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wp-2013-015: Personalistic Policy-Making in a Vibrant Democracy: Senegal's Fragmented Response to the 2007/08 Food price Crisis

Danielle Resnick

wp-2013-014: Aid for Agriculture and Rural Development: a Changing Landscape with New Players and Challenges

Admos Chimhowu

wp-2013-013: Policing Reforms and Economic Development in African States: Empowering Change

Otwin Marenin

wp-2013-012: Intra-Household Efficiency: an Experimental Study from Ethiopia

Bereket Kebede, Marcela Tarazona, Alistair Munro and Arjan Verschoor

wp-2013-011: The Porous Dialectic: Experimental and Non-Experimental Methods in Development Economics

Rajeev Dehejia

wp-2013-010: Taxation and Development: a Review of Donor Support to Strengthen Tax Systems in Developing Countries

Odd Fjeldstad

wp-2013-009: Evaluating Antipoverty Transfer Programmes in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa: Better Policies? Better Politics?

Armando Barrientos and Juan Villa

wp-2013-008: Measuring Economic Insecurity

Walter Bossert and Conchita D'Ambrosio

wp-2013-007: Ties that Bind: the Kin System as a Mechanism of Income-Hiding Between Spouses in Rural Ghana

Carolina Castilla

wp-2013-006: Livelihood Decisions Under the Shadow of Conflict in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh

Muhammad Badiuzzaman, John Cameron and Mansoob Murshed

wp-2013-005: Growth of African Economies: Productivity, Policy Syndromes, and the Importance of Institutions

Augustin Fosu

wp-2013-004: Aid as a Catalyst for Pioneer Investment

Paul Collier

wp-2013-003: Who's the Alien?: Xenophobia in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Marguerite Duponchel

wp-2013-002: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy: the Case of Bangladesh

Selim Raihan

wp-2013-001: The Political Economy of Food Price: the Case of Ethiopia

Assefa Admassie

wp-2012-111: Aid Distribution and Co-operation in Unequal Communities

Ben D'Exelle and Marrit van den Berg

wp-2012-110: Do People in Income Poverty Use Their Income Efficiently?: a Subjective Well-Being Approach

Mariano Rojas

wp-2012-109: Poverty and Welfare Measurement on the Basis of Prospect Theory

Markus Jantti, Ravi Kanbur, Milla Nyyssölä and Jukka Pirttilä

wp-2012-108: Economic Governance: Improving the Economic and Regulatory Environment for Supporting Private Sector Activity

Colin Kirkpatrick

wp-2012-107: Development Aid and Employment

Rolph van der Hoeven

wp-2012-106: Predicting Violence within Genocides: Meso-level Evidence from Rwanda

Omar Shahabudin McDoom

wp-2012-105: Infrastructure and Climate Change: Impacts and Adaptations for South Africa

Amy E. Schweikert, Niko Strzepek, Kenneth Strzepek, Kyle P. Kwiatkowski and Paul S. Chinowsky

wp-2012-104: It's All about MeE: Using Structured Experiential Learning ('e') to Crawl the Design Space

Lant Pritchett, Salimah Samji and Jeffrey Hammer

wp-2012-103: International Organizations in Development and Global Inequality: the Example of the World Bank's Pension Policy

Martin Koch

wp-2012-102: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in South Africa

Johann Kirsten

wp-2012-101: How Close Does the Apple Fall to the Tree?: Some Evidence on Intergenerational Occupational Mobility from India

Sripad Motiram and Ashish Singh

wp-2012-100: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy: the Case of Zambia

Antony Chapoto

wp-2012-099: The Role of Training in Fostering Cluster-Based Micro and Small Enterprises Development

Tetsushi Sonobe and Keijiro Otsuka

wp-2012-098: Stability and Vulnerability of the Latin American Middle Class

Florencia Torche and Luis Lopez-Calva

wp-2012-097: Political Clientelism and Capture: Theory and Evidence from West Bengal, India

Dilip Mookherjee and Pranab Bardhan

wp-2012-096: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Egypt

Ahmed Farouk Ghoneim

wp-2012-095: The Impact Of The 2007-08 Food Price Crisis In A Major Commodity Exporter: Food Prices, Inflation, And Inclusion In Brazil

Bernardo Mueller and Charles C. Mueller

wp-2012-094: Is Small Beautiful? Small Enterprise, Aid and Employment in Africa

John Page and Mans Soderbom

wp-2012-093: Aid and Investment in Statistics for Africa

Jeffery I. Round

wp-2012-092: Decentralized Service Delivery in Nairobi and Mombasa

Winnie V. Mitullah

wp-2012-091: Gender Mainstreaming in Nordic Development Agencies: Seventeen Years After the Beijing Conference

Malokele Nanivazo and Lucy Scott

wp-2012-090: Civil Service Reform: a Review

Sarah Repucci

wp-2012-089: Effects of Food Price Shocks on Child Malnutrition

Channing Arndt, M. Azhar Hussain and Lars Peter Østerdal

wp-2012-088: Helping Poor Farmers to Help Themselves: Evidence from a Group-Based Aid Project in Mozambique

Milla Nyyssölä, Jukka Pirttilä and Susanna Sandström

wp-2012-087: Vertical Decentralization and Urban Service Delivery in South Africa: Does Politics Matter?

Robert Cameron

wp-2012-086: Aid, Growth, and Jobs

Gary Fields

wp-2012-085: Enterprise Agglomeration, Output Prices, and Physical Productivity: Firm-Level Evidence from Ethiopia

Eyerusalem Siba, Mans Soderbom, Arne Bigsten and Mulu Gebreeyesus

wp-2012-084: Measuring Industry Agglomeration and Identifying the Driving Forces

Emma Howard, Carol Newman and Finn Tarp

wp-2012-083: The (Declining) Role of Households in Sustaining China's Economy: Structural Path Analysis for 1997-2007

Ling Yang, James Thurlow and Michael Lahr

wp-2012-082: The Economic Costs of Climate Change: a Multi-Sector Impact Assessment for Vietnam

Channing Arndt, Finn Tarp and James Thurlow

wp-2012-081: Risks of Coastal Storm Surge and the Effect of Sea Level Rise in the Red River Delta, Vietnam

James E. Neumann, Sai Ravela, Lindsay C. Ludwig, Caroleen Verly and Kerry A. Emanuel

wp-2012-080: Road Infrastructure and Climate Change in Vietnam

Paul S. Chinowsky, Amy E. Schweikert, Niko Strzepek and Kenneth Strzepek

wp-2012-079: Impact of Climate Change on Irrigation, Crops and Hydropower in Vietnam

Yohannes Gebretsadik, Charles Fant and Kenneth Strzepek

wp-2012-078: Microcredit and Poverty Alleviation: Can Microcredit Close the Deal?

M.G. Quibria

wp-2012-077: Aid, Fiscal Policy, Climate Change, and Growth

David Bevan

wp-2012-076: EU Aid: What Works and Why

Poul Nielson

wp-2012-075: The Effectiveness of Foreign Aid to Education: What Can Be Learned?

Abby Rubin Riddell

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