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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