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Shady traffic: Part three: Review of the portefolio supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on combating trafficking in human beings
(Norad report 2c/2009, Research report, 2009-02-05)As a response to the growing international and national focus on combating human trafficking, Norway developed its first action plan on trafficking for the period 2003-2005, succeeded by another one to cover the period of ... -
Shrinking oil: Does weak governance and corruption reduce volumes of oil produced?
(U4 Issue 2010:3, Research report, 2010-06-18)Prominent contributions to the resource curse literature suggest that weak governance and corruption are key factors behind continued poverty in resource-rich countries. How poor governance and corruption influence revenue ... -
Sitting on the Fence: Conflicts of Interest and How to Regulate Them
(U4 Issue 2008:6, Research report, 2008-11-01)This paper describes the problem of conflict of interest of public officials and the main ways in which it may be tackled, with particular focus on regulation of elected officials. The paper describes three main types of ... -
Social Action and Microcredit Funds in Malawi: A Pilot Study
(Research report, Research report, 1997)This study forms part of the output of a consultancy on Social Development Funds in Zimbabwe and Malawi commissioned from Chr. Michelsen Institute by the African Development Bank. It describes, analyses and evaluates ... -
Social Development and Foreign Direct Investments in Developing Countries
(Research report, Research report, 2002)This study analyses the link between social development and foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries. Previous empirical studies conflict in their view of the impact of wage levels and human capital on FDI, ... -
Social development and industry level foreign direct investment
(Research report, Research report, 2004)Investment is crucial for economic development. A number of empirical studies document a relationship between social development and aggregate foreign direct investment (FDI). This study complements aggregate studies by ... -
Social Relations of Poverty: A Case-Study from Owambo, Namibia
(Research report, Research report, 1999)Evidence from a number of quantitative studies on poverty in Namibia suggests that poverty is widespread, albeit unevenly distributed. The relatively high GDP per capita conceals wide income differentials by geographical ... -
Social security, poverty dynamics and economic growth in Angola's smallholder agriculture
(CMI Report R 2011:5, Research report, 2011-08-01)A new Land Act introduced in Angola in 2004 demonstrates a genuine interest in the protection of the customary land rights of rural communities and underlines rural communities’ rights to their land. However, the documentation ... -
Sociedade Civil em Angola: Incursões, Espaco Responsabilidade
(Research report, Research report, 2007-10-22)Civil society is inherently weak in Angola, and the political and societal space for civil society is limited. Angolan authorities have not fully accepted civil society’s voice, watchdog and control functions, and the legal ... -
Socio-Economic Effects of Gold Mining in Mali. A Study of the Sadiola and Morila Mining Operations
(Research report, Research report, 2006)In the last decade Mali has experienced a gold boom. Today Mali is Africa’s third largest producer of gold and has one of the world’s most gold-dependent economies. This study looks at how the advent of gold mining has ... -
Socio-economic effects of HIV/AIDS in African countries
(Research report, Research report, 2002)This desk study was commissioned by NORAD to review recent literature on socio-economic consequences of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa with focus on Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. The report ... -
Specialised anti-corruption courts – A comparative mapping. 2022 update
(U4 Issue 2022:14, Research report, 2022-11-01)While there are no definitive best practices for specialised anti-corruption courts, existing models and experience provide some guidance to reformers considering the creation of similar institutions. -
Specialised anti-corruption courts: A comparative mapping
(U4 Issue 2016:7, Research report, 2016-12-01)Frustration with the capacity of the ordinary machinery of justice to deal adequately with corruption has prompted many countries to develop specialised anti-corruption institutions. While anti-corruption agencies with ... -
Squeezing a balloon? Challenging the nexus between organised crime and corruption
(U4 Issue 2009:7, Research report, 2009-07-23)Corruption and organised crime are of great concern to the international community: while the first is regarded as one of the greatest barriers to development, the second is seen as a key threat to international security ... -
Statistical evidence on social and economic exclusion in Nepal
(Research report, Research report, 2009)The discourse on social exclusion in Nepal is very ideological, with some authors considering basically all Nepalis as socially excluded except for male Bahuns of hill origin. This is obviously not very useful for targeted ... -
Strengthening District Health Systems and HIV Service Delivery Outcomes in Mozambique: Findings from the CHASS-SMT Project
(Research report, 2015-10-01)Introduction : While there is growing consensus within the global health community on the importance of health systems strengthening (HSS) to improving service delivery and health outcomes, evidence linking HSS interventions ... -
Strengthening Nordic development cooperation in and with Afghanistan
(Norad Report Discussion 3/2009, Research report, 2009-03-01)The meeting of the Nordic Foreign Ministers in Stockholm on 18 April 2008 adopted a Plan of Action for Nordic Cooperation in Afghanistan to enable them to be a more concerned partner for the Government of Afghanistan (GoA) ... -
Strengthening Tanzania’s Anti-Corruption Action (STACA) Programme A Case Study Evaluation
(Research report, 2016-03-01)This report summarises the findings of the independent evaluation of DfID’s Strengthening Tanzania’s Anti-Corruption Action (STACA) programme conducted by a team from the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre (U4) at the Chr. ... -
Strengthening the ethics framework within aid organisations. Good practices from the compliance approach and the values-based approach
(U4 Issue 2022:8, Research report, 2022-09-01)Values based approaches can be used to help tackle implicit biases and informal norms, such as gender discrimination. They shift focus from the individual to the network in the design of anti-corruption policies, considering ... -
Sudan country case study: Child rights
(UTV Working Paper 2011:3, Research report, 2011-08-26)