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Taxing the urban boom in Tanzania: Central versus local government property tax collection
(CMI Insight 2017:3, Report, 2017-06-01)Effective collection of property taxes requires constructive working relations between the central government revenue authority and the municipalities, independent of the mode of administration. Clear division of function ... -
Taxing the urban boom: property taxation in Africa
(CMI Insight 2017:1, Report, 2017-03-01)The growth of Africa’s towns and cities has outpaced local governments’ capacity for service delivery in terms of management, infrastructure, and financing. As a result, many African towns and cities are now faced with a ... -
Teachers and Taxis: Corruption in the Education Sector in Honduras
(U4 Brief 2008:16, Report, 2008-05-29)Honduras invests large sums in education,but powerful teachers' unions and political appointments hinder reforms in a sector vulnerable to corruption and lacking in civil society monitoring. For current decentralisation ... -
Teaching business in Tanzania: Evaluating participation and performance
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2009)There is increased awareness that success among small scale entrepreneurs in developing countries requires more than microfinance, and that an important limiting factor for business growth is the level of human capital ... -
Teaching ethics in highly corrupt societies: Concerns and opportunities
(U4 Brief 2009:5, Report, 2009-04-27)This U4 Brief explores why a traditional approach to teaching ethics is ill-suited in highly corrupt societies, and outlines key considerations with respect to timing, content, and method when designing and implementing ... -
Telecommunications - a means to economic growth in developing countries?
(Research report, Research report, 2003)The world economy has experienced an enormous growth the past 50 years. Yet the gap between the richest and the poorest countries has increased. There have been several attempts to explain the increased differences. ... -
Temporal governance, protection elsewhere and the ‘good’ refugee: a study of the shrinking scope of asylum within the UK
(CMI Report 2021:06, Research report, 2021-11-01)In recent years European countries have introduced increasingly temporary terms of asylum for people with a recognized need for protection. This study traces the temporary turn in the UK, where asylum policies have ... -
Ten challenges in public construction. CEIC-CMI public sector transparency study
(Angola Brief vol. 1 no. 19, Report, 2011-11-30)Nobody questions Angola’s need for infrastructure and housing – and compared to many other countries in the region, the level and outputs of the country’s investment in construction activities are impressive. What we ... -
Teoriskapt virkelighet? Ny-klassisk teori og kvinnelige økonomiske aktører
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)Kjønnsaspektet er generelt sett fraværende i økonomiske analyser. Fraværet er tradisjonelt blitt oppfattet som en refleksjon av de økonomiske problemstilingenes og den økonomiske teoriens kjønnsnøytralitet, men er i den ... -
Terms of Trade and Economic Growth in a World of Constrained Capital Mobility
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)This paper focuses on the interaction between world community and capital markets within the framework of an extended neoclassical growth mode!. The model incorporates raw materials as an essential input and captures the ... -
Terre, normes de propriété et litiges à Kaboul
(Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée vol. 133, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-01-01) -
The Absence of Freedom
(Journal of Global Slavery vol. 2 no. 1-2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-05-01)Central and South Asian brick kilns have long attracted the attention of both humanitarian agencies and scholars as sites of slavery-like forms of labor exploitation. They represent both an important case study for ... -
The absolute basics of corruption
(Others, 2015-02-01)ISFiT is the bi-annual International Student Festival in Trondheim. ISFiT 2015 aims for a solution-oriented approach to the challenge corruption represents, and places corruption on the agenda to create a better future for ... -
The Accountability Function of Parliament in New Democracies: Tanzanian Perspectives
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)The role of parliaments in holding the executive accountable is a neglected topic in the study of the democratization process in sub-Saharan Africa. In particular there is a lack of studies measuring executive-legislative ... -
The accountability funtion of supreme audit institutions in Malawi, Uganda and Tanzania
(Research report, Research report, 2005)Despite the important accountability functions assigned supreme audit institutions, little is known about their actual functioning and we have scant information about how supreme audit institutions interact with other ... -
The accumulation of unexplained wealth by public officials: Making the offence of illicit enrichment enforceable
(U4 Brief 2012:1, Report, 2012-01-25)Recent high-profile cases have focused attention on the transfer of assets abroad by heads of state and other senior officials from developing countries in amounts that far exceed their legitimate sources of income. Article ... -
The Added Value of Value Added Tax: People are more willing to pay tax
(CMI Brief vol. 14 no. 2, Report, 2015-04-21)Raising domestic tax revenues is a priority for most sub-Saharan African countries. But the tax bases in most African countries are undermined by widespread tax avoidance and evasion. A new study from CMI supports the claim ... -
The Aid Agencies and the Fragile States Agenda
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)In recent years, a consensus appears to have emerged that a variety of problems can be understood in terms of state failure. This paper reviews one aspect of this trend, the concept of fragile states that has recently been ... -
The anatomy of a failed anti corruption project: A case study from Nepal
(U4 Practice Insight 2009:3, Report, 2009-09-03)In 2004 and 2005, the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industries (FNCCI) implemented the first anti‑corruption project involving the private sector in Nepal. Despite the novelty of a supply‑side intervention, ... -
The Argentine Military in Democracy: Moving Beyond Issues of Civilian Control to a Citizen Soldier Paradigm
(CMI Working Paper WP 2015:7, Working paper, 2015-06-01)Argentina’s transition to democracy in 1983 ended decades of cyclical military interventions in politics. Since then a long and complex process of confrontation, incorporation, and, finally, subordination has established ...