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    • Applied Social Science Research in Afghanistan. An Overview of the Institutional Landscape 

      Suhrke, Astri; Wimpelmann Chaudhary, Torunn; Harpviken Berg, Kristian; Sarwari, Akbar; Strand, Arne (Research report, Research report, 2008)
      This report is a preliminary mapping of Afghan institutional capacity in the field of applied social science research, as well as an assessment of the interest in, and potential for, further capacity building. The report ...

    • Corporate Community Involvement and Local Institutions: Two Case Studies From the Mining Industry in Tanzania 

      Lange, Siri; Kolstad, Ivar (Journal of African Business vol. 13 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-01-01)
      Corporate community involvement contributes capital or resources in various forms to a community. However, such involvement may also influence local institutions that determine how well these resources are used, i.e. the ...

    • How middle-men can undermine anti-corruption reforms 

      Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Torsvik, Gaute; Tungodden, Bertil (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)
      The anti-corruption reform in the Tanzanian tax bureaucracy in the mid-1990s was apparently a short-lived success. In the wake of the reform, a number of “tax experts” established themselves in the market, many of them ...

    • Peacemaking, Customary Laws and Institutions in Dārfūr 

      Ali, Osman Mohamed Osman; Takana, Yousif Suliman Saeed (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2016:6, Working paper, 2016-10-01)
      The traditional native justice system in Darfur has an advantage over the modern state judicial one; it has proved its relevance for effectively managing and resolving conflicts, particularly in the rural communities, ...

    • Pre-colonial centralization and tax compliance norms in contemporary Uganda 

      Ali, Merima; Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge (WIDER Working Paper 188, Research report, 2021-12-01)
      The paper examines the legacy of pre-colonial centralization on tax compliance norms of citizens in contemporary Uganda. By combining geo-referenced anthropological data on pre-colonial ethnic homelands with survey data ...

    • The institutionalisation of the Tanzanian opposition parties: How stable are they? 

      Whitehead, Richard L. (Research report, Research report, 2000)
      In 1992, legislation formally ended the nearly 30 year domination of the one-party state in Tanzania, part of a democratisation wave that appeared to sweep through Africa in the late 80s and early 90s. In Tanzania by 1993, ...

    • The Resource Curse: Which Institutions Matter? 

      Kolstad, Ivar (CMI Working Paper, Working paper, 2007)
      Two types of models are dominant in the current resource curse literature. One type of model studies the selection of entrepreneurs into rent-seeking versus productive activities. The other type analyzes the use of patronage ...

    • Understanding the Lay of the Land: An Institutional Analysis of Petro-Governance in Tanzania 

      Lee, Bryan; Dupuy, Kendra (CMI Working Paper WP 2016:12, Working paper, 2016-12-01)
      Tanzania has recently discovered large petroleum reserves, boosting its reserve natural resource stocks and potential future revenue flows. What is the likelihood that the country’s petroleum resources will translate into ...

    • What determines Chinese outward FDI? 

      Kolstad, Ivar; Wiig, Arne (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2009)
      Chinese outward foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased substantially in recent years. Though this has generated considerable interest in the motivations and drivers of Chinese investment abroad, there have been few ...