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Liberated Bonded Laborers: Are They Better Off? Welfare and Efficiency Implications of an Agricultural Reform in Western Terai, Nepal
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Lowering barriers to agricultural exports through technical assistance
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) regulations imposed by the developed world, significantly reduse the export opportunities of developing countries. Under the SPS Agreement, developed countries are obliged to provide technical ... -
LSMS Data Quality in Maoist Influenced Areas of Nepal
(CMI Working Paper, Working paper, 2007-10-22)We investigate whether the quality of LSMS data from Nepal is affected by the Maoists in the districts they control. We find, if any, only minor support for the hypothesis. Furthermore, the Maoists have less control in the ... -
Macmod, a macroeconomic model for the Tanzanian economy
(Research report, Research report, 1998)This report outlines the structure of a macroeconomic model for the Tanzanian economy. It consists of a core IS-LM/ Mundell-Fleming model, an SS-DD framework for estimating the consumer price inflation and other price ... -
Macro-Economic Effects of Development Plan Expenditures. A Framework for Analysis, with Special Reference to Uganda
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1993)Development plans are mainly concerned with the financial aspects of development projects, while the economic aspects are often neglected. This paper constructs a methodology for converting the information given in development ... -
“Making Elections is like Preparing Funge:If you don’t do it Right it goes Puiti-Puiti!” Review of Norwegian Support to Development Workshop’s Programme for Civic and Electoral Education among State and Civil Society Actors
(Research report, Research report, 2008)This report is the end review of Development Workshop’s Programme for Civic and Electoral Education in Angola, 2005-8 (PECE 1, Programa de Educação Cívica e Eleitoral). Its precursor, the “peace building programme”, has ... -
Marine protected areas and managing fished ecosystems
(Research report, Research report, 1999)This paper provides a synthesis of the current literature on the potential of marine protected areas (MPAs) as a management tool to limit the ecosystem effects of fishing, including biological and socio-economic perspectives. ... -
Maybe free but not fair: Electoral administration in Malawi 1994-2004
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2005)Entering the third decade of multiparty democracy on the African continent, incumbents appear able to secure electoral mandates without opening for extensive political liberties. The paper argues that the administration ... -
Menneskerettigheter og utviklingsprosesser. Sentrale tema i samfunnsvitenskapelig og humanistisk menneskerettighetsforskning
(Report, Research report, 1991)Rapporten inngår i studien "Menneskerettigheter i et utvikingsteoretisk perspektiv", som Programmet for menneskerettighetsstudier ved Chr. Michelsens Institutt har utført på oppdrag fra Departementet for utvikingshjelp/ ... -
Micro and Small-scale Industry Development in Cabo Delgado Province in Mozambique
(Research report, Research report, 2005)This report sets out the background, analyses, conclusions and recommendations from a review of a project on Micro and Small–scale Industry Development in Cabo Delgado Province in Mozambique (UNIDO Project number TF/MOZ/01/001). ... -
Microcredit programmes: Methods for solving dilemmas of credit expansion
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)Providing credits seems to be an effective tool for improving the welfare of the poor. It is expected that microcredit funding to poor people will expand rapidly over the coming years. If a sound monitoring mechanism is ...