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Exploring the relationship between socio-economic inequality, political instability and economic growth Why do we know so little?
(CMI Working Paper WP 2012:2, Working paper, 2012-02-08)The hypothesis that socio-economic inequality has a detrimental effect on economic growth by breeding political instability has been subject to empirical investigation for decades. However, the numerous studies in the field ... -
Exploring the Research-Policy Linkage: The Case of Reforms in Financing Primary Education in Tanzania
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)Tanzania abolished school fees in primary schools as from 2002. This move was made possible because of shifts in the policy of major donors, not least the World Bank. In the subsequent years Tanzania recorded a rapid ... -
Exploring the spatio-temporal processes of communal rangeland grabbing in Sudan
(Pastoralism vol. 8 no. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-01-01)The persistent policy of successive Sudanese governments in favouring large-scale agricultural investments at the expense of traditional land use is creating material differences among significant groups of the population. ... -
External Debts, Growth and Peace in the Sudan. Some Serious Challenges Facing the Country in the Post-Conflict Era
(CMI Report SR 2008: 1, Research report, 2008-07-21)Traditional studies on the external debt problem have focused mainly on the development of the magnitude and trends of the external debt in the low-income countries (LICs) and have then been followed by other studies which ... -
Extractive sectors and illicit financial flows: What role for revenue governance initiatives?
(U4 Issue 2011:13, Research report, 2011-11-18)Countries highly dependent on natural resources are among the most severely affected by the problem of illicit financial flows. Despite a lack of definite studies proving the correlation between higher dependency on natural ... -
Évaluation de la performance des collectivités décentralisées : Une étude comparée
(L'Afrique des Grands Lacs: annuaire 2014-2015, Chapter, 2015-06-01)This article explores the performance evaluation of decentralized entities within the decentralization framework in Rwanda and Burundi. The analysis shows the evaluation results, but also the normative impact of this New ... -
Factors affecting tax compliant attitude in Africa: Evidence from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa
(Conference object, 2013-02-28)In this study, we explore factors that determine citizens’ tax compliance behavior in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa using attitude and perception data from the new round 5 of Afrobarometer surveys. The study ... -
Failed governance and political turbulence in Abyei Area of Sudan
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2015:1, Working paper, 2015-03-06)This report is the result of deskwork review of two major documents, signed in 2005 on Abyei area conflict, in order to expose factors that contributed to non-implementation of Abyei Protocol and the rejection, by the Sudan ... -
Faire face à la corruption en éducation : faire progresser des pratiques de responsabilisation grâce au suivi budgétaire.
(U4 Brief 2009:17, Report, 2009-08-13)Le travail sur le budget de l’éducation effectué par la société civile est un instrument puissant permettant de rendre les gouvernements comptables vis-à-vis de leurs citoyens et d’attirer l’attention sur la corruption ... -
Faith on Trial: Blasphemy and 'lawfare' in Indonesia
(Ethnos, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-01-01)This article develops the argument that blasphemy trials occupy a pivotal role in ‘religion-making’ in post-1998 Indonesia. Examining a blasphemy trial on the island of Lombok in 2010, I argue that the process of democratization ... -
Faithful Ally. The UK Engagement in Afghanistan.
(PRIO Papers, Research report, 2011-01-01)The British government under Tony Blair was an early and major supporter of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). The Royal Navy and Air Force participated in the first strikes against Afghanistan in October with Tomahawk ... -
False Prophets? Ontological Conflicts and Religion-Making in an Indonesian Court
(Critical Anthropological Engagements in Human Alterity and Difference, Chapter, 2016-11-01)This chapter examines a blasphemy trial on Lombok in 2010, in which a Muslim who claimed to have received revelations from the Angel Gabriel was charged with the offence of “insulting Islam” and accused of pretending to ... -
Family law reform in Sudan: A never ending story?
(CMI Brief no. 2018:08, Report, 2018-06-01)The family law in Sudan, legalises child marriage, stipulates a wife’s obedience to her husband, and gives the male guardian veto power on women’s consent to marriage. #JusticeforNoura has shone a spotlight on early and ... -
Family law reform in Sudan: competing claims for gender justice between sharia and women’s human rights
(CMI Report R 2017:5, Research report, 2017-12-01)This paper focuses on family law reform in Sudan-a country that has been in a state of perpetual conflict that stretches back long before its independence in 1956. The signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in ... -
Faryab survey. Comparison of findings from Maymane, 2006 and 2009
(Research report, Research report, 2009)This is a follow-up to an earlier survey conducted in Maymane district by the Organization for Sustainable Development and Research (OSDR) during a two-week period in early November 2006. In that survey 183 interviews were ... -
Fast-tracking East African Integration. Assessing the Feasibility of a Political Federation by 2010
(Research report, Research report, 2005)This report assesses the feasibility of the time schedule proposed by the socalled fast-track committee towards the establishment of an East African political federation by 2010. The long history of collaboration between ... -
FDI and industrialisation. Why technology transfer and new industrial structures may accelerate economic development
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)Countries within a region often experience a similar rate of industrial development. Do foreign direct investments have any influence on this aspect of industrialisation? This paper describes how technology transfer and ... -
Female Autonomy and Fertility in Nepal
(South Asia Economic Journal vol. 14 no. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-05-01)We explore the effect of female autonomy on individual fertility in Nepal. We find that families where wives have high level of autonomy have fewer children than other families. Using gender of the first child as a natural ... -
Female empowerment and education of children in Nepal
(CMI Working Paper WP 2014:7, Working paper, 2014-07-01)A family survey was conducted in Nepal to investigate whether female empowerment leads to more education, in particular for girls. The relative economic power of the male and female side of the extended family was used as ... -
Feminist interlegalities and gender justice in Sudan: The debate on CEDAW and Islam
(Religion and Human Rights vol. 6 no. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-01-01)The fundamental argument put forward by Islamists, who have ruled Sudan since 1989, for not signing the convention is based on cultural relativism; different cultures provide indigenous and local solutions to their women's ...