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Income Risk, Coping Strategies and Safety Nets

Stefan Dercon

Testing for a Significant Change in the Egyptian Economy under the Economic Reform Programme Era

Mohammed Omran

Long-run Trends and Recent Developments in Official Assistance from Donor Countries

Howard White

Does Internet Connectivity Affect Export Performance? Evidence from Transition Economies

George R.G. Clarke

Financial Crises and National Policy Issues: An Overview

Ricardo Ffrench-Davis

Welfare Implications of Fiscal Reform: The Case of Food Subsidies in India

Sonia Radhika Bhalotra

Donors' Support for Microcredit as Social Enterprise: A Critial Reappraisal

Machiko Nissanke

Consumer Participation and Pro-Poor Regulation in Latin America

Cecilia Ugaz

Bilateral Official Finance for Private Sector Development and the Role of Non-Government Organizations

Ayodele Jimoh

Institutional Investors, Corporate Ownership, and Corporate Governance: Global Perspectives

Stuart L. Gillan and Laura T. Starks

Internet Use in Transition Economies: Economic and Institutional Determinants

Patrice Muller

By How Much Does Conflict Reduce Financial Development?

Tony Addison, Abdur Chowdhury and S. Mansoob Murshed

Income Inequality and Growth in Transition Economies: Are Nonlinear Models Needed?

Guanghua Wan

Building Institutions in Post-Conflict African Economies

Janine Aron

Financing the Provision of Global Public Goods

P.B. Anand

Inequality and Risk

Marcel Fafchamps

Insolvency and Debt Recovery Procedures in Economic Development: An Overview of African Law

Clas Wihlborg

Risk Sharing and Public Transfers

Stefan Dercon and Pramila Krishnan

Hardening a Soft Budget Constraint Through 'Upward Devolution' to a Supranational Institution: The Case of Italian State-Owned Firms and the European Union

Elisabetta Bertero and Laura Rondi

Legal and Institutional Barriers to Optimal Financial Architecture for New Economy Firms in Developing Countries

Danny Cassimon and Peter-Jan Engelen

Can Food-for-Work Programmes Reduce Vulnerability?

Christopher B. Barrett, Stein Terje Holden and Daniel C. Clay

What Determines Public Education Expenditures in a Transition Economy?

Inna Verbina and Abdur Chowdhury

Institutional Reforms and the Role of Multilateral Aid Agencies

Sylvanus Ikhide

The Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Employment and Wages in Tunisian Industries

Ilham Haouas, Mahmoud Yagoubi and Almas Heshmati

Ratings since the Asian Crisis

Helmut Reisen

Debt Issues in Africa: Thinking beyond the HIPC Initiative to Solving Structural Problems

Alemayehu Geda

Does a Switch of Budget Regimes Constrain Managerial Discretion? Evidence for Italian Public Enterprises' Investment

Elisabetta Bertero and Laura Rondi

Inter-Country Variations in Digital Technology in Africa: Evidence, Determinants, and Policy Applications

Steve Onyeiwu

Financial Regulation and Supervision in Emerging Markets. The Experience of Latin America since the Tequila Crisis

Barbara Stallings and Rogerio Studart

How Optimal are the Extremes? Latin American Exchange Rate Policies During the Asian Crisis

Ricardo Ffrench-Davis and Guillermo Larrain

The Macroeconomic Repercussions of Agricultural Shocks and their Implications for Insurance

Paul Collier

Risk-Sharing and Endogenous Network Formation

Joachim De Weerdt

Innovative Sources of Development Finance: Global Cooperation in the Twenty-first Century

Raghbendra Jha

Achieving Sustainable Universal Primary Education through Debt Relief: The Case of Kenya

Nancy N. Nafula

Comparative Appraisal of Multilateral and Bilateral Approaches to Financing Private Sector Development in Developing Countries

Peter Gibbon and Lau Schulpen

Quantitative Restrictions on the Flow of Narcotics: Supply and Demand Restraints in a North-South Macro-model

S. Mansoob Murshed

Waiving and Drowning? Debt and the Millennium Declaration Development Goals

Stephen Browne

The Uncertainty of Debt Service Payments and Economic Growth of HIPCs: Is there a Case for Debt Relief?

Geske Dijkstra and Niels Hermes

Information Technology and the Dynamics of Firm and Industrial Structure

Kenneth L. Simons

Angola's Incomplete Transition

Renato Aguilar

Economics of China's Joint-Stock Co-operatives

Laixiang SUN

Can HIPC Reduce Poverty in Tanzania?

Anders Danielson

Determinants of Income Inequality and its Effects on Economic Growth: Evidence from African Countries

Matthew Odedokun and Jeffery . Round

Incentive Structure and Efficiency in the Kenyan Civil Service

Damiano Kulundu Manda

New Economy and ICT Development in China

Qingxuan Meng and Mingzhi Li

The Politics of Revenue Sharing in Resource-Dependent States

Jeffrey Herbst

Changes in Poverty Profile in China

Shi Li

Income Distribution Policies For Faster Poverty Reduction

Tony Addison and Giovanni Andrea Cornia

Sovereign Debt and Uncertainty in the Mozambican Economy

Constantino J. Gode

Globalization and the Island Economies of the South Pacific

Rukmani Gounder and V. Xayavong