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Sistema "parlamentar-presidencial" ou presidencialismo extremo?
(Angola Brief vol. 1 no. 16, Report, 2011-06-05)A nova Constituição angolana (Fevereiro 2010) consagrou um sistema de governo auto-designado “Parlamentar-Presidencial”. Esta qualificação sugere a existência de equilíbrio entre os dois órgãos de soberania que não é ... -
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 ... -
Skatt og statsbygging i utviklingsland: Hvordan skatt kan bidra til å ansvarliggjøre myndighetene overfor egne borgere
(Journal article, 2011-05-02)Den politiske betydningen av skattlegging går langt ut over det å skaffe inntekter til å finansiere offentlig sektor, infrastruktur og grunnleggende behov for borgerne. I denne artikkelen argumenterer Odd-Helge Fjeldstad ... -
Skatteunndragelse. En studie av kommunebeskatning i Tanzania
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1998)I dette notatet gis en oversikt over økonomisk teori om skatteunndragelse. Relevansen av ulike teoretiske tilnærminger i en u-landskontekst, drøftes. Deretter analyseres hvilke variabler som kan bidra til å forklare den ... -
Small Hands Should Play, Not Work: A Theoretical Analysis of Interventions in Child Labor
(Master thesis, 2011-01-01)Twelve hours a day, 7 days a week, there are 150 million children below the age of 15 working to make the clothes we wear, the carpets on our floors and the phones in our pockets. Most of these children do not have a choice: ... -
Social accountability in situations of conflict and fragility
(U4 Brief 2011:19, Report, 2011-12-14)Donor support to social accountability in fragile and conflict-affected states is a relatively new phenomenon. It has emerged with the lessons that top-down anticorruption approaches have often failed and different approaches ... -
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 Funds in Angola. Channels, Amounts and Impact
(CMI Working Paper, Working paper, 2008)Private companies are spending significant resources on social projects in Angola, for the benefit of poor, for general development purposes and for positioning purposes. This study gives a background to and overview of ... -
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 Rights Litigation as Transformation: South African Perspectives
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)The paper analyses the role of litigation as a strategy to fulfil the social rights laid down in the South African constitution. Critically examining litigation as a means to bring the constitutional provisions to life, ... -
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 ... -
Some reasons why capital does not flow from rich to poor countries
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)This paper introduces endogenous adoption costs for productive assets in a Ramsey type growth model with international capital flows. There are two c1asses of productive assets: owner-specific and location-specific. Adoption ... -
Son preference, number of children, education and occupational choice in rural Nepal
(CMI Working Paper WP 2012:8, Working paper, 2012-10-01)A unique family survey was conducted in Nepal to investigate the economic consequences of having a first-born girl. Women get more children, but we find no causal effect of number of children on economic outcomes. But ... -
South African Manufacturing Industries - Catching up or Falling Behind?
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1995)This paper argues that intraindustry trade with developed countries is an important source of technology transfer, and creates incentives to climb up the learning curve. South Africa has an industrial structure that could ... -
South Sudan “arrivals” in the White Nile State (Sudan). Not citizens, not IDPs, not Refugees: What are they?
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2016:7, Working paper, 2016-12-01)This paper discusses the living conditions of the so called “arrivals,”{1} South Sudanese refugees in Sudan, most of whom now reside in the White Nile State (58 %) and in Khartoum (23 %), and the rest of which live in ...