Legal Regimes and Women's Economic Agency (WomEcon)
The project's objective is to improve our understanding of how legal regimes and legal changes affect the economic agency of different subgroupes of women across the world...
Skattjakt-konferansen 2016
Kva konsekvensar har ulovleg kapitalflukt for utviklingsland? Kva blir gjort for å hindre multinasjonale selskaps unndraging av skatt? Kor stor betydning har skatteparadis for ulovleg kapitalflukt?
Fører demokratisering til betre skattlegging? Erfaringar frå Benin
På dette seminaret vil Dr Piccolino diskutere om demokratisering fører til høgare skatteinntekter. Ho bruker Benin som døme, eit låginntekstland med ei vellykka demokratisering frå tidleg 1990-tal.
The humanitarian–development nexus in Northern Uganda
The instituted order of humanitarianism is both changing and challenged by shifting circumstances in the area in which humanitarian organisations operate. This article addresses the transition between humanitarian action and development aid in Northern Uganda, a transition that was driven by and large by the host government’s ambition to reassert its humanitarian sovereignty in the area, enabled by its discursive recast of the situation from one of crisis to one of recovery and development. This recast happened in spite of the persistent humanitarian sufferings and needs in the post-conflict area. Yet, it drove humanitarian donors and organisations to reorient their work. While some withdrew, others moved into more development oriented aid, showing organisational malleability and that the humanitarian principles are losing their regulatory hold over humanitarian action. In response to the transition, some originations payed heed to the sanctity of the humanitarian principles fearing jeopardising the humanitarian space, while other took a pragmatic stance to continue assist the civilians regardless how the situation was being portrayed. Hence, this article, demonstrating the formation of a humanitarian—development nexus, speaks to the wider debates about the relationship between humanitarian principles and pragmatic approaches and the evolving humanitarian mission creep – all central to general debates about the nature and future of humanitarianism.