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    Distributing mining wealth to communities in Ghana: Addressing problems of elite capture and political corruption

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2013
    In the context of a mining boom in Africa, a critical consideration is how governments use increased mineral wealth to foster development, particularly in rural communities where mining takes place.
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    Leaking projects: Corruption and local water management in Kyrgyzstan

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2013
    Poor water infrastructure in Kyrgyzstan from the Soviet era led international donors to support investments in agricultural irrigation and potable freshwater systems. The financial investments made, however, did not always underpin improvements in local water delivery and the Kyrgyz Vice President once noted that “the lion’s share of the credit was stolen”.
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    Project Leaf and addressing corruption in REDD+

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2013
    Project Leaf (Law Enforcement Assistance for Forests) was launched on 5 June, 2012 – on World Environment Day. It is an initiative to counter various aspects of forest crime, including corruption, illegal logging and timber trafficking.
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    Who rules Nigeria?

    Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2012
    Nigeria has experienced military coups, a civil war and very poor economic development, and its population is more impoverished today than at independence. Behind this lies the “oil curse”. The ruling elite has captured the rents generated from oil for personal enrichment and power purposes. Nigeria’s elite formation has three distinct characteristics.
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    Wildlife Management in Tanzania: State Control, Rent Seeking and Community Resistance

    Development and Change Journal, 2013
    Despite a decade of rhetoric on community conservation, current trends in Tanzania reflect a disturbing process of reconsolidation of state control over wildlife resources and increased rent-seeking behaviour, combined with dispossession of communities.
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    REDD+, Indigenous peoples, The role of the state, NGOs and other actors, Monitoring, Implementation and tenure rights

    Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway, 2012
    This brief summarises relevant findings regarding the emergence of the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) scheme in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It draws evidence from several Masters theses published by Norwegian institutions between 2009 and 2012 as well as from presentations in the Beyond Carbon conference organized by
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    Monitoring in REDD+

    Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway, 2012
    KEY MESSAGES
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    The proxy challenge: why bespoke proxy indicators can help solve the anti-corruption measurement problem

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2013
    The 2013 Proxy Challenge Competition invites academics and practitioners to present specific proposals for indicators that would be good proxy measures for anti-corruption results. Proxy indicators are alternatives to “direct” indicators that more directly measure the phenomenon under study but that may be hard to operationalise or require overly costly data collection.
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    Rule of law and environmental justice in the forests: The challenge of 'strong law enforcement' in corrupt conditions

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2013
    Widespread illegal forest activities have contributed to deforestation, forest degradation, economic losses to nations and injustices for forest communities in many countries. Promoting rule of law, particularly through ‘strengthening law enforcement’, is an important part of improving forest management and ensuring justice for forest dependent communities.
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    A qualitative reframing of private sector corruption: considerations from the natural resource sectors in South Africa

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2013
    The currently used concept of private sector corruption does not cover new types of corruption that have emerged in response to the increasing complexity of the public-private boundary and the effects of more liberalized markets.

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