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Addressing corruption in fragile states: what role for donors?

U4 Issue | Jan 2007

This report takes on board recent international experience and research on fragile states and present operational advice to anyone wanting to tailor strategic ...

fragile states

Taxation in fragile states

Project | Jul 2017 - Feb 2018

The purpose of this study is to systematise and analyse existing knowledge on taxation in fragile states. Efforts to support domestic revenue mobilisation ...

Tax, public finance, fragile states

Building tax systems in fragile states. Challenges, achievements and policy recommendations

CMI Report | Mar 2018

The purpose of this study is to systematise and analyse existing knowledge on taxation in fragile states. Efforts to support domestic revenue mobilisation ...

Fragile states, state building, domestic revenue mobilisation, taxation, capacity building, development assistance

Risks of corruption to state legitimacy and stability in fragile situations

U4 Issue | May 2012

Examining the cases of Liberia, Nepal and Colombia, this study asks how corruption poses risks to political legitimacy and stability in fragile situations. ...

Fragile states, Post-conflict, Legitimacy, Stability, Reconstruction, Liberia, Colombia, Nepal

Political economies of corruption in fragile and conflict-affected states: Nuancing the picture

U4 Brief | Sep 2013

Addressing corruption in fragile and conflict-affected environments is constrained by the risk that reforms can spark violent resistance. Two different ...

fragile states

The gendered state: A review of some recent studies on women and the state

DERAP Working Paper | Jan 1991

This working paper is an analytical review of four recent studies on "women and the state" or the gendered state. Three of these books include studies ...

Women, Gender relations, State, Africa, Asia, Europe

The Aid Agencies and the Fragile States Agenda

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2006

In recent years, a consensus appears to have emerged that a variety of problems can be understood in terms of state failure. This paper reviews one aspect ...

Fragile states, Peace building, Aid policy

Exogenous state-building: The contradictions of the international project in Afghanistan

Book Chapter | Jan 2011

In the contemporary writing on state-building in post-conflict situations, remarkably little attention is paid to what it takes to build a state. There ...

Afghanistan

What is Left of State Responsibility? Turning State Obligations into State Responsibilities in the Field of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Book Chapter | Jan 2005

What is Left of State Responsibility? Turning State Obligations into State Responsibilities in the

Human rights

Introduction: Performing the State

Journal Article | Jul 2016

Seeking to expand the domain of the political beyond normative understandings of the state, the articles in this special edition examine the performative ...

Performance, governance, religion, militia, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Southeast Asia

Environment, society and the state in southwestern Eritrea

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2000

This paper examines the relationships between environment, society and the state in the Gash-Setit region, western Eritrea. Through an examination of ...

Africa: Eritrea

The gendered state: A review of some recent studies on women and the state

CMI Report | Jan 1991

The gendered state: A review of some recent studies on women and the state Kate Halvorsen CMI Repor

State-local community games of forest land appropriation

CMI Working Paper | Jan 1997

This paper explores possible strategic interactions between the state and local community in games of tropical forest land appropriation. Two key questions ...

Oil States in the New Middle East. Uprisings and stability

Edited Book | Sep 2016

Oil has been central to regime survival for oil states across the Arabian Peninsula and has been at the heart of their attempts to defuse the wave of ...

Kuwait

The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States

Book | Jan 2018

The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States investigates the social and political effects of the practice of Muslim-American women wearing the ...

A State of Corruption? An Anthropology of the South Asian State

Doctoral Thesis | Aug 2008

A State of Corruption? An Anthropology of the South Asian State Tone K. Sissener Dissertation Subm

Corruption, Anthropology, Bangladesh

Taming the war machine: Police, pacification and power i Rio de Janeiro

Master's Thesis | Jan 2016

In this thesis I trace the changes in the exercise of Brazilian state power in Rio’s poor communities, or favelas, through an ethnographic exploration ...

Brazil

Development planning and the importance of Democratic Institutions in Botswana

CMI Report | Jan 1993

This study takes an extended look at Botswana, a country which is found to depart from the common pattern of African states and therefore may be considered ...

Democracy, Development planning, Economic policy, Botswana

A Conflict Does Not Rot: State and Civil Society Responses to Civil War Offences in Mozambique

Journal Article | Jun 2013

This article analyses how state and non-state actors have tried to address the human rights violations and war crimes committed during the civil war in ...

Civil War, Gamba Spirits, Gorongosa, Human Rights, Local Justice, Mozambique, Transitional Justice, Mozambique

Migration, state and civil society in Southeast Asia

CMI Working Paper | Jan 1992

The paper was prepared for a conference on the impact of international migration on the security and stability of states, which was organised by the Massachusetts ...

Migration, International politics, Social conflicts, Southeast Asia