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"If men and women were equal, we would all simply be people". Gender and poverty in northern Mozambique
(Research report, Research report, 2009)This is the second report in the series ‘Gender Policies and Feminisation of Poverty in Mozambique’. While the first report went through existing quantitative data on the national level, this report focuses on the social ... -
Impact of management scenarios and fishing gear selectivity on the potential economic gains from Namibian hake
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1999)This paper develops a model for Namibian hake, which incorporates the biology, gear selectivity and the economies of the hake fisheries in a framework that allows the analysis of fishing gear impacts on the potential ... -
Impacto do investimento petrolífero Norueguês nos países de acolhimento, com especial ênfase para Angola
(Research report, Research report, 2000)O presente relatório aborda a forma de como os investimentos petrolíferos Norueguêses, melhor poderão contríbuir para o desenvolvimento indústrial e distribuição uniforme dos dividendos nos países de acolhimento, analisando ... -
In Pursuit of Poverty Reduction: What have Parliaments got to do with it?
(Research report, Research report, 2006)Launched only 6 years ago, the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) has become a key reference document to a majority of developing countries. More than 70 developing countries have embarked on a PRSP process. In spite ... -
Income-generating Programmes in Pakistan and Malawi: A Comparative Review
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)This paper reviews income-generating programmes in Pakistan and Malawi organised by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). It compares the different strategies chosen by the NRC regarding project design and the creation of ... -
Indigenous women's access to justice in Latin America
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2010)This paper gives an overview of the challenges which indigenous women in Latin America face in accessing both formal state justice and indigenous legal systems, including a focus on normative frameworks, legal awareness, ... -
Individual Choice under Uncertainty
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1993)The first part of this paper gives an overview of the dominating approach within economic theory on individual decision making under uncertainty or risk - the expected utility (EU) theory. The theory has increasingly been ... -
Inner Frontiers: Santal Responses to Acculturation
(Report, Research report, 1991)The Santals who constitute one of the largest communities in India belong to the Austro- Asiatic linguistic group. They have managed to keep their language and their traditional system of values as well. Nevertheless, their ... -
Institutional Approaches to the Study of International Organisation
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)This paper gives an overview of changes and shifts in the study of international organisation and notes that research has gradually moved away from the study of de facto organisations to studies of international cooperation ... -
Institutions, mobility and resilience in the Fante migratory fisheries of West Africa
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)The fishery of the Fante town Moree in Ghana and its network of migrants in West Africa is here understood as a social field, whose institutions are key to an understanding of fisher people’s livelihood strategies. By ... -
Intergovernmental fiscal relations in developing countries. A review of issues
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)Fiscal decentralisation - the devolution of taxing and spending powers to lower levels of government - has become an important theme of governance in many developing countries in recent years. Accordingly, restructuring ... -
Is Bonded Labor Voluntary? A Framework against Forced Work
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)UN estimate that 20 million are held in bonded labor. Several economic analyses assert that bonded laborers accept these contracts voluntarily, which could imply that a ban would make such laborers worse off. We question ... -
Is Bonded Labor Voluntary? Evidence from the Liberation of the Kamaiyas in the Far-Western Region of Nepal
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)The UN estimates that 20 million are held in bonded labor. Several economic analyses assert that bonded laborers accept these contracts voluntarily, which could imply that a ban would make such laborers worse off. We ... -
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 ... -
Islam, menneskerettigheter og utviklingsprosesser
(Rapport, Research report, 1991)Denne studien undersøker islams forhold til menneskerettighetene og muligheten for en utvikling av islamsk tenkning til også å omfatte den moderne menneskerettighetstanken. Med utgangspunkt i framveksten av forskjellige ... -
Islamism in the diaspora: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)In recent years there has been increasing academic interest in Islamism in the Middle East, not least in Palestinian Islamism championed by groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which are waging a bloody war of attrition ... -
Judicial independence and human rights policies in Argentina and Chile
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2001)This paper is about how varying degrees of judicial independence may influence policy making in the field of human rights. I explore factors that may account for why some Latin American courts, years after the return to ... -
Judiciary and Good Governance in Contemporary Tanzania: Problems and Prospects
(Research report, Research report, 1995)The World Bank identified judiciary among institutions which ran down during centralized governance. The Bank also expressed the need for and willingness to take part in rebuilding these institutions so that they could ... -
Kalandula and the CACS. Voice or accountability
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2009)This report presents some of the findings from field work carried out in October-November 2008 in Kalandula, Malanje province, on the fresh experiences with the new Concelhos de Auscultação e Concertação Social. It also ... -
Kalandula e os CACS. Voz activa ou prestação de contas
(CMI Working Paper, Working paper, 2009)Este relatório pretende apresentar algumas das conclusões do primeiro trabalho de campo no projecto de pesquisa do CMI-CEIC-ADRA sobre os Conselhos de Auscultação e Concertação Social (CACS) em Angola.[1] A pesquisa teve ...