Judicial reform has become an increasingly important focus for national governments and international donors, including Norway. This study analyses ...

Legislating a minimum age of marriage at 18 has stirred counter-mobilization in some, but not all, countries where religious or traditional ...

This paper focuses on family law reform in Sudan-a country that has been in a state of perpetual conflict that stretches back long before its ...

Creating a viable judiciary and strengthening its democratic functions has been a main concern of both governments and donors over the last ...

Reform of family law is considered among the most difficult to achieve since it contests ‘the notion of women and children as property’. ...

This project seeks to map family and criminal law reforms in the period 1995-2015 in Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, ...

This report investigates criminal law reform in Sudan, focusing on two important and controversial legal reforms related to (a) a definition ...

This is an Arabic translation of the CMI report Women and Girls Caught between Rape and Adultery in Sudan: Criminal Law Reform, 2005–2015, ...

The main objective of this evaluation by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) is to help the World Bank learn how to contribute more effectively ...

The anti-corruption reform in the Tanzanian tax bureaucracy in the mid-1990s was apparently a short-lived success. In the wake of the reform, ...

This article is about judicial reform in the Southern Cone in the 1990s. It shows that for Argentina and Chile, procedural code reforms were ...

How far has the recent global wave of tax reform contributed to state building in poorer countries? This chapter concludes that ...

- Policy makers and their decisions matter much more than a supposed resource curse, says Ricardo Soares de Oliveira. As East Africa booms with oil, he urges international actors and donors to repoliticise the international reform and financial agenda.

After almost 25 years of war, the formal justice sector in Afghanistan is dysfunctional, and comprehensive reform of both laws and institutions ...

As part of the World Bank's ongoing work on 'Assessing Aid', the Aid and Reform project was launched in December 1998. The project focuses on ...

This U4 Issue Paper translates lessons related to monitoring judicial reform to the specific requirements of UNCAC Article 11. Taking the Paris ...

How far has the recent global wave of tax reform contributed to state building in poorer countries? This chapter concludes that ...

Despite the optimistic forecasts in 1991, both the political and economic liberalisation processes in Zambia are today characterised by their ...

Sudanese women activists launched a legal campaign in 2009 calling attention to how the country’s Sharia based Criminal Act of 1991 produced ...

This report documents and analyzes two recent major reforms in Lebanese law whose purpose is to further gender equality for women in Lebanon: ...