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Egypt’s Military Business: The Need for Change

Newspaper Op-Ed | Nov 2015

In today's Egypt, you cannot miss it: the heavy presence of the military institution in the economy. The Egyptian military owns business enterprises that ...

Egypt, business, military, economy

Petro-Governance in Tanzania: Opportunities and Challenges

CMI Brief | Oct 2016

Recent significant natural gas discoveries have pushed Tanzania into the international spotlight as a new petroleum producer. How can the country ensure ...

oil, petroleum, gas, economy, Tanzania

Corporate Social Responsibility in Islamic Economies – the Case of Sudan

Sudan Working Paper | May 2016

Introduction Since the 1950s, there has been a growing international awareness of the need for business organizations to commit to a social role that ...

economy, Corporate Social Responsibility, Islam, ethics, philantropy, Sudan

Always choosing the oil rents: How leaders in Angola and Venezuela brought their countries to ruin

CMI Working Paper | Nov 2016

Angola and Venezuela are among the most oil dependent countries in the world. When oil prices fell in 2014, these states lost half of their income base. ...

oil, economy, Chávez, dos Santos, Angola, Venezuela

Rural poverty in Malanje, Angola

CMI Report | May 2017

This report is part of the research programme “Cooperation on Research and Development in Angola” between Centro de Estudos e Investigação ...

economy, social services, community, employment, income, Angola, Luanda

Understanding the resource curse: A large-scale experiment on corruption in Tanzania

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2018

Corruption appears to be an important driver of the resource curse in developing countries. We report from a large-scale field experiment in Tanzania ...

Natural resources, Corruption, Field experiment, Behavioral economics, Political, economy, Tanzania, Tanzania

The political economy of development

Book | Jan 1986

The political economy of development Just Faaland and Jack R. Parkinson Asia: Bangladesh just faa

Asia: Bangladesh

Diversification of the Angolan economy

CMI Insight | Sep 2014

Angola has the second most concentrated economy in the world, oil representing more than 97 per cent of its exports in 2011. Concentration has increased ...

Diversification, resources, poverty, Angola

Mozambique: A political economy analysis

Report in External Series | Jan 2017

In 2017, Mozambique was at its most critical moment since the end of the civil war, in a crisis-like cocktail of political, economic and ...

Mozambique, Frelimo, corruption, resource curse, extractive industries

Nepal: A political economy analysis

Report in External Series | Nov 2017

This report is an integrated political economy analysis of Nepal. The main finding is that economic growth and poverty reduction have been steady in Nepal ...

Diversification of the Angolan economy

Project | Jan 2011 - Dec 2014

The main objective of this project is to analyse opportunities for diversification of the Angolan economy. In Angola, production, exports and government ...

Diversification, political economy, resource curse, Angola

Linking procurement and political economy

Project | Feb - Dec 2010

National procurement systems handle a substantial share of total government expenditures in most countries. If the public procurement systems in poorer ...

procurement, political economy analysis

The political economy of banking in Angola

Journal Article | Jan 2019

From inauspicious beginnings in a post-socialist, highly dysfunctionalfinancial system, Angolan banking grew in less than a decade after theend of the ...

Angola

The political economy of poverty reduction in Kenya

Report in External Series | Jan 1996

This country study feeds into the work of a Task Force established to assess how Sweden's development assistance, in a more efficient and effective manner, ...

Poverty, , Kenya

Political economy of the mining sector in Ghana

Report in External Series | Aug 2011

With a focus on the institutional set-up and the political environment as central to understanding and rectifying the poor impact of mining on Ghana’s ...

Political economy, corruption, mining, Ghana, Ghana

Macmod, a macroeconomic model for the Tanzanian economy

CMI Report | Jan 1998

This report outlines the structure of a macroeconomis model for the Tanzanian economy. It consists of a core IS-LM/ Mundell-Fleming model, an SS-DD framework ...

Macroeconomic model, Tanzania, Africa: Tanzania

Political economy of the petroleum sector in Nigeria

Report in External Series | Sep 2011

The relatively slow pace of Nigeria’s development has often been attributed to the phenomenon of the resource curse whereby the nature of the state ...

corruption, petroleum, natural resources, political economy, Nigeria

Conlusion: The Moral economy of the resettlement regime

Book Chapter | Jan 2018

The international regime for resettlement of refugees examined in this volume has three important characteristics. First, the regime is state-centric. ...

Refugee & Migration Studies General Anthropology Political Economy

Development plannning in Bangladesh. A study in political economy

Book | Jan 1977

Development plannning in Bangladesh. A study in political economy Nurul Islam Asia: Bangladesh nu

Asia: Bangladesh

Cambodia's anti-corruption regime 2008-2018: A critical political economy approach

U4 Issue | Jan 2019

(THIS PUBLICATION IS TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE DUE TO A REVISION. WE APOLOGISE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE CAUSED). Cambodia's anti-corruption reforms have been ...