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Is it wrong to rank? A critical assessment of corruption indices
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)This paper emphasizes the importance of collecting information on corruption, while still stressing critical aspects of the most applied sources of such information, the cross-country composite corruption indices. Are these ... -
Human Rights and Assigned Duties: Implications for Corporations
(CMI Working Paper, Working paper, 2007)Human rights imply duties. The question is, duties for whom? Without a welldefined scheme for assigning duties correlative to human rights, these rights remain illusory. This paper develops core elements of a general scheme ... -
Asian Models for Aid: Is there a Non-Western Approach to Development Assistance? Summary record of seminar held in Oslo, December 2006
(Research report, Research report, 2007)The expansion of the international donor community clearly challenges the current “consensus” of a new “harmonised” aid architecture, and calls for strategies on how to adjust to an aid landscape with greater plurality and ... -
Exploring the Research-Policy Linkage: The Case of Reforms in Financing Primary Education in Tanzania
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)Tanzania abolished school fees in primary schools as from 2002. This move was made possible because of shifts in the policy of major donors, not least the World Bank. In the subsequent years Tanzania recorded a rapid ... -
Review of Bistandsnemda's (Norwegian Missions in Development) Work with Indigenous Peoples
(Research report, Research report, 2007)As part of Norway’s efforts to strengthen its cooperation with indigenous peoples a set of Guidelines were published by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2004. The Guidelines emphasise a rights-based approach ... -
Orçamento, Estado e Povo. Processo de Orçamento, Sociedade Civil e Transparência em Angola
(Research report, Research report, 2007)Este estudo identifica várias deficiências no processo de orçamento em Angola. A proposta do governo não é discutida publicamente, não é preparado nenhum documento pré-orçamento, não são feitas comparações entre a despesa ... -
Rewarding Safe Motherhood. How can Performance-Based Funding Reduce Maternal and Newborn Mortality in Tanzania?
(Research report, Research report, 2007)Performance-based funding has been proposed as one mechanism to speed up the implementation of interventions for reduced maternal and newborn mortality. This report investigates the potential role of such funding mechanisms ... -
The Question of Becoming: Islamic Reform-Movements in Contemporary Ethiopia
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2007)Ethiopia’s new political climate (since 1991) has enhanced the Muslims’ opportunities for religious expressions, clearly seen through the surfacing of several Islamic reform movements. These movements; the Salafi movement, ... -
Security for Many or Surplus for the Few? Customary Tenure and Social Differentiation in Southern Malawi
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2007)It has been argued that the ambiguities in Malawian customary tenure may aggravate processes of social differentiation and class formation. The article investigates this viewpoint based on the situation in the rural areas ... -
Governance Assessments and the Paris Declaration. A CMI Issues Paper Prepared for the UNDP Bergen Seminar September 2007
(Research report, Research report, 2007)Is it possible to carry out governance assessments and develop diagnostic tools for enhancing governance while adhering to the principles of the Paris Declaration? Or, are the two processes largely contradictory? What ... -
When Men do Women's Work : Structural Adjustment , Unemployment and Changing Gender Relations in the Informal Economy of Accra, Ghana
(Journal article, 2007)Economic crisis and structural adjustment in Ghana have put large numbers of formal sector employees and civil servants out of work. This informalisation process has gendered consequences. Unemployed people, rural–urban ... -
Sociedade Civil em Angola: Incursões, Espaco Responsabilidade
(Research report, Research report, 2007-10-22)Civil society is inherently weak in Angola, and the political and societal space for civil society is limited. Angolan authorities have not fully accepted civil society’s voice, watchdog and control functions, and the legal ... -
Liberated Bonded Laborers: Are They Better Off? Welfare and Efficiency Implications of an Agricultural Reform in Western Terai, Nepal
(Research report, Research report, 2007-10-22)This report investigates the welfare effects for bonded laborers (kamaiyas) in Western Terai of a ban on permanent labor contracts in July 2000. The ban was credibly enforced and within a short time the number of bonded ... -
LSMS Data Quality in Maoist Influenced Areas of Nepal
(CMI Working Paper, Working paper, 2007-10-22)We investigate whether the quality of LSMS data from Nepal is affected by the Maoists in the districts they control. We find, if any, only minor support for the hypothesis. Furthermore, the Maoists have less control in the ... -
When Neighbours Become Killers: Ethnic Conflict and Communal Violence in Western Uganda
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2007)Across Africa land rights conflicts are escalating between indigenous and migrant ethnic groups. This paper analyses the communal violence that took place in connection with an ethnicised land redistribution in Western ... -
Governance Assessments and the Paris Declaration. A CMI Issues Paper Prepared for the UNDP Bergen Seminar September 2007
(CMI Reports, Research report, 2007)Is it possible to carry out governance assessments and develop diagnostic tools for enhancing governance while adhering to the principles of the Paris Declaration? Or, are the two processes largely contradictory? What ... -
Corruption in Montenegro 2007: Overview over Main Problems and Status of Reforms
(Research report, Research report, 2007-09-12)This report was commissioned by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) to provide an analysis of corruption and the progress of anti-corruption activities in Montenegro, with the objective of ... -
Gendered Citizenship in Sudan: Competing Perceptions of Women's Civil Rights within the Family Laws among Northern and Southern Elites in Khartoum
(CMI Working Paper, Working paper, 2007)In classical political thought, citizenship is a gender-neutral abstract personhood. This concept does not travel well when discussing the citizenship of women in the Middle East and Northern Africa. In Sudan, women’s civil ... -
Budget, State and People. Budget Process, Civil Society and Transparency in Angola
(Research report, Research report, 2007)This study discerns several deficiencies in the budget process in Angola. The government’s budget proposal is not publicly debated, no pre-budget paper is prepared, comparisons between budgeted expenditure and actual ... -
The Law, the Loss and the Lives of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
(CMI Working Paper, Working paper, 2007)Lebanon has been a reluctant host to Palestinian refugees since 1948. A mainstay of Lebanese policies vis-à-vis the Palestinian refugees has been preventing their permanent integration and settlement in the country. The ...