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Explaining Hamas's Changing Electoral Strategy, 1996-2006
(Government and Opposition vol. 48 no. 4, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-01-01)Hamas, the most influential Islamist party in the occupied Palestinian territories, replaced its strategy of electoral boycott in 1996 with participation in 2006 – a change not explained in the literature. Assisted by party ... -
Constatações da Realidade em Moçambique. Relatório Final 2011-2015
(Reality Checks Mozambique 2011-2015, Research report, 2016-01-01)As Constatações da Realidade em Moçambique foram implementadas pela ORGUT Consulting (Suécia) em associação com a COWI Lda (Moçambique) e o Chr. Michelsen Institute (Noruega) ... -
Good Governance, Aid Modalities and Poverty Reduction. From Better Theory to Better Practice
(Research report, 2008-02-15)Leaders of the world community have committed themselves to providing development assistance on a scale and in a form that enables developing countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. In 2008, the international ... -
Addressing corruption in the health sector: Securing equitable access to health care for everyone
(U4 Issue 2011:1, Research report, 2011-01-25)The development community is striving to achieve results and value for money with its investments in health around the world. Yet, donors often work in countries where the risk of corruption is high and where public ... -
Taxation and development: a review of donor support to strengthen tax systems in developing countries
(Working paper 2013/010, Research report, 2013-02-01)Recent years have seen a growing interest among donors on taxation in developing countries. This reflects a concern for domestic revenue mobilization to finance public goods and services, as well as recognition of the ... -
Corruption and collective action
(DLP Research Paper, Research report, 2015-01-01)Increasingly it is argued that anti-corruption efforts have not worked because they are based on inadequate theory, suggesting that collective action theory offers a better understanding of corruption than the principal-agent ... -
Joint Land Certification and Intra-household Decision-making: Towards Empowerment of Wives?
(Centre for Land Tenure Studies Working Paper, Research report, 2013-01-01)We have used gender-disaggregated household panel data from 2007 and 2012 in combination with dictator games and hawk-dove games to assess the effects of joint land certification of husbands and wives on wives’ involvement ... -
Gold and governance: Legal injustices and lost opportunities in Tanzania
(African Affairs vol. 110 no. 439, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-01-01)Following advice from the World Bank, and hoping for economic growth and independence from donors, a number of African countries have opened up opportunities for large-scale mining by foreign investors over the last decade ... -
Understanding success and failure of anti-corruption initiatives
(U4 Brief 2011:2, Report, 2011-04-01)Most anti-corruption initiatives fail. This Brief sets out to understand why that is, and what might be done about it. Anti-corruption initiatives fail because of over-large “design-reality gaps”; that is, too great a ... -
Les fondements de l'intégrité dans la passation des marchés
(U4 Issue 2011:16, Research report, 2011-01-01)Pourquoi et comment la corruption se manifeste-t-elle dans la passation des marchés? Pourquoi est-il important de prévenir la corruption dans la passation des marchés ? Quels sont les risques principaux à différents stades ... -
Peoples' views of taxation in Africa: A review of research on determinants of tax compliance
(CMI Working Paper WP 2012:7, Working paper, 2012-10-10)What are the key determinants of taxpayer compliance? And which features of citizen-state relations govern attitudes and behaviour regarding taxation? This paper examines the analytical foundation, methodological approaches ... -
Achieving Success and Avoiding Failure in Anti-Corruption Commissions: Developing the Role of Donors
(U4 Brief 2007:1, Report, 2007-10-05)Anti-corruption Commissions (ACCs) have, with one or two exceptions, been a disappointment both to the people of developing countries and to their development partners. As the 2005 UNDP report on institutional anti-corruption ... -
The tax systems in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia: capacity and constraints
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Diversification and Development,or “White Elephants”? Transport in Angola’s Lobito Corridor
(CMI Report R 2015:07, Research report, 2015-04-01)The Angolan government has put much emphasis on rehabilitating and expanding the country’s transport infrastructure. Assisted by oil revenues, foreign construction companies, credits lines and loans Angola has embarked ... -
Review of Den Nationale Scenes (DNS) programme:"Continued cooperation with Afghan National Theatre"
(CMI Report R 2011:10, Research report, 2011-01-01)Since 2002, Den Nationale Scene (DNS), Bergen, Norway, has collaborated with the Afghan National Theatre. In 2009, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), funded the three year project ”Continued Cooperation with ... -
Une éducation sans corruption : Les leçons tirées d'une initiative conjointe entre l'Etat et la société civile au Pérou
(U4 Brief 2009:13, Report, 2009-08-13)Une initiative anti‑corruption récente ciblant le secteur éducatif du Pérou a été lancée conjointement par le Bureau du Médiateur et le Chapitre péruvien de Transparency International, Proética. Cette initiative cherchait ... -
Local revenue mobilization in urban settings
(Conference object, 2005-01-01)Paper presented at the Workshop on Local Governance and Poverty Alleviation in Africa, African Development Bank, Tunis, 21-24 June 2005 -
Theory and practise of decentralization by devolution: Lessons from a research programme in Tanzania (2002-13)
(Research and policy nexus: Perspectives from twenty years of policy research in Tanzania., Chapter, 2017-06-01)What impact did Tanzania’s decentralization reform have on local governance, finances and service delivery? To what extent are the central-local government relationships changed with respect to resource allocation and ... -
Usufructuary Mortgages as a Source of Funds in Need: Some Theory and an Empirical Investigation
(CMI Working Paper WP 2017:6, Working paper, 2017-06-01)This paper develops a theoretical framework in which the borrower, who mortgages out, and the lender, who mortgages in, a parcel of land reach their decisions when credit and land markets function imperfectly. The results ... -
Government's role in cluster development for MSEs: Lessons from Ethiopia
(CMI Report R 2012:2, Research report, 2012-09-19)Cluster development programs have become increasingly widespread tools in fostering innovation and growth of a competitive private sector in developing countries, including Ethiopia. As part of the MSE Development Strategy ...