Browsing Publications by Subject "Ethiopia"
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Industrial Clusters Promotion as a tool for private sector development: The UNIDO experience in Ethiopia
(CMI Brief vol. 12 no. 5, Report, 2013-11-29)Policies aimed at boosting the interaction and cooperation of economic actors in industrial clusters might represent a crucial strategy for industrial upgrading and development in poor countries. This policy brief discusses ... -
Information Technology and Fiscal Capacity in a Developing Country: Evidence from Ethiopia
(ICTD Working Paper 31, Research report, 2015-02-01)Governments in developing countries are typically constrained by a limited fiscal capacity to finance the provision of essential public goods – a constraint that has been cited as one of the fundamental challenges to ... -
Inter-group interaction and attitudes to migrants
(CMI Working Paper WP 2021:02, Working paper, 2021-02-01)Abstract We report results from a randomized field experiment conducted in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, which tests the impact of interaction with migrants on host community members’ attitudes towards migrants. ... -
Jobs for youth in fragile transitions: Ethiopia’s Youth Revolving Fund
(CMI Brief no. 2023:3, Report, 2023-05-01)Ethiopia’s high-level of population growth is contributing to an acute problem of youth unemployment. A lack of jobs and dissatisfaction about future opportunities were partly the reasons for the game-changing youth protests ... -
Joint Land Certification and Intra-household Decision-making: Towards Empowerment of Wives?
(Centre for Land Tenure Studies Working Paper, Research report, 2013-01-01)We have used gender-disaggregated household panel data from 2007 and 2012 in combination with dictator games and hawk-dove games to assess the effects of joint land certification of husbands and wives on wives’ involvement ... -
Labour-Intensive Jobs for Women and Development: Intra-household Welfare Effects and Its Transmission Channels
(Journal of Development Studies vol. 54 no. 7, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-04-01)We examine the welfare impacts of poor women getting low-skilled jobs and find large positive income, consumption and poverty effects at household and individual levels. However, the women workers, their husbands and oldest ... -
Life skills in non-formal contexts for adolescent girls in developing countries
(CMI Report R 2018:6, Research report, 2018-04-01)Executive summary How can young women in developing countries best be prepared for success in their lives and livelihoods? Life preparation requires learning different types of knowledge and skills in formal, non-formal, ... -
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 ... -
Neglect, Control and Co-optation: Major features of Ethiopian Youth Policy Since 1991
(CMI Working Paper WP 2021:3, Working paper, 2021-07-01)Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous state, has a young population with more than 70 percent of its inhabitants below the age of 35. Ethiopian regimes have a history of youth neglect and repression, and more ... -
Non-formal girls’ life skills programming Implications for policy and practice
(POLICY BRIEF, Research report, 2018-05-01)Research in developing countries demonstrates the importance of life skills for improving a range of outcomes for adolescent girls. These outcomes include improved psychosocial and mental health (e.g., emotional resilience, ... -
Prevalence, drivers, and review of the literature on the effects of interventions to reduce the prevalence of female genital mutilation
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Programmes for assisted return to Afghanistan, Iraqi Kurdistan, Ethiopia and Kosovo: A comparative evaluation of effectiveness and outcomes
(CMI Report R 2016:2, Research report, 2016-05-01)Norway encourages assisted return for persons without legal residence permits in Norway and for those who wish to return to their country of origin. Those who apply for assisted return receive help with the application ... -
Resettlement capacity assessments for climate induced displacements: Evidence from Ethiopia
(CMI Working Paper WP 2021:01, Working paper, 2021-01-01)Climate change migration is increasing and necessitates a re-examination of resettlement planning and processes. Although evidence-based selection of host places would improve climate change resettlement outcomes, few ... -
Review of the realisation of Norway’s “Strategy for intensifying international efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation for the period 2014–2017”
(CMI Report R 2018:16, Research report, 2019-02-01)This report was commissioned by Norad and the evaluation was realised by Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI). Joar Svanemyr is the main author of the report. Camilla Gianella at CMI and Ragnhild Elise Johansen, external consultant ... -
Rural-urban Youth Migration and Informal Self-Employment in Ethiopia
(Research report, 2014-11-01)Empirical studies in the migration literature indicate that migration is often welfare improving for the migrant. But it is also possible that youth migrants become more susceptible and less competitive in urban areas ... -
Street based self-employment: A poverty trap or a stepping stone for migrant youth in Africa?
(Conference object, 2015-06-01)Street vending is a common phenomenon in urban areas of Africa. Although such street based self-employment activities often lack legal recognition and are sometimes criminalized, significant share of the youth labor force ... -
Strengthening civil society in developing countries? Development aid and Norwegian organisations
(CMI Brief vol. 17 no. 1, Report, 2018-01-01)Norway channels a large portion of its development aid budget through Norwegian civil society organisations. This also includes disbursements from Norad’s civil society grant for strengthening civil society where more than ... -
Taxing the urban boom: property taxation in Africa
(CMI Insight 2017:1, Report, 2017-03-01)The growth of Africa’s towns and cities has outpaced local governments’ capacity for service delivery in terms of management, infrastructure, and financing. As a result, many African towns and cities are now faced with a ... -
When Per Diems Take Over: Training and Travel as Extra Pay
(Corruption, Grabbing and Development: Real World Challenges, Chapter, 2014-03-01)Weak access to basic services and poor framework conditions for the private sector impede development. Low-quality service provision for example in health, education, utility supply, industry regulation or law enforcement ... -
Why go back? Assisted return from Norway
(Rapport 2015:08 08, Research report, 2016-01-01)This report discusses factors that influence voluntary assisted return of third-country nationals from Norway. It is based on statistical information and interviews with civil servants/NGO-representatives and employees at ...