• Prospects for Tanzania's Mining Sector 

      Granberg, Per (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)
      The success of Tanzania's structural reform efforts will (inter alia) depend on its ability to generate foreign exchange incomes. Mineral exports seem a promising source of such incomes. Tanzania is reportedly well endowed ...
    • Protected Marine Reserves as Fisheries Management Tools: A Bioeconomic Analysis 

      Sumaila, Ussif Rashid (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1998)
      This paper develops a dynamic computational bioeconomic model with the objective of assessing protected marine reserves as fisheries management tools. Data on the North East Atlantic cod stock are used to determine the ...
    • Protected tax havens: Cornering the market through international reform? 

      Kolstad, Ivar (CMI Working Paper WP 2017:7, Working paper, 2017-10-01)
      Since the year 2000, an international reform process has been underway to reduce the negative impacts of tax havens. This paper analyzes whether the reform period has favoured protected tax havens, i.e. havens with strong ...
    • Protection of Civilians – Norway in the Security Council 

      De Lauri, Edited by Antonio; Turunen, Salla; Suhrke, Astri; Jumbert, Maria Gabrielsen; Lidén, Kristoffer; Karlsrud, John (CMI Report R 2021:01, Research report, 2021-02-01)
      This report summarizes a policy seminar organized by the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies in December 2020. It briefly points out some of the key challenges and opportunities for Norway in the Security Council in ...
    • Protection of civilians: Why they die in US strikes 

      Suhrke, Astri (CMI Brief vol. 14 no. 7, Report, 2015-01-01)
      Read online The US military strike that devastated the MSF hospital in Kunduz in northern Afghanistan on 3 October generated profound, if short-lived, outrage in much of the world. The US government promised an ...
    • Protection paradoxes 

      Strand, Arne (Paradoxes of Protection NCHS webinar 25.10.2021, Research report, 2021-10-01)
    • Protective Strategies in the 1990s: A Review of the Policy Discourses in UNHCR and the Executive Committee. Report prepared under a grant from the Research Programme on Forced Migration, the Research Council of Norway 

      Tjore, Gro (Research report, Research report, 1998)
      The study examines changing policy doctrines for protecting refugees, as reflected in the official documents of UNHCR and its Executive Committee (ExCom) composed of nation states. Collectively, the two bodies determine ...
    • Provincial variations and entrepreneurialism in the development of China’s Distant Water Fisheries (2011–2020) 

      Zhou, Hang (Marine Policy vol. 147, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-01-01)
      This study rescales the current state-centric understanding of the development of China’s distant water fishing (DWF) and explores the instrumental role of Chinese provinces in actualizing and shaping this development. ...
    • Proxy indicators for the corrupt misuse of corporations 

      Fazekas, Mihály; Tóth, Bence (U4 Brief 2017:6, Report, 2017-10-01)
      Winners of the U4 Proxy Challenge 2016 We need more imaginative ways of addressing corruption. It is important to generate indicators that development agencies can use. U4 and DFID developed a proxy challenge competition ...
    • PRSP in Tanzania: Do Mkukuta and the CCm Election Manifesto Pull in the same Direction? 

      Selbervik, Hilde (Research report, Research report, 2006)
      The National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (NSGRP), or what is more commonly referred to by the Kiswahili acronym Mkukuta, has been in effect since July 2005. It is a key document setting out a broad framework ...
    • Public Anthropology in Changing Times 

      Borofsky, Robert; De Lauri, Antonio (Public Anthropologist vol. 1 no. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-01-01)
      Public anthropology is a collective aspiration shaped by generally shared values and intentions within significant sections of social and cultural anthropology. The impetus behind the creation of the journal Public ...
    • Public Anthropology in the Digital Era 

      De Lauri, Antonio; Sandvik, Kristin (The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Chapter, 2021-12-01)
      The public anthropologist grapples with not one but many overlapping digital transformations, which influence how anthropologists access, produce, and disseminate knowledge. The digital turn reshapes the social fields with ...
    • Public construction projects - Angola. A need to fortify the barriers against corruption 

      Søreide, Tina (Angola Brief vol. 1 no. 5, Report, 2011-06-05)
      Between early 2002 and 2009 the Angolan government invested around $30.4 billion in new infrastructure, hospitals, schools and other public construction projects. These investments have been extraordinarily large against ...
    • Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys: Lessons from Tanzania 

      Sundet, Geir (U4 Brief 2007:14, Report, 2007-11-01)
      Whereas the successful application of PETS in Uganda has received and continues to receive a lot of attention, less has been written about the experiences of PETS elsewhere. The Tanzanian experience clearly shows that PETS ...
    • Public Sector Reform: What Works and Why? 

      Webb, S.; Casanegra, M.; Evans, A.; Fjeldstad, O.-H.; Isaksen, J.; Funke, I.; Webb, R.; Wescott, C. (IEG Evaluation Report, Research report, 2008-05-24)
      The main objective of this evaluation by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) is to help the World Bank learn how to contribute more effectively to public sector reform (PSR) in its member countries. The intended audience ...
    • Questioning the Secular-Religious Cleavage in Palestinian Politics: Comparing Fatah and Hamas 

      Løvlie, Frode (Politics and Religion vol. 7 no. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-01-01)
      Following the 2007 war between Fatah and Hamas, Palestinian politics appears to have followed the regional trend where the competition between secularism and Islamism is developing into a major political cleavage. Through ...
    • Quiet Engagement with the Taliban 

      Suhrke, Astri; Strand, Arne (Survival vol. Vol 63 no. No 5, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-01)
    • Quotas and women's substantive representation: Evidence from a content analysis of Ugandan plenary debates 

      Clayton, Amanda; Josefsson, Cecilia; Wang, Vibeke (Politics & Gender vol. 13 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-01-01)
      Despite the popularity of electoral gender quotas, the substantive impact of quotas on the plenary behavior of members of parliament (MPs) has yet to be thoroughly empirically explored, and in particular, there is a dearth ...
    • Rainbow justice and peace building. South Africa 1994-2001 

      Tjønneland, Elling N. (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)
    • Rainbow revolution in Latin America: The battle for recognition 

      Gianella-Malca, Camila; Wilson, Bruce (CMI Brief vol. 14 no. 1, Report, 2015-02-01)
      In a surprising turn of events, a “rainbow revolution” has blossomed in Latin America. In spite of the region’s long history of deep-rooted patriarchy, machismo, homophobia, and political and social marginalization of ...