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Of Oranges and Bananas: The 2005 Kenya Referendum on the Constitution
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)On 21 November 2005, a referendum on a proposed new constitution was held in Kenya, which was conducted in a peaceful and orderly manner. The poll represented the will of the Kenyan people through a process and a vote that ... -
Oil-related producer services and productivity - the case of Norway
(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 analyses data on the Norwegian ... -
"Opitanha" Social Relations of Rural Poverty in Northern Mozambique
(Research report, Research report, 2006)Research-based information is recognised as crucial for Mozambique’s endeavours to reduce its poverty. This first report in a series of three qualitative studies on poverty in Mozambique focuses on the district of Murrupula ... -
'Opitanha' revisited. Assessing the implications of PARPA II in rural northern Mozambique 2006-2009
(Research report, Research report, 2010)This report is part of a larger exercise of monitoring and evaluating Mozambique’s poverty reduction strategy, focussing on three districts in Mozambique and using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data. It ... -
Opposition Parties and the Upcoming 2008 Parliamentary Elections in Angola
(CMI Working Paper, Working paper, 2008)Parliamentary elections will be held in Angola on 5th September 2008, as the first elections in the country since 1992. There are now 138 political parties registered in Angola, and fourteen parties (including four party ... -
Opprinnelsesland - signal om kvalitet? En samvalganalyse av konsumenters vurderinger ved kjøp av klær fra utviklingsland
(Research report, Research report, 1992)I denne rapporten studeres norske forbrukeres oppfatning om og reaksjoner på opplysninger om opprinnelsesland for klesprodukter. Analysen viser at forbrukerne har stereotype oppfatninger om ulike lands produkter, men ... -
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 ... -
Overworked? The relationship between workload and health worker performance in rural Tanzania
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2009)The current shortage of health workers in many low-income countries poses a threat to the quality of health services. When the number of patients per health worker grows sufficiently high, there will be insufficient time ... -
Palestinian Islamist movements: An annotated bibliography
(CMI report, Research report, 2002)This report consists of two parts. Part one gives an overview of the Islamist movements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The second part is a select bibliography of the main academic works in English on these ... -
Palestinian State-Formation: Prospects and Challenges. Report from a Symposium at Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway 24-25 May 2004
(Research report, Research report, 2004)The CMI - Muwatin symposium, held in Bergen on 24-25 May 2004, addressed both internal and external Internal challenges that were addressed were the problem of corruption, institutional mismanagement and the emergence of ... -
Palestinian Women: Is there a Unitary Conception of Rights?
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)Palestinian women’s participation in the resistance against the Israeli occupation, most notably during the first Intifada (1987-93), has been characterised as broad and active, particularly at grass roots level. This ... -
Parliamentary-Executive Relations in Malawi 1994-2004
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)This article addresses the relationship between the legislative and executive branches of government in Malawi during the multi-party era from 1994 until 2004. The argument is threefold. First, the presidential nature of ... -
Pastoralists in the Horn of Africa: The Continued Threat of Famine
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)This paper discusses the current food security crisis in the pastoral areas of the Horn of Africa. It tries to explain the recurrent famines with reference to same important features of pastoralism as a production system, ... -
Patterns of foreign direct investment in poor countries
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)This paper introduces endogenous adoption costs for productive assets in a Ramsey type growth model with international capital flows. There are two classes of productive assets: owner-specific and location-specific. Adoption ... -
Peacebuilding in post-war situations: Lessons for Sudan
(Research report, Research report, 2004)This report examines lessons from peacebuilding efforts during the last decade or so that are relevant to the current challenges in Sudan. While there is an emphasis on governance interventions, it is argued more generally ... -
Peacebuilding: Lessons for Afghanistan
(Research report, Research report, 2002)This report examines lessons from previous peacebuilding efforts in Afghanistan, and from other countries, in order to highlight issues of central relevance for the present phase of peacebuilding and economic recovery. It ... -
Political Corruption: An Introduction to the Issues
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1999)Corruption is generally defined as the misuse of public authority, and political corruption is here defined as corruption in which the political decision-makers are involved. In addition to a review of the various definitions ... -
Political Institutions and Economic Reform: Zambia and South Africa in Comparative Context
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)This paper presents the theoretical and methodological framework of a joint research project by Lise Rakner and Tor Skålnes, "Political Liberalisation and Economic Reform in Southern Africa". The project consists of two ... -
Political Islam in South Asia
(Research report, Research report, 2002)This report analyses the growth of political Islam in South Asia (Pakistan, Afghanistan and India’s Jammu and Kashmir Province). In Pakistan the failure of parliamentary democracy and the weakening of civil society have ... -
Political Islam in the Middle East
(Research report, Research report, 2003)This report provides an overview of the political Islam in the Middle East, with a special emphasis on the Islamic resurgence in the Levant (Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria). Following an introduction ...