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63: The information content of the yield spread about future inflation in South Africa

Harris Laurence and Ntshakala Manqoba

063: Institutional differences across resource-based economies

Utku Teksoz and Katerina Kalcheva

063: Aid and the environment in Africa: A synthesis of eight case studies

Edwin Muchapondwa

063: The Microeconomics of Inequality, Poverty and Market Liberalizing Reforms

Rafael De Hoyos

063: Composite Indices of Human Well-being: Past, Present, and Future

Mark McGillivray and Farhad Noorbakhsh

063: Can New Aid Modalities Handle Politics?

Arjan de Haan and Everest-Phillips, Max

063: Looking Like a State: Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for Implementation

Matt Andrews, Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock

063: Public Spending and Poverty in Mozambique

Rasmus Heltberg, Kenneth Simler and Finn Tarp

063: The New Grand Bourgeoisie under Post-Communism: Central Europe, Russia and China Compared

Ivan Szelenyi

063: Some Welfare Implications of 'Who Goes First?' in WTO Negotiations

Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb

063: Poverty Accounting by Factor Components: With an Empirical Illustration Using Chinese Data

Guanghua Wan

063: A Capable State in Afghanistan: A Building Without a Foundation?

Frauke de Weijer

063: Female leaders and gender gaps within the firm: Evidence from three sub-Saharan African countries

Giulia La Mattina, Gabriel Picone, Alban Ahoure and Jose Carlos Kimou

063: Foreign Aid as Prize: Incentives for a Pro-Poor Policy

Tejashree Sayanak and Sajal Lahiri

063: Impact of Liberalization, Economic Growth and Trade Policies on Current Accounts of Developing Countries: An Econometric Study

Ashok Parikh

063: Outfits: Narrowly Tailored Laws that Harm Instead of Help

Rosalia de la Cruz Gitau

62: We need land first: Identifying local needs for sustainable recovery after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal

He Lulu

062: Reform and Inequality during the Transition: An Analysis Using Panel Houshold Survey Data, 1990-2006

Branko Milanovic and Lire Ersado

062: Globalization, Development, and Mobility of Technical Talent: India and Japan in Comparative Perspectives

Anthony P. D'Costa

062: Fiscal Policy, Conflict, and Reconstruction in Burundi and Rwanda

Leonce Ndikumana

062: Is It What You Inherited Or What You Learnt?

Sylvie Lambert and Dominique van de Walle

062: Poverty Measurement and Theories of Beneficence

S. Subramanian

062: Global Poverty, Aid, and Middle-Income Countries: Are the Country Classifications Moribund or is Global Poverty in the Process of 'Nationalizing'?

Andy Sumner

062: Who Gains from Tariff Escalation?

Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb

062: The Gender Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Challenges in Development Aid

Marcia E. Greenberg and Elaine Zuckerman

062: Issues to Consider in Assessing International Support for Realizing Children?s Rights: A Reflection on Aid Modalities and

Eva Jespersen and Julia Benn

062: On a Distance Function-Based Inequality Measure in the Spirit of the Bonferroni and Gini Indices

Sreenivasan Subramanian

062: Gender and distributional preferences: Experimental evidence from India

Smriti Sharma

062: Constraints to biofuel feedstock production expansion in Zambia

Paul Samboko, Mulako Kabisa and Giles Henley

062: The linkages of energy, water, and land use in Southeast Asia Challenges and opportunities for the Mekong region

Kim Hang Pham Do and Ariel Dinar

062: Entrepreneurship and Structural Economic Transformation

Thomas Gries and Wim Naudé

062: Innovation capabilities for sustainable development in Africa

Keun Lee, Calestous Juma and John Mathews

062: The 'New Economy' and Economic Growth in Transition Economies

Marcin Piątkowski

61: Simulating the effect on households’ real consumption and poverty of the increase in prices that followed the 2015–16 economic crisis in Mozambique

Vincenzo Salvucci, Santos Ricardo, Mambo Félix and Paris Yonesse

061: The Fiscal Effects of Aid in Ghana

Robert Osei, Oliver Morrissey and Tim Lloyd

061: Foreign Aid in Dangerous Places: The Donors and Mali?s Democracy

Nicolas van de Walle

061: The Excluded Poor: How Targeting Has Left out the Poor in Peripheral Cities in the Philippines

Michael Canares

061: International Co-Operation for Agricultural Development and Food and Nutrition Security: New Institutional Arrangements for Related Public Goods

Joachim von Braun

061: Japan?s National Economic Identity and African Development: An Analysis of the Tokyo International Conference on My email address

Howard P. Lehman

061: Income Risk and Welfare Status of Rural Households in Nigeria: Ekiti State as a Test Case

Isaac Oluwatayo

061: Aid, social policy, and development

Tony Addison, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa and Finn Tarp

061: International Trade, Location and Wage Inequality in China

Songhua Lin

061: State Recognition of the Right to Food at the National Level

Margret Vidar

061: Bank Lending to Emerging Markets: Crossing the Border

David Lubin

061: Urban change and rural continuity in gender ideologies and practices: Theorizing from Zambia

Alice Evans

061: The theory and practice of agriculture, growth, and development in Africa

Ousmane Badiane and Tsitsi Makombe

061: Fiscal Effects of Aid

Mark McGillivray and Oliver Morrissey

061: Natural Disasters and Remittances: Exploring the Linkages between Poverty, Gender, and Disaster Vulnerability in Caribbean SIDS

Marlene Attzs

061: The power to choose Gender balance of power and intra-household educational spending in India

Smriti Sharma and Christophe Nordman

061: Emerging Evidence on the Relative Importance of Sectoral Sources of Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Eric Ogunleye

60: Quantifying the contribution of a subpopulation to inequality: An application to Mozambique

Carlos Gradín

060: The economics of happiness and anger in North Africa

Nadereh Chamlou

060: Prioritizing Rural Investments in Africa: A Hybrid Evaluation Approach Applied to Uganda

Karl Pauw and James Thurlow

060: Economic Polarization Through Trade: Trade Liberalization and Regional Growth in Mexico

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Javier Sanchez-Reaza

060: The Travails of Unification: East Germany's Economic Transition since 1990

Charles S. Maier

060: Caste differences in behaviour and personality Evidence from India

Subha Mani, Saurabh Singhal, Smriti Sharma and Utteeyo Dasgupta

060: Does the WTO Agreement on Agriculture Endanger Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Samuel K. Gayi

060: Fiscal capacity and social protection expenditure in developing nations

Syed Mansoob Murshed, Muhammad Badiuzzaman and Mohammad Habibullah Pulok

060: A Contract Perspective on the International Finance Facility

Tun Lin and George Mavrotas

060: The Impact of Foreign Aid in Education Growth: How Relevant is the Heterogeneity of Aid Flows and the Heterogeneity of Aid Recipients

Elizabeth Asiedu and Boaz Nandwa

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

S. Mansoob Murshed

060: Aid and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Accounting for Transmission Mechanisms

Karuna Gomanee, Sourafel Girma and Oliver Morrissey

060: Halving Poverty in South Africa: Growth and Distributional Aspects

Fiona Tregenna

060: What Determines Public Education Expenditures in a Transition Economy?

Inna Verbina and Abdur Chowdhury

060: Public disclosure for pollution abatement: African decision-makers in a PROPER public good experiment

Akpalu Wisdom, Edwin Muchapondwa, Adidoye Babatunde and Witness Simbanegavi

060: Beyond Industrialization: New Approaches to Development Strategy Based on the Service Sector

Peter Sheehan

060: Informed Selection of Future Climates

Channing Arndt, Charles Fant, Sherman Robinson and Kenneth Strzepek

59: NGOs and the effectiveness of interventions

Faraz Usmani, Marc Jeuland and Pattanayak Subhrendu

059: Reckoning Inter-group Poverty Differentials in the Measurement of Aggregate Poverty

S. Subramanian

059: Aid Effectiveness, Debt Relief and Public Finance Response: Evidence from a Panel of HIPCs

Danny Cassimon and Bjorn Van Campenhout

059: Is feed-in-tariff policy effective for increasing deployment of renewable energy in Indonesia?

Dewi Yuliani

059: Mozambique's industrialization

Antonio Sousa Cruz, Dina Guambe, Constantino Pedro Marrengula and Amosse Francisco Ubisse

059: The Effects of Group Composition and Fractionalization in a Public Goods Game: An Agent-Based Simulation

Sheheryar Banuri, Pablo Lucas and Angela C. M. de Oliveira

059: The Global Partnership for Inclusive Growth

Yongfu Huang and M.G. Quibria

059: Analysis of the animal feed to poultry value chain in Zambia

Paul Samboko, Olipa Zulu-Mbata and Antony Chapoto

059: Asia's Labour-Driven Economic Development, Flying-Geese Style: An Unprecedented Opportunity for the Poor to Rise?

Terutomo Ozawa

059: A Re-examination of the Relation between Democracy and International Trade The Case of Africa

Christopher Balding

059: Social Groups and Economic Poverty: A Problem in Measurement

S. Subramanian

059: Growth, Economic Development and Structural Transition in Small Vulnerable States

Robert Read

059: Twenty Years Later and the Socialist Heritage is still Kicking: the Case of Russia

Gur Ofer

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

Mohammed Omran

059: Controlling Asylum Migration to the Enlarged EU

Catherine Phuong

059: Identification of Regional Fundamental Economic Structure (FES) of India: An Input-Output and Field of Influence Approach

Sudhir K. Thakur

059: Spatial and temporal analyses of women.s wellbeing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Nanivazo Malokele and Mahrt Kristi

58: Maternal mortality and women’s political participation

Damian Clarke, Bhalotra Sonia, Joseph Gomes and Venkataramani Atheendar

058: Clans, Cliques, and Captured States: Rethinking 'Transition' in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Janine R. Wedel

058: Fiscal Decentralization and Urbanization in Indonesia

Margherita Comola and Luiz de Mello

058: Do Structural Reforms always Succeed? Lessons from Brazil

Jorge Arbache

058: Who Pays Indirect Taxes in Russia?

André Decoster and Inna Verbina

058: Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty

Gisele Gamanou and Jonathan Morduch

058: Lessons for Japanese foreign aid from research on aid's impact

Tony Addison and Finn Tarp

058: Trade, Migration, and Poverty Reduction in the Globalizing Economy: The Case of the Philippines

Yasuyuki Sawada and Jonna Estudillo

058: The expansion of regional supermarket chains: Implications for local suppliers in Zambia

Francis Ziba and Mwanda Phiri

058: China and the Future of the Developing World: The Coming Global-Asian Era and its Consequences

Jeffrey Henderson

058: Innovative Ways of Making Aid Effective in Ghana: Tied Aid versus Direct Budgetary Support

Peter Quartey

058: Capacity development for the transformation of Africa

Frannie A. Leautier

058: Efficiency of Commercial Banks in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Domestic and Foreign Banks

Hiroyuki Kiyota

058: Capital flight and foreign direct investment in Africa An investigation of the role of natural resource endowment

Léonce Ndikumana and Mare Sarr

058: Conflicting Measures of Poverty and Inadequate Saving by the Poor

Sugata Marjit

058: The Impacts of the Food, fuel and Financial Crises on Households in Nigeria: A Retrospective Approach for Research Enquiry

Miguel Niño-Zarazúa and Blessing Chiripanhura

058: Trade Liberalization, Employment Flows and Wage Inequality in Brazil

Francisco Ferreira, Phillippe G. Leite and Wai-Poi, Matthew