• Do Interest Groups Matter in Economic Policy-Making? Reflections from a Zambian case study 

      Rakner, Lise (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1994)
      The current debate within development research strongly emphasise the role of interest groups in developing and sustaining democratic and liberal economic reforms. With this debate as its point of departure, the paper ...
    • From Policy Guidelines to Problem Solving. A Critical Assessment of the National Conservation Strategies of Botswana and Zambia 

      Børhaug, Kjetil (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1993)
      This study focuses on the National Conservation Strategies of Botswana and Zambia. The strategies contain detailed elaborations about environmental problems, goals, means and implementation. The implementation of the NCSs ...
    • How to Assess the Political Role of the Zambian Courts? 

      Gloppen, Siri (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2004)
      The paper addresses the methodological problems concerning how to assess the political role of courts in Zambia - and in new democracies more generally, and suggests a framework within which this can be done. Particular ...
    • Multiparty elections in Africa's new democracies 

      Rakner, Lise; Svåsand, Lars (Research report, Research report, 2002)
      Why has the electoral process in the newly democratised African states had such limited impacts? How can the continued one-party dominance on the continent be explained despite the reintroduction of political freedoms, substantial ...
    • Political Institutions and Economic Reform: Zambia and South Africa in Comparative Context 

      Rakner, Lise; Skålnes, Tor (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)
      This paper presents the theoretical and methodological framework of a joint research project by Lise Rakner and Tor Skålnes, "Political Liberalisation and Economic Reform in Southern Africa". The project consists of two ...
    • Poverty reduction strategy processes in Malawi and Zambia 

      Bwalya, Edgar; Rakner, Lise; Svåsand, Lars; Tostensen, Arne; Tsoka, Maxton (Research report, Research report, 2004)
      Malawi and Zambia are poor and heavily indebted countries whose dependence on foreign aid is pronounced. They both qualify for debt relief in terms of the Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) initiative under the auspices ...
    • Research and Fisheries Management; the Uneasy Relationship Review of the Zambia-Zimbabwe SADC Fisheries Project 

      Jul-Larsen, Eyolf; Graça, Florence Bukali da; Nielsen, Jesper Raakjær; Zwieten, Paul van (Research report, Research report, 1998)
      This report is an evaluation of the "Zambia-Zimbabwe SADC Fisheries Project". The project aims to establish effective fisheries management regimes for the various fisheries of Lake Kariba. The project has been funded by ...
    • Setting a Standard for Africa? Lessons from the 1991 Zambian Elections 

      Andreassen, Bård-Anders; Geisler, Gisela; Tostensen, Arne (Research report, Research report, 1992)
      This report provides an assessment of the transition to a multi-party system of government in Zambia. The first section gives a general background to processes of democratisation in Africa, while the subsequent ones deal ...
    • Socio-economic effects of HIV/AIDS in African countries 

      Isaksen, Jan; Songstad, Nils Gunnar; Spissøy, Arild (Research report, Research report, 2002)
      This desk study was commissioned by NORAD to review recent literature on socio-economic consequences of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa with focus on Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. The report ...
    • Support for parliaments : Tanzania and beyond 

      Amundsen, Inge (Research report, Research report, 2010)
      This report presents an analysis of the Parliament of Tanzania (which includes the Bunge in Dodoma and the House of Representatives in Zanzibar), which has only recently taken up its ‘checks and balances’ functions. The ...
    • The Pluralist Paradox. The Decline of Economic Interest Groups in Zambia in the 1990s 

      Rakner, Lise (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2000)
      The dilemma facing new democracies attempting to implement political and economic reform simultaneously is that democratisation may undermine economic reform by encouraging political participation and empowering interest ...
    • Trade Unions in Processes of Democratisation. A Study of Party Labour Relations in Zambia 

      Rakner, Lise (Research report, Research report, 1992)
      This report assesses the role of labour in the recent transition to multi-party rule in Zambia. The main question considered is to what extent labour, through its policy-making organ the Zambia Congress of Trade Unions ...
    • Uncertainty as a Strategy: Electoral Processes in Zambia 1991-2001 

      Rakner, Lise; Svåsand, Lars (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)
      Zambia has held three multiparty elections since its restoration of democracy in 1991. This peaceful transition raised expectations of a smooth process towards democratic consolidation. But similar to experiences from other ...