A major financial problem in many municipalities in South Africa is the inadequate collection of service charges due to widespread non-payment. The prevailing ...

A major financial problem in many municipalities in South Africa is the inadequate collection of service charges due to widespread non-payment. The prevailing ...

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 ...

In many Latin American countries, former military officers are now facing charges of torture, murder, forced disappearance, and genocide committed under ...

Aiming to provide universal access to basic health services and empower communities to take charge of their own health, the Ethiopian government has during ...

In many Latin American countries, former military officers are now facing charges of torture, murder, forced disappearance, and genocide committed under ...

We present results of a randomized field experiment where voters in Tanzania were given information about elite use of tax havens. Information provided ...

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 ...

This paper analyses how participation was understood and put in place by the bodies in charge of implementing the Colombian Constitutional Court’s ...

Does self-serving elite behaviour make citizens more politically active? This paper presents the results of a randomized field experiment where voters ...

Dr. Siri Gloppen will be in charge of Rights and Development. Dr. Are Knudsen will lead

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?

This paper analyses how corruption may affect privatization. In particular, we study how corruption affects the acquisition price and the post-privatization ...

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 ...

Anti-corruption Commissions (ACCs) have, with one or two exceptions, been a disappointment both to the people of developing countries and to their development ...

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.

This chapter discusses the difficulties aid agencies encounter when entering the comparatively new and sensitive field of human rights and democracy support. ...

The water “business” involves large numbers of consumers using water in different ways including households, industries, and farms. Management ...

The author tests two alternative models of price determination in informal rural credit markets, using LSMS data from Nepal. Strong support is found for ...

Donors often depend on middlemen and local partners in aid and humanitarian operations. A number of incidents have shown that being dependent on middlemen ...