Chr. Michelsens Institutt: Nye registreringer
Viser treff 921-940 av 1926
-
Competition and corruption. What can the donor community do?
(U4 Brief 2007:8, Report, 2007-10-09)This Brief discusses how corruption might threaten the benefits of competition in a market. Corruption can result in too much market power for some firms and thus increase prices and negatively influence the supply of goods ... -
What makes a credit group tick? In-group favouritism among microfinance clients
(Angola Brief vol. 1 no. 7, Report, 2011-06-05)Microcredit clients are often assigned to credit groups with joint liability for loans. But what makes a credit group work well? What credit groups are likely to generate the internal social dynamics needed for group ... -
Girls, Child Marriage, and Education in Red Sea State, Sudan: Perspectives on Girls’ Freedom to Choose
(Sudan Report SR 2017:3, Research report, 2017-09-01)Child marriage is any formal marriage or informal union where one or both parties are under 18 years of age. Child marriage affects both boys and girls, but disproportionately affects girls. Each year, 15 million girls are ... -
Theories of change in anti-corruption work: A tool for programme design and evaluation
(U4 Issue 2012:6, Research report, 2012-11-22)Governments and donor agencies are under increasing pressure to show hard evidence that their interventions are effective and good value for money. Anti-corruption is a challenging field in this regard, with few evidence-based ... -
A mixed bag: Norway's support for women and girls' rights and gender equality in international development
(Evaluation Department Brief, Research report, 2015-01-01) -
Girls’ education in conflict and emergencies, case Afghanistan
(Conference object, 2015-07-01)Education in Afghanistan and girls' access A major increase of children in school since 2001 Major inequalities, only 21 % of the girls complete primary education – rural/poor girls most vulnerable Three main factors ... -
Managing Aid Exit and Transformation. Lessons from Botswana, Eritrea, India, Malawi and South Africa. Synthesis Report
(Research report, 2008-10-28)What are the consequences in the recipient countries, when donor countries close down their bilateral aid programmes? Are exit practices consistent with established principles of partnership and mutuality in development ... -
Political Corruption
(U4 Issue 2006:6, Research report, 2006-01-01)Political corruption undermines political and economic development in many countries, and raises difficult challenges for foreign aid. What is political corruption? What are the main mechanisms? What can donors do when ... -
Property Taxation in Developing Countries
(CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 1, Report, 2017-03-01)Property tax (PT) raises on average revenues of less than 1% of GDP in developing countries. In many African countries it contributes far less than 0.5%. Following such low contribution, there is a growing eagerness among ... -
Skatt og statsbygging i utviklingsland: Hvordan skatt kan bidra til å ansvarliggjøre myndighetene overfor egne borgere
(Journal article, 2011-05-02)Den politiske betydningen av skattlegging går langt ut over det å skaffe inntekter til å finansiere offentlig sektor, infrastruktur og grunnleggende behov for borgerne. I denne artikkelen argumenterer Odd-Helge Fjeldstad ... -
Sudan country case study: Child rights
(UTV Working Paper 2011:3, Research report, 2011-08-26) -
Methods for learning what works and why in anti-corruption: An introduction to evaluation methods for practitioners
(U4 Issue 2013:8, Research report, 2013-08-01)Evaluations of donor-funded anti-corruption reforms and programmes would benefit from upgrading and diversifying the methods used to document effects. Better evaluations in turn would improve the evidence base for the ... -
Borderland dynamics in the Horn of Africa – Some reflections
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2015:1, Working paper, 2015-03-01)This paper is a broad ranging reflection of the general situation of crisis in the Horn of Africa region. Rather than carry out a conventional anthropological analysis in which local people and communities emerge as “heroes” ... -
Delivering quality health services for children - implementation challenges
(Others, 2011-01-01) -
Mozambique: A political economy analysis
(NUPI political economy reports, Research report, 2017-01-01)In 2017, Mozambique was at its most critical moment since the end of the civil war, in a crisis-like cocktail of political, economic and social problems. This report uses a political economy analysis to shed light on ... -
Litigating the right to a healthy environment assessing the policy impact of "The Mendoza Case"
(CMI Report R 2011:6, Research report, 2011-11-21)This thesis enquires into the policy consequences of the Mendoza case, a public interest litigation case in Argentina, in which several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the National Ombudsman demanded action from ... -
Review of Norwegian development assistance to Afghanistan 2011–2014
(CMI Report R 2016:4, Research report, 2016-06-01) -
Traditional market institutions and complex change: Exploring transition and change in the Bangladesh rice market
(CPD‐CMI Working Paper 1, Working paper, 2011-01-01)This study explores the hitherto unaddressed question of how the large, complex paddy‐rice market in Bangladesh is able to solve the problem of complex exchange, faced in particular by the dominant actors in the market who ... -
Donor roles in face of endemic corruption - Albania in the policy debate
(U4 Report, Report, 2003-01-01) -
Business Climate Surveys: Experiences from Ghana, Mozambique, and South Africa
(U4 Brief 2008:4, Report, 2008-02-01)Improving the Business and Investment Climate (BIC) has become an important topic in the international discourse on private sector development. Partner governments and donor organisations alike have started to focus more ...