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Population and Development Planning. A Demographic Study of the Hambantota Integrated Rural Development Programme in Sri Lanka
(Research report, Research report, 1992)The present study, undertaken as part of the background research for an evaluation of the Hambantota Integrated Rural Development Programme (HIRDEP), analyses the demographic characteristics and trends of Hambantota district ... -
Population and Environment Relationships in Developing Countries: A Select Review of Approaches and Methods
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)A diversity of opinion, theory, and conceptual approaches characterizes discussion of population and environment relationships among social scientists. This review captures some of this diversity by considering several of ... -
Porquê cobrar impostos locais em Angola? ... e os desafios de o fazer
(Angola Brief vol. 1 no. 14, Report, 2011-06-03)É necessário um sistema tributário eficaz para implementar e financiar as actuais políticas de governo relativas à diversificação da economia Angolana e para providenciar qualidade nos serviços públicos, aos cidadãos de ... -
Post-Conflict Peace-Building and Socio-Economic Integration Issues in Southwest Kordofan
(Sudan Report SR 2008: 3, Research report, 2008-09-02)This report is the product of desk-work which consists of 50 per cent of the workload, and a truncated field visit for only one week to Northern Lagawa Locality estimated at 25 per cent of the workload. Field activities ... -
Post-war reconciliation and democratization: Concepts, goals and lessons learnt
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Poverty among Sudanese communities along the eastern borders: A case study from the Kassala and Gedarif States
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2017:2, Working paper, 2017-06-01)The data for this paper was collected through a survey aimed at reviewing the socioeconomic conditions of the communities living along the Sudanese border between Eritrea and Ethiopia. The survey was conducted during ... -
Poverty and development in Tanzania: A discussion note
(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 ... -
Poverty dynamics among the Dalits of Tarai
(Master thesis, 2013-11-26)The literature suggests that links between social identity and economic outcomes can induce poverty among groups with low social status. This seems to be true in Nepal where Dalits, the group at the bottom of the caste ... -
Poverty dynamics in rural Orissa: Transitions in assets and occupations over generations
(CMI Working Paper WP 2012:11, Working paper, 2012-01-01)We investigate whether historic land distribution determines stagnation or development of Indian villages. The empirical analysis is motivated by the Banerjee and Newman (1993) model of occupational choice and economic ... -
Poverty in Mozambique Discourse, Analysis and Monitoring. Suggestions for National Stakeholders and the Donor Community
(Research report, Research report, 2005)This report was prepared for the Norwegian Embassy in Mozambique and NORAD. Its purpose is to advise the Norwegian and other cooperation authorities on how best to support poverty analysis and monitoring in Mozambique, ... -
Poverty reduction strategy processes in Malawi and Zambia
(Research report, Research report, 2004)Malawi and Zambia are poor and heavily indebted countries whose dependence on foreign aid is pronounced. They both qualify for debt relief in terms of the Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) initiative under the auspices ... -
Poverty reduction through microbusiness
(CMI Brief vol. 11 no. 6, Report, 2012-11-23)Microbusiness can be an effective way out of poverty. Returns to capital for microbusinesses in poor rural areas can be so high that people with microbusinesses can double and even triple their capital within a year. Yet, ... -
Power Prevails. The Failure of Whole-of-Government Approaches in Afghanistan.
(PRIO Policy Brief 04/2011, Research report, 2011-01-01)Over the last decade, Afghanistan has served as the testing ground for a range of whole-of-government (WoG) approaches to international intervention in crisis situations. Examining the WoG approaches of four countries – ... -
Powerful donors and foreign policy: The role of multilateral financial institutions
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2004)The opportunity for a powerful donor country, such as the United States, to use a multilateral financial institution (MFI) strategically in order to promote its own foreign policy goals has received little attention. The ... -
Practitioners reflections: Making a difference in high corruption and weak governance country environments
(U4 Practice Insight 2011:1, Report, 2011-02-11)Donor agency officials working on development assistance programmes in highly corrupt and weak governance environments face the challenge of making a difference in citizens’ lives. At the same time, they have to manage the ... -
Pre-colonial centralization and tax compliance norms in contemporary Uganda
(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 ... -
Pre-colonial centralization and tax compliance norms in contemporary Uganda
(Journal of Institutional Economics vol. 19 no. 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-06-01)The paper examines the legacy of pre-colonial centralization on tax compliance norms of citizens in contemporary Uganda. Using a regression discontinuity analysis on neighboring ethnic homelands with different levels of ... -
Pre-colonial politics affects tax compliance in modern day Uganda
(Others, 2023-11-01)Parts of Uganda that had centralised political systems before colonial rule are more likely to have higher rates of voluntary tax compliance. -
Precarious peacebuilding: Post-war Lebanon, 1990-2005
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)This paper analyses Lebanon’s post-war period (1990–2005) from the perspective of peacebuilding and argues that the country’s precarious attempts at implementing a peacebuilding agenda must be sought internally in the ... -
Predicting malaria epidemics in Ethiopia
(Others, 2010-06-01)