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.

What constitutes an efficient criminal justice system? This international workshop with leading experts explores criteria for crime-preventive impacts through the criminal justice system.

When confronted with information that ordinary citizens do not care that strongly about efficiency, do economists change their views of optimal public ...

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"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.

Virtually all peasant household models assume efficient allocation of household productive resources between different household activities. In an African ...

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.

Impartial, competent and efficient judiciaries are vital in addressing corruption. Both qualitative and quantitative aspects of performance should be ...

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 ...

Designed to promote efficiency and expand access to health care services by leveraging financial contributions from patients, user fee systems are in ...

This master thesis investigates the welfare effects for bonded laborers (kamaiyas) in Western Terai of a ban on permanent labor contracts in July 2000. ...

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, ...

Fairness considerations fundamentally affect human behavior, but our understanding of the nature and development of people’s fairness preferences ...

This project is a review Haydom Lutheran Hospital, focusing on the following issues1. HLH as a hospital. (Efficiency, cost-efficiency, ...

Aid coordination is expected to ensure the more efficient and effective delivery of humanitarian assistance. Presently, a large number of humanitarian ...

In 2001 SADC approved an ambitious program for a major overhaul of the organisation. Through institutional reform SADC hoped to establish a more efficient ...

Allowances, or per diems, have become an important source of income for civil servants in sub-saharan Africa. -Existing practices need to be revised, says CMI-researcher Tina Søreide.

The literature on how to combine efficiency and equity considerations in the social valuation of health allocations has borrowed extensively from applied ...

One of the main issues addressed was whether the demand for efficiency in the administration hinders treatment of asylum seekers according to national ...