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Land dispute and death enmity in a Kohistani mountain village (Pakistan)

Knudsen, Are (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1998)

This paper reconstructs the events that unleashed death enmity between two closely related men. Recounting this complex story from the angle of the contestants challenges simplistic cultural and material explanations of ...

Land Reforms and Land Degradation in Tanzania: Alternative Economic Approaches

Angelsen, Arild; Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1995)

This paper uses as a point of departure the extensive soil erosion problems in the highland area of Western Tanzania. The first part of the paper focuses on the ongoing debate on land reforms in Tanzania, particularly the ...

Land tenure and mining in Tanzania

Lange, Siri (Research report, Research report, 2008)

Tanzania is a relatively new mining country, and mining has become a hotly debated issue in the country. There is a feeling among both local people and human rights advocacy groups that the government has betrayed ordinary ...

Learning to build a sustainable peace: Ownership and everyday peacebuilding

Sending, Ole Jacob (ed.) (Research report, Research report, 2010)

Lack of local ownership is seen as a central explanation for why peacebuilding efforts often fail to yield sustainable peace dividends. But how is local ownership understood and acted upon by those who are engaged in ...

Liberalization of Trade in Producer Services - the Impact on Developing Countries

Hodge, James; Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (Research report, Research report, 1999)

This paper analyzes the impact of liberalization of trade in producer services, focusing on financial services, telecommunications and transport. The likely effects on developing countries is that they will become net ...

Liberalization of trade in services and choice of technology in the Norwegian petroleum sector

Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)

The petroleum sector is a service-intensive industry. The quality, price and availability of services are therefore important for the productivity level in the petroleum sector. This paper analyzes how intermediate inputs ...

Liberated Bonded Laborers: Are They Better Off? Welfare and Efficiency Implications of an Agricultural Reform in Western Terai, Nepal

Kvalbein, Jon Audun (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 ...

License to kill: Honour killings in Pakistan

Knudsen, Are (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2004)

Pakistan has one of the highest incidences of honour killings in the world. This is a major human rights issue that has received little attention outside of human rights groups and women activist networks. This paper ...

Living in the Commons: Local Institutions for Natural Resource Management

Knudsen, Are J. (Research report, Research report, 1995)

Garett Hardin' s essay "The Tragedy of the Commons" has for almost three decades stimulated research on common property regimes. This report provides an overview of this research and reviews a selection of empirical and ...

Local entrepreneurs, networks and linkages to the global economy in Southeast Asia and Africa

Bräutigam, Deborah (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1999)

This paper was originally prepared for the United Nations University/African Economic Research Consortium Conference on Asia and Africa in the Global Economy, Tokyo, August 2-3, 1998. It was revised in the stimulating ...

Local Governance, Urban Poverty and Service Delivery in Namibia

Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Geisler, Gisela; Nangulah, Selma; Nygaard, Knut; Pomuti, Akiser; Shifotoka, Albertina; Van Rooy, Gert (Research report, Research report, 2005)

The urbanisation of poverty is one of the most dramatic developments on the African continent, yielding contrasting images of affluent residential and business districts and utter misery in sprawling shantytowns or slums. ...

Local Government and Decentralisation in Sub-Saharan Africa. An Annotated Bibliography

Børhaug, Kjetil (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1994)

A renewed interest in local government and decentralisation in developing countries has emerged in recent years, and many students now turn to this subject. A substantial literature is already available, even if a lot more ...

Local government finances and finacial management in Tanzania. Baseline data from six councils, 2000-2003

Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2004)

This report provides baseline data on local government finance and financial management in six councils in Tanzania: Bagamoyo District Council, Ilala Municipal Council, Iringa DC, Kilosa DC, Moshi DC, and Mwanza City ...

Local government taxation and tax administration in Tanzania

Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Semboja, Joseph (Research report, Research report, 1999)

Local taxes represent less than 5 per cent of total tax revenues in Tanzania. However, the large number of these taxes, together with their unsatisfactory nature, means that their economic, political and social impacts are ...

Local Revenue Mobilization in Urban Settings in Africa

Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)

The growth of Africa’s towns and cities has outpaced local authority capacity in terms of management, infrastructure, and financing. Many African towns and cities are now facing a governance crisis. Accordingly, the ...

"Looking for Trouble...". An evaluation of International Media Support (IMS): Exploring a model for rapid response to threatened media

Brice, Kim; Rønning, Helge; Stokke, Hugo (Research report, Research report, 2004)

The report was commissioned by the Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a team was put together comprising Helge Rønning and Kim Brice as external consultants and Hugo Stokke from CMI. International Media Support ...