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Macro-Economic Convergence Policy in the Southern African Development Community: Prospects and Challenges
(Proceedings of the 2006 FOPRISA Annual Conference, Chapter, 2007-12-10)In the last two decades, the subject of regional integration has featured prominently in the agenda of (and policy research on) most developing countries. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is one of the ... -
Maestros y taxis: Corrupción en el sector educación de Honduras
(U4 Brief 2009:10, Report, 2009-07-14)"… Maestros fantasma? ¿Has escuchado hablar de los maestros taxi? Nosotros los tenemos. Tienen empleos múltiples y están constantemente tomando taxis para estar presente en todos lados, a expensas, por supuesto, de los ... -
Magic City, Value City: The moral geography of Suva Fiji
(Cogent Social Sciences vol. 9 no. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-01-01)Fiji has had a turbulent political history of successive coups that have caused the nation to oscillate between the pursuit of ethnic nationalism and civic nationalism. Since the final coup in 2006, Fiji has suppressed ... -
Mainstreaming anti-corruption initiatives: Development of a water sector strategy in Mozambique
(U4 Practice Insight 2014:2, Report, 2014-12-10)Sector approaches to combating corruption have gained momentum in recent years, yet the strategic prioritization of sector anti-corruption initiatives is still the exception. The National Water Directorate in Mozambique ... -
Mainstreaming anti-corruption into sectors: Practices in U4 partner agencies
(U4 Brief 2014:3, Report, 2014-02-11)Integrating anti-corruption measures into sector work – known as mainstreaming – receives increased attention from the development community. The benefits of mainstreaming are to consider sector characteristics, produce ... -
Maintaining Development Momentum or Just Providing Aid?
(Analysis No. 261, Research report, 2014-07-01)Afghanistan is again preparing for change. Most international forces are about to leave the country by end of 2014, Afghans expects to have a new President over the summer and there are signals of a major reduction in ... -
Maintaining the Process? Aid to Transitional Justice in Rwanda and Guatemala, 1995-2005
(Research report, 2007-11-28)This report assesses the aid that was given in support of transitional justice processes in Rwanda and Guatemala between 1995 and 2005. The analysis is based on statistical data from the main donor agencies involved and ... -
Making development assistance work at home: DfID's approach to clamping down on international bribery and money laundering in the UK
(U4 Practice Insight 2011:5, Report, 2011-06-28)Corruption will remain a profitable crime in developing countries as long as counterparts in rich countries are willing to hide stolen resources. Working to improve governance in poor countries will only address part of ... -
Making hay while the sun shines: Experiences with the Zambian Task Force on corruption
(U4 Practice Insight 2011:4, Report, 2011-06-28)In 2002 the Government of Zambia established an intragovernmental task force to investigate allegations of corruption against former President Frederick Chiluba and his inner circle. The task force was mandated to prosecute ... -
“Making money in Angola is about connections, not hard work”
(CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 12, Report, 2017-12-01)What do the educated future of Angola make of their future in Angola? A recent survey of university students in Angola documents a grave concern about inequality, and strong preferences for redistribution. At the same time, ... -
Making partnership work: Vision and implementation of a development programme
(CMI Report R 2011:2, Research report, 2011-06-08)This report is based on a review commissioned by the Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA). The NPA is one of Norway’s biggest NGOs with development programmes in over 30 countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America ... -
Making Sense of the Nexus
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Making transparency work in Africa's marine fisheries
(U4 Issue 2011:11, Research report, 2011-10-01)Global problems facing the marine fisheries sector, including overfishing and the marginalization of the small-scale sector, are leading to increased international awareness of the need to improve transparency in fisheries ... -
Making Whistleblower Protection Work: Elements of an Effective Approach
(U4 Brief 2008:24, Report, 2008-12-15)Protection of whistleblowers – individuals who make a principled public interest disclosure of wrongdoing – is now broadly accepted as an essential tool for strengthening accountability and reducing corruption in the public ... -
Malnutrition in South-Asia. Poverty, diet or lack of female empowerment?
(CMI Working Paper WP 2012:4, Working paper, 2012-03-21)Despite economic growth, and a reduction in poverty, malnutrition is still rampant in South-Asia. This indicates that non-economic factors are important, and we use a nation-wide survey from Nepal to identify factors that ... -
Managing Aid Exit and Transformation. Botswana Country Case Study. On CD-Rom
(Joint Donor Evaluation, Research report, 2008-01-01) -
Managing Aid Exit and Transformation. Lessons from Botswana, Eritrea, India, Malawi and South Africa. Synthesis Report
(Research report, 2008-10-28)What are the consequences in the recipient countries, when donor countries close down their bilateral aid programmes? Are exit practices consistent with established principles of partnership and mutuality in development ... -
Managing the born-free generation: Zimbabwe’s strategies for dealing with the youth
(CMI Working Paper WP 2019:02, Working paper, 2019-10-01)A rich literature on Africa’s autocratic and repressive regimes has discussed the diverse strategies through which these regimes seek to consolidate and stay in power. Prominent strategies include election rigging, extensive ... -
Mapping anti-corruption tools in the judicial sector
(U4 Issue 2016:3, Research report, 2016-02-01)This U4 study investigates whether and how the judicial sector could benefit from anti-corruption measures that have proved useful in other sectors in improving the quality of the services they provide to users. Based on ... -
Mapping evidence gaps in anti-corruption: Assessing the state of the operationally relevant evidence on donors' actions and approaches to reducing corruption
(U4 Issue 2012:7, Research report, 2012-11-15)This paper charts the current evidence on effectiveness of different anti-corruption reforms, and identifies significant evidence gaps. Despite a substantial amount of literature on corruption, this review found very few ...