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El poder de la información: Mejorando la transparencia en el sector educación de Sierra Leona
(U4 Brief 2009:11, Report, 2009-07-14)La mejor defensa contra la corrupción son las cifras y los datos fidedignos. Un Sistema de Información sobre la Gestión Educativa que funcione de forma eficaz puede señalar transgresiones dentro de ámbitos tales como el ... -
Elaborer un système de gestion des risques de corruption pour ONG : Réflexions à l'usage des donateurs
(U4 Issue 2012:5, Research report, 2012-09-01)Les organisations non-gouvernementales (ONG), souvent en première ligne des activités d’aide au développement, sont amenées à gérer une part importante des fonds affectés à leurs interventions. On peut donc craindre des ... -
Electronic Fiscal Devises (EFDs): Lessons from the Region and Mainland Tanzania
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Elite behaviour and citizen mobilization
(CMI Working Paper WP 2015:8, Working paper, 2015-08-01)This paper studies the relation between self-serving elite behaviour and citizen political participation. We use a fixed effects approach to analyze the association between portfolio investment in tax havens and voter ... -
Elite Capture of Kabul Bank
(Corruption, Grabbing and Development: Real World Challenges, Chapter, 2014-03-01)Afghanistan is entering the most critical period since the overthrow of Taliban back in 2001. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has announced withdrawal of international forces by 2014, and a sharp reduction ... -
Elite Capture Through Information Distortion: A Theoretical Essay
(Journal of Development Economics vol. 106, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-01-01)We investigate donor-beneficiary relationships in participatory development programs, where (i) communities are heterogeneous and dominated by the local elite, (ii) the elite strategically propose a project to the donor, ... -
Embezzlement of Donor Funding in Health Projects
(U4 Brief 2008:11, Report, 2008-05-02)Donor funding has fuelled a vast increase in service delivery, medical research and clinical trials throughout the developing world. Yet, there is a dark side to this badly needed influx of funding: with pressures to spend ... -
Emergency Urbanism and Architectures of Precarity in Sabra, Beirut
(Journal article, 2021-02-01)Since the mid-1980s, generations of displaced people have sought refuge in the ramshackle buildings that were once the Gaza-Ramallah Hospital, a multi-story hospital complex built by the Palestinian Liberation Organization ... -
Employee referral, social proximity and worker discipline: Theory and Evidence from India
(CMI Working Paper WP 2015:1, Working paper, 2015-02-01)We develop a new theory of employee referrals into informal low - and unskilled jobs in developing country labour markets. Employers use social preferences between referees and new recruits to mitigate moral hazard problems ... -
Empower the guardians of the earth, do not rob them.
(Others, 2024-04-01)This article originally appeared in The Hindu (April 22, 2024) and has been republished with permission from the editors. -
Empresas multinacionais e instituições do país anfitrião: Um estudo de caso das actividades de RSE em Angola
(International Business Review vol. 19 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-01-01)Embora as instituições sejam importantes para o desenvolvimento económico, particularmente em países ricos em recursos, a interacção entre empresas multinacionais e as institui&c ... -
En av historiens verste flytningekatastrofer
(Others, 2013-01-01)Seks millioner mennesker fra Syria – mer enn en fjerdedel av landets befolkning – er på flukt. Midtøstens historie er full av flyktningekatastrofer. Nå er regionen midt i en av sine verste, Til sammen bor 20 millioner ... -
En skattepolitisk konfrontasjon med skatteparadiser. Det norske Finansdepartementets narrativ om nasjonalpolitisk avmakt i møte med et globalt fenomen 1970-2012
(Master thesis, 2012-09-28)The issue of so-called “tax havens” is controversial and has been on the international political agenda with interest peaking at the G20 meeting of 2 nd April 2009. The phenomenon`s main feature, banking secrecy laws, ... -
En vurdering av betalingsbalansestøtte til Bangladesh
(Research report, Research report, 2002)Norway has been requested by IMF to provide balance of payment (BOP) support to Bangladesh, which is facing a critical reduction in its foreign exchange reserves. This report, which has been commissioned by NORAD, analyses ... -
Encuestas de Seguimiento del Gasto Público: Lecciones de Tanzania
(U4 Brief 2009:9, Report, 2009-07-14)Si bien la exitosa ejecución de la Encuesta de Seguimiento del Gasto Público (PETS, por sus siglas en inglés) en Uganda ha sido y continúa siendo objeto de mucha atención, poco se ha dicho de las lecciones de PETS en otros ... -
End review of FDC’s project to strengthen the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in the Zambézia province, Mozambique
(CMI Report R 2014:3, Research report, 2014-09-01)This report is an end review of Fundação para o Desenvolvimento da Comunidade (FDC)’s project to support the implementation of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in the Zambézia province. The purposes of the ... -
Ending child marriages – new laws bring progress but hurdles remain
(CMI Insight 2016:4, Report, 2016-05-01)Reform of family law is considered among the most difficult to achieve since it contests ‘the notion of women and children as property’. There is a continuum ranging from criminalization to non-criminalization in the legal ... -
Enemies of the state: Curbing women activists advocating rape reform in Sudan
(Journal of International Women's Studies vol. 18 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-01-01)Sudanese women activists launched a legal campaign in 2009 calling attention to how the country’s Sharia based Criminal Act of 1991 produced impunity for sexual assault in the Darfur conflict. After years of mobilization, ... -
Energy Cooperation in Southern Africa: What Role for Norway? Report from the Seminar on Regional Energy Co-operation, Luanda, 12-14 February 2002
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2002)This Working Paper contains a full report from a Seminar on Regional Energy Co-operation, Luanda, 12-14 February 2002. Norwegian involvement in the energy sector in Southern Africa is considerable. Energy is a major area ... -
Eneweyay (Let's Discuss). Report from a training programme for democracy in rural Ethiopia
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)Report of a project to teach principles of democracy in a "down-to-earth" way, through discussions with rural and urban people in Ethiopia. The "Ecumenical Training Initiative for Democracy" developed before the elections ...