Browsing Publications by Document Types "Working paper"
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Informal Cross-Border Trade in Eastern Sudan A Case Study from Kassala and Gedarif States
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2015:6, Working paper, 2015-01-01)Informal trade in pre-colonial Africa, sometimes in the form of barter, was one of the mechanisms of social interaction between various ethnic groups and jurisdictions. It was an alternative to the state of hostility and ... -
Infrastructure policy and governance failures
(CMI Working Paper WP 2012:5, Working paper, 2012-09-19)Interventions to fix market failures in infrastructure have often resulted in some form of governance failure and this contributes importantly to explain shortcomings in the supply of infrastructure services in developing ... -
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. ... -
Intergenerational determinants of occupational choice: The case of international labor migration from Nepal
(CMI Working Paper WP 2013:2, Working paper, 2013-01-01)We study the deep determinants of occupational choice, with a focus on what appears to be a particularly profitable pathway out of poverty, overseas labor migration. To what extent is this choice constrained by access to ... -
Is it the Fault of NGOs Alone? Aid and Dependency in Eastern Sudan
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2008: 5, Working paper, 2008-06-01)Scholars of development studies have long debated the efficacy of humanitarian assistance in the Sudan, especially in eastern Sudan, where humanitarian agencies have been working for more than two decades. Questions about ... -
Islamic Feminism, a public lecture
(CMI Sudan Working Paper SWP 2014:1, Working paper, 2014-11-07)The programme Assisting Regional Universities in Sudan and South Sudan (ARUSS) aims to build academic bridges between Sudan and South Sudan. The overall objective is to enhance the quality and relevance of teaching and ... -
Kinship, Caste and Health: Illness and Treatment in Upland Orissa
(CMI Working Paper WP 2018:6, Working paper, 2018-04-01)This paper investigates whether an individual’s relationship to the head of household and caste are associated with the level of his or her morbidity and, in the event of illness, the treatment received. Surveys of 279 ... -
Labor-intensive jobs for women and development: Intrahousehold welfare effects and its transmission channels
(CMI Working Paper WP 2015:15, Working paper, 2015-01-01)We examine the welfare impacts of women getting low-skilled jobs and find large positive effects, both at the household and the individual level. However, the women workers, their husbands and their oldest daughters reduced ... -
Latin American Civil-Military Relations in a Historical Perspective: A Literature Review
(CMI Working Paper WP 2014:6, Working paper, 2014-07-01)Civil-military relations constitute a crucial element in the transition to substantive democracy all over the world. During periods of authoritarianism or civil war, the military in Latin America has been responsible for ... -
Lobbying and the shaping of tax policies in Tanzania
(CMI Working Paper WP 2021:07, Working paper, 2021-11-01)This paper explores the role of interest groups in shaping tax policies in Tanzania. Tracing the various stages behind the VAT Act 2014 in Tanzania, weighing the various interests, lobbyists and political actors, the study ... -
Local content requirements in the petroleum sector in Tanzania: A thorny road from inception to implementation?
(CMI Working Paper WP 2016:6, Working paper, 2016-08-01)Abstract Tanzania has recently discovered huge offshore natural gas fields. This has led the Government to develop local content policies (LCPs) to increase job and business opportunities for nationals in the sector. We ... -
Local government revenue mobilisation in Anglophone Africa
(CMI Working Paper WP 2012:6, Working paper, 2012-10-03)This paper examines opportunities and constraints facing local revenue mobilization in Anglophone Africa with an emphasis on urban settings. Specific revenue instruments and their effects on economic efficiency, income ... -
Local government taxation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A review and an agenda for research
(CMI Working Paper WP 2014:2, Working paper, 2014-03-01)This paper reviews the state of knowledge on local government revenue systems in Africa, with a particular focus on commonalties and differences between Francophone and Anglophone countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The ... -
Lost in Translation. Understanding the Nuba as a Movement Between Epistemic Territories – between difference and sameness, between contingency and continuity
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2015:2, Working paper, 2015-03-19)The paper is a broad discussion focusing on the Nuba people of the Sudan. The starting point for the reflections is the issue of “translation” in which the author argues for a continued focus on epistemological work to ... -
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 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 ... -
Mobility, Entitlement and Perceptions of Inequality
(CMI Working Paper WP 2017:2, Working paper, 2017-02-01)This paper proposes a model how individuals form beliefs on inequality based on their own and their family’s experience. A person’s income is determined by their effort and family background. Individuals do not know the ... -
Most people are not economists: Citizen preferences for corporate taxation
(CMI Working Paper WP 2018:11, Working paper, 2018-11-01)On what bases should corporations be taxed? This article presents evidence from a series of discrete choice experiments designed to elicit the tax preferences of ordinary citizens. We find that respondents favour higher ... -
Myopic preferences or subsistence income? Why do rickshaw cyclists rent the cycle?
(CMI Working Paper WP 2012:1, Working paper, 2012-01-27)One year rent is sufficient to buy a rickshaw in the plains of Nepal, while a rickshaw will last many years, so purchase appears very profitable. Still most cyclists rent the rickshaw. Based on choices made by rickshaw ... -
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 ...