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Human Rights Self-Monitoring:A Proposal for the Northern European Democracies
(Research report, Research report, 1996)This report recommends that Human Rights in Developing Countries adopt a radically new approach to monitoring human rights. The "old way" is to monitor aid-recipient governments' violations of the human rights of their own ... -
Human Rights Violations and the Paradox of Democratic Transition. A Study of Chile and Argentina
(Research report, Research report, 1994)This comparative analysis of recent transitions to democracy in Argentina and Chile examines (1) the impact of the type of transition on democratic consolidation; (2) how resolving the problem of past human rights violations ... -
Humanitarian Assistance and Conflict: A-State-of-the-Art Report
(Research report, Research report, 1998)The rapid growth of international aid allocated to "complex humanitarian emergencies" has led to parallel calls for preventive action. It is also asked how humanitarian assistance and other forms of international civilian ... -
Humanitarian assistance during conflict in a state-less society: The case of Somalia
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1999)This working paper was prepared for the workshop on "Aid and Humanitarian Assistance in Africa" in Arusha, 27-29 June, 1998, with financial support from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is based on a series ... -
Humanitarian Challenges in Afghanistan: Administrative Structures and Gender and Assistance
(Research report, Research report, 2001)The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan has rapidly deteriorated over the last months, as the conflict between the Taliban and the international community has intensified. UN sanctions and isolation has strengthened the ... -
Hva får vi igjen? En statistisk analyse av norske leveranser til det multilaterale bistandsmarkedet
(Research report, Research report, 1993)Omfanget av Norges salg til det bistandsfinansierte markedet blir til tider diskutert, blant annet på grunnlag av landets store bistandsbevilgninger. Denne studien tar sikte på å presentere og analysere tilgjengelig data ... -
Hvordan gjøre gode ting bedre? Norske bedrifters CSR aktiviteter i utviklingsland
(Research report, Research report, 2008)Norske bedrifter opererer i en rekke utviklingsland, hvor problemer med fattigdom, dårlig styresett og brudd på menneskerettigheter ofte er store. Når man går inn i denne typen land, stilles man overfor store utfordringer ... -
Hvorfor har militæret fortsatt makten i Burma?
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1993)This paper seeks to explain why the military has remained in power in Burma after the country-wide uprising for democracy in 1988. It is argued that a theoretical approach has to include a focus on the particular actors ... -
"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 ...