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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 ... -
Review of Right to Play
(Research report, Report, 2006)Right to Play (former Olympic Aid), is an athlete-driven international humanitarian organisation which uses sport and play as a development tool for children and youth. The central delivery method is through international ... -
Bribes, taxes and regulations: Business constraints for micro enterprises in Tanzania
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)This paper analyses the business environment for micro enterprises in Tanzania based on survey data. The primary objective of the study is to identify major constraints facing the firms’ business operations. Taxation, ... -
Taxation and State-Building: Poor Countries in a Globalised World
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2007)How far has the recent global wave of tax reform contributed to state building in poorer countries? Our conclusion mirrors other general globalisation arguments: there are good things to report, but worrying problems in ... -
Will International Trade Reduce Poverty? A Background Note to Norad
(Research report, Research report, 2007)NORAD is currently developing a trade strategy towards developing countries. This background note presents a review of the current literature and empirical findings on the relationship between trade, growth and poverty ... -
Turnaround: The National Resistance Movement and the Re-introduction of a Multiparty System in Uganda
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2007)This article addresses the process behind the National Resistance Movement’s (NRM) decision to open for a reintroduction of multiparty politics. Why would a political movement that had been in power for two decades expose ... -
Democratization of a Dependent State: The Case of Afghanistan
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2007)The post-Taliban democratic reforms in Afghanistan were in part a recreation of the past. Afghanistan has had six constitutions between 1923 and 1990, and most provided for national assemblies and elections in one form or ... -
Is it wrong to rank? A critical assessment of corruption indices
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)This paper emphasizes the importance of collecting information on corruption, while still stressing critical aspects of the most applied sources of such information, the cross-country composite corruption indices. Are these ... -
Human Rights and Assigned Duties: Implications for Corporations
(CMI Working Paper, Working paper, 2007)Human rights imply duties. The question is, duties for whom? Without a welldefined scheme for assigning duties correlative to human rights, these rights remain illusory. This paper develops core elements of a general scheme ... -
Asian Models for Aid: Is there a Non-Western Approach to Development Assistance? Summary record of seminar held in Oslo, December 2006
(Research report, Research report, 2007)The expansion of the international donor community clearly challenges the current “consensus” of a new “harmonised” aid architecture, and calls for strategies on how to adjust to an aid landscape with greater plurality and ... -
Exploring the Research-Policy Linkage: The Case of Reforms in Financing Primary Education in Tanzania
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)Tanzania abolished school fees in primary schools as from 2002. This move was made possible because of shifts in the policy of major donors, not least the World Bank. In the subsequent years Tanzania recorded a rapid ... -
Review of Bistandsnemda's (Norwegian Missions in Development) Work with Indigenous Peoples
(Research report, Research report, 2007)As part of Norway’s efforts to strengthen its cooperation with indigenous peoples a set of Guidelines were published by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2004. The Guidelines emphasise a rights-based approach ... -
Orçamento, Estado e Povo. Processo de Orçamento, Sociedade Civil e Transparência em Angola
(Research report, Research report, 2007)Este estudo identifica várias deficiências no processo de orçamento em Angola. A proposta do governo não é discutida publicamente, não é preparado nenhum documento pré-orçamento, não são feitas comparações entre a despesa ... -
Rewarding Safe Motherhood. How can Performance-Based Funding Reduce Maternal and Newborn Mortality in Tanzania?
(Research report, Research report, 2007)Performance-based funding has been proposed as one mechanism to speed up the implementation of interventions for reduced maternal and newborn mortality. This report investigates the potential role of such funding mechanisms ... -
The Question of Becoming: Islamic Reform-Movements in Contemporary Ethiopia
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2007)Ethiopia’s new political climate (since 1991) has enhanced the Muslims’ opportunities for religious expressions, clearly seen through the surfacing of several Islamic reform movements. These movements; the Salafi movement, ... -
Security for Many or Surplus for the Few? Customary Tenure and Social Differentiation in Southern Malawi
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2007)It has been argued that the ambiguities in Malawian customary tenure may aggravate processes of social differentiation and class formation. The article investigates this viewpoint based on the situation in the rural areas ... -
Governance Assessments and the Paris Declaration. A CMI Issues Paper Prepared for the UNDP Bergen Seminar September 2007
(Research report, Research report, 2007)Is it possible to carry out governance assessments and develop diagnostic tools for enhancing governance while adhering to the principles of the Paris Declaration? Or, are the two processes largely contradictory? What ... -
When Men do Women's Work : Structural Adjustment , Unemployment and Changing Gender Relations in the Informal Economy of Accra, Ghana
(Journal article, 2007)Economic crisis and structural adjustment in Ghana have put large numbers of formal sector employees and civil servants out of work. This informalisation process has gendered consequences. Unemployed people, rural–urban ... -
Sociedade Civil em Angola: Incursões, Espaco Responsabilidade
(Research report, Research report, 2007-10-22)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 ... -
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 ...