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    • Budget, State and People. Budget Process, Civil Society and Transparency in Angola 

      Isaksen, Jan; Amundsen, Inge; Wiig, Arne; with Abreu, Cesaltina (Research report, Research report, 2007)
      This study discerns several deficiencies in the budget process in Angola. The government’s budget proposal is not publicly debated, no pre-budget paper is prepared, comparisons between budgeted expenditure and actual ...

    • Building capacity for development and food security in Malawi. Mid-term review fo the Bunda College Capacity Building Programme (BCDP) 

      Nyirenda, Ramji; Tostensen, Arne (Research report, Research report, 2009)
      This report presents the findings of a mid-term review Phase III of the Bunda College Capacity Building Programme (BCDP) in Malawi. The efforts during the previous phases are bearing fruit. Bunda College of Agriculture has ...

    • Bureaucratic Complexity and Impacts of Corruption in Utilities 

      Tøndel, Line; Søreide, Tina (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2008)
      This paper explores how the relationship between bureaucratic complexity and corruption affects the performance in utilities. We observe considerable variation in the performance of the utilities across countries, also ...

    • Business Corruption, Uncertainty and Risk Aversion 

      Søreide, Tina (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)
      The presence of business-corruption in a market provokes firms to make choices between legal business approaches and illegal bribery. The outcome of a chosen strategy will usually be uncertain at the time the decision is ...

    • Can national identity be built on local democracy? 

      Pausewang, Siegfried (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1997)
      In Ethiopia, with 85 % of the population in agriculture, most of them illiterate, democratisation has to work against adverse experience: Peasants can refer back to democratic traditions on local level. But their experience ...

    • Cannibalism and the optimal sharing of the North-East Atlantic cod stock: A computation model 

      Armstrong, C.W.; Sumaila, U.R. (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1998)
      This paper shows how intra-stock relations, such as cannibalism and growth enhancement, define the optimal sharing of a fish resource between heterogeneous harve sting agents. The sharing of resources between different ...

    • Caste, local networks and lucrative jobs: Evidence from rural Nepal 

      Hatlebakk, Magnus; Iversen, Vegard; Torsvik, Gaute (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2010)
      We study how local connections to persons in influential positions affect access to lucrative international migrant jobs and attractive government employment. In rural Nepal, it would not be surprising if social status, ...

    • China in Africa. Implications for Norwegian Foreign and Development Policies 

      Tjønneland, Elling N.; Brandtzæg, Bjørn; Kolås, Åshild; Le Pere, Garth (Research report, Research report, 2006)
      China’s development will affect the history of the twenty-first century, and perhaps nowhere more importantly than in Africa. The emergence of China introduces new opportunities for Africa, new challenges and new imponderables ...

    • Civil Society in Angola: Inroads, Space and Accountability 

      Amundsen, Inge; Abreu, Cesaltina (Research report, Research report, 2006)
      Civil society is inherently weak in Angola, and the political and societal space for civil society is limited. Angolan authorities have not fully accepted civil society’s voice, watchdog and control functions, and the legal ...

    • Civil Society in Tanzania 

      Lange, Siri; Wallevik, Hege; Kiondo, Andrew (Research report, Research report, 2000)
      There has been a tremendous growth in non-governmental organisations in Tanzania over the last decades, and with the many reforms presently taking place, the civil society is expected to play a central role in both service ...

    • Clientelist Politics. State formation and corruption in Palestine 1994-2000 

      Amundsen, Inge; Ezbidi, Basem (Research report, Research report, 2002)
      The state formation process in Palestine started after the Oslo agreements between Israel and Palestine in 1994, which established a Palestinian quasi-state. The process came, however, to an almost complete halt with the ...

    • CMI and Bangladesh: 40 years of collaboration and institutional capacity building 

      Miranda, Armindo; Nordbye, Ole David Koht (Research report, Research report, 1997)
      The report reviews CMI's experience of technical assistance and institutional collaboration in Bangladesh, from the involvement of individual staff members working as experts in Pakistan in the late 1950s to the formal ...

    • CMI Bibliography 1965-1995 

      Brekke, Hilde; Sperrevik, Hilde (Research report, Research report, 1996)
      This is a bibliography listing the works of researchers at Chr. Michelsen Institute during the period 1965-1995. It aims to cover all publications with the exception of artic1es in newspapers. Hilde Brekke is currently ...

    • Coconuts and Cultivation in the Philippines. A Study of Social Formation in Candelaria, Quezon Province 

      Skåre, Guro (Research report, Research report, 1995)
      This study gives a detailed account of coconut production and the social formation of coconut cultivators in a specific locality in the Quezon province on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. Using a theoretical framework ...

    • Coffee, Co-operatives and Competition: The Impact of Fair Trade 

      Milford, Anna (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 

      Søreide, Tina; Abramo, Claudio Weber (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 

      Stokke, Hugo; Tjomsland, Marit (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 

      Strand, Arne; Toje, Hege; Jerve, Alf Morten; Samset, Ingrid (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) ...

    • Company influence on foreign aid disbursement: Is conditionality credible when donors have mixed motives? 

      Villanger, Espen (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)
      When donors enforce conditionality upon recipients who do not implement the conditions, companies can suffer from cancellation of their contracts with the recipient when aid dries up. A strategic recipient may avoid ...

    • Company interests and foreign aid policy: Playing donors out against each other 

      Villanger, Espen (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)
      Despite the importance attached to conditionality by the donors, and the fact that aid is a crucial income source for the recipient, it is found that conditionality fails. One explanation for this failure could be that a ...