• Controlling corruption through e-governance: Case evidence from Bangladesh 

      Muhammad, Baniamin Hasan (U4 Brief 2015:5, Report, 2015-05-04)
      E-governance is gaining popularity as a tool for improved public service delivery in developing countries. It is often argued e-governance reduces corruption risks through improving monitoring of public officials and by ...
    • Controlling elections: The Angolan Election Commission 

      Amundsen, Inge (Angola Brief vol. 3 no. 1, Report, 2013-04-12)
      Over the last few years, Angolan legislation on elections and the Angolan national election commission has been strengthened considerably. In legal terms the Comissão Nacional Eleitoral (CNE) is now an independent commission ...
    • Controlling fiscal corruption. Theoretical approaches and illustrations from Tanzania 

      Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1999)
      The primary concern of this paper is to discuss the role of various economic factors in explaining corruption in tax administration. The emphasis is on how the incentive structure of the tax system affects the decisions ...
    • Convincing health workers to work in rural areas 

      Kolstad, Julie Riise (CMI Brief vol. 10 no. 12, Report, 2011-10-01)
      Tanzania has one of the lowest health worker ratios in the world. It is the rural areas that suffer the most. The geographical imbalance represents a serious problem for the delivery of crucial health services to a large ...
    • Cooperation with Chinese actors on anti-corruption: Environmental governance as a pilot area 

      Lang, Bertram; Rudyak, Marina (U4 Issue 2022:2, Research report, 2022-01-01)
      Engagement with Chinese actors on anti-corruption is possible but depends on trust-building efforts and suitable windows of opportunity. Environmental governance is the field where the overlap between Chinese and Western ...
    • Cooperation with Chinese actors on anti-corruption: Environmental governance as a pilot area 

      Lang, Bertram; Rudyak, Marina (U4 Issue 2022:2, Research report, 2022-01-01)
      Engagement with Chinese actors on anti-corruption is possible but depends on trust-building efforts and suitable windows of opportunity. Environmental governance is the field where the overlap between Chinese and Western ...
    • Coping with corruption: Small and medium enterprises in Ghana 

      Amundsen, Inge (U4 Brief 2022:2, Report, 2022-06-01)
      Small firms seem to be more compliant when exposed to international standards and regulations as partners to multinationals.
    • Corona and food security in poor countries 

      Hatlebakk, Magnus (CMI Brief no. 2020:04, Report, 2020-05-01)
    • Corporate Community Involvement and Local Institutions: Two Case Studies From the Mining Industry in Tanzania 

      Lange, Siri; Kolstad, Ivar (Journal of African Business vol. 13 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-01-01)
      Corporate community involvement contributes capital or resources in various forms to a community. However, such involvement may also influence local institutions that determine how well these resources are used, i.e. the ...
    • Corporate Social Responsibility in Islamic Economies – the Case of Sudan 

      Elhassab, Ahmed Elhassab Omer; Yahya, Abdelmageed Mohammed (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2016:1, Working paper, 2016-05-01)
      Introduction Since the 1950s, there has been a growing international awareness of the need for business organizations to commit to a social role that goes beyond the sole objective of profit maximization. The term ...
    • Corporate social responsibility in the Angolan oil industry 

      Wiig, Arne; Ramalho, Madalena (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)
      What are the responsibility of oil companies in resource rich countries? Do they take these responsibilities? Based on a utilitarian perspective and theories of the resource curse, we discuss the oil companies’ corporate ...
    • Corporate Social Responsibility of Multinational Corporations 

      Kolstad, Ivar (CMI Brief, Report, 2007-01-01)
      The question of corporate responsibility in poor and undemocratic countries, has been addressed by a CMI strategic institute programme (SIP) entitled "Business ethics for multinational corporations in developing countries". ...
    • Corrupción en el sector salud. Recomendaciones prácticas para donantes 

      Hussmann, Karen (U4 Issue 2020:16, Research report, 2020-12-01)
      La corrupción en el sector salud puede marcar la diferencia entre la vida y la muerte. Tiene graves consecuencias en el acceso, la calidad, la equidad, la eficiencia y la eficacia de los servicios de salud y es un ...
    • Corruption and Aid Modalities 

      Fritz, Verena; Kolstad, Ivar (U4 Issue 2008:4, Research report, 2008-08-01)
      The introduction of ‘new' aid modalities - and in particular general budget support - has increased the interest in the relationship between corruption and aid modalities. This U4 Issue reviews the information that theory ...
    • Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Environmental and Resource Management 

      Tacconi, Luca; Williams, David Aled (Annual Review of Environment and Resources vol. 45, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-01)
      Corruption significantly affects the large majority of countries, and it has negative social and economic impacts. Its impacts on environmental and resource management (ERM) sectors are less well understood. We review ...
    • Corruption and collective action 

      Marquette, Heather; Peiffer, Caryn (DLP Research Paper, Research report, 2015-01-01)
      Increasingly it is argued that anti-corruption efforts have not worked because they are based on inadequate theory, suggesting that collective action theory offers a better understanding of corruption than the principal-agent ...
    • Corruption and Commercial Fisheries in Africa 

      Standing, André (U4 Brief 2008:23, Report, 2008-12-05)
      Heightened competition and considerable illegal fishing by commercial boats, suggest that incentives for corruption in African fisheries are high. Dependence on revenues and investments from foreign countries, as well as ...
    • Corruption and doing business in Serbia 

      Devine, Vera (U4 Brief 2007:11, Report, 2007-10-09)
      Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) have been described as ‘the backbone' of the economy of the Western Balkans.Indeed, with SMEs making up 99% of Serbian companies, employing 53% of the working population, this is ...
    • Corruption and Forest Revenues in Papua 

      Setiono, Bambang (U4 Brief 2008:18, Report, 2008-06-05)
      Under a sustainable, well-managed, logging regime, Papua - the most densely forested part of Indonesia - can potentially contribute substantial forest revenues for socio-economic development. Yet, it remains the poorest ...
    • Corruption and Fraud in International Aid Projects 

      Kramer, Michael (U4 Brief 2007:4, Report, 2007-10-05)
      By probing projects in many different sectors and differing contexts it has been possible to find some striking similarities in terms of how fraud is taking place. This brief describes corruption and fraud schemes encountered ...