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Petroleum fund in Tanzania? Other alternatives may be better
(CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 10, Report, 2016-07-01)The Government of Tanzania is looking for the best policies and institutional designs to turn future petroleum revenues into welfare, development and jobs. This Brief argues that the Tanzanian society will benefit more by ... -
Petroleum populism: How new resource endowments shape voter choices
(CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 11, Report, 2017-12-01)High-value natural resources can be a political “curse” when political elites use resource revenues to maintain power, subvert democratic rule, and distribute public goods to their supporters. New resource discoveries can ... -
Petroleum’s potential impact on future state-society relations in Tanzania
(CMI Brief no. 2019:03, Report, 2019-05-01)Tanzanian citizens continue to have high expectations about the benefits that the country’s emerging petroleum sector will provide them with, yet they possess low knowledge about the sector. Policy makers should take ... -
Pobreza Rural em Malanje, Angola
(CMI Report R 2017:4, Research report, 2017-12-01)Este relatório é parte do programa de pesquisa “Cooperação em Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Angola” entre o Centro de Estudos e Investigação Científica (CEIC) da Universidade Católica em Luanda, Angola e o Chr. Michelsen ... -
Pobreza urbana e desigualdade em Luanda, Angola
(CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 17, Report, 2016-11-01)Este resumo mostra que os pobres da capital angolana Luanda estão, efetivamente, presos numa armadilha da pobreza devido a deficiências materiais e oportunidades limitadas de rendimento. Ao mesmo tempo, os mecanismos ... -
Police reform in Georgia. Cracks in an anti-corruption success story
(U4 Practice Insight 2010:2, Report, 2010-07-15)The significant reduction of street-level police corruption has been hailed as one of the success stories of post-revolutionary Georgia. However, a closer look reveals that the broader reform of Georgia’s Ministry of ... -
Policy Brief III – Crime and Security in Maputo, Mozambique
(CMI Brief vol. 14 no. 3, Report, 2015-06-01)This is the third in a series of policy briefs relating to the research project, “The Ethnography of a Divided City: Socio-politics, Poverty and Gender in Maputo, Mozambique” (2012–2015), funded by the Norwegian Research ... -
Policy Brief IV – Solid Waste Management in Maputo, Mozambique
(CMI Brief vol. 14 no. 4, Report, 2015-06-01)This is the fourth in a series of policy briefs relating to the research project, “The Ethnography of a Divided City: Socio-politics, Poverty and Gender in Maputo, Mozambique” (2012–2015), funded by the Norwegian Research ... -
Policy implementation under stress: Central-local government relations in property tax administration in Tanzania
(Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction vol. 26 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-03-01)Inter-organisational cooperation in revenue collection has received limited attention in the tax administration literature. Recent experiences from Tanzania offer a unique opportunity to examine opportunities and challenges ... -
Policy implementation under stress: Central-local government relations in property tax collection in Tanzania
(CMI Working Paper WP 2018:1, Working paper, 2018-01-01)Inter-organisational cooperation in revenue collection has received limited attention in the tax administration literature. Recent experiences from Tanzania offer a unique opportunity to examine opportunities and challenges ... -
Policy Making in the Tanzanian Petro State: Building a Statistical Basis
(CMI Working Paper WP 2017:5, Working paper, 2017-03-01)This paper deals with needs and availability of data, statistics and information in Tanzania. It relates to a five-year (2014–19) research programme on prospects and challenges for the petroleum sector. The main objectives ... -
Political Corruption
(U4 Issue 2006:6, Research report, 2006-01-01)Political corruption undermines political and economic development in many countries, and raises difficult challenges for foreign aid. What is political corruption? What are the main mechanisms? What can donors do when ... -
Political corruption and the role of donors (in Uganda)
(Research report, 2006-01-01)Political leadership and commitment to fight corruption at the highest levels is one of the most important preconditions for success in the fight against corruption. However, in some cases, anti-corruption reform processes ... -
Political Corruption in the Middle East. Authoritarianism and Wasta in a Global Perspective
(Conference object, 2019-01-01)Presentation at the conference Governance, Security, and Asymmetrical Warfare in Central Asia and the Middle East , University of Australia, Canberra. -
Political Corruption: An Introduction to the Issues
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 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 are involved. In addition to a review of the various definitions ... -
Political determinants of sustainable development goals
(The Lancet vol. 390 no. 10112, Journal article, 2017-12-01)We read with interest the article by the GBD 2016 SDG Collaborators 1 (Sept 16, p 1423), which presents a comprehensive analysis of the potential gaps and gains in the health-related Sustainable Development Goals ... -
Political economies of corruption in fragile and conflict-affected states: Nuancing the picture
(U4 Brief 2013:4, Report, 2013-09-20)Addressing corruption in fragile and conflict-affected environments is constrained by the risk that reforms can spark violent resistance. Two different political economies of corruption in fragile states – distinguished ... -
Political economy of the mining sector in Ghana
(Policy Research Working Paper WPS5730, Research report, 2011-08-12)With a focus on the institutional set-up and the political environment as central to understanding and rectifying the poor impact of mining on Ghana’s economic development, this paper highlights the vulnerabilities in ... -
Political Finance: State Control and Civil Society Monitoring
(U4 Brief 2008:12, Report, 2008-04-23)Modern politics face the challenge of reconciling the presence of money in politics with the risks it poses to democratic values and good governance. This U4 Brief describes the nature of common risks and challenges, and ... -
Political Institutions and Economic Reform: Zambia and South Africa in Comparative Context
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)This paper presents the theoretical and methodological framework of a joint research project by Lise Rakner and Tor Skålnes, "Political Liberalisation and Economic Reform in Southern Africa". The project consists of two ...