Browsing Bora-import by Document Types "Research report"
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Coffee, Co-operatives and Competition: The Impact of Fair Trade
(Research report, Research report, 2004)Coffee is one of the most important Third World export commodities, and 70% of the producers are small-scale farmers. Coffee producers are often poor and marginalised, and their situation is aggravated by fluctuating market ... -
Collaboration on Anti-Corruption Norway and Brazil
(Research report, Research report, 2008)International conventions against corruption, signed and ratified by a growing number of countries, are an important tool in combating corruption. Greater collaboration across countries is now needed in order to draw real ... -
Collective Identities and Social Movements
(Research report, Research report, 1996)This report gives an overview of theories and approaches to the study of social identities, drawing on recent literature in the field. It argues that the study of social identities should be linked to the social outlets ... -
Community Driven Development in Contexts of Conflict. Concept Paper Commissioned by ESSD, World Bank
(Research report, Research report, 2003)Violent conflict represents not only a significant barrie r to development; it also wipes out efforts to improve the situation. Experience from many developing countries has shown that Community Driven Development (CDD) ... -
Conciliatory approches to the insurgency in Afghanistan: An overview
(Research report, Research report, 2009)This report is a preliminary mapping of initiatives designed to promote peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan. It is a snapshot in time, focusing on practices or arrangements that were still ongoing during the second ... -
Conflictual Peacebuilding: Afghanistan Two Years after Bonn
(Research report, Research report, 2004)This report charts the aid policies pursued in Afghanistan since late 2001 aimed at building peace in a country devastated by two decades of conflict. The report presents the four pillars of the peacebuilding design and ... -
Corruption in Bosnia and Herzegovina 2005. Options for Swedish Development Cooperation 2006-2010
(Research report, Research report, 2005)In Bosnia and Herzegovina, we find that corruption exists in all its facets – bribery, nepotism, embezzlement, diversion of public funds, tax fraud, illegal rent seeking, kick-back schemes etc. The victims of corruption ... -
Corruption in international business transactions: The perspective of Norwegian firms
(CMI Reports, Research report, 2004)This report presents a study of corruption in international markets by exploring the perspectives of Norwegian firms, their challenges, their experiences and their preferred strategies. The study consists of three parts, ... -
Corruption in Montenegro 2007: Overview over Main Problems and Status of Reforms
(Research report, Research report, 2007-09-12)This report was commissioned by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) to provide an analysis of corruption and the progress of anti-corruption activities in Montenegro, with the objective of ... -
Corruption in public procurement. Causes, consequences and cures
(Research report, Research report, 2002)This study explores the problem of corruption in public acquisitions of goods and services. While mainly concentrating on the bureaucratic administration, the discussion often includes the political level. Three aspects ... -
Corruption in Serbia 2007. Overview of Problems and Status of Reforms
(Research report, Research report, 2007)Corruption is one of the most important problems facing Serbia. While there are some indications that corruption may have become less rampant in recent years, available evidence suggests that corruption levels are still ... -
Corruption. A review of Contemporary Research
(Research report, Research report, 2001)During the last decade corruption has become a topical issue in the international development policy debate. Research on corruption has also expanded rapidly, taking many different directions both within and across ... -
Cost-Benefit Analysis, Discounting, and the Environmental Critique: Overloading of the Discount Rate?
(Report, Research report, 1991)The use of (high) discount rates in cost-benefit analysis is being criticized in the environmental debate. In particular, some feel that high future environmental costs do not get a fair hearing in a project appraisal due ... -
Criteria for general budget support and general sector support. Report commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(Research report, Research report, 1998)This report assesses a set of criteria for providing development aid in the form of general budget support and sector support. The criteria are suggested by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and relate to good ... -
Cultural cooperation with Nepal
(Research report, Research report, 2009)This report is a mid-term review of Norway’s support to the cultural sector in Nepal. Norwegian support has focused on the following areas: theatre production, music education, institutional capacity building, and documentation ... -
Decentralisation and Gender Coordination and Cooperation on Maternal Health Issues in Selected District Councils in Tanzania
(Research report, Research report, 2008)This empirical study looks at coordination and cooperation within five district councils in Tanzania with a special focus on efforts to reduce maternal mortality. In what ways do district councils cooperate with local ... -
Democracy and Violence: The Colombian Paradox
(Research report, Research report, 1997)This study argues that the Colombian paradox between formal democracy and endemic political violence is a direct result of the narrow polity established by elite pacts. Through an analysis of the Colombian situation and ... -
Determinants of Late Development. A Study of Turkey's Late Industrialisation Attempt until 1946
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Development Planning and the Importance of Democratic Institutions in Botswana
(Research report, Research report, 1993)This study takes an extended look at Botswana, a country which is found to depart from the common pattern of African states and therefore may be considered as something of a special case. By using a state-centred approach, ... -
Development Theory: Recent Trends. Proceedings of the NFU Annual Conference 1992
(Research report, Research report, 1993)