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106: The Scorecard on Development, 1960-2010: Closing the Gap?

Mark Weisbrot and Rebecca Ray

105: Credit to Private Sector, Interest Spread and Volatility in Credit-Flows: Do Bank Ownership and Deposits Matter?

Hamid Rashid

104: Adapting the international monetary system to face 21st century challenges

Aldo Caliari

103: Behavioural Factors as Emerging Main Determinants of Child Mortality in Middle-Income Countries: A Case Study of Jordan

Cornelia Kaldewei and Ingo Pitterle

102: Globalization and development in sub-Saharan Africa

Jomo Sundaram, Oliver Schwank and Rudiger von Arnim

101: Economic Integration, Inequality and Growth: Latin America vs. the European economies in transition

Giovanni Cornia

100: Growth, Poverty and Inequality: From Washington Consensus to Inclusive Growth

Alfredo Saad-Filho

99: Labour Markets Trends, Financial Globalization and the current crisis in Developing Countries

Rolph van der Hoeven

98: Social Policy in Development: Coherence and Cooperation in the Real World

Merilee Grindle

97: Impact of the Global Economic Crises on Civil Society Organizations

Eva-Maria Hanfstaengl

96: CRED: A New Model of Climate and Development

Frank Ackerman

95: Estimating the Amount of a Global Feed-in Tariff for Renewable Electricity

Samantha, David DeMartino, Le Blanc

94: A Non-Parametric Microsimulation Approach to Assess Changes in Inequality and Poverty

Robert Vos and Marco Sánchez Cantillo

93: Resource abundance: A curse or blessing?

Vladimir Popov

92: Poverty reduction in China and India: Policy implications of recent trends?

Jayati Ghosh

91: Property Rights for Poverty Reduction?

Ruth Meinzen-Dick

90: Growth, Development Policy,Job Creation and Poverty Reduction

Lance Taylor

89: Microfinance as a Poverty Reduction Tool—A Critical Assessment

Anis Chowdhury

88: The Terrible Simplifers: Common Origins of Financial Crises and Persistent Poverty in Economic Theory and the new ‘1848 Moment’

Erik Reinert

87: Globalization, Offshoring and Economic Insecurity in Industrialized Countries

William Milberg and Deborah Winkler

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

79: The Emperor’s New Suit: Global Poverty Estimates Reappraised

Sanjay Reddy

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

Robert Vos and Rob Vos

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

Robert Vos, Marco Sánchez Cantillo and Cornelia Kaldewei

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

Jomo Sundaram and Rudiger 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

Jose 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