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Is it the Fault of NGOs Alone? Aid and Dependency in Eastern Sudan
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2008: 5, Working paper, 2008-06-01)Scholars of development studies have long debated the efficacy of humanitarian assistance in the Sudan, especially in eastern Sudan, where humanitarian agencies have been working for more than two decades. Questions about ... -
Is it wrong to rank? A critical assessment of corruption indices
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)This paper emphasizes the importance of collecting information on corruption, while still stressing critical aspects of the most applied sources of such information, the cross-country composite corruption indices. Are these ... -
Is mutual accountability feasible? A conceptual discussion with policy implications
(U4 Issue 2012:11, Research report, 2012-12-14)Mutual accountability is one of five principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. Yet comparatively little has been written about this principle and how it is operationalised. It remains ill-defined and poorly ... -
Is there legal pluralism in Afghanistan? Notes on injustice and access to justice
(Research report, 2023-03-01)This NCHS paper examines the use of the term legal pluralism in Afghanistan and argues that where access to justice is particularly difficult or neglected, social actors face an absence rather than a plurality of legal ... -
Is worker effort higher in church-based than in government health facilities?
(CMI Brief vol. 10 no. 11, Report, 2011-10-25)A study of diagnostic effort documents low worker effort in both churchbased and government health facilities. Despite a strong perception among patients about good medical quality in church-based health clinics, health ... -
Islam and gender in Europe: Subjectivities, politics and piety
(Feminist Review no. 98, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-01-01)'Is Islam reconcilable with feminism?' asks Haideh Moghissi (1999), echoing a concern that is currently dramatized in numerous ways across and beyond Europe. The growing presence and visibility of Muslims in European liberal ... -
Islam in Northern Mozambique: A Historical Overview
(History Compass vol. 8 no. 7, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-01-01)This article is a historical overview of two issues: first, that of the dynamics of Islamic religious transformations from pre-Portuguese era up until the 2000s among Muslims of the contemporary Cabo Delgado, Nampula, and ... -
Islam, menneskerettigheter og utviklingsprosesser
(Rapport, Research report, 1991)Denne studien undersøker islams forhold til menneskerettighetene og muligheten for en utvikling av islamsk tenkning til også å omfatte den moderne menneskerettighetstanken. Med utgangspunkt i framveksten av forskjellige ... -
Islamic Feminism, a public lecture
(CMI Sudan Working Paper SWP 2014:1, Working paper, 2014-11-07)The programme Assisting Regional Universities in Sudan and South Sudan (ARUSS) aims to build academic bridges between Sudan and South Sudan. The overall objective is to enhance the quality and relevance of teaching and ... -
Islamic women's organisations on the West Bank
(CMI Brief vol. 10 no. 8, Report, 2011-10-25)Islamic organisations’ role in improving women’s position in society is often dismissed. Instead, they are believed to be devoted to charitable work and entrench patriarchal structures in line with traditional religious ... -
Islamism in the diaspora: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)In recent years there has been increasing academic interest in Islamism in the Middle East, not least in Palestinian Islamism championed by groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which are waging a bloody war of attrition ... -
"It's all about money": Urban-rural spaces and relations in Maputo, Mozambique
(Canadian Journal of African Studies, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-05-01)Within the anthropological urban scholarship on sub-Saharan Africa, there is a shared notion of the continued, and in some cases reemerging, importance of rural spaces, values and relations in cities and towns. In Mozambique's ... -
‘It’s the Economy, Stupid!’ Political Economy Analysis and Political Corruption Studies
(Others, 2019-01-01)Presentation for ANU Ph.D.-students, in connection with the conference: Governance, Security, and Asymmetrical Warfare in Central Asia and the Middle East . -
Jobs for youth in fragile transitions: Ethiopia’s Youth Revolving Fund
(CMI Brief no. 2023:3, Report, 2023-05-01)Ethiopia’s high-level of population growth is contributing to an acute problem of youth unemployment. A lack of jobs and dissatisfaction about future opportunities were partly the reasons for the game-changing youth protests ... -
Joint Land Certification and Intra-household Decision-making: Towards Empowerment of Wives?
(Centre for Land Tenure Studies Working Paper, Research report, 2013-01-01)We have used gender-disaggregated household panel data from 2007 and 2012 in combination with dictator games and hawk-dove games to assess the effects of joint land certification of husbands and wives on wives’ involvement ... -
Joint review of IWGIA's framework agreements with Danida and Norad
(Norad Report Review 10/2009, Research report, 2009-04-01)Sammen med Danida, gjennomførte Norad i 2008 en gjennomgang av IWGIAs organisasjon og virksomhet som grunnlag for vurdering av videre samarbeid med organisasjonen. Om IWGIA IWGIA er en av de viktigste internasjonale ... -
Judicial independence and human rights policies in Argentina and Chile
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)This paper is about how varying degrees of judicial independence may influence policy making in the field of human rights. I explore factors that may account for why some Latin American courts, years after the return to ... -
Judiciary and Good Governance in Contemporary Tanzania: Problems and Prospects
(Research report, Research report, 1995)The World Bank identified judiciary among institutions which ran down during centralized governance. The Bank also expressed the need for and willingness to take part in rebuilding these institutions so that they could ... -
Just Faaland – en verdensborger i Bergen
(Book, 2017-11-01)Denne boken er en hyllest til Just Faaland som døde i februar 2017. Just Faaland bygget opp det som i dag er Chr. Michelsens Institutt i Bergen. Han var leder for avdelingen for utviklingsforskning ved instituttet fra ...