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- Aid and development: issues and reflections
- M. Tribe / Department of Economics, Strathclyde University, 2013
- This paper aims to explore three areas in the literature on aid and development. The first focuses on Dambisa Moyo’s controversial book Dead Aid (2009), developing some criticisms which were not fully elaborated in the reviews w...
- Revenue reform and statebuilding in Anglophone Africa
- M. Moore / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
- Within the development field, tax administration reform is an area of relative success. Over the past two decades, the national revenue systems of most countries in anglophone Africa have undergone major reforms. These comprise, in pa...
- Syria's uprising: sectarianism, regionalisation, and state order in the Levant
- S. Heydemann / Fride, 2013
- As the Syrian revolution enters its third year, the risks to regional stability are escalating. Violence has spilled over all of Syria's borders. The conflict has elevated sectarian tensions in Lebanon, threatening the 1990 Taif settl...
- "You are all terrorists:” Kenyan police abuse of refugees in Nairobi
- G. Simpson / Human Rights Watch, 2013
- This 68-page report is based on interviews with 101 refugees, asylum seekers, and Kenyans of Somali ethnicity. The report aims to document how police used grenade and other attacks by unknown people in Nairobi’s mainly Somali su...
- Input subsidies and improved maize varieties in Malawi: -What can we learn from the impacts in a drought year?
- S. Holden; J. Mangisoni / Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2013
- After six years with a large scale Farm Input Subsidy Program that enhanced national and household food security high costs resulted in a cut-back of the program in 2011/12 at the same time as the country was hit by a more seriou...
- This tension – between Norwegian selfinterests on the one hand and the question of poverty reduction and social development for the world’s poor on the other - lies at the heart of this report. Nigeria is a very interesting case in this regard: While the country faces enormous challenges in terms of
- L.E. Torheim; M.M. de Paoli; R.D. Bezerra / Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway, 2012
- This tension – between Norwegian selfinterests on the one hand and the question of poverty reduction and social development for the world’s poor on the other - lies at the heart of this report. Nigeria is a very interestin...
- Nigerian Perspectives on the Future Bilateral Free Trade Agreement between Norway and Nigeria
- C. Bu / Norwegian Council for Africa, 2012
- As the multilateral negotiations at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are at a standstill, an increasing number of bilateral trade agreements are being negotiated. In Norway the multilateral negotiations are the responsibility of the...
- Input Subsidies and Demand for Improved Maize: Relative Prices and Household Heterogeneity Matter!
- S. Holden / Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2013
- This study uses simple non-separable farm household models calibrated to household, market, farming and policy context conditions in Central and Southern Malawi. The models are used to simulate how household characteristics, design an...
- Arab Environment : Climate Change. Impact of Cilmate Change on Arab Countries
- 2009
- In this report, the editors state that the Arab countries are in many ways among the most vulnerable in the world to the potential impacts of climate change, as the region already suffers from aridity, recurrent drought and water scar...
- Interventions to increase levels of trust in society
- R. Carter / Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2013
- This literature review aims to detail interventions that have attempted to increase levels of trust in society. It also looks at what the interventions have tried to do and if they were effective. The focus is on ‘trust’ f...
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