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Reality Checks in Mozambique. Approach and Methodologies

Report in External Series | Aug 2012

A series of five “Reality Checks in Mozambique” will take place in the period 2011-2016, focussing on the dynamics of poverty and well-being ...

Aid, poverty, methodologies, Mozambique

Methodology and findings of evaluations of non-project financial aid

Journal Article | Jan 1996

Methodology and findings of evaluations of non-project financial aid Ole David Koht Norbye IDS Bull

SIDA's Strategy for Rural Development and Small.Scale Fisheries: Some Notes on Socio-Economic Determinants and their Methodological Implications

Report in External Series | Jan 1987

SIDA's Strategy for Rural Development and Small.Scale Fisheries: Some Notes on Socio-Economic Deter

Democratisation in Ethiopia: Some notes on theory and methodology

Book Chapter | Jan 2002

Democratisation in Ethiopia: Some notes on theory and methodology Siegfried Pausewang, Kjetil Tronv

Africa: Ethiopia

Battlefields of method: evaluating Norwegian peace efforts in Sri Lanka

Book Chapter | Jan 2014

Battlefields of method: evaluating Norwegian peace efforts in Sri Lanka Jonathan Goodhand, Bart Kle

Sri Lanka

"Economic Aid to Post-conflict Countries: A Methodological Critique of Collier and Hoeffler"

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2005

This paper retests the analysis of "Aid Policy and Growth in Post-Conflict Societies," by Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler (October 2002 and forthcoming ...

Economic aid, Post-conflict, Methodology

Political institutions and economic reform: Zambia and South Africa in comparative context

CMI Working Paper | Jan 1996

This paper presents the theoretical and methodological framework of a joint research project by Lise Rakner and Tor Skålnes, "Political Liberalisation ...

Africa: South Africa, Zambia

How To Assess the Political Role of the Courts

Journal Article | Jan 2003

The article addresses the methodological problems concerning how to assess the political role of courts in Zambia - and in new democracies more generally, ...

courts, judicial independence, judiciary, democratization, accountability, constitutionalism, rule of law, Africa: Zambia

Business Corruption: Incidence, Mechanisms and Consequences

Doctoral Thesis | Jan 2006

The present study describes some of the mechanisms behind business corruption. It begins by explaining the distinct methodological challenges related ...

Corruption, Business corruption, Theses

MOPAN: Report from the 2003 Pilot Exercise

Commissioned Report | Jan 2003

CMI was engaged early 2002 by the Multilateral Organisations Performance Assessment Network to assist preparing and testing a methodology for monitoring ...

How to assess the political role of the Zambian courts?

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2004

The paper addresses the methodological problems concerning how to assess the political role of courts in Zambia - and in new democracies more generally, ...

Courts, judicary, accountabilty, democratisation, Zambia

Economic Aid to Post-conflict Countries: A Methodological Critique of Collier and Hoeffler.

Journal Article | Jan 2005

This paper retests the analysis of "Aid Policy and Growth in Post-Conflict Societies," by Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler (October 2002 and forthcoming ...

aid policy, post-conflict, peacebuilding

Theories of change in anti-corruption work: A tool for programme design and evaluation

U4 Issue | Nov 2012

Governments and donor agencies are under increasing pressure to show hard evidence that their interventions are effective and good value for money. Anti-corruption ...

Anti-corruption, corruption, evaluation, design, theory of change, methodology, tool, evidence, case study, theory-based evaluation, programming, strategy, evaluation measurement, Zambia, Malawi

Project appraisal and sustainability in less developed countries

CMI Report | Jan 1994

There is a widespread concern that adverse environmental effects of economic activities will seriously affect both the present and future welfare of people ...

Environment, Environmental assesment, Sustainable development, Project appraisal, Development projects, Cost-benefit analysis, NORAD, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Malawi, Africa: Malawi

The Kinship in Public Office indicator: Kin connectivity as a proxy for nepotism in the public sector

U4 Brief | Dec 2014

Measuring nepotism in the public sector is challenging because of its elusive nature. This brief reviews methodologies developed to measure the extent ...

evaluation measurement

Interpreting welfare and relief in the Middle East

Edited Book | Jan 2008

Based on different problematic and methodological perspectives and new sources, this book’s contributions lie in the close study of welfare beyond ...

Eliciting people's preferences for the distribution of health. A procedure for a more precise estimation of distributional weights

Journal Article | Sep 2009

In order to incorporate distributional concerns into cost-effectiveness analysis, it would be useful to elicit distributional weights that express people's ...

Health equity, Distributional weights, Eliciting preferences

Costa Rica: Tipping points and an incomplete journey

Book Chapter | Jan 2017

This chapter tracks Costa Rica’s long transition from a particularistic to a universal ethical society using a process-tracing methodology. It argues ...

Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Costa Rica

Rethinking access. Key methodological challenges in studying energy companies.

Journal Article | Jan 2018

Understanding the role of large energy corporations in society is a crucial, yet challenging task for the social science of energy. Ethnographic methods ...

Energy, Corporate social responsibility, Multi-sited ethnography, Access, Positionality, Tanzania, Turkey, Norway, Brazil

Short courses: Social Science Methodology

Project | Jan 2008 - Dec 2010

In addition to the research projects, the CEIC - CMI cooperation will establish various training courses. The courses will primarily be based on ...

Training course, social science methodology, Angola