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The case for asset declarations in the judiciary: Identifying illicit enrichment and conflicts of interests
(U4 Brief 2014:5, Report, 2014-05-06)Asset declarations serve in many countries as a tool for detecting and preventing illicit enrichment and conflicts of interests among public officials. However, not all countries with an asset declaration regime in place ... -
The challenge of per diem misuse: Training and travel as extra pay
(U4 Brief 2016:8, Report, 2016-12-01)A combination of low wages and perverse incentives motivate civil servants to supplement their income with per diem payments connected to participation in seminars and workshops. The abuse of travel and training- related ... -
The challenging dynamics of microcredit in Angola
(CMI Brief vol. 14 no. 6, Report, 2015-09-18)Personal characteristics and capacities are important for whether microcredit clients succeed in business. In particular, a client’s education influences business profitability. However, to benefit from group-based ... -
The Changing Nature of Power and Sovereignty in Afghanistan
(Research report, 2012-09-01)This paper aims to explain the broader contours of the emerging fields of political power in contemporary Afghanistan and its implications for regional politics. -
The changing role of Chinese development aid
(CMI Insight 2020:1, Report, 2020-03-01)In recent years, China has significantly increased its development interventions. China is now among the major providers of aid to Africa. Foreign aid has become an important tool in the range of instruments applied by the ... -
The Co-operation between Institute og Development Management - IDM (Tanzania) and Agder College (Norway)
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1999)This working paper reviews the background and experiences gained in the context of institutional cooperation between IDM in Tanzania and Agder College, Norway. This co-operation has evolved out of a longstanding relationship ... -
The commitment curve: Global regulation of business and human rights
(Business and Human Rights Journal vol. 3 no. 2, July 2018, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-09-01)The divide between hard law and soft law approaches to global regulation of corporations in relation to human rights is partly based on empirical assumptions. Taking a step back, we assess the claims concerning the current ... -
The comprehensive peace agreement in the Sudan: Institutional developments and political trends in focus areas
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2009: 1, Working paper, 2009-05-13)The Sudan is a vast and varied country in terms of its geography and people, defining its social and political relations from the colonial era through independence. The history of Sudanese conflict has been shaped by the ... -
The costs of corruption to the Mozambican economy. Why it is important to fight corruption in a climate of fiscal fragility
(CMI Report R 2016:6, Research report, 2016-12-01)What is the price that Mozambique has to pay for the widespread corruption in the country? What is the cost of corruption for the Mozambican economy, the state and its people? The present study aims at providing succinct ... -
The Criminalisation of Rape in Pakistan
(CMI Working Paper WP 2017:08, Working paper, 2017-09-01)In Pakistan, the legal recognition of rape as a crime has changed in pace with the dominant narrative on women’s sexuality. The country’s most troublesome categorisation of rape was, unfortunately, introduced under the ... -
The Customer is King: Evidence on VAT Compliance in Tanzania
(ICTD Working Paper 83, Research report, 2018-10-01)Like governments in many other African countries, the Government of Tanzania has been striving to improve the effectiveness of its value added tax (VAT) regime by reducing tax evasion through a combination of measures, ... -
The Depoliticisation of Development and the Democratisation of Politics in Tanzania: Parallel Structures as Obstacles to Delivering Services to the Poor
(Journal of Development Studies vol. 44 no. 8, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2008-01-01)Local democracy and the involvement of local communities in the provision of social services are central issues in the local government reforms that are presently being implemented in many developing countries. At the same ... -
The economic and social basis for state-restructuring in Nepal
(CMI Report R 2013:1, Research report, 2013-02-01)Nepal is in the process of forming a federal state, where the borders of the provinces is one essential, but disputed, issue. The report discusses underlying economic and social conditions that should be taken into account ... -
The economic organisation of specific assets
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)In the international offshore industry we find that the oil companies and their main suppliers usually operate with separate ownership. But the main contractors manage a capital stock, and produce inputs, that are highly ... -
The Effectiveness of Harnessing Human Rights: The Struggle over the Ilısu Dam in Turkey
(Development and Change vol. 52 no. 6, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-01)Under what conditions can a human rights-based approach be successfully utilized? This article argues that the efficacy of a human rights discourse is, in large part, determined by the nature of the arena in which rights ... -
The effects of disasters on income mobility: Bootstrap inference and measurement error simulations
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)We evaluate the impact of disasters on income mobility by drawing on “natural experiments”. While the poor have a much higher probability of remaining poor when entering a crisis compared to normal times, there is also a ... -
The Effects on Agrarian Contracts of a Governmental Intervention into Bonded Labor in the Western Terai of Nepal
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)We study an effective intervention into a specific form of bonded labor. The intervention led to a shift in agrarian contracts, from bonded labor to sharecropping. By comparing the pre- and post-liberation contracts we ... -
The Egyptian military in politics and the economy: Recent history and current transition status
(CMI Insight 2013:2, Report, 2013-10-24)The Egyptian military has been playing a decisive role in national politics since the eruption of the 2011 uprisings. The Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) governed the country from February 2011 until June 2012. They ... -
The elephant still in the room: The effectiveness of development aid policy regarding corruption
(Others, 2011-04-26)Anecdotes abound that corruption is still a very real challenge for development aid policy and practice. So too does more formal research evidence. This opinion article in the GIZ online magazine Digital Development Debates ... -
The eternal conflict: Land, peasants, and the military in Mexico
(CMI Insight 2015:3, Report, 2015-05-01)Land has always been an important site of struggle in Mexico, often bringing peasant movements and peasant communities into conflicts with the Mexican military. This CMI Insight focuses on the key conflict dimensions since ...