Chr. Michelsens Institutt: Recent submissions
Now showing items 1461-1480 of 1927
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Boredom and Crisis in the Humanitarian Realm
(Anthropology Today vol. 30(6), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-01-01)‘Humanitarian boredom’ produces its own perspective on the world, providing a ‘point of entry’ to the observation of humanitarianism in practice. In this paper, while problematizing both a general ... -
Measuring the performance of health workers
(Health Labor Market Analyses, Chapter, 2016-10-01)The health workforce has received major policy attention over the past decade,driven in part by the need to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and more . -
Analyzing the determinants of health worker performance
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Introdução à Ética no Sector Público
(Research report, 2009-03-01)This paper is the Portuguese version of the introduction chapter to the compendium on Public Sector Ethics; Introdução à Ética no Sector Público . O cooperação institucional entre o Centro de Estudos e Investigação ... -
Introduction to public sector ethics
(Research report, 2009-02-01)This paper is the introduction chapter to the compendium on Public Sector Ethics , which is the second of three compendiums developed as a part of the institutional cooperation agreement between the Centro de Estudos e ... -
Lessons from Nicaragua's experience with the Joint Donor Anti-Corruption Fund
(U4 Practice Insight 2013:1, Report, 2013-03-05)Since 2002, the Joint Donor Anti-Corruption Fund (FAC) in Nicaragua worked with the national government to respond to corruption. The FAC brought together a group of nine donors to jointly support the strengthening of ... -
Globalisation and the Reinvention of Andean Tradition: The Politics of Community and Ethnicity in Highland Bolivia
(Journal of Peasant Studies vol. 29 no. 3/4, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2002-01-01)Travelling and working beyond the boundaries of their traditional communities, rural populations in the Andean Highlands have never really fitted with earlier categorizations of peasants as easily definable, harmonious and ... -
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 ... -
The ugly poetics of violence in post-accord Guatemala
(Forum for Development Studies vol. 36 no. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009-10-01)With the signing of the Peace Accords in 1996 Guatemala's credentials of democratic governance was re-established, but as media reports and the international community have observed, the killing and crimes of the civil was ... -
When Men do Women's Work: Structural Adjustment, Unemployment and Changing Gender Relations in the Informal Economy of Accra, Ghana
(Journal of Modern African Studies vol. 45 no. 4, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007-11-01)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 ... -
The Depoliticisation of Development and the Democratisation of Politics in Tanzania: Parallel Structures as Obstacles to Delivering Services to the Poor
(Journal of Development Studies vol. 44 no. 8, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2008-01-01)Local democracy and the involvement of local communities in the provision of social services are central issues in the local government reforms that are presently being implemented in many developing countries. At the same ... -
Fighting for Prosperity: Reflections on the Crisis and Politics of Poverty in Bolivia
(Iberoamericana - Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies vol. 36 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2006-01-01) -
Why people pay taxes: The case of the development levy in Tanzania
(World Development vol. 29 no. 12, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2001-01-01)This paper examines factors determining tax compliance behavior in local authorities in Tanzania. The poll tax - locally named "development levy" - is used as case. The study finds support for the hypotheses that tax ... -
Kommentar til resultatbasert finansiering: Bør vi betale dr. Jekyll og søster Hyde for bedre mødre- og spedbarnshelse?
(Samfunnsøkonomen no. 9, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009-01-01)Kommentar i Samfunnsøkonomen til resultatbasert finansiering. -
Darfur: Struggle of Power and Resources, 1650-2002, An Institutional Perspective
(Book, 2016-01-01)The conflicts in Sudan have been driven by multiple causes, a major one being increasing competition over natural resources. This is very much the case in Darfur, and Takana's book addresses both the hisotircal root causes ... -
Beyond the Permitted Indian? Bolivia and Guatemala in an Age of Neoliberal Developmentalism
(Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies vol. 3 no. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2008-01-01)This paper outlines and discusses the contrasting histories of inclusion and contestation associated with the introduction of neoliberal and multicultural policies in Bolivia and Guatemala. In drawing out and discussing ... -
Dilemmas of fiscal decentralisation: A study of local government taxation in Tanzania
(Forum for Development Studies vol. 27 no. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2000-01-01)Local taxes represent less than 5 percent of total tax revenues in Tanzania. However, the large number of these taxes, together with their unsatisfactory nature, means that their economic, political and social impacts are ... -
Effects of Payment for Performance on accountability mechanisms: Evidence from Pwani, Tanzania
(Social Science & Medicine vol. 179, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-01-01)Payment for Performance (P4P) aims to improve provider motivation to perform better, but little is known about the effects of P4P on accountability mechanisms. We examined the effect of P4P in Tanzania on internal and ... -
Stones on the Road: the Politics of Participation and the Generation of Crisis in Bolivia
(Bulletin of Latin American Research vol. 25 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2006-01-01)This paper demonstrates that recent protests in Bolivia must be linked to the failure of efforts to improve democratic participation in the country. It argues that such failures can be traced to a history of prejudices in ... -
Female Autonomy and Fertility in Nepal
(South Asia Economic Journal vol. 14 no. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-05-01)We explore the effect of female autonomy on individual fertility in Nepal. We find that families where wives have high level of autonomy have fewer children than other families. Using gender of the first child as a natural ...