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Tax builds countries: A window of opportunity for Angola
News | 14 Jun 2012
There is political will to strengthen the tax system in Angola. If properly designed and implemented, the new tax system can improve the efficiency and responsiveness of the public sector. One of the main challenges, however, will be to convince the citizens of Angola about the value of paying taxes. This will require not only reforms, but a major cultural shift.
Angola
Does an economics education produce technocratic paternalists? Experimental evidence from Tanzania
Journal Article | Jun 2020
When confronted with information that ordinary citizens do not care that strongly about efficiency, do economists change their views of optimal public ...
Field experiment, economics, paternalism, efficiency, taxation, Tanzania
Making government smaller and more efficient: The Botswana case
Report in External Series | Jan 2000
(Evaluation Report 6/2000)
Changing conditions for fighting economic crime
Event | 30 Oct 2013
What constitutes an efficient criminal justice system? This international workshop with leading experts explores criteria for crime-preventive impacts through the criminal justice system.
Ideas work better than money in generating reform - but how? Assessing the efficiency of Swedish development assistance in health to Vietnam
Report in External Series | Jan 2001
(Commissioned, restricted, limited circulation)
Asia: Vietnam
Share-tenancy within the household unit
CMI Working Paper | Jan 1997
Virtually all peasant household models assume efficient allocation of household productive resources between different household activities. In an African ...
Political Corruption and Democracy- the Role of Development Assistance
News | 3 May 2005
"Absolutely Spotless": Are Women Cleaner Public Actors than Men? asks CMI researcher Gisela Geisler in her essay. Geisler argues that the notion that women are less corrupt than men, and that more women reduce corruption and increases the efficiency of public spending and thus leads to poverty reduction, is the reverse of another older myth that kept women out of politics and public life.
Trial monitoring of corruption cases: An innovative answer to the quest for evaluation tools
U4 Practice Insight | Feb 2020
Impartial, competent and efficient judiciaries are vital in addressing corruption. Both qualitative and quantitative aspects of performance should be ...
Norwegian Refugee Council: Durable Management for Durable Solutions
News | 16 Apr 2007
NRC is very efficient, professional and creative when it comes to implementation of
projects and emergency response. But the management routines and coordination
need to be improved.
DRC, Colombia
Grand Corruption in the Regulation of Oil
U4 Issue | May 2008
This U4 Issue explores the topic of grand corruption in the regulation of oil. It focuses on how and why corruption can distort or prevent efficient regulation ...
corruption, natural resources, oil, natural resource management
Covid-19 and donor financing. Minimising corruption risks while ensuring efficiency
U4 Brief | Jun 2020
With the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, development aid and donor agencies face new challenges. They have to deliver essential products and financial ...
Covid-19, Corruption, Aid, Multi-partner funds, Funding mechanisms
Downward accountability in humanitarian aid. The example of UNHCR Uganda
U4 Issue | Nov 2020
If aid organisations are accountable to their beneficiaries, there is potentially less risk of corruption. Interventions may also be more efficient and ...
Corruption, Anti-corruption, Accountability, Refugees, Humanitarian aid, Uganda
Health sector corruption. Practical recommendations for donors
U4 Issue | Jun 2020
Corruption in the health sector can make the difference between life and death. It has severe consequences for access, quality, equity, efficiency, and ...
Health sector, Corruption
Anti-Corruption in the Health Sector: Reducing Vulnerabilities to Corruption in User Fee Systems
U4 Brief | Jan 2006
Designed to promote efficiency and expand access to health care services by leveraging financial contributions from patients, user fee systems are in ...
corruption, health, World
Liberated Bonded Laborers: Are They Better Off? Welfare and Efficiency Implications of an Agricultural Reform in Western Terai, Nepal
CMI Report | Oct 2007
This master thesis investigates the welfare effects for bonded laborers (kamaiyas) in Western Terai of a ban on permanent labor contracts in July 2000. ...
Bonded labor, Nepal
The political economy of poverty reduction in Kenya
Report in External Series | Jan 1996
This country study feeds into the work of a Task Force established to assess how Sweden's development assistance, in a more efficient and effective manner, ...
Poverty, , Kenya
Review of Haydom Lutheran Hospital
Project | Sep - Oct 2007
This project is a review Haydom Lutheran Hospital, focusing on the following issues1. HLH as a hospital. (Efficiency, cost-efficiency, ...
Tanzania
Fairness and the development of inequality acceptance
Journal Article | Dec 2010
Fairness considerations fundamentally affect human behavior, but our understanding of the nature and development of people’s fairness preferences ...
Aid Coordination in Afghanistan
Commissioned Report | Jan 2002
Aid coordination is expected to ensure the more efficient and effective delivery
of humanitarian assistance. Presently, a large number of humanitarian ...
Afghanistan, Coordination, NGOs, Peacebuilding, Rehabilitation and Development, , UN, , , Asia: Afghanistan
SADC's Restructuring and Emerging Policies. Options for Norwegian Support
CMI Report | Jan 2005
In 2001 SADC approved an ambitious program for a major overhaul of the organisation. Through institutional reform SADC hoped to establish a more efficient ...
Development aid, , Regional co-operation, SADC, Norway, Southern Africa