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Household Bargaining and Spending on Children: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
(Economica vol. 88, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-04-01)This paper studies whether an increase in women's intrahousehold bargaining power causes couples to allocate more resources to their child's education, and, if so, what the underlying mechanisms for this might be. We conduct ... -
Household wellbeing and coping strategies in Africa during COVID-19 – Findings from high frequency phone surveys
(CMI Report 2020:4, Research report, 2020-12-01)This report provides data on household wellbeing in countries in sub-Saharan Africa following the Covid-19 pandemic. The focus is on employment and income, food security, and coping mechanisms, and on access to education ... -
Household wellbeing and coping strategies in Africa during COVID-19. Updated Findings from high frequency phone surveys
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Housing and 'Inverse Governmentality' in Maputo, Mozambique
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How (not) to enhance women's access to dignified work and earnings?
(Research report, 2024-05-01)This evidence review analyzes the effectiveness of skills training programs in increasing women's access to dignified work and improving their earnings. The review synthesizes findings from diverse contexts to evaluate how ... -
How (not) to improve health worker performance
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How can Technical Assistance support the Implementation of UNCAC? U4 Background Paper for the International Cooperation Workshop on Technical Assistance for the Implementation of UNCAC, Montevideo, May 2007
(U4 Background paper 2007:1, Research report, 2007-01-01)At the first Conference of States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC), held in Jordan in December 2006, participants agreed to establish a working group to promote the coordination of ... -
How can women benefit from private sector development?
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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. ... -
How does litigation affect health financing?
(Technical Brief Series Brief No 15, Research report, 2010-01-01)In the last fifteen years, judicial claims to secure health services as a matter of right have become an important phenomenon in a number of countries including South Africa, India, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, and Costa ... -
How donors use Due Diligence to identify corruption risks
(U4 Issue 2022:11, Research report, 2022-09-01)Due Diligence makes it possible for donors to detect corruption risks involving potential partners at an early stage. Although a key project milestone, Due Diligence can place a burden on small NGOs with a less structured ... -
How much ‘Soft Power’ does China have in Africa?
(China's media and soft power in Africa: Promotion and perceptions, Chapter, 2016-01-01)I have over the past years been intrigued by why Chinese scholars and policy makers have found the term ‘soft power’1 so useful. Can it have something to with its loose connotations, and that it one the hand signifies ... -
How prepared are we to assess real implementation of anti corruption conventions? Lessons from the Americas
(U4 Issue 2009:3, Research report, 2009-03-31)The United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) is the latest achievement in a series of international anti corruption treaties. All of them share a common challenge – how to meaningfully assess their implementation. ... -
How Pro-poor are Land Rental Markets in Ethiopia?
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How to make the UN Convention against Corruption’s Implementation Review Mechanism more effective
(U4 Brief 2024:6, Report, 2024-10-01)UNCAC is the only legally binding universal anti-corruption instrument. Reforming its Implementation Review Mechanism would enable it to live up to its potential of effecting meaningful change. -
How to monitor and evaluate anti-corruption agencies: Guidelines for agencies, donors, and evaluators
(U4 Issue 2011:8, Research report, 2011-09-26)The number of Anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) around the world has increased dramatically over the past decades. Nevertheless, the value of ACAs is increasingly being questioned by international donors and national ... -
Huge potential for improved health service quality
(CMI Brief vol. 10 no. 10, Report, 2011-10-25)Health workers’ knowledge and skills are much better than their practice suggests. By closing the gap between knowledge and action, the quality of health services will increase substantially. -
Huge potential for improved health service quality
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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 ...