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    Towards REDD+ Integrity: opportunities and challenges for Indonesia

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2015
    Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) has become a cornerstone of Indonesia’s forest sector policies. Given corruption risks in the sector, a number of policies and initiatives – both specifically linked to REDD+ and to broader national reform efforts – have been launched to ensure that risks of corruption in REDD+ are minimised.
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    Expanding foreign investment in the energy sector: Challenges and risks for Bangladesh?

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2014
    Our recent research indicates that increased corruption brings increased foreign direct investment (FDI) in the extractive industries. Moreover, corruption has no effect on FDI in the energy provision industries. This brief focuses on the lessons Bangladesh can draw from these findings in meeting future energy needs.
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    Diversification of the Angolan economy

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2014
    Angola has the second most concentrated economy in the world, oil representing more than 97 per cent of its exports in 2011. Concentration has increased since independence in 1975, and since the end of the civil war in 2002. This policy brief takes a look at the current state of diversification in Angola and its evolution in the decades going back to independence.
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    The overlooked role of elites in African grassroots conflicts: A case study of the Dinka-Mundari-Bari conflict in Southern Sudan

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2014
    Many analysts of grassroots conflicts in African emphasized one of the following factors to be the most important: ethnic divisions, competition over resources or competition between pastoralists and agriculturalists. The role of elites has been down played in such conflicts.
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    Beyond the thumrule approach: regulatory Innovations for bioprospecting in India

    2015
    In the wake of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS), there is unprecedented attention on good Green Governance, which implies the development of resource efficient, rights based and effective domestic frameworks to regulate bioprospecting. India has been pioneering in this regard due to its ABS legislation in 2002 that long preceded the Nagoya Protocol.
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    The social uses of livestock among pastoralists in Sudan: food systems, stores of value, wealth, power, and authority

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2014
    The impact of livestock on the economy of Sudan and its social uses within the pastoral sector are of great importance in the future development of the country. The role of livestock is that of a food system and store of value, wealth, power, and authority in areas where pastoralists practice their daily life without being reached by modern banking systems and market economy.
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    Good governance facades

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2015
    Fashions come and go in the development community. When a policy idea becomes popular, some governments implement a cosmetic variant of the policy. What looks like development, are institutional façades; pretty from the outside, ugly from the inside. A good governance façade can be introduced deliberately to mislead observers and stakeholders to cover political theft.
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    Lessons for global health from global environmental governance

    Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2015
    Global health governance has developed beyond the consideration of different policy choices; it now encompasses the design of sophisticated collective action processes that involve both state and non-state actors and aim to address increasingly complex transnational challenges.
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    The Colombian Land Restitution Programme – Process, results and challenges, with special emphasis on women

    Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2014
    The majority of the more than 5 million IDPs in Colombia have lost their land due the conflict. This report describes the ongoing process of land restitution. The process is slow, and few want to return to the countryside. Women are given special attention, and are registered as equal owners to men. The land restitution process also discloses several challeng
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    Impacts of large-scale investments in agriculture on water resources, ecosystems and livelihoods; and development of policy options for decision makers

    GRID Arendal, 2014
    The goal of this project  is to analyze the nature and extent of impacts of foreign direct investments (FDI) in agriculture in Africa.

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