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Stuck in Transition: Political Corruption as Power Abuse
Stuck in Transition: Political Corruption as Power AbuseBook Chapter | Nov 2019
The final chapter summarises some of the findings of the previous country analyses, against the background of the conceptual pair of extractive and power-preserving ...
political corruption, greed, power preservation, crony capitalism, blocked democracy
Extractive and Power-Preserving Political Corruption
Book Chapter | Nov 2019
This introductory chapter outlines the distinctions between, on the one hand, political and bureaucratic corruption, and, on the other hand, between extractive ...
political corruption, corruption, power preservation, political economy analysis, bribery, favouritism, vote buying
Preserving religious culture for future generations
Preserving religious culture for future generationsNews | 17 Dec 2012
The ravages of time had nearly destroyed the invaluable collection of books and manuscripts kept in the Riyadha Mosque on Lamu in Kenya. A meticulous digitalization project has saved and preserved the material for future generations.
Political Corruption in Africa. Extraction and Power Preservation
Edited Book | Nov 2019
Analysing political corruption as a distinct but separate entity from bureaucratic corruption, this timely book separates these two very different social ...
Political corruption, Corruption, Power preservation, Political economy analysis, Bribery, Favouritism, Vote buying, Civil society, Media, Anti-corruption, 'Big Man', Patronage, Elections, Resource curse, Clientelism, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Mozambique, South Africa, Malawi
Congenitally Conjoined and Inseparable: Politics and Corruption in Nigeria
Book Chapter | Nov 2019
This chapter analyses political corruption in Nigeria through the trajectory of a number of scandals and their background. It underscores the resilience ...
political corruption, power preservation, resource curse, clientelism, 'war chest', Nigeria
CMI: Political Corruption book project
CMI: Political Corruption book projectProject | Jan 2018 - Nov 2019
Political Corruption in AfricaExtraction and Power Preservation
This book is analysing political corruption as a distinct but separate entity from bureaucratic ...
Corruption, political corruption, development, Africa, Africa
Logging the 'Frontier': Narratives of deforestation in the northern borderlands of British India, c. 1850-1940
Logging the 'Frontier': Narratives of deforestation in the northern borderlands of British India, c. 1850-1940Journal Article | Sep 2011
This paper analyzes the institution of “scientific forestry” in the northern borderlands (“Frontier”) of British India c. 1850–1940. ...
British India, NWFP, deforestation, narratives, colonial history, British India (Pakistan)
Political corruption: An introduction to the issues
Political corruption: An introduction to the issuesCMI Working Paper | Jan 1999
Corruption is generally defined as the misuse of public authority, and political corruption is here defined as corruption in which the political decision-makers ...
political corruption
Stopping illegal trafficking of endangered species requires combatting corruption
News | 3 Sep 2015
Corruption and illegal trafficking endanger the world’s biodiversity
Tribal representation & local land governance in India: A case study from the Khasi Hills of Meghalaya
Tribal representation & local land governance in India: A case study from the Khasi Hills of MeghalayaCMI Working Paper | Apr 2017
In India, the Schedule Tribes have remained on the fringes of growth, but less so in the majority tribal areas of the North East. This has increased the ...
tribal areas, Sixth Schedule, rights of ownership, Meghalaya, Khasi Hills, Jaintia Hills, Shillong township, Mowtari Mowlang village, India
Access regimes and institutions: The economic organisation of the migrant Popo fishermen of Pointe- Noire, Congo
CMI Working Paper | Jan 1999
Within Popo society in Pointe Noire, Congo, fishermen sell their fish to their wives at a price slightly below the local market price. The wives process ...
Republic of Congo
Commemoration and the State: Memory and Legitimacy in Vietnam
Journal Article | Apr 2010
The commemorations of historical figures, both public and private, have become a powerful tool for politicians and historians in Vietnam to reconfigure ...
Judiciary and good governance in contemporary Tanzania. Problems and prospects
CMI Report | Jan 1995
The World Bank identified judiciary among institutions which ran down during centralized governance. The Bank also expressed the need for and willingness ...
Legal institutions, Judicial system, Good governance, Tanzania, Africa: Tanzania
Restructuring the state: Federalist Dynamics in Nepal
Restructuring the state: Federalist Dynamics in NepalCMI Report | Jun 2014
Since the end of the civil war in 2006, Nepal has been on the edge of a peaceful but truly revolutionary change to restructure the state along federal ...
federalism, ethnic identity, regional identity, Nepal
The Virtual Museum: Connecting the Humanities, Visual Technologies and Community Development
The Virtual Museum: Connecting the Humanities, Visual Technologies and Community DevelopmentEvent | 8 Dec 2010
What opportunities do virtual museums create for dialog between diverse communities? How can virtual museums contribute to a development paradigm that moves beyond enduring conceptions of aid as a one-way transaction? How can digital media positively augment these processes?
Multialteral aid institutions and strategic donor behavior
Project | Feb - Dec 2003
The project builds on recent empirical evidence suggesting the importance of strategic donor behaviour for aid allocation to develop theoretical models ...
power, foreign assistance
From Exodus to Exile: Palestinian Lives in the Levant
From Exodus to Exile: Palestinian Lives in the LevantEvent | 7 Sep 2007
Taking a fresh look at the refugee problem and examining Palestinian refugee exile and alienation from historical, social, cultural and legal perspectives.
Review of Scandinavian Assistance to the statistical bureau in Mozambique (INE)
Project | Mar - Jun 2005
This evaluation of the three Scandinavian Statistical Central Bureaus to Instituto Nacional Estatistico (INE) in Mozambique concludes that the project, ...
Statistics, Development, Technical Cooperation, Mozambique
The Internal Protection Alternative in Refugee Law: Treaty basis and scope of application under the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol
The Internal Protection Alternative in Refugee Law: Treaty basis and scope of application under the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees and its 1967 ProtocolBook | Jan 2019
Under what circumstances can a state refuse refugee status to a person whose risk of persecution exists in only part of her country of origin? This book ...
refugees, asylum, internal displacement, Norway, European Union
The ‘Secret Loans Affair’ and Political Corruption in Mozambique
Book Chapter | Jan 2019
In 2016, the ‘secret loans affair’ sprung on to the Mozambican political scene with the discovery that three government-owned companies – ...
political corruption, 'secret loans affair', economic crisis, enrichment, elite formation, Mozambique