Browsing CMI Open Research Archive by Author "Jerve, Alf Morten"
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Aid Effectiveness to Infrastructure: A Comparative Study of East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa . Synthesis Paper
Jerve, Alf Morten; Nissanke, Machiko (JBICI Research Paper 36-4, Research report, 2008-08-26)Responding to a renewed call for aid to economic infrastructure, the JBIC Institute launched a study on effectiveness of aid to infrastructure projects. While the analysis of the effectiveness of infrastructure projects - ... -
Asian Models for Aid: Is there a Non-Western Approach to Development Assistance? Summary record of seminar held in Oslo, December 2006
Jerve, Alf Morten (Research report, Research report, 2007)The expansion of the international donor community clearly challenges the current “consensus” of a new “harmonised” aid architecture, and calls for strategies on how to adjust to an aid landscape with greater plurality and ... -
Community Driven Development in Contexts of Conflict. Concept Paper Commissioned by ESSD, World Bank
Strand, Arne; Toje, Hege; Jerve, Alf Morten; Samset, Ingrid (Research report, Research report, 2003)Violent conflict represents not only a significant barrie r to development; it also wipes out efforts to improve the situation. Experience from many developing countries has shown that Community Driven Development (CDD) ... -
Exploring the Research-Policy Linkage: The Case of Reforms in Financing Primary Education in Tanzania
Jerve, Alf Morten (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 ... -
Managing Aid Exit and Transformation. Lessons from Botswana, Eritrea, India, Malawi and South Africa. Synthesis Report
Slob, Anneke; Jerve, Alf Morten (Research report, 2008-10-28)What are the consequences in the recipient countries, when donor countries close down their bilateral aid programmes? Are exit practices consistent with established principles of partnership and mutuality in development ... -
Mid-term review of the country programme (MoU: 2003:2008) between Norway and Bangladesh
Wiig, Arne; Ghuznavi, Farah; Jerve, Alf Morten (Research report, Research report, 2008)This report provides an assessment of Norway’s bilateral development assistance to Bangladesh, covering the period 2003 to 2007, based on information collected on a selection of projects within the country programme. A ... -
Poverty and development in Tanzania: A discussion note
Jerve, Alf Morten; Ofstad, Arve (Research report, Research report, 2000)This brief discussion note is focusing on major policy issues confronting Tanzania when aiming at a substantial reduction in poverty level over the next decades. The government has high ambitions for creating high quality ... -
Rukwa Ruka. The attempt of a foreign donor to uplift a neglected region: A study of the impact of Norwegian aid to Rukwa Region, Tanzania
Jerve, Alf Morten; Ntemi, E.J.K. (Research report, Research report, 2009)From 1978 to 1996 a close link existed between one of Tanzania’s least developed regions and Norway. Norway provided aid to the tune of 400 million kroner, or about 70 million dollar, with the broad goal of improving the ... -
Self-interest and global responsibility: Aid policies of South Korea and India in the making
Jerve, Alf Morten; Selbervik, Hilde (Research report, Research report, 2009)How can we understand the emerging donors? The role of ‘emerging’ donors is currently at the heart of the international aid discourse, but so far, the knowledge of these actors in aid is inadequate. There is a need to ... -
Sustaining local level development: What worked and what did not. Lessons from the phasing-out of Norwegian aid to the Hambantota Integrated Rural Development Programme (HIRDEP), Sri Lanka 1992 to 1999
Jerve, Alf Morten; Endresen, Sylvi; Gamage, Dhanawardana; Karunanayake, Marcus M. (Research report, Research report, 2003)Aid has been successful when it is no longer needed, but we all too often see how aid breeds dependency, and how both donors and recipients have difficulties preparing for termination of the relationship. This is a study ... -
The SAPRIN Report: An assessment of the empirical analysis supporting main conclusions
Villanger, Espen; Pausewang, Siegfried; Jerve, Alf Morten (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)In 1996, the World Bank and a network of non-governmental organizations (SAPRIN) started cooperating on an evaluation of 15 years of structural adjustment programs (SAPs). The background of our paper is the criticism raised ...