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En skattepolitisk konfrontasjon med skatteparadiser. Det norske Finansdepartementets narrativ om nasjonalpolitisk avmakt i møte med et globalt fenomen 1970-2012
(Master thesis, 2012-09-28)The issue of so-called “tax havens” is controversial and has been on the international political agenda with interest peaking at the G20 meeting of 2 nd April 2009. The phenomenon`s main feature, banking secrecy laws, ... -
Encuestas de Seguimiento del Gasto Público: Lecciones de Tanzania
(U4 Brief 2009:9, Report, 2009-07-14)Si bien la exitosa ejecución de la Encuesta de Seguimiento del Gasto Público (PETS, por sus siglas en inglés) en Uganda ha sido y continúa siendo objeto de mucha atención, poco se ha dicho de las lecciones de PETS en otros ... -
End review of FDC’s project to strengthen the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in the Zambézia province, Mozambique
(CMI Report R 2014:3, Research report, 2014-09-01)This report is an end review of Fundação para o Desenvolvimento da Comunidade (FDC)’s project to support the implementation of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in the Zambézia province. The purposes of the ... -
Ending child marriages – new laws bring progress but hurdles remain
(CMI Insight 2016:4, Report, 2016-05-01)Reform of family law is considered among the most difficult to achieve since it contests ‘the notion of women and children as property’. There is a continuum ranging from criminalization to non-criminalization in the legal ... -
Enemies of the state: Curbing women activists advocating rape reform in Sudan
(Journal of International Women's Studies vol. 18 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-01-01)Sudanese women activists launched a legal campaign in 2009 calling attention to how the country’s Sharia based Criminal Act of 1991 produced impunity for sexual assault in the Darfur conflict. After years of mobilization, ... -
Enforcement of water rights
(CMI Brief vol. 15 no. 9, Report, 2016-05-01)In 2010, a UN Resolution explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation (HRtWS). But has this international recognition improved the ability of poor and marginalized people to secure access to water? Of the ... -
Enhancing Public Service Ethics in Bangladesh: Dilemmas and Deterrents
(Journal article, 2014-05-01)There may be many factors that diminish or destroy trust in governmental institutions. However, none may destroy trust easier or faster than unethical behavior or blatant corruption by public officials. Bangladesh is rated ... -
Enough food is not enough - Litigation as a strategy to secure the right to food
(Master thesis, 2011-10-28)This thesis aims to investigate the conditions for legal enforcement of the right to food in Guatemala. In recent years there has been an increase in the phenomenon of protecting social rights through the legal opportunity ... -
Enrolling the local: Community-based anti-corruption efforts and institutional capture
(Report, 2021-02-01)This Brief examines community-based anti-corruption efforts in natural resource management in order to better understand their rationales, potentialities, and challenges—especially complications posed by the intersection ... -
Enseigner l'éthique dans les sociétés fortement corrompues: préoccupations et opportunités
(U4 Brief 2011:7, Report, 2011-08-30)Cette note de synthèse U4 explore les raisons pour lesquelles une approche traditionnelle de l’enseignement de l’éthique n’est pas adaptée aux sociétés fortement corrompues, et met en exergue des éléments clés concernant ... -
Entangled Biographies: Rebuilding a Sasak House
(Ethnos vol. 72 June 2007 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007-01-01)The concept of ‘compatibility' has a particular salience in many Indonesian societies. This article examines ‘compatibility' with reference to person-house relationships on the island of Lombok. Examining a case where ... -
Enterprise in the Undergrowth: Exploring the Ways Chinese Companies Operate in the Dja Forest in Cameroon
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Entre loi et coutumes. L'interconnexion normative dans les cours de justice de Kaboul
(Diogène vol. 239-240, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-01-01)Le système juridique afghan est formé de pratiques coutumiè-res, de principes de la shari‘a, de lois promulguées par l’État et denormes internationales. Cet arsenal a ... -
Equinors skattemilliarder til Afrika kommer ikke vanlige folk tilgode, mener skatteekspert Odd-Helge Fjeldstad
(Others, 2023-09-01)– Equinor betalte over 32 milliarder kroner i skatt til Algerie, Angola, Libya og Nigeria i 2022. De enorme inntektene fra oljesektoren har imidlertid i liten grad kommet befolkningen til gode, sier Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, ... -
Er diamantene renvasket?
(Others, 2007-01-01)Til tross for Kimberley-prosessen kan diamanter fortsatt bidra til både borgerkriger og barnearbeid. -
Er Kabul trygt for retur?
(Others, 2017-11-01)Noreg har så langt i år returnert over 500 afghanarar til Kabul. Samtidig er tryggleiken forverra i heile landet, og spesielt Kabul har store sivile tap. Stortinget er delt i oppfatninga om ein skal stanse eller halde fram ... -
Espaço Urbano e Pobreza em Maputo, Moçambique
(CMI Brief vol. 12 no. 2, Report, 2013-06-01)Este é o primeiro de uma série de sínteses sobre políticas relacionadas com um projecto de investigação, “A Etnografia de uma Cidade Dividida: Socio-política, Pobreza e Género em Maputo, Moçambique” (2012–2015), financiado ... -
Ethiopia After Meles: Stability for How Long?
(Journal article, 2014-05-01)When Meles Zenawi, the national and ruling party leader for 21 years, died in August 2012, most observers predicted that Ethiopia would be thrown into an uncertain transition and put in great danger by destructive internal ... -
Ethiopian state support to insurgency in Southern Sudan from 1962 to 1983: local, regional and global connections
(Journal of Eastern African Studies vol. 8 no. 4, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-09-01)During the 1960s and 1970s, the Government of Ethiopia supplied Southern Sudanese insurgents with arms, training and political support. This support has been explained as retribution for Sudanese aid to Eritrean rebels ... -
Ethnic and Fiscal Federalism in Nepal
(Research report, 2008-07-24)Nepal is in the process of making a democratic federal republic. We hope to contribute to the discussions of ethnic and fiscal federalism based on experiences from other countries. Our main conclusions are: The new ...