Chr. Michelsens Institutt: Recent submissions
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Company interests and foreign aid policy: Playing donors out against each other
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)Despite the importance attached to conditionality by the donors, and the fact that aid is a crucial income source for the recipient, it is found that conditionality fails. One explanation for this failure could be that a ... -
How does social development affect FDI and domestic investment?
(Research report, Research report, 2004)Creating a favourable investment climate is crucial for economic development. In this study, we explore the impact of social development variables on FDI and private domestic investment, using panel data from 75 countries ... -
Lowering barriers to agricultural exports through technical assistance
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) regulations imposed by the developed world, significantly reduse the export opportunities of developing countries. Under the SPS Agreement, developed countries are obliged to provide technical ... -
The effects of disasters on income mobility: Bootstrap inference and measurement error simulations
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)We evaluate the impact of disasters on income mobility by drawing on “natural experiments”. While the poor have a much higher probability of remaining poor when entering a crisis compared to normal times, there is also a ... -
"Looking for Trouble...". An evaluation of International Media Support (IMS): Exploring a model for rapid response to threatened media
(Research report, Research report, 2004)The report was commissioned by the Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a team was put together comprising Helge Rønning and Kim Brice as external consultants and Hugo Stokke from CMI. International Media Support ... -
Networks, distance and trust: Telecommunications and changing trading practices in Ghana
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2004)Ghana liberalized its telecom sector in 1995. This study looks at the impact of the phenomenal growth in access to telephones on the business practices of traders in cloth, fish and agricultural produce. The article examines ... -
Review of the Nepal Human Rights Yearbook 1993-2002
(Research report, Research report, 2003)NORAD has been supporting the Nepal Human Rights Yearbook for a decade, from the pilot issue in 1992 and up to present date. The Yearbook has over the entire period been published by the Informal Sector Service Center ... -
Verdensbankens strukturtilpasningsprogrammer: Virkninger og politiske linjeskift
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)Dette notatet bidrar til den offentlige debatten om Verdensbankens rolle langs to dimensjoner. Først defineres de mest sentrale elementene i strukturtilpasningspolitikken og det blir stilt opp en oversikt over de ulike ... -
What has trust got to do with it? Non-payment of service charges in local authorities in South Africa
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)A major financial problem in many municipalities in South Africa is the inadequate collection of service charges due to widespread nonpayment. The prevailing view is that non-compliance is caused by poverty and the existence ... -
Political Islam in the Middle East
(Research report, Research report, 2003)This report provides an overview of the political Islam in the Middle East, with a special emphasis on the Islamic resurgence in the Levant (Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria). Following an introduction ... -
Uncertainty as a Strategy: Electoral Processes in Zambia 1991-2001
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)Zambia has held three multiparty elections since its restoration of democracy in 1991. This peaceful transition raised expectations of a smooth process towards democratic consolidation. But similar to experiences from other ... -
Crescent and Sword: The Hamas Enigma
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2004)This paper analyses the popular support to Hamas, the most important of the Palestinian Islamist movements today. The paper charts the movement’s historical ascendancy from a fringe Gaza-based group to a mainstream Islamist ... -
Angola 2003/2004. Waiting for elections
(CMI Reports, Research report, 2004)The present report is the fifth in a series of annual studies carried out by the Chr. Michelsen Institute on socio-economic and political trends in Angola, at the request of the Norwegian development cooperation authorities. ... -
Selskapers sosiale ansvarlighet. En teoretisk analyse og empirisk undersøkelse av bedrifter i Malaysia
(Research report, Research report, 2004)Myndigheter, internasjonale organisasjoner og frivillige organisasjoner ser på selskapers sosiale ansvarlighet (SSA) som et effektivt virkemiddel til å nå samfunnsmessige mål, som for eksempel vern av naturmiljø, ... -
Sustaining local level development: What worked and what did not. Lessons from the phasing-out of Norwegian aid to the Hambantota Integrated Rural Development Programme (HIRDEP), Sri Lanka 1992 to 1999
(Research report, Research report, 2003)Aid has been successful when it is no longer needed, but we all too often see how aid breeds dependency, and how both donors and recipients have difficulties preparing for termination of the relationship. This is a study ... -
How to Assess the Political Role of the Zambian Courts?
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2004)The paper addresses the methodological problems concerning how to assess the political role of courts in Zambia - and in new democracies more generally, and suggests a framework within which this can be done. Particular ... -
Peacebuilding in post-war situations: Lessons for Sudan
(Research report, Research report, 2004)This report examines lessons from peacebuilding efforts during the last decade or so that are relevant to the current challenges in Sudan. While there is an emphasis on governance interventions, it is argued more generally ... -
The SAPRIN Report: An assessment of the empirical analysis supporting main conclusions
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)In 1996, the World Bank and a network of non-governmental organizations (SAPRIN) started cooperating on an evaluation of 15 years of structural adjustment programs (SAPs). The background of our paper is the criticism raised ... -
The accountability funtion of supreme audit institutions in Malawi, Uganda and Tanzania
(Research report, Research report, 2005)Despite the important accountability functions assigned supreme audit institutions, little is known about their actual functioning and we have scant information about how supreme audit institutions interact with other ... -
Towards feasible social security systems in sub-Saharan Africa
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2004)The international community is devoting increasing attention to social security issues in developing countries as part of its preoccupation with poverty reduction. This paper discusses social security arrangements in place ...