Chr. Michelsens Institutt: Recent submissions
Now showing items 1841-1860 of 1927
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Micro and Small-scale Industry Development in Cabo Delgado Province in Mozambique
(Research report, Research report, 2005)This report sets out the background, analyses, conclusions and recommendations from a review of a project on Micro and Small–scale Industry Development in Cabo Delgado Province in Mozambique (UNIDO Project number TF/MOZ/01/001). ... -
Promoting investment in small Caribbean states
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2004)This study performs an econometric analysis to determine the main policy levers for investment promotion in the Caribbean. The results provide the following policy advice to Caribbean policy makers seeking to increase ... -
Poverty in Mozambique Discourse, Analysis and Monitoring. Suggestions for National Stakeholders and the Donor Community
(Research report, Research report, 2005)This report was prepared for the Norwegian Embassy in Mozambique and NORAD. Its purpose is to advise the Norwegian and other cooperation authorities on how best to support poverty analysis and monitoring in Mozambique, ... -
To pay or not to pay? Citizens' views on taxation in local authorities in Tanzania
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2004)Widespread tax evasion reflected in persistent public resistance to pay is seen as part of the problem of raising local government revenues in Tanzania. Dealing with the policy problem of revenue enhancement and tax evasion ... -
Powerful donors and foreign policy: The role of multilateral financial institutions
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2004)The opportunity for a powerful donor country, such as the United States, to use a multilateral financial institution (MFI) strategically in order to promote its own foreign policy goals has received little attention. The ... -
Fast-tracking East African Integration. Assessing the Feasibility of a Political Federation by 2010
(Research report, Research report, 2005)This report assesses the feasibility of the time schedule proposed by the socalled fast-track committee towards the establishment of an East African political federation by 2010. The long history of collaboration between ... -
Corporate social responsibility in the Angolan oil industry
(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 ... -
Maybe free but not fair: Electoral administration in Malawi 1994-2004
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)Entering the third decade of multiparty democracy on the African continent, incumbents appear able to secure electoral mandates without opening for extensive political liberties. The paper argues that the administration ... -
Fissions and fusions, foes and friends: Party system re-structuring in Malawi in the 2004 general elections
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)The issue of presidential term limits is emerging as an important political norm on the African continent, but the effects of the third term debates on the institutionalization of the party systems have so far not been ... -
Review of Norwegian Earthquake Assistance to Pakistan 2005 and 2006
(Research report, Research report, 2006)The massive earthquake that struck northern parts of Pakistan and India on 8 October 2005, led to the loss of more than 75 000 lives, 100 000 were severely injured and 2.8 million were left without shelter. The relief ... -
In Pursuit of Poverty Reduction: What have Parliaments got to do with it?
(Research report, Research report, 2006)Launched only 6 years ago, the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) has become a key reference document to a majority of developing countries. More than 70 developing countries have embarked on a PRSP process. In spite ... -
Filling "the Gap": Lessons Well Learnt by the Multilateral Aid Agencies
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)An assumed gap between relief and development assistance was widely discussed in the 1990s. Urged to “mind the gap”, the multilateral aid agencies adjusted. In terms of the initial learning phase - i.e. readiness to recognize ... -
Evaluation of the UNDP/UNOPS Peacebuilding and Community Development Project in Ituri, the Democratic Republic of Congo
(Research report, Research report, 2006)Building peace through community development: this was the key idea of the evaluated project, which was run in the war-torn Ituri district of the DRC from 2003 onwards. The planning of the project did not take sufficiently ... -
Social Rights Litigation as Transformation: South African Perspectives
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)The paper analyses the role of litigation as a strategy to fulfil the social rights laid down in the South African constitution. Critically examining litigation as a means to bring the constitutional provisions to life, ... -
Precarious peacebuilding: Post-war Lebanon, 1990-2005
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)This paper analyses Lebanon’s post-war period (1990–2005) from the perspective of peacebuilding and argues that the country’s precarious attempts at implementing a peacebuilding agenda must be sought internally in the ... -
The Institutional Context of the 2004 General Elections in Malawi
(Research report, Research report, 2006)This report summarises the findings of a joint research project undertaken by the Centre for Social Research, Chr. Michelsen Institute and the Universities of Malawi and Bergen. Ensuring that elected political leaders play ... -
The Accountability Function of Parliament in New Democracies: Tanzanian Perspectives
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)The role of parliaments in holding the executive accountable is a neglected topic in the study of the democratization process in sub-Saharan Africa. In particular there is a lack of studies measuring executive-legislative ... -
"Opitanha" Social Relations of Rural Poverty in Northern Mozambique
(Research report, Research report, 2006)Research-based information is recognised as crucial for Mozambique’s endeavours to reduce its poverty. This first report in a series of three qualitative studies on poverty in Mozambique focuses on the district of Murrupula ... -
Accountability on the Move. The Parliament of Angola
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)The Parliament of Angola was established and elected in 1992 in a watershed election that coincided with the peace process in Angola and the democratisation process in much of Africa. There has still been no second election, ... -
"Economic Aid to Post-Conflict Countries: A Methodological Critique of Collier and Hoeffler"
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)This paper retests the analysis of “Aid Policy and Growth in Post-Conflict Societies,” by Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler (October 2002 and forthcoming in European Economic Review). It finds that their data and analysis do ...