Browsing Chr. Michelsens Institutt by Subject "Africa"
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Local entrepreneurs, networks and linkages to the global economy in Southeast Asia and Africa
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1999)This paper was originally prepared for the United Nations University/African Economic Research Consortium Conference on Asia and Africa in the Global Economy, Tokyo, August 2-3, 1998. It was revised in the stimulating ... -
Local Government and Decentralisation in Sub-Saharan Africa. An Annotated Bibliography
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1994)A renewed interest in local government and decentralisation in developing countries has emerged in recent years, and many students now turn to this subject. A substantial literature is already available, even if a lot more ... -
Local government revenue mobilisation in Anglophone Africa
(Others, 2013-01-01)Many local governments in Africa have inadequate resources to deliver the services for which they are responsible. This paper examines opportunities and constraints to improving local revenue mobilisation by urban councils ... -
Local government revenue mobilisation in Anglophone Africa
(CMI Working Paper WP 2012:6, Working paper, 2012-10-03)This paper examines opportunities and constraints facing local revenue mobilization in Anglophone Africa with an emphasis on urban settings. Specific revenue instruments and their effects on economic efficiency, income ... -
Local government taxation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A review and an agenda for research
(CMI Working Paper WP 2014:2, Working paper, 2014-03-01)This paper reviews the state of knowledge on local government revenue systems in Africa, with a particular focus on commonalties and differences between Francophone and Anglophone countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The ... -
Local Revenue Mobilization in Urban Settings in Africa
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)The growth of Africa’s towns and cities has outpaced local authority capacity in terms of management, infrastructure, and financing. Many African towns and cities are now facing a governance crisis. Accordingly, the ... -
Making transparency work in Africa's marine fisheries
(U4 Issue 2011:11, Research report, 2011-10-01)Global problems facing the marine fisheries sector, including overfishing and the marginalization of the small-scale sector, are leading to increased international awareness of the need to improve transparency in fisheries ... -
Mining and the Incidence of Malaria in Angola and Ghana
(CMI Insight 2023:3, Report, 2023-10-01)The discovery of natural resources across the African continent has been embraced as a positive and miraculous event, which could bring millions of people out of poverty and enhance the employment and growth levels of the ... -
"Money has no Name": Informalisation, Unemployment and changing Gender Relations in Accara, Ghana
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)Economic crisis and structural adjustment in Ghana have put large numbers of formal sector employees and civil servants out of work. This informalisation process has gendered consequences. Unemployed people, rural-urban ... -
National-level corruption risks and mitigation strategies in the implementation of REDD+ in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: An overview of the current situation
(U4 Issue 2015:9, Research report, 2015-04-01)The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the first REDD+ target countries due its huge forest ecosystem potential. Since 2011, the country has been creating key pieces of legislation as well as implementing ... -
Neglect, Control and Co-optation: Major features of Ethiopian Youth Policy Since 1991
(CMI Working Paper WP 2021:3, Working paper, 2021-07-01)Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous state, has a young population with more than 70 percent of its inhabitants below the age of 35. Ethiopian regimes have a history of youth neglect and repression, and more ... -
Networks, distance and trust: Telecommunications and changing trading practices in Ghana
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2004)Ghana liberalized its telecom sector in 1995. This study looks at the impact of the phenomenal growth in access to telephones on the business practices of traders in cloth, fish and agricultural produce. The article examines ... -
Peoples' views of taxation in Africa: A review of research on determinants of tax compliance
(CMI Working Paper WP 2012:7, Working paper, 2012-10-10)What are the key determinants of taxpayer compliance? And which features of citizen-state relations govern attitudes and behaviour regarding taxation? This paper examines the analytical foundation, methodological approaches ... -
Poorly designed youth employment programmes will boost the insurgency in Mozambique
(CMI Brief no. 2023:2, Report, 2023-05-01)A jihadist group referred to as Al-Shabab has waged a war against the Mozambican state and its allies since 2017, with devastating consequences for the civilian population. The insurgents mostly recruit among local youth, ... -
Property Taxation in Developing Countries
(CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 1, Report, 2017-03-01)Property tax (PT) raises on average revenues of less than 1% of GDP in developing countries. In many African countries it contributes far less than 0.5%. Following such low contribution, there is a growing eagerness among ... -
Re-imagining African—Nordic relations in a changing global order
(Report 2/2022, Research report, 2022-08-01)This report asks how the special relationship between countries in Africa and the Nordic region may be affected by a changing global order, and how the African–Nordic cooperation can continue to evolve and remain ... -
Refugee journey infrastructures: Exploring migration trajectories from South Sudan to Uganda
(Population, Space and Place, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024-09-01)This article investigates the nature of refugee journeys by triangulating open-ended, closed, and spatial survey data collected among South Sudanese refugees in Northern Uganda. While much research focuses on migration ... -
Regulatory Burdens in Tax Administration and Firms’ Compliance Costs in Africa
(Research report, 2018-01-01)This paper examines the effect of regulatory burdens related to tax administration on firms' compliance costs in Africa. Using cross-country firm-level data, the results show that regulatory burdens related to tax ... -
Revenue Authorities and State Capacity in Anglophone Africa
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2008)Since the early 1990s, many countries in Anglophone Africa have established (semi-) autonomous revenue authorities (ARAs), organisationally distinct from ministries of finance, with some real operational autonomy, and with ... -
Rising Powers and the African Security Landscape
(CMI Report R 2014:4, Research report, 2014-11-01)The last decade has witnessed a major economic expansion of China, India, Brazil and South Africa in Africa. This has mainly been driven by commercial and corporate interests, but the political profile of these rising ...