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wp-2012-074: The Decarbonization of China's Agriculture

Yongfu Huang and Jingjing He

wp-2012-073: Is the Clean Development Mechanism Effective for Emission Reductions?

Yongfu Huang, Jingjing He and Finn Tarp

wp-2012-072: Is the Clean Development Mechanism Promoting Sustainable Development?

Yongfu Huang, Jingjing He and Finn Tarp

wp-2012-071: Development Success: Historical Accounts from More Advanced Countries

Augustin Fosu

wp-2012-070: Costly Posturing: Relative Status, Ceremonies and Early Child Development in China

Xi Chen and Xiaobo Zhang

wp-2012-069: Aid Effectiveness in the Health Sector

Arnab Acharya and Melisa Martínez-Álvarez

wp-2012-068: Fungibility and the Choice of Aid Modalities

Stefan Leiderer

wp-2012-067: Does Financial Liberalisation Improve Access to Investment Finance in Developing Countries?

Conor O'Toole

wp-2012-066: Women's Labour Supply and Household Insurance in Africa

Marcela Umaña-Aponte and Sonia Bhalotra

wp-2012-065: Implications of Alternative Mitigation Policies on World Prices for Fossil Fuels and Agricultural Products

Sergey Paltsev

wp-2012-064: Escaping Capability Traps Through Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)

Matt Andrews, Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock

wp-2012-063: Looking Like a State: Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for Implementation

Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock and Matt Andrews

wp-2012-062: On a Distance Function-Based Inequality Measure in the Spirit of the Bonferroni and Gini Indices

Sreenivasan Subramanian

wp-2012-061: Foreign Aid in Dangerous Places: The Donors and Mali's Democracy

Nicolas van de Walle

wp-2012-060: Informed Selection of Future Climates

Channing Arndt, Charles Fant, Sherman Robinson and Kenneth Strzepek

wp-2012-059: The Effects of Group Composition and Fractionalization in a Public Goods Game: An Agent-Based Simulation

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

wp-2012-058: Conflicting Measures of Poverty and Inadequate Saving by the Poor

Sugata Marjit

wp-2012-057: On the 'Inclusiveness' of India's Consumption Expenditure Growth

D. Jayaraj and Sreenivasan Subramanian

wp-2012-056: Aid and Infrastructure Financing: Emerging Challenges with a Focus on Africa

Tony Addison and Prathivadi Bhayankaram Anand

wp-2012-055: Pro-poor Service Delivery and Social Identity

Ulrike Müller

wp-2012-054: Does Aid Availability Affect Effectiveness in Reducing Poverty?

François Bourguignon and Jean-Philippe Platteau

wp-2012-053: Variable Populations and the Measurement of Poverty and Inequality

Sreenivasan Subramanian

wp-2012-052: 'Successful' Development Models in the MENA Region

Imed Drine

wp-2012-051: Opposition Politics and Urban Service Delivery in Kampala, Uganda

Gina M. S. Lambright

wp-2012-050: Can Cities or Towns Drive African Development? Economy-wide Analysis for Ethiopia and Uganda

Paul Dorosh and James Thurlow

wp-2012-049: Donor Assistance and Urban Service Delivery in Africa

Richard E. Stren

wp-2012-048: The Development Implications of External Integration in Latin America

José Antonio Ocampo

wp-2012-047: Aid, Employment and Inclusive Growth in Conflict-Affected Countries: Policy Recommendations for Liberia

Graciana del Castillo

wp-2012-046: The Economic Implications of Introducing Carbon Taxes in South Africa

Theresa Alton, Channing Arndt, Rob Davies, Faaiqa Hartley, Konstantin Makrelov, James Thurlow and Dumebi Ubogu

wp-2012-045: Does an Educated Mind Take the Broader View? A Field Experiment on In-group Favouritism among Microcredit Clients

Ivar Kolstad and Arne Wiig

wp-2012-044: Income Inequality, Redistribution and Poverty: Contrasting Rational Choice and Behavioural Perspectives

Malte Lübker

wp-2012-043: Trans-border Land Acquisitions: A New Guise of Outsourcing and Host Country Effects

Gouranga Das

wp-2012-042: On the Impact of External Debt and Aid on Public Expenditure Allocation in Sub-Saharan Africa after the Launch of the HIPC Initiative

Maria Quattri and Augustin Fosu

wp-2012-041: The Effects of Rural Land Right Security on Labour Structural Transformation and Urbanization: Evidence from Thailand

Thanyaporn Chankrajang

wp-2012-040: Ghana: The Limits of External Democracy Assistance

Theo Yakah and Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi

wp-2012-039: Social Capital, Network Effects and Savings in Rural Vietnam

Carol Newman, Finn Tarp and Katleen van den Broeck

wp-2012-038: Risk Experiments in Gains and Losses: A Case Study for Benin

Jonathan Gheyssens and Isabel Günther

wp-2012-037: Donor Assistance and Political Reform in Tanzania

Aili Mari Tripp

wp-2012-036: Ordinal Welfare Comparisons with Multiple Discrete Indicators: A First Order Dominance Approach and Application to Child Poverty

Channing Arndt, Roberta Distante, M. Azhar Hussain, Lars Peter Østerdal, Pham Lan Huong and Maimuna Ibraimo

wp-2012-035: Consequences of Aid Volatility for Macroeconomic Management and Aid Effectiveness

John Hudson

wp-2012-034: Mapping the Impacts of Food Aid: Current Knowledge and Future Directions

Amy Margolies and John Hoddinott

wp-2012-033: Beyond Electoral Democracy: Foreign Aid and the Challenge of Deepening Democracy in Benin

Mamoudou Gazibo

wp-2012-032: International Coordination and the Effectiveness of Aid

Arne Bigsten and Sven Tengstam

wp-2012-031: Aid and Growth Accelerations: Vulnerability Matters

Patrick Guillaumont and Laurent Wagner

wp-2012-030: Good Governance as a Concept, and Why This Matters for Development Policy

Rachel Gisselquist

wp-2012-029: Fiscal Composition and Aid Effectiveness: A Political-Economy Model

Paul Mosley

wp-2012-028: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Limits of Foreign Aid on Malawi's Democratic Consolidation

Danielle Resnick

wp-2012-027: Corruption and the Efficiency of Capital Investment in Developing Countries

Finn Tarp and Conor O'Toole

wp-2012-026: Aid and Dutch Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa

David Fielding and Fred Gibson

wp-2012-025: How Aid Supply Responds to Economic Crises: A Panel VAR Approach

Joanna Gravier-Rymaszewska

wp-2012-024: Aid as a Second-Best Solution: Seven Problems of Effectiveness and How to Tackle Them

Richard Manning

wp-2012-023: Macroeconomic Policies, Growth, Employment, and Inequality in Latin America

Mario Damill and Roberto Frenkel

wp-2012-022: Aid, Growth and Private Capital Flows to Ghana

Robert Osei

wp-2012-021: Aid, Structural Change and the Private Sector in Africa

John Page

wp-2012-020: Foreign Aid and Democratic Development in Africa

Simone Dietrich and Joseph Wright

wp-2012-019: Foreign Assistance and the Food Crisis of 2007-08

Philip Abbott

wp-2012-018: The Changing Dynamics of Foreign Aid and Democracy in Mozambique

Carrie L. Manning and Monica Malbrough

wp-2012-017: The Dynamics of Inequality Change in a Highly Dualistic Economy: Honduras, 1991-2007

Stephan Klasen, Thomas Otter and Carlos Villalobos

wp-2012-016: Foreign Aid and Democratic Consolidation in Zambia

Lise Rakner

wp-2012-015: Foreign Aid in Africa: Tracing Channels of Influence on Democratic Transitions and Consolidation

Danielle Resnick

wp-2012-014: Changes in Labour Market Conditions and Policies: Their Impact on Wage Inequality During the Last Decade

Saúl Keifman and Roxana Maurizio

wp-2012-013: Social Policies or Private Solidarity?: The Equalizing Role of Migration and Remittances in El Salvador

Carlos Gerardo Acevedo and Maynor Cabrera

wp-2012-012: Redistribution without Structural Change in Ecuador: Rising and Falling Income Inequality in the 1990s and 2000s

Juan Ponce and Robert Vos

wp-2012-011: The Political Economy of Green Growth: Illustrations from Southern Africa

Danielle Resnick, Finn Tarp and James Thurlow

wp-2012-010: The Rise and Fall of Income Inequality in Mexico, 1989-2010

Raymundo Campos-Vazquez, Gerardo Esquivel and Nora Lustig

wp-2012-009: Inequality Trends and their Determinants: Latin America over 1990-2010

Giovanni Cornia

wp-2012-008: The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution in Latin America's Post-Adjustment Era

Kenneth Roberts

wp-2012-007: Impact of Foreign Aid on Economic Growth in Sierra Leone: Empirical Analysis

Philip Michael Kargbo

wp-2012-006: Transitional Justice and Aid

Sirkku K. Hellsten

wp-2012-005: How To Spend It: The Organization of Public Spending and Aid Effectiveness

Paul Collier

wp-2012-004: Policy Regimes, Inequality, Poverty and Growth: The Chilean Experience, 1973-2010

Dante Contreras and Ricardo Ffrench-Davis

wp-2012-003: Did Trade Openness Affect Income Distribution in Latin America? Evidence for the Years 1980-2010

Miguel Szekely and Claudia Samano-Robles

wp-2012-002: Contested Relationships: Women's Economic and Social Empowerment, Insights from the Transfer of Material Assets in Bangladesh

Lucy Scott

wp-2012-001: Aid and Government Fiscal Behaviour: What Does the Evidence Say?

Oliver Morrissey

wp-2011-096: Climate Variability and Agricultural Productivity in MENA region

Imed Drine

wp-2011-095: Aid and the Fiscal and Monetary Responses to Dutch Disease

Alan R. Roe

wp-2011-094: Uruguay's Income Inequality and Political Regimes during 1981-2010

Veronica Amarante, Marco Colafranceschi and Andrea Vigorito

wp-2011-093: Inequality in Education: Evidence for Latin America

Guillermo Cruces, Carolina García Domench and Leonardo Gasparini

wp-2011-092: Climate Change and Infrastructure Investment in Developing Countries: the Case of Mozambique

Channing Arndt, Paul S. Chinowsky, Kenneth Strzepek and James Thurlow

wp-2011-091: Agriculture and Trade Opportunities for Tanzania: Past Volatility and Future Climate Change

Syud Amer Ahmed, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Thomas Hertel and Will Martin

wp-2011-090: Power Ahead: Meeting Ethiopia's Energy Needs Under a Changing Climate

Paul Block and Kenneth Strzepek

wp-2011-089: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis of Adaptation to Climate Change in Ethiopia

Sherman Robinson, Kenneth Strzepek and Dirk Willenbockel

wp-2011-088: The Dynamics of Land Titling Regularization and Market Development

Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky

wp-2011-087: Are Spatial Networks of Firms Random?: Evidence from Vietnam

Emma Howard, Carol Newman and Jacco J. J. Thijssen

wp-2011-086: A Stochastic Simulation Approach to Estimating the Economic Impacts of Climate Change in Bangladesh

James Thurlow, Paul Dorosh and Winston H. Yu

wp-2011-085: Current Climate Variability and Future Climate Change: Estimated Growth and Poverty Impacts for Zambia

James Thurlow, Tingju Zhu and Xinshen Diao

wp-2011-084: Lessons of Experience in International Democracy Support: Implications for Supporting Democratic Change in North Africa

Peter J. Burnell

wp-2011-083: Security of Property Rights for Whom?

Terra Lawson-Remer

wp-2011-082: Long-term Effects of Land Reform on Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from West Bengal

Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin and Vandana Yadav

wp-2011-081: The Demand Side of Social Protection: Lessons from Cambodia's Labour Rights Experience

Alisa DiCaprio

wp-2011-080: Entrepreneurship, Stages of Development, and Industrialization

Zoltan Acs and Wim Naudé

wp-2011-079: Climate and Industrial Policy in an Asymmetric World

Thomas Gries

wp-2011-078: Global Supply Chains in Chinese Industrialization: Impact on Waste Scavenging in Developing Countries

Martin Medina

wp-2011-077: Climate Change and Industrial Policy

Wim Naudé

wp-2011-076: Rethinking China's Path of Industrialization

Harry X. Wu

wp-2011-075: Manufacturing and Economic Development

Adam Szirmai

wp-2011-074: Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from Rwanda

Daniel Ali Ayalew, Klaus Deininger and Markus Goldstein

wp-2011-073: Innovative Delivery Mechanisms for Increased Aid Budgets: Lessons from a New Australian Aid Partnership

Matthew Clarke

wp-2011-072: The Political Economy of Aid Flows to North Africa

Jane Harrigan

wp-2011-071: The Long-Run Behaviour of the Terms of Trade between Primary Commodities and Manufactures: A Panel Data Approach

Jesus Otero and Ana Iregui