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18762: Heuristic Considerations on the Typology of Groups and Minorities

Hartmut Ihne

18761: NATURE'S BLESSING OR NATURE'S CURSE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TRANSITION IN RESOURCE-BASED ECONOMIES

Akram Esanov, Martin Raiser and Willem Buiter

18760: FOOD SECURITY IN TRANSITION COUNTRIES: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES AND CROSS-COUNTRY ANALYSES

Peter Wehrheim and Doris M. Wiesmann

18759: "DEVELOPMENT BOX" AND SPECIAL AND DIFFERENTIAL TREATMENT FOR FOOD SECURITY OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: POTENTIALS, LIMITATIONS AND IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES

Joachim von Braun, Peter Wobst and Ulrike Grote

18758: WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR THE TELEPHONE SERVICE IN BANGLADESH AND PERU

Maximo Torero, Shyamal Chowdhury and Virgilio Galdo

18757: On the Economics of Refugee Flows

Oded Stark

18756: PROSPECTS OF MULTICULTURAL REGIONALISM AS A DEMOCRATIC BARRIER AGAINST ETHNONATIONALISM

Ana Devic

18755: ATTAINING UNIVERSAL ACCESS: PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP AND BUSINESS-NGO PARTNERSHIP

Shyamal Chowdhury

18754: DISPLACEMENT DUE TO VIOLENCE IN COLOMBIA: DETERMINANTS AND CONSEQUENCES AT THE HOUSEHOLD LEVEL

Stefanie Kirchhoff and Ana Ibáñez

18753: PROJECTING THE BENEFITS OF GOLDEN RICE IN THE PHILIPPINES

Roukayatou Zimmermann and Matin Qaim

18752: JOINT FOREST MANAGEMENT IN INDIA: ASSESSMENT OF PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATION OF IMPACTS

Appukuttannair Damodaran and Stefanie Engel

18751: ON THE DEMAND FOR GRANDCHILDREN: TIED TRANSFERS AND THE DEMONSTRATION EFFECT

Donald Cox and Oded Stark

18750: THE PROBLEM OF COURT CONGESTION: EVIDENCE FROM INDIAN LOWER COURTS

Maja B. Micevska and Arnab K. Hazra

18749: DYNASTIES AND DESTINY: ON THE ROLES OF ALTRUISM AND IMPATIENCE IN THE EVOLUTION OF CONSUMPTION AND BEQUESTS

Oded Stark and Ita Falk

18748: ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVE, BIODIVERSITY AND SUSTAINABILITY

Renate Schubert and Simon Dietz

18747: MULTINATIONAL LOCATION DECISIONS AND THE IMPACT ON LABOUR MARKETS

Noel Gaston and Douglas Nelson

18746: THE IMPACT OF RURAL ENTERPRISES ON HOUSEHOLD SAVINGS IN CHINA

Qiuxia Zhu

18745: OPTIMAL WATER ALLOCATION IN THE MEKONG RIVER BASIN

Claudia Ringler

18744: DESIGN OF INCENTIVES IN COMMUNITY BASED HEALTH INSURANCE SCHEMES

Rajeev Ahuja and Johannes Paul Jutting

18743: TALES OF MIGRATION WITHOUT WAGE DIFFERENTIALS: INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY, AND COMMUNITY CONTEXTS

Oded Stark

18742: TOWARDS A RESOURCE-DRIVEN MODEL OF GOVERNANCE: APPLICATION TO LOWER-INCOME TRANSITION ECONOMIES

Richard M. Auty

18741: ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONAL EVOLUTION AND FURTHER NEEDS FOR ADJUSTMENTS: TOWNSHIP VILLAGE ENTERPRISES IN CHINA

Qiuxia Zhu and Stefanie Elbern

18740: STATE-FORMATION FIRST. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND PEACE-MAKING IN AFGHANISTAN

Andreas Wimmer and Conrad Schetter

18739: POWER, INSTITUTIONS AND MORAL ENTREPRENEURS

Simon Reich

18738: ETHNIC CONFLICT AND FEDERALISM IN NIGERIA

L. Adele Jinadu

18737: THE IMPACT OF INCREASED SCHOOL ENROLLMENT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN TANZANIA

Holger Seebens and Peter Wobst

18736: SCHOOLING COSTS AND CHILD LABOUR IN RURAL PAKISTAN

Gautam Hazarika and Arjun Bedi

18735: RESOURCE ABUNDANCE, GOVERNANCE AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE IN TURKMENISTAN AND UZBEKISTAN

Richard Pomfret

18734: NUTRIENT FLOWS IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE: ECOLOGICAL AND POLICY ISSUES

Eric T. Craswell, Ulrike Grote, Julio Henao and Paul L.G. Vlek

18733: THE RATIONALE OF BANK LENDING IN PRE-CRISIS THAILAND

Lukas Menkhoff and Chodechai Suwanaporn

18732: TOASTED FORESTS - EVERGREEN RAIN FORESTS OF TROPICAL ASIA UNDER DROUGHT STRESS

Wolfgang Werner

18731: MODELING THE IMPACT OF FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION ON HEALTH OUTCOMES: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM INDIA

Abay Asfaw, Klaus Frohberg, K.S. James and Johannes Paul Jutting

18730: IS THE WORLD BECOMING A MORE RISKY PLACE? TRENDS IN DISASTERS AND VULNERABILITY TO THEM

Torsten Felbruegge and Joachim von Braun

18729: OPEN BORDERS, OPEN REGIMES? TESTING CAUSAL DIRECTION BETWEEN GLOBALIZATION AND DEMOCRACY, 1970-2000

Ross E. Burkhart and Indra de Soysa

18728: PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT AND COMPETITIVENESS IN GHANA

Susanna Wolf

18727: SELLING EXPERT KNOWLEDGE: THE ROLE OF CONSULTANTS IN SINGAPORE'S NEW ECONOMY

Hans-Dieter Evers and Thomas Menkhoff

18726: STRATEGIC TARGETING OF DEVELOPMENT POLICIES TO A COMPLEX REGION: A GIS-BASED STRATIFICATION APPLIED TO UGANDA

Gerd Robert Ruecker, Soojin Park, Henry Ssali and John Pender

18725: ENVIRONMENTAL AND FOOD SAFETY STANDARDS IN THE CONTEXT OF TRADE LIBERALIZATION: ISSUES AND OPTIONS

Ulrike Grote and Stefanie Engel

18724: GROWTH, POVERTY AND ASSET ALLOCATION: THE ROLE OF THE STATE

Ramon Lopez

18723: GAINS OF REGIONAL COOPERATION: ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

Anil Markandya

18722: IMPACTS OF COMMUNITY HEALTH INSURANCE SCHEMES ON HEALTH CARE PROVISION IN RURAL TANZANIA

Johannes Paul Jutting, John M. Msuya and Abay Asfaw

18721: THE EFFECTS OF THE DUTCH DISEASE IN RUSSIA

Bernardina Algieri

18720: Exploiting Common Resources with Capital-Intensive Technologies: The Role of External Forces

Stefanie Engel and Ramon Lopez

18719: DEMOCRACY AND ETHNO-RELIGIOUS CONFLICT IN IRAQ

Andreas Wimmer

18718: THE EFFECT OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INCOME INEQUALITY

Margit Bussmann, Indra de Soysa and John R. Oneal

18717: THE ROLE OF ICT FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF SMES IN EAST AFRICA. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM KENYA AND TANZANIA

Francis Matambalya and Susanna Wolf

18716: ALLOCATION OF CHILDREN'S TIME ENDOWMENT BETWEEN SCHOOLING AND WORK IN RURAL ETHIOPIA

Assefa Admassie

7128: Impact of Labor Standards on Egyptian Exports with Special Emphasis on Child Labor

Ahmed Ghoneim and Ulrike Grote

7127: Work Effort, Moderation in Expulsion, and Illegal Migration

Oded Stark

7126: International Migration and "Educated Unemployment"

Oded Stark and C. Simon Fan

7125: A Reluctance to Assimilate

Oded Stark and C. Simon Fan

7124: The Analytics of Seasonal Migration

Oded Stark and C. Simon Fan

7123: Scope and constraints for tree planting in the irrigated landscapes of the Aral Sea Basin: case studies in Khorezm Region, Uzbekistan

Martin Worbes, Evgeniy Botman, Asia Khamzina, Alexander Tupitsa, Christopher Martius and John P.A. Lamers

7122: The Brain Drain, "Educated Unemployment," Human Capital Formation, and Economic Betterment

Oded Stark and C. Simon Fan

7121: Losses and Gains to Developing Countries from the Migration of Educated Workers: An Overview of Recent Research, and New Reflections

Oded Stark and C. Simon Fan

7120: Social Capital, Ethnicity and Decision-Making in the Philippine Vegetable Market

Aimee Hampel-Milagrosa

7119: Why financial incentives can destroy economically valuable biodiversity in Ethiopia

Franz Gatzweiler, Anke Reichhuber and Lars Hein

7118: East Africa: Cycles of Violence, and the Paradox of Peace

Stefan Blum

7117: Migration due to the tsunami in Sri Lanka - Analyzing vulnerability and migration at the household level

Ulrike Grote, Stefanie Engel and Benjamin Schraven

7116: Rural-to-Urban Migration, Human Capital, and Agglomeration

Oded Stark and C. Simon Fan

7115: Pricing, Distribution and Adoption of Genetically Modified Seeds under Alternative Information Regimes

Arnab Basu and Matin Qaim

6316: On the Evolutionary Edge of Migration as an Assortative Mating Device

Oded Stark, Doris A. Behrens and Yong Wang

6218: Shadow Pricing Market Access: A Trade Benefit Function Approach

Nancy Chau and Rolf Fare