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Trust in public finance: citizens' view on taxation by local authorities in Tanzania
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004This 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.DocumentIntersections of human rights and customs: a livelihood perspective on water laws
Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2005Does 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?DocumentPalestinian state-formation: prospects and challenges: report from a symposium at Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway 24 – 25 May 2004
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004This 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.DocumentRural taxation in Uganda: implications for growth, income distribution, local government revenue and poverty reduction
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004This report examines the process of policy change in Uganda with respect to local government taxation.DocumentNorway and the NGO channel: the case of South Africa
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004This paper examines the role of Norwegian NGOs in relation to South Africa.DocumentThe location of natural resources database
International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2004This 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.DocumentPeasant and the liberalization of agriculture in Indonesia
Development Fund, Norway, 2003This 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.DocumentPopular development and democracy: case studies with rural dimensions in the Philippines, Indonesia and Kerala
Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway, 2002This 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.DocumentUnderstanding environment, conflict, and cooperation
United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2004This 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.DocumentClassification of natural resources for armed civil conflict research
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2003This paper focuses on recent research that identifies natural resource abundance as a factor that significantly increases the risk of conflict.Pages
