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Mobile Traders and Mobile Phones in Ghana

Book Chapter | Dec 2008

Mobile Traders and Mobile Phones in Ghana Ragnhild Overå Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies J

Ghana

Abortion rights legal mobilization in the Peruvian media, 1990–2015

Journal Article | Jan 2017

State and non-state actors engaged in disputes to expand and limit abortion rights have engaged in legal mobilization—in other words, strategies ...

Abortion rights, Peru, legal mobilization, Peru

Counter-mobilization against child marriage reform in Africa

Journal Article | Oct 2018

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

child marriage, family law, gender reform, counter-mobilization, religion, tradition, Sudan, Zambia

The effects of disasters on income mobility: Bootstrap inference and measurement error simulations

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2003

We evaluate the impact of disasters on income mobility by drawing on "natural experiments". While the poor have a much higher probability of remaining ...

Income mobility, Effects of disasters, Bootstrap, Measurement error, Simulations, Natural experiments, Control group, Treatment group, Poverty

Transforming Pastoralist Mobility in West Darfur: Understanding Continuity and Change

Report in External Series | Jan 2019

In the Darfur Region of Sudan, patterns of livestock mobility and livelihood systems are continually adapting and transforming themselves in the face ...

Manly merchants: commerce, mobility and masculinity among Afghan traders in Eurasia

Journal Article | Jan 2020

Manly merchants: commerce, mobility and masculinity among Afghan traders in Eurasia Magnus Marsden A

Local Revenue Mobilization in Urban Settings in Africa

Book Chapter | Jan 2006

The growth of Africa's towns and cities has outpaced local authority capacity in terms of management, infrastructure, and financing. Many African towns ...

Taxation, fiscal decentralisation, urbanisation, Africa

Local Revenue Mobilization in Urban Setttings in Africa

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2006

The growth of Africa's towns and cities has outpaced local authority capacity in terms of management, infrastructure, and financing. Many African ...

Local government, Decentralization, Urbanization, Taxes, Business licenses, User fees, Africa, Tanzania

Mobility, Entitlement and Perceptions of Inequality

CMI Working Paper | Feb 2017

This paper proposes a model how individuals form beliefs on inequality based on their own and their family’s experience. A person’s income ...

inequality, income, family, effort, mobility, entitlement, Chhattisgarh, India

Religious Counter-Mobilization against Child Marriage Reform in Sudan

Journal Article | Aug 2018

Each year, 15 million girls are married before the age of 18. Sudan is among the African countries with a high prevalence of child marriage. In Sudan, ...

child marriage, religious counter-mobilization, legal reform, Sudan

Ethnic Mobilization in Resource-Abundant African States. Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses of the Role of Ethnic Identity and Natural Resources in Armed Intrastate Conflicts

Doctoral Thesis | Jan 2015

Ethnic Mobilization in Resource-Abundant African States. Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses of th

Why and How Civil Defense Militias Emerge: The Case of the Arrow Boys in South Sudan

Journal Article | Jan 2014

This article uses a collective-action framework to study the mobilization of the Arrow Boys (AB), a community defense militia in South Sudan. Drawing ...

Elite behaviour and citizen mobilization

Journal Article | May 2019

This paper studies the relation between self-serving elite behaviour and citizen political participation. We use a fixed effects approach to analyze the ...

Elites, citizens, portfolio investment, tax havens, voter turnout, political economy

Elite behaviour and citizen mobilization

CMI Working Paper | Aug 2015

This paper studies the relation between self-serving elite behaviour and citizen political participation. We use a fixed effects approach to analyze the ...

Elites, citizens, portfolio investment, tax havens, voter turnout, political economy

Revenue mobilization at sub-national levels in Sudan

Sudan Report | Jan 2016

Sudan has undertaken decentralization reforms since the early 1990s, in a federal government system with three tiers: federal, state, and local government ...

Sub-national revenue mobilisation, local government, taxation, tax reform, intergovernmental fiscal relations, Sudan

The interplay between poverty and electoral authoritarianism: Poverty and political mobilization in Zambia and Uganda

CMI Working Paper | Feb 2012

In this paper we wish to analyze the interplay between the political setting of electoral authoritarianism and economic grievances expressed in particular ...

Elections, Authoritarianism, Poverty, Mobilization, Regime change, Zambia, Uganda

Community mobilization after an earthquake: case study of the use of the IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings on mental health and psychosocial support in Peru

Journal Article | Jan 2008

Community mobilization after an earthquake: case study of the use of the IASC Guidelines on

Peru

Human rights-based approaches to development: Concepts, evidence, and policy

Journal Article | Oct 2012

This article aims to organize thinking around human rights-based approaches to development (HRBAs) and to review available empirical evidence regarding ...

human rights, development, courts

Citizens’ preferences for taxation of internationally mobile corporations: Evidence from Tanzania

Journal Article | May 2021

The legitimacy of the tax system is likely to be compromised in the absence of public support. This article presents evidence from a discrete choice experiment ...

Tax policy, corporate taxation, tax preferences, tax legitimacy, Tanzania

Building Fiscal Capacity:The Role of ICT

Report in External Series | Jan 2017

Weak fiscal capacity for domestic resource mobilization is the hallmark of poor countries. Recently, many developing countries resorted to the application ...