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    • Mainstreaming anti-corruption initiatives: Development of a water sector strategy in Mozambique 

      Butterworth, John; Potter, Alana (U4 Practice Insight 2014:2, Report, 2014-12-10)
      Sector approaches to combating corruption have gained momentum in recent years, yet the strategic prioritization of sector anti-corruption initiatives is still the exception. The National Water Directorate in Mozambique ...

    • Monitoria e Avaliação das Políticas de Redução da Pobreza em Moçambique 

      Rosário, Carmeliza; Tvedten, Inge; Paulo, Margarida (CMI Brief vol. 8 no. 2, Report, 2009-08-01)
      Muitas comunidades em Moçambique encontram-se na interface rural-urbana, por serem pequenas cidades ou conjuntos rurais nas proximidades das cidades. Há uma crescent evidência de que agregados familiares ...

    • Lebanon After the Cedar Revolution 

      Knudsen, Are; Kerr, Michael (Book, 2012-10-01)
      A comprehensive look at contemporary Lebanon and the ongoing attempts by Israel, Syria and Iran to influence its domestic affairs. Lebanon is the prisoner of its geography and its history, a prize for invaders since ...

    • Bistandsforsking til nytte 

      Mæstad, Ottar (Others, 2011-01-01)

    • Corruption in the Health Sector 

      Norberg, Carin; Vian, Taryn (U4 Issue 2006:1, Research report, 2006-01-01)
      This U4 Issue presents some essential resources for anyone promoting anti-corruption in the health sector, or otherwise wanting to learn about the challenges of corruption in the health sector. The text is originally ...

    • Strengthening Nordic development cooperation in and with Afghanistan 

      Bauck, Petter; Strand, Arne (Norad Report Discussion 3/2009, Research report, 2009-03-01)
      The meeting of the Nordic Foreign Ministers in Stockholm on 18 April 2008 adopted a Plan of Action for Nordic Cooperation in Afghanistan to enable them to be a more concerned partner for the Government of Afghanistan (GoA) ...

    • Entangled Biographies: Rebuilding a Sasak House 

      Telle, Kari (Ethnos vol. 72 June 2007 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007-01-01)
      The concept of ‘compatibility' has a particular salience in many Indonesian societies. This article examines ‘compatibility' with reference to person-house relationships on the island of Lombok. Examining a case where ...

    • Building fiscal capacity in developing countries: Evidence on the role of information technology 

      Ali, Merima; Shifa, Abdulaziz B.; Shimeles, Abebe; Woldeyes, Firew (CMI Working Paper WP 2015:12, Working paper, 2015-11-01)
      Limited fiscal capacity poses a significant challenge in developing countries. To mitigate this challenge, the adoption of electronic tax systems has been at the forefront of tax reforms; however, there is little systematic ...

    • Protection of civilians: Why they die in US strikes 

      Suhrke, Astri (CMI Brief vol. 14 no. 7, Report, 2015-01-01)
      Read online The US military strike that devastated the MSF hospital in Kunduz in northern Afghanistan on 3 October generated profound, if short-lived, outrage in much of the world. The US government promised an ...

    • Local content in the Tanzanian mining sector 

      Kinyondo, Abel; Lange, Siri (CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 3, Report, 2016-03-01)
      This brief examines the factors that have influenced local content in the Tanzanian mining sector, and some of the challenges and successes of local content initiatives in mining. Local content has gradually gained momentum ...

    • Colonial legacy, state-building and the salience of ethnicity in Sub-Saharan Africa 

      Ali, Merima; Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Jiang, Boqian; Shifa, Abdulaziz B. (CMI Working Paper WP 2015:16, Working paper, 2015-01-01)
      Ethnicity has received increased attention in studies of Africa's economic and institutional development. We present evidence on the long-term effects of Britain's "divide-and-rule" colonial strategy that deliberately ...

    • Per diem policy analysis toolkit 

      Vian, Taryn; Sabin, Laura (U4 Issue 2012:8, Research report, 2012-12-18)
      Most organizations use per diems as a way to reimburse out-of-pocket expenses for travel and to encourage staff to attend professional development activities. However, weaknesses in policy design and control of spending ...

    • The Proxy Challenge: Why bespoke proxy indicators can help solve the anti-corruption measurement problem 

      Johnsøn, Jesper; Mason, Phil (U4 Brief 2013:2, Report, 2013-07-30)
      Practitioners working in anti-corruption face perennial challenges in measuring changes in corruption levels and evaluating whether anti-corruption efforts are successful. These two challenges are linked but not inseparable. ...

    • Women and Girls Caught between Rape and Adultery in Sudan: Criminal Law Reform, 2005–2015 

      Tønnessen, Liv; al-Nagar, Samia (CMI Report R 2015:10, Research report, 2015-11-01)
      This report investigates criminal law reform in Sudan, focusing on two important and controversial legal reforms related to (a) a definition of rape that is clearly de-linked from the Islamic crime of zina (i.e., sexual ...

    • Women and Girls Caught between Rape and Adultery in Sudan: Criminal Law Reform, 2005–2015 (in Arabic) 

      Tønnessen, Liv; al-Nagar, Samia (CMI Report R 2015:10, Research report, 2016-09-01)
      This is an Arabic translation of the CMI report Women and Girls Caught between Rape and Adultery in Sudan: Criminal Law Reform, 2005–2015, published in November 2015. The English version can be found here . ...

    • Reducing bribery for public services delivered to citizens 

      Rose, Richard (U4 Brief 2015:11, Report, 2015-11-01)
      The literature on corruption tends to focus on grand corruption for contracts and licenses worth large sums of money. However, 1.6 billion people annually have to pay a petty bribe to get public services. In developing ...

    • Reality Checks Mozambique 2015. Sub-report, District of Lago 

      Tvedten, Inge; Noronha, Nair; José, Barnabé; Putile, Beatri (Reality Checks Mozambique 2011-2015, Research report, 2016-01-01)
      This is the sub-report on Lago for the 5 th Reality Check, to be complemented by similar sub-reports from Cuamba and Majune. The focus is on quantitative expressions of poverty and well-being, primarily based on results ...

    • Fertility, household’s size and poverty in Nepal 

      Libois, François; Somville, Vincent (CMI Working Paper WP 2014:4, Working paper, 2014-06-01)
      Population control policies keep on attracting a lot of attention. The main argument in favour of a reduction in fertility rates, is that having more children contributes directly to a household’s poverty. Using the last ...

    • Législation internationale en matière de lutte contre le blanchiment d'argent : comment engager la responsabilité des dirigeants politiques vis-à-vis de l'étranger 

      Chaikin, David (U4 Brief 2011:20, Report, 2011-01-01)
      Les régimes de lutte contre le blanchiment de capitaux (LBC) représentent un outil potentiellement très efficace de lutte contre la corruption. Sur le plan international, ils peuvent notamment constituer un mécanisme de ...

    • The Gender Machinery Women in Malawi’s Central Government Administration 

      Chasukwa, Michael (CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 11, Report, 2016-06-01)
      Malawi has its version of a ‘national gender machinery’, like many other countries, established to break the barriers against women representation in politics and to promote women interests. However, the way in which this ...