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Between mutual suspicion and fear. Civil-military relations in Mexico
(CMI Working Paper WP 2015:11, Working paper, 2015-09-01)This CMI Working Paper focuses on the relationship between the military, civilian governments and civilian populations in Mexico. It highlights key dynamics since the Mexican revolution (1910-1917) and up until the Ayotzinapa ... -
Multiculturalism and pluralism in secular society: Individual or collective rights?
(Ars Disputandi : The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion vol. 5, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-11-01)This paper discusses multiculturalism in view of collectivistic cultural structures in immigrant communities. Women in religious minority communities are ruled according to collectivistic structures when it comes to ... -
Social accountability in situations of conflict and fragility
(U4 Brief 2011:19, Report, 2011-12-14)Donor support to social accountability in fragile and conflict-affected states is a relatively new phenomenon. It has emerged with the lessons that top-down anticorruption approaches have often failed and different approaches ... -
Rural poverty in Malanje, Angola
(CMI Report R 2017:1, Research report, 2017-05-01)This report is part of the research programme “Cooperation on Research and Development in Angola” between Centro de Estudos e Investigação Científica (CEIC) at the Catholic University in Luanda, Angola and Chr. Michelsen ... -
Women’s Equal Rights and Islam in Sudanese Republican Thought: A Translation of Three Family Law Booklets from 1975, Produced and Circulated by the Republican Sisters
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2015:5, Working paper, 2015-08-01)This paper includes a translation of three booklets produced by the Sudanese Republican Sisters in commemoration of International Women’s Day in 1975: (i) Women Rights in the Constitution and under Sudanese Sharia Laws , ... -
Educación sin corrupción en el Perú: Lecciones de una intervención combinada entre el estado y la sociedad civil
(U4 Brief 2008:21, Report, 2008-08-08)En este texto se presenta una reciente experiencia anticorrupción en el sector educativo del Perú, llevada a cabo por una alianza entre la Defensoría del Pueblo y el capítulo peruano de Transparencia Internacional, Proética. ... -
Profiting from corruption: The role and responsibility of financial institutions
(U4 Brief 2009:31, Report, 2009-12-09)This U4 Brief assesses how banks facilitate illicit capital flows from developing countries. The shortcomings of the existing regulatory frameworks are discussed, and recommendations are made for donor governments on what ... -
Angola party politics: Into the African trend
(Angola Brief vol. 1 no. 9, Report, 2011-06-05)Angolan politics is usually explained with reference to the country’s long and devastating civil war. The postponed elections, the domination of the presidency and the ruling party, and the election results are typically ... -
Monitoring and evaluating poverty reduction policies in Mozambique: Social relations of rural-urban poverty
(CMI Brief vol. 8 no. 2, Report, 2009-08-01)Many communities in Mozambique find themselves in the rural-urban interface, either by being small towns or rural areas in the vicinity of cities. There is growing evidence that the households and individuals who manage ... -
Demokratiassistanse i Afrika
(Others, 2011-11-01)Kurs i "Demokratiassistanse og demokratisering", Senter for etter- og videreutdanning (SEVU), Universitetet i Bergen. 11. november 2011 -
Corruption and illicit financial flows: The limits and possibilities of current approaches
(U4 Issue 2011:2, Research report, 2011-01-01)This paper attempts to clarify the links between illicit financial flows and corruption, and how corruption may be tackled by stemming such flows. For this purpose, it clarifies the terminology surrounding illicit flows, ... -
Ungrateful children: migration intensity and remittances in Nepal
(CMI Working Paper WP 2014:8, Working paper, 2014-07-01)Poverty has declined dramatically in Nepal since the end of the conflict. The sharp increase in revenues primarily comes from remittances. From a household’s perspective, choosing the appropriate number of migrants is ... -
Governance, resource curse and donor
(Others, 2008-10-07)Plan Part 1. Governance What is good governance? Why is it important? How can we measure good governance? Part 2. The resource curse and the importance of governance in resource rich countries Focus on political ... -
Should Corrupt Countries receive Budget Support?
(CMI Brief, Report, 2005-01-01)Corruption makes budget support ineffective, and sometimes counter-productive. Budget support is particularly unsuitable in partner countries where political corruption is rampant. As donors increase budget support, it is ... -
Distributing mining wealth to communities in Ghana: Addressing problems of elite capture and political corruption
(U4 Issue 2013:5, Research report, 2013-05-30)In the context of a mining boom in Africa, a critical consideration is how governments use increased mineral wealth to foster development, particularly in rural communities where mining takes place. While many African ... -
An exception to the rule? Why Indonesia's Anti-Corruption Commission succeeds where others don't - a comparison with the Philippines' Ombudsman
(U4 Issue 2010:4, Research report, 2010-08-17)Anti-corruption agencies have long been a principal strategy to fight corruption in many developing countries. Unfortunately, few of them have produced evident results and they are seen as being rather ineffective. Recently, ... -
The interplay between poverty and electoral authoritarianism: Poverty and political mobilization in Zambia and Uganda
(CMI Working Paper WP 2012:3, Working paper, 2012-02-28)In this paper we wish to analyze the interplay between the political setting of electoral authoritarianism and economic grievances expressed in particular by an urban poor electorate in Africa. We show that the outcomes ... -
Protected tax havens: Cornering the market through international reform?
(CMI Working Paper WP 2017:7, Working paper, 2017-10-01)Since the year 2000, an international reform process has been underway to reduce the negative impacts of tax havens. This paper analyzes whether the reform period has favoured protected tax havens, i.e. havens with strong ... -
The uses and abuses of social programmes: the case of conditional cash transfers
(U4 Brief 2010 No 3, Report, 2010-07-19)Social programmes have been increasingly used by developing countries to fight poverty and have attracted growing budgets. However, it has been empirically shown that there is a weak correlation between social spending and ... -
Is Fredskorpset an effective instrument for strengthening civil society in developing countries?
(CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 1, Report, 2016-01-01)Fredskorpset, or FK Norway, is one of the instruments for Norwegian development aid support to civil society in developing countries. It promotes mutual learning and sharing of experiences between organisations in different ...