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The extractive industries transparency initiative: Impact, effectiveness, and where next for expanding natural resource governance?

U4 Brief | May 2014

The last decade has witnessed a proliferation of initiatives to improve the governance of the extractives sector. Starting with the Kimberly Process Certification ...

natural resource management, extractive industries, oil, gas, minerals

Illicit financial flows within the extractive industries sector: a glance at how legal requirements can be manipulated and diverted

Journal Article | Feb 2019

The extractive industries sector is considered to be one of the most prone to illicit financial flows. To date, numerous instruments at the national, ...

Extractive industries, Corruption, Transparency, Abuse of law, Illicit financial flows

Can Smallholders benefit from the new market opportunities from the extractive industry in Tanzania?

CMI Report | May 2018

The recent discovery of huge oil and gas reserves in Tanzania has created a new opportunity for economic growth and development of the country. Tanzania ...

Smallholders, Food Value Chain Development, Oil and Gas, Tanzania

Industrial Clusters Promotion as a tool for private sector development: The UNIDO experience in Ethiopia

CMI Brief | Nov 2013

Policies aimed at boosting the interaction and cooperation of economic actors in industrial clusters might represent a crucial strategy for industrial ...

industry, Ethiopia

Micro and Small-scale Industry. Development in Cabo Delgado Province in Mozambique

CMI Report | Jan 2005

This report sets out the background, analyses, conclusions and recommendations from a review of a project on Micro and Small-scale Industry Development ...

Small-scale industry, Industrial development, Capacity building, Mozambique, Africa: Mozambique

Digging in the dirt? Extractive industry FDI and corruption

Journal Article | Aug 2013

Does corruption attract or deter foreign investment in the extractive sectors? This article presents an econometric analysis of extractive industry foreign ...

Corruption, governance, mining, quarrying, petroleum, extractive industries, Bangladesh, Angola

Social development and industry level foreign direct investment

CMI Report | Jan 2004

Investment is crucial for economic development. A number of empirical studies document a relationship between social development and aggregate foreign ...

Foreign direct investment, Social development

Between shamba and factory. Industrial labour migration in Kenya

Book Chapter | Jan 1991

Oscillatory labour migration is shown to predominate in the labour market in Kenya. Workers move periodically between the towns and the rural areas where ...

Labour migration, Remittances, Kenya

Industrialization in Kenya: Quasi-Proletarianization and Labour Migration

Book Chapter | Jan 1990

This chapter adduces empirical evidence to show that the non-capitalist agricultural sector 'subsidises' industrial wages by relieving the capitalist ...

Labour migration, Remittences, Livelihoods, Kenya

Why technology transfer and new industrial structures may accelerate economic development

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2001

Countries within a region often experience a similar rate of industrial development. Do foreign direct investments have any influence on this aspect of ...

Foreign direct investment (FDI), economic development, technology transfers

From "Enemies of the Revolution" to Unfulfilled Ideal: Private Industrial Entrepreneurs in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Book Chapter | Sep 2012

Private sector industrial entrepreneurs are usually perceived as “victims” of the Iranian revolution. This reading has been shaped by events ...

Iran

Supply chain management in the oil industry: The Angolan case

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2001

(Price NOK 50 + postage) Angola represents a new and promising offshore oil market where technology and contracts differ from those of Norway's offshore ...

Oil industry, Supply chain, Firm, Property right, Angola, Africa: Angola

Whistleblowing in the financial industry: The right means to curb illicit flows from developing countries?

U4 Brief | Mar 2011

Information provided by insiders can contribute to the goal of reducing illicit capital flight from developing countries. It helps address one of the ...

international drivers of corruption

Supply Chain Management in the Offshore Oil Industry: The Angolan and Norwegian Cases Compared

Book Chapter | Jan 2006

Different external environments lead to differences in supply chain management. This chapter focuses on the organisation of the supply chain in the offshore ...

Oil industry, Offshore, Supply chain, Africa: Angola., Norway

South Africa manufacturing industries catching up or falling behind?

CMI Working Paper | Jan 1995

This paper argues that intraindustry trade with developed countries is an important source of technology transfer, and creates incentives to climb up ...

Economic development and industrial structure- an overview

CMI Working Paper | Jan 1997

This essay offers a selective review of central issues related to economic growth. The interrelationship between technological processes, capital accumulation, ...

Frustrations with a paternalistic humanitarian industry

Journal Article | Jan 2003

Frustrations with a paternalistic humanitarian industry Astri Suhrke Development today astri suhr

Forest concessions and corruption

U4 Issue | Dec 2007

The forest industry has the potential to contribute to the economy and increase state revenues in many developing countries. The realisation of these ...

Corruption, natural resource management, World

Clustering as an organizational response to capital market inefficiency: evidence from microenterprises in Ethiopia

Journal Article | Mar 2014

Absence of a well-developed capital market has been listed as a key obstacle to industrialization in developing countries in the development literature. ...

Microenterprises, Finance, Entry barrier, Clustering, Africa, Ethiopia

A Theory of Change for the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. Designing resource governance pathways to improve developmental outcomes

U4 Issue | Aug 2020

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative is a major international effort to disclose information about extractive activities. Having an explicit ...