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86: Mananging Financial Instability: Why Prudence is not Enough?

Yilmaz Akyüz

84: Assessing the success of microinsurance programmes in meeting the insurance needs of the poor

Paul Mosley

83: Assessing the insurance role of microsavings

David Hulme, Karen Moore and Armando Barrientos

82: Can Microfinance Reduce Economic Insecurity and Poverty? By How Much and How?

Nazrul Islam

81: Insurance, Credit and Safety Nets for the Poor in a World of Risk

Daniel Clarke and Stefan Dercon

80: The Bottom of the Pyramid Strategy for Reducing Poverty: A Failed Promise

Aneel Karnani

78: The Impact of Remittances on Economic Insecurity

Krishnan Sharma

77: Should Financial Flows Be Regulated? Yes

Gerald Epstein

76: Infrastructure finance in developing countries—the potential of sub-sovereign bonds

Daniel Platz

75: Governance, Growth and Poverty Reduction

Mushtaq Khan

74: Impact of the global crisis on the achievement of the MDGs in Latin America

Rob Vos and Marco Sánchez

73: Climate Policy Integration: Towards Operationalization

Imran Ahmad

72: Role of media in curbing corruption: the case of Uganda under President Yoweri K. Museveni during the “no-party” system

Monica Nogara

71: The TRIPS Agreement and Transfer of Climate-Change-Related Technologies to Developing Countries

Matthew Littleton

70: Programmes to Protect the Hungry: Lessons from India

madhura Swaminathan

69: Should there be a coordinated response to the problem of global imbalances? Can there be one?

Barry Eichengreen

68: Latin America and the Caribbean’s Challenge to Reach the MDGs: Financing Options and Trade-offs

Rob Vos, Marco Sánchez and Cornelia Kaldewei

67: Economic liberalization and constraints to development in sub-Saharan africa

Jomo Sundaram and Rudiger L. von Arnim

66: Obstacles To Implementing Lessons from the 1997-1998 East Asian Crises

Jomo Sundaram

65: New Thinking on Poverty: Implications for Globalisation and Poverty Reduction Strategies

Paul Shaffer

64: Excess liquidity, oligopolistic loan markets and monetary policy in LDCs

Tarron Khemraj

63: A Framework for Analyzing Tariffs and Subsidies in Water Provision to Urban Households in Developing Countries

David le Blanc

62: Decent Workplaces, Self-Regulation and CSR: From Puff to Stuff?

Guy Standing

61: Debt Sustainability in Emerging Markets: A Critical Appraisal

Yilmaz Akyüz

60: What does excess bank liquidity say about the loan market in Less Developed Countries?

Tarron Khemraj

59: The Instability and Inequities of the Global Reserve System

José Antonio Ocampo

58: How Cash Transfers Boost Work and Economic Security

Guy Standing

57: The relationship between rainfall and human density and its implications for future water stress in sub-Saharan Africa

David le Blanc and Romain Perez

56: Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Tariq Banuri and Tariq Banuri

55: Corruption and Democracy

Michael Rock

54: Governance, Economic Growth and Development since the 1960s

Mushtaq Khan

53: Industrial Policy and Growth

Helen Shapiro

52: Have Collapses in Infrastructure Spending led to Cross-Country Divergence in Per Capita GDP?

Francisco Rodríguez

51: Openness and growth: what have we learned?

Francisco Rodríguez

50: What we do and don’t know about trade liberalization and poverty reduction

Rob Vos

49: Growth, employment and poverty: An analysis of the vital nexus based on some recent UNDP and ILO/SIDA studies

Azizur Khan

48: A Compendium of Policy Instruments to Enhance Financial Stability and Debt Management in Emerging Market Economies

Ronald U. Mendoza

47: Labour Market Flexibility and Decent Work

Gerry Rodgers

46: Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment

Martha Chen

45: Inequality in India: A survey of recent trends

Parthapratim Pal and Jayati Ghosh

44: A growth model for a two-sector economy with endogenous productivity

Codrina Rada von Arnim

43: The conflict-growth nexus and the poverty of nations

Syed Murshed

42: Modernizing the informal sector

Victor Tokman

41: Developing Countries, Donor Leverage, and Access to Bird Flu Vaccines

Chee Khoon Chan and Gilles de Wildt

40: Transforming the developmental welfare states in East Asia

Kwon, Huck-ju

39: A counter-cyclical framework for a development-friendly international financial architecture

José Antonio Ocampo and Griffith-Jones, Stephany

38: Central banks as agents of employment creation

Gerald Epstein

37: Regional Social Policy

Bob Deacon, Isabel Ortiz and Sergei Zelenev

36: Constraints to achieving the MDGs through domestic resource mobilization

Rob Vos, Marco Sanchez and Keiji Inoue

35: Globalizing Inequality: ‘Centrifugal’ and ‘Centripetal’ Forces at Work

José Palma