Chr. Michelsens Institutt: Recent submissions

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    • Disjointed Incrementalism. NATO in Afghanistan. 

      Suhrke, Astri (PRIO Policy Brief 03/2011, Research report, 2011-01-01)
      As the US-led coalition prepares to extricate itself from a combat role in Afghanistan, it is useful to look back and reflect on the policy dynamic of the original involvement. How did the coalition – and more specifically ...

    • Maputo 2008 and 2010: Poverty reduction and urban revolts 

      Tvedten, Inge (Others, 2011-03-18)

    • The economic and social basis for state-restructuring in Nepal 

      Hatlebakk, Magnus; Ringdal, Charlotte (CMI Report R 2013:1, Research report, 2013-02-01)
      Nepal is in the process of forming a federal state, where the borders of the provinces is one essential, but disputed, issue. The report discusses underlying economic and social conditions that should be taken into account ...

    • Tax administrations working together 

      Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Heggstad, Kari K. (CMI Report R 2012:3, Research report, 2012-09-27)
      The Revenue Authorities of Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia have initiated a partnership for capacity building with the Norwegian Tax Administration (NTA). The overarching objective of the collaboration is to improve revenue ...

    • Optimiser la mise en oeuvre de la CNUCC : Du bon usage de la liste de contrôle pour l'autoévaluation de l'application de la Convention 

      Repucci, Sarah (U4 Issue 2010:1, Research report, 2010-01-27)
      La Convention des Nations unies contre la corruption (CNUCC) constitue pour les États parties un cadre unique grâce auquel renforcer leurs capacités à prévenir et combattre la corruption. La liste de contrôle pour ...

    • Does democracy reduce corruption? 

      Kolstad, Ivar; Wiig, Arne (CMI Working Paper WP 2011:4, Working paper, 2011-12-12)
      While democracy is commonly believed to reduce corruption, there are obvious endogeneity problems in measuring the impact of democracy on corruption. This paper addresses the endogeneity of democracy by exploiting the ...

    • One Against All: The National Islamic Front (NIF) and Sudanese Sectarian and Secular Parties 

      Ahmed, Abdel Ghaffar M. (SWP Working Paper SWP 2008: 6, Working paper, 2008-09-09)
      Any attempt to define and characterize the relationship between the National Islamic Front (NIF) and the sectarian and secular parties in Sudan must start with assessing the impact of Islam on the Sudanese political scene ...

    • Women in Local Government. A Potential Arena for Women’s Substantive Representation 

      Chiweza, Asiyati Lorraine (CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 13, Report, 2016-08-01)
      Local government is an important avenue for getting practical experience in participating in politics before moving on to the national arena. Advocates of decentralisation argue that it opens up avenues for women to ...

    • Anti-corruption Measures as Political Criteria for EU Accession: Lessons from the Bulgarian Experience 

      Todorov, Boyko (U4 Brief 2008:5, Report, 2008-02-20)
      The issue of corruption featured high on the agenda of the two latest enlargements of the European Union, in particular with respect to the accession of Bulgaria and Romania, in 2007. There were few assistance programmes ...

    • Why is corruption risk management so hard? Assessing current practices in development aid 

      Hart, Elizabeth (U4 Brief 2016:1, Report, 2016-05-01)
      www.u4.no Development agencies, by definition, must engage with corruption risk. Working in settings where corruption is engrained in governance and accountability mechanisms are weak or repressed, it is impossible to ...

    • Tax havens and development 

      Norwegian Government Commission on Capital Flight from Poor Countries (Conference object, 2009-10-01)
      Tax havens harm both industrialised and developing countries, but the damaging impacts are largest in developing countries. This is partly because these countries are poor and thereby have more need to protect their ...

    • The Parliament of Bangladesh: Representation and Accountability 

      Jahan, Rounaq; Amundsen, Inge (CPD-CMI Working Paper series CPD-CMI WP 2012:2, Research report, 2012-04-10)
      The constitution of Bangladesh bestows the parliament with supreme powers in making laws and approving budgets. It is given wide-ranging authority to scrutinise the actions of the executive who remains accountable to the ...

    • Beneficial openness? Weighing the costs and benefits of financial transparency 

      Forstater, Maya (CMI Working Paper WP 2017:3, Working paper, 2017-03-01)
      Public financial transparency is increasingly advocated as a solution to concerns over legal tax planning by multinational corporations, and illegal tax evasion, fraud and money laundering. Caution is warranted since ...

    • Good Governance Facades 

      Moene, Kalle; Søreide, Tina (CMI Working Paper WP 2015:2, Working paper, 2015-02-10)
      Fashions come and go in the development community. When a policy idea becomes popular, some governments implement a cosmetic variant of the policy. What looks like development, are institutional façades; pretty from the ...

    • 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 ...

    • Past, present and future: Fifty years of anthropology in Sudan 

      Assal, Munzoul A. M.; Abdul-Jalil, Musa Adam (Book, 2015-03-01)
      This book is about the history of anthropology in Sudan. Contributors to the book represent different generations of anthropologists who at some point in time either taught at the department in Khartoum or had some sort ...

    • Sistema "parlamentar-presidencial" ou presidencialismo extremo? 

      Pestana, Nelson (Angola Brief vol. 1 no. 16, Report, 2011-06-05)
      A nova Constituição angolana (Fevereiro 2010) consagrou um sistema de governo auto-designado “Parlamentar-Presidencial”. Esta qualificação sugere a existência de equilíbrio entre os dois órgãos de soberania que não é ...

    • Reality Checks in Mozambique. 3rd Annual Report - Agriculture, Climate, Employment 

      Tvedten, Inge (Research report, 2013-12-01)
      A series of five “Reality Checks” will take place in the period 2011-2016, focussing on the dynamics of poverty and well-being with a particular focus on good governance, agriculture/climate and energy that are key sectors ...

    • Trading in corruption: Evidence and mitigation measures for corruption in the trading of oil and minerals 

      Longchamp, Olivier; Perrot, Nathalie (U4 Issue 2017:6, Research report, 2017-06-01)
      Between 2011 and 2013, sales of government oil from the ten biggest producers in sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 56% of these countries’ total public revenues. Despite their importance, however, such sales have received ...

    • South Sudan “arrivals” in the White Nile State (Sudan). Not citizens, not IDPs, not Refugees: What are they? 

      ElHassan, Idris Salim (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2016:7, Working paper, 2016-12-01)
      This paper discusses the living conditions of the so called “arrivals,”{1} South Sudanese refugees in Sudan, most of whom now reside in the White Nile State (58 %) and in Khartoum (23 %), and the rest of which live in ...