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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

Robert 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 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

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

Huck-ju Kwon

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

Jose Antonio Ocampo and Stephany Griffith-Jones

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

Robert Vos, Marco Sánchez Cantillo and Keiji Inoue

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

José Gabriel Palma

34: Developing and Transition Economies in the Late 20th Century: Diverging Growth Rates, Economic Structures, and Sources of Demand

Codrina Rada and Lance Taylor

33: Growth with Equity in East Asia?

Jomo K.S.

32: The Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress

Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

31: The Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress

Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

30: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: What’s wrong with existing analytical models?

Sanjay Reddy and Antoine Heuty

29: Development Aid and Economic Growth: A Positive Long-Run Relation

Sanjay Reddy and Camelia Minoiu

28: Real Income Stagnation of Countries, 1960-2001

Sanjay Reddy and Camelia Minoiu

27: Riding the Elephants: The Evolution of World Economic Growth and Income Distribution at the End of the Twentieth Century (1980-2000)

Albert Berry and John Serieux

26: Global Income Inequality: What It Is And Why It Matters?

Branko Milanovic

25: Openness, Inequality and Poverty in Africa

Alemayehu Geda

24: The Dual Divergence: Growth Successes and Collapses in the Developing World since 1980

Jose Antonio Ocampo and Mariangela Parra Lancourt

23: The Politics of Inclusion in the Monterrey Process

Barry Herman

22: Equity in Latin America Since the 1990s

Pedro Sainz

21: GDP-Indexed Bonds: Making It Happen

Stephany Griffith-Jones and Krishnan Sharma

20: Growth is Failing the Poor: The Unbalanced Distribution of the Benefits and Costs of Global Economic Growth

David Woodward and Andrew Simms

19: Real Exchange Rate, Monetary Policy and Employment

Roberto Frenkel and Lance Taylor

18: Inequality and Household Economic Hardship in the United States of America

Heather Boushey and Christian Weller

17: Poverty and Inequality in Eastern Europe and the CIS Transition Economies

Mihaly Simai

16: Revisiting the Revolving Door: Capital Flight from Southeast Asia

Edsel Beja

15: Constraints to Achieving the MDGs with Scaled-Up Aid

François Bourguignon and Mark Sundberg

14: Development and Social Goals: Balancing Aid and Development to Prevent ‘Welfare Colonialism’

Erik Reinert

13: Evaluating Targeting Efficiency of Government Programmes: International Comparisons

Nanak Kakwani and Hyun Son

12: What is the Most Effective Monetary Policy for Aid-Receiving Countries?

Alessandro Prati and Thierry Tressel

11: Rural Development, Environmental Sustainability, and Poverty Alleviation: A Critique of Current Paradigms

Susanne Mueller

10: International Capital Flows, Financial Stability and Growth

Graciela Kaminsky

9: Market, Social Cohesion, and Democracy

Jose Antonio Ocampo

8: Dynamic Links between the Economy and Human Development

Gustav Ranis and Frances Stewart

7: Trade and Employment: Stylized Facts and Research Findings

Bernard Hoekman and L. Winters

6: Inequality Trends in Some Developed OECD Countries

John Weeks

5: Trade Liberalization and Employment

Eddy Lee

4: The Economic and Social Effects of Financial Liberalization: A Primer for Developing Countries

Jayati Ghosh

3: Policy Reform and Income Distribution

Giovanni Cornia

2: A Converging or Diverging World?

Bob Sutcliffe

1: A Broad View of Macroeconomic Stability

Jose Antonio Ocampo