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The latest news on NUPI's research.
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The hidden consequences of Covid-19
1 Mar 2021It is no secret that the consequences of the pandemic we are now in the midst of, are enormous. But did you know that covid-19 may contribute to a reversal of the global work on women's rights? Or that it may lead to a dramatic decrease in peace operations?
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NUPI awarded funding for five research projects by the Research Council of Norway
16 Dec 2020The Research Council of Norway awarded NUPI funding for five new research projects.
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Did British colonial rule in Africa foster a legacy of corruption among local elites?
30 Oct 2020The empowerment of chiefs during colonial rule fostered a legacy of corruption more potent than the formal legal system left behind by the colonisers.
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Kickoff Workshop for the DeFacto Project
2 Oct 2020The kickoff workshop for the ‘Dynamics of de facto state patron-client relations’ (DeFacto) project was held on September 16, 2020.
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Africa, Tax and the Digital Economy
4 Sep 2020Are the giant tech companies paying their fair share of taxes? Challenges facing African countries in the digital economy.
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Norwegians adapting to a changing world
17 Jun 2020The world as we have come to know it is changing. How do Norwegians respond to these changes? What are their views of Norwegian foreign policy?
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China from careful participant to budding development partner
30 Mar 2020While the rest of the world is shutting down China is restarting its machinery after months of strict infection measures. China’s role as a development actor may grow.
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New project examines root causes of migration in Africa and the Middle East
27 Sep 2019What is the relationship between migration and development?
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Tax and fragile states: Challenges for Norwegian development assistance
10 Sep 2019States need revenue to function and an efficient tax system plays an important role. Can Norwegian development assistance contribute to this?
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New report on China and multilateral development banks
21 Jan 2019China is strengthening its position within international development finance and monetary cooperation.
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Is taxation the new politics of development?
17 Dec 2018According to scholars in the field of development studies, taxation might be the missing piece to the puzzle of peace- and state-building.
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ANALYSIS: Kurdish State-building and the Struggle for Natural Resources in Iraq
11 Dec 2018What role do taxation and natural resource management have in Kurdish state-building?
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Transboundary collaboration on conservation and natural resources in East Africa
5 Dec 2018How can transboundary collaboration on conservation and the management of natural resources transform a zone of war into more peaceful coexistence? The case of Uganda-Rwanda-DR Congo holds some promise.
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Tax is the new gender issue
3 Jul 2018- Ingrid Hjertaker
Increasing attention has been given to the way tax regimes affect women’s lives. Not only is capital flight now considered in a human rights perspective, taxation policies are also becoming relevant for gender equality issues and women’s rights.
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Analysing the political economy in eleven of Norway’s partner countries
22 Jun 2018Project Manager Stein Sundstøl Eriksen gives three key recommendations for Norwegian authorities.
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How to do development studies?
4 Jun 2018Forum for Development Studies addresses the absence of a designated method.
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BOOK: Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform and Development
9 May 2018New book on Taxation in Africa by Mick Moore (ICTD), Wilson Prichard (ICTD) and Odd-Helge Fjeldstad (CMI).
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The challenges of illicit economies and financial flows
2 May 2018– Illicit economies pitch the advantages of borderless transport, communications and financial flows against legal systems that remain bound by the confines of the Westphalian nation state. What to do?
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REPORT: Building tax systems in fragile states
13 Apr 2018New report from the TaxCapDev network recommends nine entry points for Norwegian support to taxation in fragile states.
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Nils Klim Prize awarded to NUPI researcher
13 Mar 2018"An outstanding political scientist and ideally suited as a role model for younger researchers." This is how the jury characterizes this year’s Nils Klim Prize laureate, Francesca R. Jensenius.
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NEW ARTICLE: The Digitalization Trap
22 Jan 2018Digitalization of poor countries is a good thing, but too little attention has been paid to the accompanying problems, according to NUPI Senior Research Fellow Niels Nagelhus Schia.
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The challenge of taxation in African countries
18 Oct 2017Tax is the key to development, but African countries are facing several domestic as well as international challenges. What may be the solutions? This was the main question discussed among leading researchers at the plenary session in Bergen in August.
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Global tax justice at crossroads
8 Aug 2017In a world of Trump and Brexit – who makes international tax policy?
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Quotas – what to expect?
20 Jun 2017At one level, the effects of quotas may prove to be less impressive than many have hoped – or even feared. But at another, the consequences may be greater than we have been realized.
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How to stop illicit financial flows
26 May 2017Tax evasion and terror financing are among the issues that make up illicit financial flows.
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New Study: Illicit Financial Flows in Developing Countries Large and Persistent
3 May 2017Illicit financial flows (IFF) from developing countries are increasing and the numbers are large; approximately 1 trillion US$ in outflows was estimated in 2014 alone.
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Special Issue: Forum for Development Studies
21 Mar 2017What is new and different about development as it goes more global today?
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The paradox of gender equality
7 Mar 2017‘Development doesn’t necessarily promote equal opportunities’, says Francesca Refsum Jensenius.
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Cooperation for development
21 Feb 2017Should development and foreign policies be integrated for better achieving their goals?
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“Survival of the Richest”
21 Dec 2016New report evaluates Norway’s effort to curtail tax evasion: acceptable work in some areas, but completely fails in the field of tax treaties. – Norwegian tax treaties are directly harmful to developing countries, according to the report from Eurodad.
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New Tax Haven in Nairobi?
13 Dec 2016Will the establishment of the new International Financial Centre in Nairobi (NIFC) be the key to the development of Kenya’s economy, or will it turn out to be just another tax haven?
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Developing countries are worlds net creditors
7 Dec 2016Developing countries have effectively served as net-creditors to the rest of the world with tax havens playing a major role in the flight of unrecorded capital, according to a new report from research project in the SkattJakt -network.
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Lifting the Veil of Secrecy - Tax Havens and Developing countries
23 Nov 2016Tax havens and developing countries – How do we curtail the increasing illicit financial flow from developing countries and which consequences do we see? Leading researchers and experts met in Bergen 21-22 November to discuss and present state-of-the-art research.
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The cyber-frontier
10 Aug 2016How does digitalization lead to new kinds of global connections and disconnections in the developing countries? And which role does digitalization play for the UN's sustainable development goals? NUPI researchers set out to explore this in a new research project that maps...
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Liberia - You'll never walk alone?
26 May 2016For the past 13 years, the UN has ensured peace and security in Liberia. Now this West African country must paddle its own canoe – but it is still a weak state, marked by recession and political rivalry.
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How do we secure a fragile peace?
25 May 2016Give peace a chance. The role of the UN Peacebuilding Architecture in strengthening the nexus between security and development.
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What forms a state?
23 May 2016Senior Research Fellow Randi Solhjell (NUPI) examined waste management, water and electricity in DR Congo to investigate statehood in her PhD thesis.
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What are the West's greatest security threats now ?
7 Apr 2016Professor at LSE Christopher Coker is sharing his views in a video interview at NUPI.
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Award-winning article on quotas for the 'untouchables' in India
15 Mar 2016NUPI's Senior Research Fellow Francesca R. Jensenius is the winner of the Chr. Michelsen’s prize for outstanding development research, 2016.
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Young research talent at NUPI
16 Dec 2015Gender-discriminatiory legislation is on the research agenda of NUPI’s Francesca R. Jensenius for the next four years. The funding comes from a prestigious FRIPRO award.
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Unpacking EU crisis response
9 Nov 2015How does the EU respond to crises? This is the key question posed by a group of NUPI researchers who have succeeded in the competition for funding within the world’s largest research programme.
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Conflicting theory and practice
30 Oct 2015Donor mechanisms for control and recipients’ desires for autonomy often collide in the development aid universe, shows a NUPI researcher in a recent book.
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Defining the Peacekeeping Economy
19 Oct 2015Peacekeeping is difficult, and being a peacekeeper is not easy either. But for the local people living in the midst of a large-scale peacekeeping mission, life is even more precarious.