Browsing Chr. Michelsens Institutt by Title
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Income-generating Programmes in Pakistan and Malawi: A Comparative Review
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)This paper reviews income-generating programmes in Pakistan and Malawi organised by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). It compares the different strategies chosen by the NRC regarding project design and the creation of ... -
Increasing trust in the bank to enhance savings: Experimental evidence from India
(CMI Working Paper WP 2016:01, Working paper, 2016-01-01)Recent evidence highlights the importance of trust in explaining bank account savings. According to economic theory, repeated interactions can play a crucial role in shaping trust. We designed the first field experiment ... -
Indigenous women's access to justice in Latin America
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2010)This paper gives an overview of the challenges which indigenous women in Latin America face in accessing both formal state justice and indigenous legal systems, including a focus on normative frameworks, legal awareness, ... -
Individual Choice under Uncertainty
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1993)The first part of this paper gives an overview of the dominating approach within economic theory on individual decision making under uncertainty or risk - the expected utility (EU) theory. The theory has increasingly been ... -
Industrial Clusters Promotion as a tool for private sector development: The UNIDO experience in Ethiopia
(CMI Brief vol. 12 no. 5, Report, 2013-11-29)Policies aimed at boosting the interaction and cooperation of economic actors in industrial clusters might represent a crucial strategy for industrial upgrading and development in poor countries. This policy brief discusses ... -
Informal Cross-Border Trade in Eastern Sudan A Case Study from Kassala and Gedarif States
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2015:6, Working paper, 2015-01-01)Informal trade in pre-colonial Africa, sometimes in the form of barter, was one of the mechanisms of social interaction between various ethnic groups and jurisdictions. It was an alternative to the state of hostility and ... -
Informal pay and the quality of health care: lessons from Tanzania
(U4 Brief 2007:9, Report, 2007-10-01)Informal payments for health services are common in many transitional and developing countries. Informal payments are often claimed to reduce access to health services, especially among the poorest. Impacts on the quality ... -
Informal relations in public procurement
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Information Technology and Fiscal Capacity in a Developing Country: Evidence from Ethiopia
(ICTD Working Paper 31, Research report, 2015-02-01)Governments in developing countries are typically constrained by a limited fiscal capacity to finance the provision of essential public goods – a constraint that has been cited as one of the fundamental challenges to ... -
Infrastructure policy and governance failures
(CMI Working Paper WP 2012:5, Working paper, 2012-09-19)Interventions to fix market failures in infrastructure have often resulted in some form of governance failure and this contributes importantly to explain shortcomings in the supply of infrastructure services in developing ... -
Ingen trygg havn for palestinske flyktninger fra Syria
(Others, 2015-01-01)Ingen trygg havn for palestinske flyktninger Kjersti Berg En Palestinsk flyktning fra Syria kan ikke pa° lovlig vis søke trygghet over grensen i nabolandene. Hun møter stengte dører hvor hun vender seg. ... -
Inner Frontiers: Santal Responses to Acculturation
(Report, Research report, 1991)The Santals who constitute one of the largest communities in India belong to the Austro- Asiatic linguistic group. They have managed to keep their language and their traditional system of values as well. Nevertheless, their ... -
Institutional Approaches to the Study of International Organisation
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)This paper gives an overview of changes and shifts in the study of international organisation and notes that research has gradually moved away from the study of de facto organisations to studies of international cooperation ... -
Institutional arrangements for corruption prevention: Considerations for the implementation of the United Nations convention against corruption article 6
(U4 Issue 2009:4, Research report, 2009-04-22)What kind of institutions does a state need to have in place to effectively prevent corruption? What does it mean, when article 6 of the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) requires states to ensure the existence of ... -
Institutionalising transnationalism: The national welfare system’s encounter with people who lead transnational lives.
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Institutions of checks and balances: The Election Commission of Angola
(CMI Report R 2013:5, Research report, 2013-08-01)This report focuses on one particular institution which may mitigate the centralisation of power in Angola and pave the way for political reform and democratisation; the Angolan national electoral commission (the Comissão ... -
Institutions, mobility and resilience in the Fante migratory fisheries of West Africa
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)The fishery of the Fante town Moree in Ghana and its network of migrants in West Africa is here understood as a social field, whose institutions are key to an understanding of fisher people’s livelihood strategies. By ... -
Integrating corruption considerations into Nationally Determined Contributions. Insights from Colombia’s climate adaptation efforts at the local level
(U4 Issue 2022:15, Research report, 2022-11-01)Urban and local governments are vital for climate change adaptation efforts. But, as the case of Colombia shows, local administrations are not always properly equipped for the scale of the challenge. -
Integrity Building and Social Norms in Kosovo’s Municipalities
(Corruption and Social Norms, Chapter, 2018-01-01)Why do 'integrity building' interventions in development settings rarely induce governance practices that are consistent with the standards set out in the formal state? This chapter explains the seemingly poor outcomes of ... -
Inter-group interaction and attitudes to migrants
(CMI Working Paper WP 2021:02, Working paper, 2021-02-01)Abstract We report results from a randomized field experiment conducted in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, which tests the impact of interaction with migrants on host community members’ attitudes towards migrants. ...