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The latest news on NUPI's research.
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Debunking renewable energy myths
11 Sep 2019Indra Øverland has examined four assumptions about renewable energy and geopolitics.
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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 CADGAT Data Reviews on 261 Belt and Road (BRI) Projects in Central Asia
28 Aug 2019One of the main observations from the research is that nobody really knows what a BRI project is and what it is not.
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PODCAST: Democratic capitalism in crisis?
12 Sep 2018Wolfgang Streeck explains what he means when he says that that democratic capitalism is in crisis – and shares his take on how the crisis evolved.
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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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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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NEW BOOK: Is Russia turning its back on the West?
17 Jan 2018Has Russia strengthened its ties to East Asia – pulled back from the West?
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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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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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“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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Considerable gain with TTIP
2 Nov 2016If Norway chooses to join the potential trade agreement between USA and the EU (TTIP), this will gain Norwegian economy considerably, according to a report on TTIP that was published on Wednesday.
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China's Future?
24 May 2016What is China's future? What will it take for China to escape the middle income trap and graduate to become a mature developed economy? And how is China's economy linked to its political system?
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China’s Modern Global Relations
6 Jan 2016How will China's current foreign relations be affected as the country becomes more comfortable with its great power status? This is one of the questions Senior Research Fellow at NUPI, Marc Lanteigne, asks in the book Chinese Foreign Policy: An Introduction, which was released...
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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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China’s Currency Devaluation: A Butterfly Effect?
20 Aug 2015The devaluation created many ripple effects in other markets, especially in Asia but also in the US and Europe, writes Dr. Marc Lanteigne.
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Norway benefits from the Asian miracle
26 May 2014Asia's economic growth in recent years has been exceptional. Norway has profited a lot from the Asian miracle, with rapid growth in exports and investments, a new NUPI Report shows.
