Browsing Chr. Michelsens Institutt by Document Types "Research report"
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UN peacekeeping in the Congo: When is the job done?
(Noref Policy Brief 6, June, Research report, 2010-06-01)On 28 May 2010, the United Nations Security Council made a critical decision on the future of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Monuc) – the largest and most costly such operation in ... -
UN Resolution 16/18 and the Istanbul Process: What has been achieved? A charting of blasphemy trends in Pakistan and Indonesia.
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Unfulfilled hopes. The quest for a minimum marriage age in Yemen, 2009–2014
(CMI Report R 2016:3, Research report, 2016-05-01)The project Women’s Human Rights and Law Reform in the Muslim World seeks to map family and criminal law reforms in the period 1995-2015 in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia ... -
UNRWA, funding crisis and the way forward
(CMI Report R 2022:04, Research report, 2022-09-01)Summary This commissioned report has two main aims: First, providing a description of what UNRWA is, including its history, mandate and services, with particular emphasis on the recent funding deficit and how that has ... -
Urban Displacement in Lebanon: Syrians in Tripoli
(CMI Report 2021:5, Research report, 2021-11-01)Living conditions among Syrians in Tripoli, Lebanon, have deteriorated since 2011. Syrian refugee households that achieved some degree of stability after self-settlement reported an upheaval in livelihoods amidst declining ... -
Urban poverty in Luanda, Angola
(CMI Report R 2018:6, Research report, 2018-04-01)Angola’s capital Luanda is a city of stark inequalities and contrasts. While it offers opportunities and wealth for the few, people in the informal musseques are effectively trapped in poverty through limited income ... -
Using Corruption Risk Assessments for REDD+: An Introduction for Practitioners
(U4 Issue 2014:1, Research report, 2014-01-03)Corruption Risk Assessments (CRAs) are both an analytic and due diligence exercise to identify issues associated with, contributing to, or otherwise facilitating corruption in a particular setting. An area where improved ... -
Using money laundering investigations to fight corruption in developing countries: Domestic obstacles and strategies to overcome them
(U4 Issue 2012:9, Research report, 2012-11-26)Anti-money laundering systems have the potential to curb the use of proceeds of corruption and other crimes by the perpetrators. An effectively implemented anti-money laundering framework limits the channels through which ... -
Utdrag av norsk flyktningdebatt 1985-1995. Eit styrande perspektiv?
(Research report, Research report, 1997)The report gives an overview of the main trends and changes in Norwegian refugee policy since 1945. The focus is on the more recent Norwegian political debate concerning refugee questions. Two major political actors, the ... -
Verdensbankens verdensbilde
(Research report, Research report, 1992)Denne studien gir en kort presentasjon av hovedpunktene i Verdensbankens "World Development Reports" for 1990, 1991 og 1992, og drøfter kritisk de mest sentrale problemstillingene i rapportene. Rapportene framstår som ... -
Water supply in the Central Namib Region: A socio-economic study
(Research report, Research report, 1997)This study provides an empirical report and analysis of the results of a June/July 1995 household sample survey of the four towns (Walvis Bay, Swakopmund, Arandis and Henties Bay) located in the central west coast region ... -
We shall speak where others are silent? Fragments of an oral history of Norwegian assistance to Afghan women
(CMI Report R 2015:11, Research report, 2015-12-01)Norway has a strong political commitment to promote the rights of women and their participation in public life through its development cooperation programs. A government White Paper on the subject in 2008 proclaimed that ... -
Weak links: How corruption affects the quality and integrity of medical products and impacts on the Covid-19 response
(U4 Issue 2021:15, Research report, 2021-12-01)Corruption is involved in poor medical product quality in five important areas: manufacturing and distribution, regulation, procurement, high-level governance, and the health workforce. Existing corruption pressures impact ... -
What does it mean t be poor? Investigating the qualitative-quantitative divide in Mozambique
(WIDER Working Paper 2018/75, Research report, 2018-07-01)This study reflects on the relationship between economic (quantitative) and anthropological (qualitative) approaches to the analysis of poverty in developing countries. Drawing on detailed evidence from Mozambique, we argue ... -
When women grow wings: Gender relations in the informal economy of Kampala
(Research report, Research report, 2003)In urban Africa, informal employment constitutes 90 per cent of all new jobs. Informal work is characterised by being unrecognised, unprotected or unrecorded by the public authorities, and a larger percentage of women than ... -
Whither Nordic/SADC Relations?
(Research report, Research report, 1996)In 1986 the member states of the then Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADC) and the five Nordic countries signed a joint declaration on expanded economic and cultural cooperation, referred to as the ... -
“Whom the Lord Loveth He Chasteneth”. Corporal Punishment of Children in Kibera
(CMI Report R 2015:6, Research report, 2015-04-01)This report forms part of a larger study titled Advancing the Rights of Children: Assessing the Effectiveness of Transnational Advocacy Networks for Child Rights. Norwegian-Kenyan Civil Society Partnerships Examined. It ... -
Why go back? Assisted return from Norway
(Rapport 2015:08 08, Research report, 2016-01-01)This report discusses factors that influence voluntary assisted return of third-country nationals from Norway. It is based on statistical information and interviews with civil servants/NGO-representatives and employees at ... -
Will International Trade Reduce Poverty? A Background Note to Norad
(Research report, Research report, 2007)NORAD is currently developing a trade strategy towards developing countries. This background note presents a review of the current literature and empirical findings on the relationship between trade, growth and poverty ... -
Will more credit increase interest rates in rural Nepal?
(PDF is a revised version of Department of Economics. University of Bergen. WP-21-2000, Research report, 2000-01-01)We test two alternative models of interest rates determination in informal rural credit markets, using LSMS data from Nepal. We find strong support for a capacity-constrained collusive oligopoly model with full information ...