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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

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