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Experience from Bangladesh with ethical trading initiatives
(Research report, Research report, 2003)Since the 1990s there has been increasing concern in the North about products from the South and the conditions under which they are produced. In least developed countries labour conditions are considered to be at a very ... -
Funding political parties in emerging African democracies: What role for Norway?
(Research report, Research report, 2002)This report addresses the problem of foreign funding of political parties in newly democratised African states. The report identifies some problems associated with the development of political parties in Africa and indicate ... -
Autonomy, Incentives and Patronage. A Study of Corruption in the Tanzania and Uganda Revenue Authorities
(Research report, Research report, 2003)The report explores factors that explain the observed patterns of corruption within the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) and the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA). In particular, the study discusses the key assumptions behind ... -
Energy Cooperation in Southern Africa: What Role for Norway? Report from the Seminar on Regional Energy Co-operation, Luanda, 12-14 February 2002
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2002)This Working Paper contains a full report from a Seminar on Regional Energy Co-operation, Luanda, 12-14 February 2002. Norwegian involvement in the energy sector in Southern Africa is considerable. Energy is a major area ... -
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 ... -
When women grow wings: Gender relations in the informal economy of Kampala
(Research report, Research report, 2003)In urban Africa, informal employment constitutes 90 per cent of all new jobs. Informal work is characterised by being unrecognised, unprotected or unrecorded by the public authorities, and a larger percentage of women than ... -
Multiparty elections in Africa's new democracies
(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 ... -
Angola 2001/2002. Key Development Issues and Aid in a Context of Peace
(Research report, Research report, 2002)This is the third report on Angola under the Country Advisor Agreement between the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) and Chr. Michelsen Institute. The report consists of a part I synthesising and assessing ... -
Updating the Input Output based Macmod functions
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2002)The present paper reports on a statistical effort undertaken for the Macmod project. It reports on the revision and updating of the Tanzanian Input-Output table for 1992. These IO activities are undertaken in order to ... -
Telecommunications - a means to economic growth in developing countries?
(Research report, Research report, 2003)The world economy has experienced an enormous growth the past 50 years. Yet the gap between the richest and the poorest countries has increased. There have been several attempts to explain the increased differences. ... -
Responsiveness to the concerns of the poor and accountability to the commitment to poverty reduction
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)Taking its cue from the poverty-reduction thrust of the Millennium Development Goals, this paper proposes an analytical framework for answering the fundamental question: How can we increase the responsiveness of decision-makers ... -
Corruption and market reform
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)Market reforms in developing and transition economies have sometimes failed to deliver the desired welfare effects.Corruption may be an important reason for the inefficiency of market reforms, such as privatizationcampaigns. ... -
Social development and industry level foreign direct investment
(Research report, Research report, 2004)Investment is crucial for economic development. A number of empirical studies document a relationship between social development and aggregate foreign direct investment (FDI). This study complements aggregate studies by ... -
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 ... -
Trust & Trade... Is distance dead?
(Research report, Research report, 2003)This report explores the facts behind the buzzwords ´globalisation` and ´the new economy`. In general we associate these concepts with a borderless world where economic transactions are managed through rapid electronic ... -
Palestinian State-Formation: Prospects and Challenges. Report from a Symposium at Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway 24-25 May 2004
(Research report, Research report, 2004)The CMI - Muwatin symposium, held in Bergen on 24-25 May 2004, addressed both internal and external Internal challenges that were addressed were the problem of corruption, institutional mismanagement and the emergence of ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Poverty reduction strategy processes in Malawi and Zambia
(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 ... -
Aid to Judicial Reform: Norwegian and International Experiences
(Research report, Research report, 2004)Creating a viable judiciary and strengthening its democratic functions has been a main concern of both national governments and donors over the last two decades. This report attempts to chart and systematise the efforts ...