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  Trust in public finance: citizens' view on taxation by local authorities in Tanzania

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004

  This paper looks at persistent public resistance to paying local taxes in Tanzania, as evidenced by widespread tax evasion and non-payment of fees and charges. In the standard economic model of taxpayer behaviour, the perceived quality of the government does not influence the level of taxes remitted.
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  Intersections of human rights and customs: a livelihood perspective on water laws

  Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2005

  Does a human rights approach to water actually support to the multiple ways in which men and women actually share and manage water in rural contexts?
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  Palestinian state-formation: prospects and challenges: report from a symposium at Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway 24 – 25 May 2004

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004

  This paper reports on a CMI - Muwatin symposium, held in Bergen on 24-25 May 2004, addressing both internal and external challenges to Palestinian state-formation and identifing important issues for future research in the PA.
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  Rural taxation in Uganda: implications for growth, income distribution, local government revenue and poverty reduction

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004

  This report examines the process of policy change in Uganda with respect to local government taxation.
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  Norway and the NGO channel: the case of South Africa

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004

  This paper examines the role of Norwegian NGOs in relation to South Africa.
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  The location of natural resources database

  International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2004

  This paper examines how natural resources can be disaggregated by type and geographic location, and how such data can be manipulated using geographic information systems to create a database.The author discusses the perceived link between global natural resources distribution and armed conflict.
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  Peasant and the liberalization of agriculture in Indonesia

  Development Fund, Norway, 2003

  This paper examines the process of agricultural liberalization in Indonesia, developing wider implications for the countryside peasants who makes up an estimated 70% of the population and are heavily involved in agriculture.
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  Popular development and democracy: case studies with rural dimensions in the Philippines, Indonesia and Kerala

  Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway, 2002

  This report takes a holistic approach is discussing popular development and democracy. The report examines the theoretical aspects of popular discourse in relation to development and democracy, including the mainstreaming arguments and analytical frameworks.
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  Understanding environment, conflict, and cooperation

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2004

  This report seeks to guide researchers and policymakers in their understanding of the complex set of connections that tie environment, conflict and cooperation.Chapters from this report emerged from the workshop’s discussions of analysis, institutional responses, integrated assessment and early warning systems.
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  Classification of natural resources for armed civil conflict research

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2003

  This paper focuses on recent research that identifies natural resource abundance as a factor that significantly increases the risk of conflict.

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