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wp-2011-070: A New Fiscal Pact, Tax Policy Changes and Income Inequality: Latin America During the Last Decade

Giovanni Cornia, Juan Carlos Gómez-Sabaini and Bruno Martorano

wp-2011-069: On the Distributional Implications of Social Protection Reforms in Latin America

Armando Barrientos

wp-2011-068: Improving Donor Support for Urban Poverty Reduction: A focus on South Asia

Nicola Banks

wp-2011-067: Rethinking the World of Aid in the Twenty First Century

Peter S. Heller

wp-2011-066: Foreign Assistance in a Climate-Constrained World

Channing Arndt and Christian Friis Bach

wp-2011-065: The Effects of the European Union's and China's Trade Agreements on Africa's Exports

Olayinka Kareem and Fatima Kareem

wp-2011-064: Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy?

Thierry Kangoye

wp-2011-063: Outfits: Narrowly Tailored Laws that Harm Instead of Help: A case study of Liberia's telecommunication laws

Rosalia de la Cruz Gitau

wp-2011-062: Is It What You Inherited Or What You Learnt?: Intergenerational linkage and interpersonal inequality in Senegal

Sylvie Lambert, Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle

wp-2011-061: Emerging Evidence on the Relative Importance of Sectoral Sources of Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Eric Kehinde Ogunleye

wp-2011-060: Halving Poverty in South Africa: Growth and Distributional Aspects

Fiona Tregenna

wp-2011-059: A Re-examination of the Relation between Democracy and International Trade: The Case of Africa

Christopher Balding

wp-2011-058: Efficiency of Commercial Banks in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Domestic and Foreign Banks

Hiroyuki Kiyota

wp-2011-057: Manufacturing Productivity, Deindustrialization, and Reindustrialization

Fiona Tregenna

wp-2011-056: The Political Participation of Africa's Youth: Turnout, Partisanship, and Protest

Danielle Resnick and Daniela Casale

wp-2011-055: Industrial Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges for the Future

John Weiss

wp-2011-054: The Efficiency of States and Cities: Is There a Case for Public Land Leasing and Sales to Finance India's Cities?

Kala Sridhar

wp-2011-053: Indonesian Industrialization: A Latecomer Adjusting to Crises

Haryo Aswicahyono, Hal Hill and Dionisius Narjoko

wp-2011-052: Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security in Tanzania

Channing Arndt, William Farmer, Kenneth Strzepek and James Thurlow

wp-2011-051: The Long-Run Impact of Foreign Aid in 36 African Countries: Insights from Multivariate Time Series Analysis

Katarina Juselius, Niels Møller and Finn Tarp

wp-2011-050: Institutional Reforms Debate and FDI Flows to MENA Region: Does One 'Best' Fit All?

Wasseem Mina

wp-2011-049: Industry Switching in Developing Countries

Carol Newman, John Rand and Finn Tarp

wp-2011-048: Industrial Policies in Latin America

Wilson Peres

wp-2011-047: Should Africa Industrialize?

John Page

wp-2011-046: Poverty and Land Distribution: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Malcolm Keswell and Michael R. Carter

wp-2011-045: Measuring the Carbon Content of the South African Economy

Channing Arndt, Rob Davies, Konstantin Makrelov and James Thurlow

wp-2011-044: Aid Effectiveness: Opening the Black Box

Channing Arndt, Sam Jones and Finn Tarp

wp-2011-043: Emerging Patterns of Manufacturing Structural Change

Nobuya Haraguchi and Gorazd Rezonja

wp-2011-042: Learning from Asia's Success Beyond Simplistic 'Lesson-Making'

Mike Hobday

wp-2011-041: Can Industrial Policy Work under Neopatrimonial Rule?

Tilman Altenburg

wp-2011-040: Institutional Reforms, Private Sector, and Economic Growth in Africa

Mawussé Okey

wp-2011-039: Reputation, Policy Risk, and Land Use: A Study of China's 'Grain for Green' Programme

Haochi Zheng, Paul Glewwe, Stephen Polasky and Jintao Xu

wp-2011-038: Migration and Inheritance Practices in the Bolivian Altiplano

Anne Michels

wp-2011-037: Political Connections and Investment in Rural Vietnam

Thomas Markussen and Finn Tarp

wp-2011-036: Can a Populist Political Party Bear the Risk of Granting Complete Property Rights?: Electoral outcomes of Mexico's second land reform

Alain de Janvry, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro and Elisabeth Sadoulet

wp-2011-035: Land Acquisition for Industrialization and Compensation of Displaced Farmers

Maitreesh Ghatak and Dilip Mookherjee

wp-2011-034: Interrelationships among Health, Environment Quality, and Economic Activity: What Consequences for Economic Convergence?

Alassane Drabo

wp-2011-033: Tourism and Economic Growth: African Evidence from Panel Vector Autoregressive Framework

Boopen Seetanah, Kesseven Padachi and Sawkut Rojid

wp-2011-032: Climate Change Compounding Risks in North Africa

Imed Drine

wp-2011-031: Evolution of Land Distribution in West Bengal 1967-2004: Role of Land Reform

Pranab Bardhan, Michael Luca, Dilip Mookherjee and Francisco Pino

wp-2011-030: Transformation of the Family under Rising Land Pressure: A Theoretical Essay

Catherine Guirkinger and Jean-Philippe Platteau

wp-2011-029: Trees, Tenure and Conflict: Rubber in Colonial Benin

James Fenske

wp-2011-028: Terms of Trade and Growth of Resource Economies: A Tale of Two Countries

Augustin Fosu

wp-2011-027: How Does Colonial Origin Matter for Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Julius A. Agbor

wp-2011-026: Local Government, Taxes, and Guns: Successful Policy Innovation in Three Colombian Cities

Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín, María Teresa Gutiérrez, Tania Guzmán, Juan Carlos Arenas Gómez and María Teresa Pinto

wp-2011-025: Adaptation Advantage to Climate Change Impacts on Road Infra-structure in Africa through 2100

Paul S. Chinowsky, Amy E. Schweikert, Niko Strzepek, Kyle Manahan, Kenneth Strzepek and Adam Schlosser

wp-2011-024: Challenges for Latin American Cities: Improving Diagnosis or the Need to Shift the Understanding Urban Inequality from Fixed Enclaves to Mobile Gradients

Paola Jirón

wp-2011-023: Public-Private Co-operation for Gas Provision in Poor Neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires: Impact on Housing Improvements and Health

Cynthia Goytia, Ricardo Pasquini and Pablo Sanguinetti

wp-2011-022: Aid and Growth: What Meta-Analysis Reveals

Tseday Jemaneh Mekasha and Finn Tarp

wp-2011-021: Is Internal Migration Bad for Receiving Urban Centres?: Evidence from Brazil, 1995-2000

Céline Ferré

wp-2011-020: Globalization Crises, Trade, and Development in Vietnam

Philip Abbott and Finn Tarp

wp-2011-019: Does Lack of Innovation and Absorptive Capacity Retard Economic Growth in Africa?

Steve Onyeiwu

wp-2011-018: Population Size, Per Capita Income, and the Risk of Civil War: Regional Heterogeneity in the Structural Relationship Matters

Markus Brückner

wp-2011-017: Explaining Poverty Evolution: The Case of Mozambique

Channing Arndt, M. Azhar Hussain, Sam Jones, Virgulino Nhate, Finn Tarp and James Thurlow

wp-2011-016: Separate but Equal Democratization?: Participation, Politics, and Urban Segregation in Latin America

Dennis Rodgers

wp-2011-015: Irregular Urbanization as a Catalyst for Radical Social Mobilization: The Case of the Housing Movements of São Paulo

Lucy Earle

wp-2011-014: Exchange Rate Regimes and Trade: Is Africa Different?

Mahvash Qureshi and Charalambos Tsangarides

wp-2011-013: Significance of Public Space in the Fragmented City: Designing Strategies for Urban Opportunities in Informal Settlements of Buenos Aires City

Flavio Janches

wp-2011-012: A New Way of Monitoring the Quality of Urban Life

Eduardo Lora and Andrew Powell

wp-2011-011: Socio-Spatial Implications of Street Market Regulation Policy: The Case of Ferias Libres in Santiago de Chile

Lissette Aliaga Linares

wp-2011-010: Growth and Recovery in a Time of Default: Lessons from the Role of the Urban Sector in Argentina

Michael Cohen

wp-2011-009: Cocaine Cities: Exploring the Relationship between Urban Processes and the Drug Trade in South America

Ignacio A. Navarro

wp-2011-008: Determinants of Industrial Embeddedness: Evidence from African Manufacturing Firms

Abdelrasaq Na-Allah

wp-2011-007: Are Electoral Coalitions Harmful for Democratic Consolidation in Africa?

Danielle Resnick

wp-2011-006: The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Developing Countries' Terms of Trade

Konstantin Wacker

wp-2011-005: Latin American Urban Development into the 21st Century: Towards a Renewed Perspective on the City

Dennis Rodgers, Jo Beall and Ravi Kanbur

wp-2011-004: Aid Supplies Over Time: Accounting for Heterogeneity, Trends and Dynamics

Sam Jones

wp-2011-003: Sensitivity of Loan Size to Lending Rates: Evidence from Ghana's Microfinance Sector

Samuel Kobina Annim

wp-2011-002: Thailand's Development Strategy and Growth Performance

Peter Warr

wp-2011-001: Growth, Inequality, and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries: Recent Global Evidence

Augustin Fosu

wp-2010-125: Transfers and Development: Easy Come, Easy Go?

Luc Christiaensen and Lei Pan

wp-2010-124: The Global Financial Crisis and Development: Whither Africa

Augustin Fosu

wp-2010-123: Efficiency Frontier and Matching Process on the Labour Market: Evidence from Tunisia

Anis Bou Abid and Imed Drine

wp-2010-122: Poverty Reduction and Economic Structure: Comparative Path Analysis for Mozambique and Vietnam

Channing Arndt, Andres Garcia, Finn Tarp and James Thurlow

wp-2010-121: China and India: Country Role Models of Development Success?

Amelia Santos-Paulino

wp-2010-120: Another Mere Addition Paradox?: Some Reflections on Variable Population Poverty Measurement

Nicole Hassoun

wp-2010-119: Rekindling Governments from Within: Getting Public Sector Elite Officials to Support Government Reform in Brazil

Monica F. Pinhanez

wp-2010-118: Is it Possible to Reform a Customs Administration?: The Role of the Customs Elite on the Reform Process in Cameroon

Thomas Cantens

wp-2010-117: Mutual Interdependence between Elites and the Poor

Chipiliro Kalebe-Nyamongo

wp-2010-116: The Nordic Development and Growth Models: The Riddle is Still There but We May be a Little Bit Wiser

Juhana Vartiainen

wp-2010-115: Economic Development Strategies in the Dominican Republic

Susan Pozo, José Sánchez-Fung and Amelia Santos-Paulino

wp-2010-114: Populist Strategies in African Democracies

Danielle Resnick

wp-2010-113: The International Circulation of Elites: Knowledge, Entrepreneurial and Political

Andrés Solimano and Diego Bernardo Avanzini

wp-2010-112: The Fruit of the Vine? An Augmented Endowments-Inequality Hypothesis and the Rise of an Elite in the Cape Colony

Johan Fourie and Dieter von Fintel

wp-2010-111: Gender Implications of Biofuels Expansion: A CGE Analysis for Mozambique

Channing Arndt, Rui Benfica and James Thurlow

wp-2010-110: Are Biofuels Good for African Development?: An Analytical Framework with Evidence from Mozambique and Tanzania

Channing Arndt, Siwa Msangi and James Thurlow

wp-2010-109: Elites and Property Rights

Alice H. Amsden

wp-2010-108: New Light on China's Rural Elites

Björn Gustafsson and Sai Ding

wp-2010-107: New Challenges for Industrial Policy

Wim Naudé

wp-2010-106: Industrial Policy: Old and New Issues

Wim Naudé

wp-2010-105: Mozambique's Elite - Finding its Way in a Globalized World and Returning to Old Development Models

Joseph Hanlon and Marcelo Mosse

wp-2010-104: The Simple Analytics of Elite Behaviour Under Limited State Capacity

François Bourguignon and Thierry Verdier

wp-2010-103: Poverty in the Eyes of Brazilian Elites

Elisa P. Reis

wp-2010-102: Lessons from Post-colonial Malaysian Economic Development

K. S. Jomo and Hui Wee Chong

wp-2010-101: Adapting to Climate Change: An Integrated Biophysical and Economic Assessment for Mozambique

Channing Arndt, Kenneth Strzepek, Finn Tarp, James Thurlow, Charles Fant and Len Tiu Wright

wp-2010-100: Supporting Women Entrepreneurs in Tunisia

Imed Drine and Mouna Grach

wp-2010-099: The Reliability of Small Area Estimation Prediction Methods to Track Poverty

Luc Christiaensen, Peter Lanjouw, Jill Luoto and David Stifel

wp-2010-098: Impact of the Global Commodity and Financial Crises on Poverty in Vietnam

James Thurlow, Finn Tarp, Simon McCoy, Manh Hai Nguyen, Clemens Breisinger and Channing Arndt

wp-2010-097: Toward Efficient Urban Form in China

Douglas Webster, Alain Bertaud, Jianming Cai and Zhenshan Yang

wp-2010-096: Aid, Growth, and Development: Have We Come Full Circle?

Channing Arndt, Sam Jones and Finn Tarp