights Based Approach to Participation in Health Reform: Experiences from the Implementation of Constitutional Court Orders in Colombia
Journal Article | Jan 2013
This paper analyses how participation was understood and put in place by the bodies in charge of implementing the Colombian Constitutional Court’s ...
Participation, Healthcare Reform, Colombia, Decision T-760/2008, Participation and Human Rights, Colombia
How do voters respond to information on self-serving elite behaviour? Evidence from a randomized survey experiment in Tanzania
CMI Working Paper | Nov 2016
Does self-serving elite behaviour make citizens more politically active? This paper presents the results of a randomized field experiment where voters ...
Tanzania
New research directors
News | 1 Sep 2006
Dr. Siri Gloppen will be in charge of Rights and Development. Dr. Are Knudsen will lead
Research results
News | 16 Mar 2016
Does self-serving elite behaviour make citizens more politically active? If we inform voters about the elite’s use of tax havens, are they more likely to take part in elections and other political processes? And does the form on the information matter, are voters more inclined to respond to information that stokes their moral indignation?
Corruption and Privatization
Journal Article | Jan 2005
This paper analyses how corruption may affect privatization. In particular, we study how corruption affects the acquisition price and the post-privatization ...
Corruption, Privatization, Market structure, Welfare
"Kvinner i utvikling" i Gambia. Nye kjønnsrelasjoner med hjelp fra Verdensbanken?
DERAP Working Paper | Jan 1992
The paper discussed whether it is likely that the agricultural and the health component in a large, recently started Women in development project in the ...
Women in development, Gender needs, World Bank, Gambia
Achieving Success and Avoiding Failure in Anti-Corruption Commissions: Developing the Role of Donors
U4 Brief | Oct 2007
Anti-corruption Commissions (ACCs) have, with one or two exceptions, been a disappointment both to the people of developing countries and to their development ...
corruption, anti-corruption conventions, commissions, World
Tackling forestry corruption in Indonesia. Lessons from KPK prosecutions
U4 Issue | Nov 2020
The Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission has successfully prosecuted more than 600 defendants in corruption cases since 2004, but only about 5% ...
Corruption, Anti-corruption, Forestry sector, Court cases, Indonesia
Aid for human rights and democracy: Challenges of design, management and evaluation
Book Chapter | Jan 2001
This chapter discusses the difficulties aid agencies encounter when entering the comparatively new and sensitive field of human rights and democracy support. ...
Human rights, Democratisation, Aid, Global
Egypt´s military chiefs get connected
News | 2 Mar 2011
Questions are raised about the intentions of the Egyptian armed forces and if they will stretch to meet the people´s demands. Voices in the international community are concerned. With good reason.
Egypt
Not so petty: Corruption risks in payment and licensing systems for water
U4 Brief | Nov 2009
The water “business” involves large numbers of consumers using water in different ways including households, industries, and farms. Management ...
natural resource management
Capacity-constrained collusive price discrimination in the informal rural credit markets of Nepal
Journal Article | Jan 2009
The author tests two alternative models of price determination in informal rural credit markets, using LSMS data from Nepal. Strong support is found for ...
Household data, tacit collusion, Nepal