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Taxation in fragile states

Project | Jul 2017 - Mar 2018

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

Tax, public finance, fragile states

The many faces of political Islam in Sudan: Muslim women's activism for and against the state

Doctoral Thesis | Nov 2011

This thesis investigates the politics of competing Islamic gender ideologies in Sudan. Based on fieldwork conducted in greater Khartoum from ...

Sudan

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 ...

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

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 ...

fragile states

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 ...

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

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. ...

Afghanistan

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 ...

Brazil

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 ...

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

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 ...

fragile states

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 ...

Fragile states, Peace building, Aid policy

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 ...

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 ...

Land Rights, Environmental Protection and Inclusive Development within India's Federal System

Project | Jan 2013 - Jun 2017

The main goal of the research project is to understand the consequences of the legal regime India has adopted to protect its indigenous peoples ...

India

Violence against women in the context of urban poverty in Angola

CMI Brief | Oct 2016

Violence against women is widespread in Angola. This brief presents the main findings in a recent study of how violence against women is playing ...

women, violence, poverty, Angola, Luanda

Corruption and state-backed debts in Mozambique: What can external actors do?

U4 Issue | Nov 2016

The average annual cost of corruption to Mozambique was recently estimated to be up to USD 4.9 billion for the period 2004-2014. Some analysts ...

international drivers of corruption, illicit financial flows, Mozambique

Paper tiger law forbidding FGM in Sudan

CMI Brief | Sep 2017

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is still a common practice in Sudan. Nine out of ten women have been subjected to this practice. In 2009, a ...

FGM, female genital mutilation, weak law, law, paper tiger, ARUSS, Sudan

Reconstructing traditional authority - for whom? Political parties, state

Project | Aug 2005 - Mar 2010

This project culminated with a Ph.D dissertation by Mr. Aslak Orre. It had a two-fold agenda linked to the relationship between political parties, ...

Local government, political parties, democratisation, Angola and Mozambique

Enforcement of water rights

CMI Brief | May 2016

In 2010, a UN Resolution explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation (HRtWS). But has this international recognition improved ...

natural resources, water, human rights, Costa Rica, South Africa, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Peru, Zambia

Palestinian State-formation: Prospects and Challenges. Report from a Symposium at Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway 24-25 May 2004

CMI Report | Jan 2004

The CMI - Muwatin symposium, held in Bergen on 24-25 May 2004, addressed both internal and external challenges to Palestinian state-formation. ...

State formation, Palestine

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 ...

Democracy, Development planning, Economic policy, Botswana