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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
Angola’s foreign policy & African agenda – Africa’s emerging powerhouse ?
Angola’s foreign policy & African agenda – Africa’s emerging powerhouse ?Commissioned Report | Jan 2016
This report results from a commission by the Direction Générale des Relations Internationales et de la Stratégie, Paris, to ...
Angola, Foreign Policy
Too big to fault? Effects of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Norwegian exports to China and foreign policy
Too big to fault? Effects of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Norwegian exports to China and foreign policyCMI Working Paper | May 2016
Abstract
In October 2010, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel peace prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. The Chinese government responded ...
Nobel peace prize, Liu Xiaobo, foreign policy, exports, United Nations, fish, trade, sanctions, foreign policy, international political economy, Norway, China
Too big to fault? Effects of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Norwegian exports to China and foreign policy
Journal Article | Dec 2020
In October 2010, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel peace prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. The Chinese government responded by freezing ...
Sanctions, Trade, Foreign Policy, International Political Economy, Norway, China
Company interests and foreign aid policy: Playing donors out against each other
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2003
Despite the importance attached to conditionality by the donors, and the fact that aid is a crucial income source for the recipient, it is found that ...
Triadic, Conditionality, Foreign aid, Foreign assistance, JEL classification: E61, F35
Turkish foreign policy: structures and decision-making processes
Turkish foreign policy: structures and decision-making processesCMI Report | May 2019
On 16 April 2017 Turkish voters went to the polls to deliver their verdict on a set of constitutional amendments that would replace the existing parliamentary ...
Turkey, Syria
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
Corruption in natural resource management: Implications for policy makersJournal 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
Organisational ethics policies: A primerU4 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
China in Africa. Implications for Norwegian Foreign and Development PoliciesCMI 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
'Follow the money!' Policies and practices in donor support to civil society formations in Southern AfricaReport 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
Active private sector development policies revisited: Impacts of the Ethiopian industrial cluster policyJournal 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.
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
Gender Policies and Feminisation of Poverty in MozambiqueCMI 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
Will the Sudanese paradox continue? Insecure investment climate and substantial foreign direct investment inflows
Will the Sudanese paradox continue? Insecure investment climate and substantial foreign direct investment inflowsSudan Report | Oct 2012
The changing international/external economic environment, which is characterized by rapid globalization, expansion of foreign direct investment (FDI), ...
Sudan
Issues in contemporary refugee policies
Book Chapter | Jan 1999
Issues in contemporary refugee policies Astri Suhrke and Aristide R. Zolberg Migration and refugee