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60: Ten Myths of the International Finance Facility

Todd Moss

59: Financial Regulations in Developing Countries: Can they Effectively Limit the Impact of Capital Account Volatility?

Liliana Rojas-Suarez

58: Addressing the Challenge of HIV/AIDS: Macroeconomic, Fiscal and Institutional Issues

Maureen Lewis

57: Autonomous Recovery and International Intervention in Comparative Perspective

Jeremy Weinstein

56: Business Environment and Comparative Advantage in Africa: Evidence from the Investment Climate Data

Benn Eifert, Alan Gelb and Vijaya Ramachandran

55: Primary Health Care in Practice: Is It Effective?

Maureen Lewis, Gunnar Eskeland and Ximena Traa-Valerezo

54: The Economic Implications of Epidemics Old and New

Clive Bell and Maureen Lewis

53: From Pushing Reforms to Pulling Reforms: The Role of Challenge Programs in Foreign Aid Policy

Steve Radelet

52: Behavioral Foundations of Democracy and Development

Ethan Kapstein

51: Food Security and Economic Growth: An Asian Perspective

Charles Timmer

50: Seven Deadly Sins: Reflections on Donor Failings

Nancy Birdsall

49: Underfunded Regionalism in the Developing World

Nancy Birdsall

48: Food Security in Indonesia: Current Challenges and the Long-Run Outlook

Charles Timmer

47: Agricultural Protection in Rich Countries: How Did We Get Here

Kimberly Elliott

46: Beyond HIPC: Secure Sustainable Debt Relief for Poor Countries

Nancy Birdsall and Brian Deese

45: Double-Standards, Debt Treatment, and World Bank Country Classification: The Case of Nigeria-Revised November 2004

Todd Moss, Scott Standley and Nancy Birdsall

44: Counting Chickens When They Hatch: The Short-term Effect of Aid on Growth

Michael Clemens, Steven Radelet and Rikhil Bhavnani

43: Towards a New Consensus for Addressing the Global Challenge of the Lack of Education

Lant Pritchett

42: An Index of Donor Performance

David Roodman

41: Is Africa’s Skepticism of Foreign Capital Justified? Evidence from East African Firm Survey Data

Todd Moss, Vijaya Ramachandran and Manju Kedia Shah

40: The Trouble with the MDGs: Confronting Expectations of Aid and Development Success

Michael Clemens, Charles Kenny and Todd Moss

39: Aid Effectiveness and the Millennium Development Goals

Steven Radelet

38: The Road to Pro-Poor Growth: The Indonesian Experience in Regional Perspective

Charles Timmer

37: The Long Walk to School: International Education Goals in Historical Perspective

Michael Clemens

36: Boom Towns and Ghost Countries: Geography, Agglomeration, and Population Mobility

Lant Pritchett

35: The Illusion of Sustainability

Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel

34: Once More into the Breach: Economic Growth and Integration

Andrew Warner

33: Who is not Poor? Proposing a Higher International Standard for Poverty

Lant Pritchett

32: The Anarchy of Numbers: Aid, Development, and Cross-country Empirics—Revised July 2004

David Roodman

31: Privatization in Latin America

John Nellis

30: The Surprise Party: An Analysis of US ODA Flows to Africa

Markus Goldstein and Todd Moss

29: Economic Policy and Wage Differentials in Latin America

Jere Behrman, Nancy Birdsall and Miguel Székely

28: Financing Pharmaceutical Innovation: How Much Should Poor Countries Contribute?

William Jack and Jean Lanjouw

27: National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal

William Easterly

26: New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting "Aid, Policies, and Growth"

William Easterly, Ross Levine and David Roodman

25: Privatization in Africa: What has Happened? What is to be Done?

John Nellis

24: Bootstraps not Band-Aids: Poverty, Equity and Social Policy in Latin America

Nancy Birdsall and Miguel Szekely

23: The Millennium Challenge Account: How Much is Too Much, How Long is Long Enough?

Michael Clemens and Steven Radelet

22: Why it Matters Who Runs the IMF and the World Bank-Updated October 2003

Nancy Birdsall

21: From Social Policy to an Open-Economy Social Contract in Latin America

Nancy Birdsall

20: World Bank Capital Neither Complements Nor Substitutes for Private Capital

Michael Clemens

19: Do Rich Countries Invest Less in Poor Countries than the Poor Countries Themselves?

Michael Clemens

17: Policy Selectivity Foregone: Debt and Donor Behavior in Africa

Nancy Birdsall, Stijn Claessens and Ishac Diwan

16: Do as I Say Not as I Do: A Critique of G-7 Proposals on Reforming the MDBs

Devesh Kapur

15: Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development

William Easterly and Ross Levine

14: An Index of Industrial Country Trade Policy Toward Developing Countries

William Cline

13: Low Investment is Not the Constraint on African Development

Shantayanan Devarajan, William Easterly and Howard Pack

12: Asymmetric Globalization: Global Markets Require Good Global Politics

Nancy Birdsall

11: What did Structural Adjustment Adjust? The Association of Policies and Growth with Repeated IMF and World Bank Adjustment Loans

William Easterly

10: Solutions when the Solution is the Problem: Arraying the Disarray in Development

Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock

9: An Identity Crisis? Testing IMF Financial Programming

William Easterly

8: Financial Crises and Poverty in Emerging Market Economies

William Cline

7: Commodity Dependence, Trade, and Growth: When "Openness" is Not Enough

Nancy Birdsall and Amar Hamoudi

6: Winners and Losers: Assessing the Distributional Impacts of Privatization

Nancy Birdsall and John Nellis

5: Intellectual Property and the Availability of Pharmaceuticals in Poor Countries

Jean Lanjouw

4: The Cartel of Good Intentions: Markets vs. Bureaucracy in Foreign Aid

William Easterly

3: External Advisors and Privatization in Transition Economies

John Nellis

2: HIV/AIDS and the Accumulation and Utilization of Human Capital in Africa

Amar Hamoudi and Nancy Birdsall

1: Inequality Does Cause Underdevelopment

William Easterly