• Local government revenue mobilisation in Anglophone Africa 

      Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Heggstad, Kari (CMI Working Paper WP 2012:6, Working paper, 2012-10-03)
      This paper examines opportunities and constraints facing local revenue mobilization in Anglophone Africa with an emphasis on urban settings. Specific revenue instruments and their effects on economic efficiency, income ...
    • Local government taxation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A review and an agenda for research 

      Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Chambas, Gérard; Brun, Jean-Francois (CMI Working Paper WP 2014:2, Working paper, 2014-03-01)
      This paper reviews the state of knowledge on local government revenue systems in Africa, with a particular focus on commonalties and differences between Francophone and Anglophone countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The ...
    • Local Revenue Mobilization in Urban Settings in Africa 

      Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)
      The growth of Africa’s towns and cities has outpaced local authority capacity in terms of management, infrastructure, and financing. Many African towns and cities are now facing a governance crisis. Accordingly, the ...
    • Making transparency work in Africa's marine fisheries 

      Standing, André (U4 Issue 2011:11, Research report, 2011-10-01)
      Global problems facing the marine fisheries sector, including overfishing and the marginalization of the small-scale sector, are leading to increased international awareness of the need to improve transparency in fisheries ...
    • Mining and the Incidence of Malaria in Angola and Ghana 

      Papalysandrou, Stefanos (CMI Insight 2023:3, Report, 2023-10-01)
      The discovery of natural resources across the African continent has been embraced as a positive and miraculous event, which could bring millions of people out of poverty and enhance the employment and growth levels of the ...
    • "Money has no Name": Informalisation, Unemployment and changing Gender Relations in Accara, Ghana 

      Overå, Ragnhild (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)
      Economic crisis and structural adjustment in Ghana have put large numbers of formal sector employees and civil servants out of work. This informalisation process has gendered consequences. Unemployed people, rural-urban ...
    • National-level corruption risks and mitigation strategies in the implementation of REDD+ in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: An overview of the current situation 

      Assembe-Mvondo, Samuel (U4 Issue 2015:9, Research report, 2015-04-01)
      The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the first REDD+ target countries due its huge forest ecosystem potential. Since 2011, the country has been creating key pieces of legislation as well as implementing ...
    • Neglect, Control and Co-optation: Major features of Ethiopian Youth Policy Since 1991 

      Kefale, Asnake; Dejen, Mohammed; Aalen, Lovise (CMI Working Paper WP 2021:3, Working paper, 2021-07-01)
      Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous state, has a young population with more than 70 percent of its inhabitants below the age of 35. Ethiopian regimes have a history of youth neglect and repression, and more ...
    • Networks, distance and trust: Telecommunications and changing trading practices in Ghana 

      Overå, Ragnhild (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2004)
      Ghana liberalized its telecom sector in 1995. This study looks at the impact of the phenomenal growth in access to telephones on the business practices of traders in cloth, fish and agricultural produce. The article examines ...
    • Peoples' views of taxation in Africa: A review of research on determinants of tax compliance 

      Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Schulz-Herzenberg, Collette; Sjursen, Ingrid Hoem (CMI Working Paper WP 2012:7, Working paper, 2012-10-10)
      What are the key determinants of taxpayer compliance? And which features of citizen-state relations govern attitudes and behaviour regarding taxation? This paper examines the analytical foundation, methodological approaches ...
    • Poorly designed youth employment programmes will boost the insurgency in Mozambique 

      Orre, Aslak; Forquilha, Salvador (CMI Brief no. 2023:2, Report, 2023-05-01)
      A jihadist group referred to as Al-Shabab has waged a war against the Mozambican state and its allies since 2017, with devastating consequences for the civilian population. The insurgents mostly recruit among local youth, ...
    • Property Taxation in Developing Countries 

      Ali, Merima; Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Katera, Lucas (CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 1, Report, 2017-03-01)
      Property tax (PT) raises on average revenues of less than 1% of GDP in developing countries. In many African countries it contributes far less than 0.5%. Following such low contribution, there is a growing eagerness among ...
    • Re-imagining African—Nordic relations in a changing global order 

      Tjønneland, Elling N. (Report 2/2022, Research report, 2022-08-01)
      This report asks how the special relationship between countries in Africa and the Nordic region may be affected by a changing global order, and how the African–Nordic cooperation can continue to evolve and remain ...
    • Regulatory Burdens in Tax Administration and Firms’ Compliance Costs in Africa 

      Ali, Merima (Research report, 2018-01-01)
      This paper examines the effect of regulatory burdens related to tax administration on firms' compliance costs in Africa. Using cross-country firm-level data, the results show that regulatory burdens related to tax ...
    • Revenue Authorities and State Capacity in Anglophone Africa 

      Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Moore, Mick (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2008)
      Since the early 1990s, many countries in Anglophone Africa have established (semi-) autonomous revenue authorities (ARAs), organisationally distinct from ministries of finance, with some real operational autonomy, and with ...
    • Rising Powers and the African Security Landscape 

      Tjønneland, Elling N.; Alden, Chris; van Nieuwkerk, Anthoni; Abdenur, Adriana Erthal; Neto, Danilo Marcondes de Souza (CMI Report R 2014:4, Research report, 2014-11-01)
      The last decade has witnessed a major economic expansion of China, India, Brazil and South Africa in Africa. This has mainly been driven by commercial and corporate interests, but the political profile of these rising ...
    • ROUNDTABLE: Truth Commissions and Sexual Violence 

      Skaar, Elin (Conference object, 2023-08-01)
      Sexual violence — like mass rape — is used as a weapon of war in almost all (internal) armed conflicts. This roundtable investigates how Latin American and African truth commission have evolved since the early ...
    • Rural-urban Youth Migration and Informal Self-Employment in Ethiopia 

      Bezu, Sosina; Holden, Stein (Research report, 2014-11-01)
      Empirical studies in the migration literature indicate that migration is often welfare improving for the migrant. But it is also possible that youth migrants become more susceptible and less competitive in urban areas ...
    • Share-tenancy within the household unit 

      Bøe, Turid (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)
      Virtually all peasant household models assume efficient allocation of household productive resources between different household activities. In an African context characterised by different plots of land being cultivated ...
    • Shutting down social media, shutting out the youth? 

      Lemaire, Pauline (CMI Brief no. 2023:4, Report, 2023-05-01)
      Young people across Africa use social media to participate in politics, while their governments implement strategies to limit online political mobilization. However, young citizens whose government shut down social media ...