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Does democracy reduce corruption?
(CMI Working Paper WP 2011:4, Working paper, 2011-12-12)While democracy is commonly believed to reduce corruption, there are obvious endogeneity problems in measuring the impact of democracy on corruption. This paper addresses the endogeneity of democracy by exploiting the ... -
Dynamics of destabilisation in development interventions in South Kordofan, 2005-2011
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2015:4, Working paper, 2015-05-19)This paper outlines the landscape of development interventions in South Kordofan between the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005 and the start of a new war in June 2011. Given the constant political ... -
Education and electoral participation: Reported versus actual voting behaviour
(CMI Working Paper WP 2015:9, Working paper, 2015-08-01)Using survey data of voters in Tanzania, this paper shows that while education does not affect self-reported voting in general elections, it increases actual voting. The less educated are more likely to claim to have voted ... -
Elite behaviour and citizen mobilization
(CMI Working Paper WP 2015:8, Working paper, 2015-08-01)This paper studies the relation between self-serving elite behaviour and citizen political participation. We use a fixed effects approach to analyze the association between portfolio investment in tax havens and voter ... -
Employee referral, social proximity and worker discipline: Theory and Evidence from India
(CMI Working Paper WP 2015:1, Working paper, 2015-02-01)We develop a new theory of employee referrals into informal low - and unskilled jobs in developing country labour markets. Employers use social preferences between referees and new recruits to mitigate moral hazard problems ... -
Expert adoption of composite indices: A randomized experiment on migrant resettlement decisions in Bangladesh
(CMI Working Paper WP 2022:03, Working paper, 2022-11-01)In settings where complex social decisions are made, information is often aggregated into indices to facilitate decision making. The value added of such composite indices depend, inter alia, on the extent to which decision ... -
Exploring the relationship between socio-economic inequality, political instability and economic growth Why do we know so little?
(CMI Working Paper WP 2012:2, Working paper, 2012-02-08)The hypothesis that socio-economic inequality has a detrimental effect on economic growth by breeding political instability has been subject to empirical investigation for decades. However, the numerous studies in the field ... -
Failed governance and political turbulence in Abyei Area of Sudan
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2015:1, Working paper, 2015-03-06)This report is the result of deskwork review of two major documents, signed in 2005 on Abyei area conflict, in order to expose factors that contributed to non-implementation of Abyei Protocol and the rejection, by the Sudan ... -
Female empowerment and education of children in Nepal
(CMI Working Paper WP 2014:7, Working paper, 2014-07-01)A family survey was conducted in Nepal to investigate whether female empowerment leads to more education, in particular for girls. The relative economic power of the male and female side of the extended family was used as ... -
Fertility, household’s size and poverty in Nepal
(CMI Working Paper WP 2014:4, Working paper, 2014-06-01)Population control policies keep on attracting a lot of attention. The main argument in favour of a reduction in fertility rates, is that having more children contributes directly to a household’s poverty. Using the last ... -
Food Security and Agricultural Development in Sudan: The case of Kassala State
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2020:1, Working paper, 2020-07-01)This research discusses the relationship between agricultural development and food security, determinants of supply of (production of food) and demand for (consumption of food) food and determinants of food insecurity in ... -
“For the Guarantee of Law and Order”: The Armed Forces and Public Security in Brazil
(CMI Working Paper WP 2014:11, Working paper, 2014-09-17)The transition to democracy in Brazil came with a significant change in the role the armed forces could play for public security within the country. According to article 142 of the 1988 constitution, the armed forces could ... -
From a Temporary Emergency Shelter to an Urbanized Neighborhood: The Abu Shoak IDP Camp in North Dārfūr
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2016:3, Working paper, 2016-08-01)Introduction In early 2003, two rebel movements (the Sudanese Liberation Army and the Justice and Equality Movement) launched an insurgency against the rule in Khartoum. Supported by Janjaweed tribal militias, the ... -
Gains of the Unfeasible: Manifestations of ‘Leave No One Behind’ in the United Nations’ Humanitarianism
(CMI Working Paper WP 2021:05, Working paper, 2021-09-01)Abstract ‘Leave no one behind’ in the context of the United Nations’ humanitarianism poses a noble ideal yet a challenging practice. The concept showcases terminological prevalence particularly in policy, ... -
Good Governance Facades
(CMI Working Paper WP 2015:2, Working paper, 2015-02-10)Fashions come and go in the development community. When a policy idea becomes popular, some governments implement a cosmetic variant of the policy. What looks like development, are institutional façades; pretty from the ... -
How do host–migrant proximities shape attitudes toward internal climate migrants?
(CMI Working Paper WP 2020:2, Working paper, 2020-02-01)Countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa exposed to the environmental consequences of climate change are predicted to see voluntary and forced internal migration on an unprecedented scale in the coming decades. This ... -
How do voters respond to information on self-serving elite behaviour? Evidence from a randomized survey experiment in Tanzania
(CMI Working Paper WP 2016:9, Working paper, 2016-11-01)Does self-serving elite behaviour make citizens more politically active? This paper presents the results of a randomized field experiment where voters in Tanzania were given information about elite use of tax havens. ... -
Human and financial capital for microenterprise development: Evidence from a field and lab experiment
(CMI Working Paper WP 2011: 1, Working paper, 2011-02-02)Which is the most binding constraint to microenterprise development, human capital or financial capital? To answer this question, we present the first field experiment that jointly investigates these two constraints for ... -
Improved Understanding of FGM/C Abandonment among Sudanese Families in Khartoum and Kassala States
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2020:02, Working paper, 2020-09-01)Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is widely practiced in Sudan, where the Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey (MICS) 2014 in Sudan, showed a prevalence of FGM/C among women and girls ages 15–49 years as 86.6%. ... -
Increasing trust in the bank to enhance savings: Experimental evidence from India
(CMI Working Paper WP 2016:01, Working paper, 2016-01-01)Recent evidence highlights the importance of trust in explaining bank account savings. According to economic theory, repeated interactions can play a crucial role in shaping trust. We designed the first field experiment ...