Chr. Michelsens Institutt
Recent Submissions
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Artificial intelligence in anti-corruption – a timely update on AI technology
(U4 Brief 2025:1, Report, 2025-01-01)With recent and rapid advancements in artificial intelligence, it’s time to check in on AI’s headway – and the hype – and revisit how the technology can be used in anti-corruption work. -
Sustainability reporting and anti-corruption provisions: unlocking the potential for impact
(U4 Issue 2025:1, Research report, 2025-01-01)Sustainability reporting can reduce corruption and enhance corporate transparency. Development cooperation organisations and sector-wide anti-corruption initiatives provide examples of how this can be done. -
Taxation and Governance in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Prospects for a Fiscal Social Contract
(CMI Working Paper WP 2025-1, Working paper, 2025-01-01)Historical evidence from state-building processes in Western countries suggests that a substantial governancdividend can be gained from mobilizing domestic financial resources through the tax system. Democratic South ... -
Taxation and Governance in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Prospects for a Fiscal Social Contract
(CMI Working Paper WP 2025:01, Working paper, 2025-01-01)Historical evidence from state-building processes in Western countries suggests that a substantial governance dividend can be gained from mobilizing domestic financial resources through the tax system. Democratic South ... -
Improving working conditions for women in African industrial parks
(CMI Brief no. 2024:2, Report, 2024-12-01)Gender Inequality In Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as in other poor regions, fewer women than men are engaged in industrial jobs.1 This implies a potential for more female jobs as women traditionally take on jobs in labour ... -
Refugees in Norway: Stay or Leave Rural Areas?
(Research report, 2025-01-01)There is limited research on how the contextual characteristics of residential areas influence the patterns of refugees' voluntary emigrations from the host country. Most existing empirical studies focus on return aspirations ... -
Advancing anti-corruption capacity in Ukraine’s local self-government
(U4 Issue 2024:9, Research report, 2024-11-01)Ukraine’s recovery relies on strengthening local self-governments to ensure transparency and fair reconstruction. Decentralised efforts, legal clarity, and collaboration are key to sustainable progress. -
Including civil society perspectives in UNCAC: Lessons from other international treaties
(U4 Issue 2024:10, Research report, 2024-12-01)A review mechanism without meaningful participation reduces credibility and impact. Strengthening the involvement of civil society organisations will help the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) meet its standards in ... -
Corruption as a limit to state capacity: Mobile phones in Peruvian prisons
(U4 Brief 2024:7, Report, 2024-12-01)Overcrowding and corruption in Peruvian prisons fuel mobile phone smuggling. Modern technology, better staff training, and policy reforms can enhance control and support fair governance. -
When Refuge is Home: Sudan’s war-affected IDPs in Gedarif State, Eastern Sudan
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Social and Spatial Flood Risk Analysis for Decision Making: Cases from Two Flood Prone Areas in Eastern Sudan
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Anti-corruption in peacebuilding practice
(U4 Issue 2024:8, Research report, 2024-11-01)Despite the vital role of anti-corruption in sustaining peace, the scope and success of integrating anti-corruption provisions in peace agreements has never been examined. Our study finds that, in the last 34 years, ... -
Addressing CRSV through Truth Commissions in Africa
(Report, 2024-02-01)Based on examples from truth commissions in Africa, the policy brief presents recommendations for enhancing accountability, reparation, and guarantees of non-recurrence for conflict-related sexual violence. Written for ... -
Effects of Externalisation (EFFEXT) Summary Report
(Others, 2024-11-01)Migration is key for development in Africa and the Middle East. Yet, a number of states in these vast regions cooperate with European stakeholders on interventions to curb irregular migration and increase returns. While ... -
Migration Forms: What Forms of Migration Can Be Distinguished?
(Introduction to Migration Studies, Chapter, 2022-06-01)This chapter addresses the question: what forms of migration can be distinguished? This topic is closely tied to the issues addressed in the previous chapters, concerning why and how people migrate. Central to the ... -
Humanitarian Migration
(Chapter, 2022-06-01)Humanitarian migration relates to the movement of people who feel somehow forced to move. Yet, distinguishing which migration forms fall under the label of humanitarian migration is not straightforward. Migration research ... -
Defining Sustainable Migration
(Research report, 2018-01-01)Is current international migration sustainable? And if so, for whom? This report explores the term sustainable migration as an approach to migration from low- and middle-income countries in the Global South to ... -
The Unintended Effects of Norway’s Readmission Agreement with Ethiopia
(Research report, 2014-01-01)The main purpose of migration policy is to affect migration flows. Sometimes, however, policies have other, unintended effects. Such consequences are easily overlooked in policy evaluations, which usually focus on the ... -
Migration
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Root Causes and Drivers of Migration: Implications for Humanitarian Efforts and Development Cooperation
(Research report, 2016-01-01)The idea of alleviating migration pressure by means of humanitarian aid and development cooperation is long-standing. It has received renewed attention since the surge in migration across the Mediterranean in 2015. The ...
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