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Taking the Paris Principles to Asia. A Study of Three Human Rights Commissions in Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
(Research report, Research report, 2007)The report studies three human rights commissions in Southeast Asia in light of the so-called Paris Principles. These principles are the authoritative guidelines for directing the work of national human rights institutions. ... -
Tax evasion and corruption in local governments in Tanzania: Alternative economic approaches
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)The primary concern of the paper is to discuss the role of various economic factors in explaining the mechanisms and degree of fiscal corruption and tax evasion in local governments in Tanzania. The emphasis is on how the ... -
Taxation and State-Building: Poor Countries in a Globalised World
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2007)How far has the recent global wave of tax reform contributed to state building in poorer countries? Our conclusion mirrors other general globalisation arguments: there are good things to report, but worrying problems in ... -
Taxation and tax reforms in developing countries: Illustrations from sub-Saharan Africa
(Research report, Research report, 2003)Many low income countries face a trilemma with respect to taxation: (1) There is an urgent and obvious need for more revenues to enable resource poor states to provide and maintain even the most basic public services. (2) ... -
Taxation and Tax Reforms in Tanzania: A Survey
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1995)This paper reviews the tax system in Tanzania, and gives particular attention to the tax reform proposals presented in the Report of the Presidential Commission on Taxation. In considering the effects of the "low-rate, ... -
Taxation, aid and democracy. An agenda for research in African countries
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)Taxation, aid and democracy are closely related in poor aid-dependent African countries. The way they tackle the issue of domestic revenue mobilisation significantly influences their potential for economic growth and ... -
Taxation, coercion and donors. Local government tax enforcement in Tanzania
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)This paper presents three propositions about tax collection in local authorities in Tanzania. First, revenue performance depends on the degree of coercion involved in tax enforcement. Second, the extent of coercion depends ... -
Teaching business in Tanzania: Evaluating participation and performance
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2009)There is increased awareness that success among small scale entrepreneurs in developing countries requires more than microfinance, and that an important limiting factor for business growth is the level of human capital ... -
Telecommunications - a means to economic growth in developing countries?
(Research report, Research report, 2003)The world economy has experienced an enormous growth the past 50 years. Yet the gap between the richest and the poorest countries has increased. There have been several attempts to explain the increased differences. ... -
Teoriskapt virkelighet? Ny-klassisk teori og kvinnelige økonomiske aktører
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)Kjønnsaspektet er generelt sett fraværende i økonomiske analyser. Fraværet er tradisjonelt blitt oppfattet som en refleksjon av de økonomiske problemstilingenes og den økonomiske teoriens kjønnsnøytralitet, men er i den ... -
Terms of Trade and Economic Growth in a World of Constrained Capital Mobility
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)This paper focuses on the interaction between world community and capital markets within the framework of an extended neoclassical growth mode!. The model incorporates raw materials as an essential input and captures the ... -
The Accountability Function of Parliament in New Democracies: Tanzanian Perspectives
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)The role of parliaments in holding the executive accountable is a neglected topic in the study of the democratization process in sub-Saharan Africa. In particular there is a lack of studies measuring executive-legislative ... -
The accountability funtion of supreme audit institutions in Malawi, Uganda and Tanzania
(Research report, Research report, 2005)Despite the important accountability functions assigned supreme audit institutions, little is known about their actual functioning and we have scant information about how supreme audit institutions interact with other ... -
The Aid Agencies and the Fragile States Agenda
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)In recent years, a consensus appears to have emerged that a variety of problems can be understood in terms of state failure. This paper reviews one aspect of this trend, the concept of fragile states that has recently been ... -
The Co-operation between Institute og Development Management - IDM (Tanzania) and Agder College (Norway)
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1999)This working paper reviews the background and experiences gained in the context of institutional cooperation between IDM in Tanzania and Agder College, Norway. This co-operation has evolved out of a longstanding relationship ... -
The economic organisation of specific assets
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)In the international offshore industry we find that the oil companies and their main suppliers usually operate with separate ownership. But the main contractors manage a capital stock, and produce inputs, that are highly ... -
The effects of disasters on income mobility: Bootstrap inference and measurement error simulations
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)We evaluate the impact of disasters on income mobility by drawing on “natural experiments”. While the poor have a much higher probability of remaining poor when entering a crisis compared to normal times, there is also a ... -
The Effects on Agrarian Contracts of a Governmental Intervention into Bonded Labor in the Western Terai of Nepal
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)We study an effective intervention into a specific form of bonded labor. The intervention led to a shift in agrarian contracts, from bonded labor to sharecropping. By comparing the pre- and post-liberation contracts we ... -
The Evolution of Private Property Rights in Traditional Agriculture: Theories and a Study from Indonesia
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)The starting point of this paper is a universally observed tendency of common property to be replaced by private property in traditional agriculture. The paper seeks to explore the forces behind such a development. Four ... -
The evolution of social norms
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)Evolutionary game theory provides the tools to analyze which strategies, or patterns of behaviour, emerge over time through a process of adaptation. Social norms can be defined as patterns of behaviour with certain ...