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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

wp-2010-095: Between Past and Future of Latin America: Lessons from Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic

Eliana Cardoso

wp-2010-094: Firm Exit and Armed Conflict in Colombia

Adriana Camacho and Catherine Rodriguez

wp-2010-093: Inequality, Income and Poverty: Comparative Global Evidence

Augustin Fosu

wp-2010-092: Income Distribution and Growth's Ability to Reduce Poverty: Evidence from Rural and Urban African Economies

Augustin Fosu

wp-2010-091: European Transition at Twenty: Assessing Progress in Countries and Sectors

Erik Berglof, Lise Bruynooghe, Heike Harmgart, Peter Sanfey, Helena Schweiger and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

wp-2010-090: The Economic Legacy of Civil War: Firm Level Evidence from Sierra Leone

Paul Collier and Marguerite Duponchel

wp-2010-089: Country Role Models: Synthesis of Ireland, Japan and Switzerland

Ronald Findlay

wp-2010-088: The Swedish Model

Ari Kokko

wp-2010-087: Foundations of Minority Communities: Resident Koreans in Japan

David Rands

wp-2010-086: The Impact of Multiple Imputation of Coarsened Data on Estimates on the Working Poor in South Africa

Claire Vermaak

wp-2010-085: Elites and Institutional Persistence

James Robinson

wp-2010-084: Why Are the Elite in China Motivated to Promote Growth?

Xiaowei Zang

wp-2010-083: The Long-Run Weight of Communism or the Weight of Long-Run History?

Gérard Roland

wp-2010-082: Elite Capture or Capture Elites? Lessons from the 'Counter-elite' and 'Co-opt-elite' Approaches in Bangladesh and Ghana

Sam Wong

wp-2010-081: Two for the Price of One? The Contribution to Development of the New Female Elites

Alison Wolf

wp-2010-080: ICT Sector, Globalization and Urban Economic Growth: Evidence from Bangalore (India)

M. R. Narayana

wp-2010-079: Globalizing Shanghai: International Migration and the Global City

Wei Shen

wp-2010-078: Energy Consumption and Carbon Emission-Based Productivity Change and Industrialization in Post-Reform China

Shiyi Chen and Amelia Santos-Paulino

wp-2010-077: When Unstable, Growth Is Less Pro-Poor

Patrick Guillaumont and Catherine Korachais

wp-2010-076: Subjective Poverty and Reference-Dependence: Income over Time, Aspirations and Reference Groups

Carolina Castilla

wp-2010-075: Misuse of Institutions: Lessons from Transition

Leonid Polishchuk

wp-2010-074: Poverty and Time

Walter Bossert, Satya Chakravarty and Conchita D'Ambrosio

wp-2010-073: Empirical Issues in Lifetime Poverty Measurement

Michael Hoy, Brennan Thompson and Buhong Zheng

wp-2010-072: Measuring the Effect of Spell Recurrence on Poverty Dynamics

Jose Arranz and Olga Cantó

wp-2010-071: On Some Problems of Variable Population Poverty Comparisons

Nicole Hassoun and Sreenivasan Subramanian

wp-2010-070: Globalization and Exclusionary Urban Growth in Asian Countries

Amitabh Kundu and Debolina Kundu

wp-2010-069: How Production Firms Adapt to War: The Case of Liberia

Topher McDougal

wp-2010-068: Entrepreneurship and Human Development: A Capability Approach

Thomas Gries and Wim Naudé

wp-2010-067: Globalizing Households and Multi-ethnic Community Building in Japan

Chihiro Ishii

wp-2010-066: Health and the Urban Transition: Effects of Household Perceptions, Illness, and Environmental Pollution on Clean Water Investment

James H. Spencer

wp-2010-065: Into the Void: Governing Finance in Central and Eastern Europe

Katharina Pistor

wp-2010-064: Moderating Urbanization and Managing Growth: How Can Colombo Prevent the Emerging Chaos?

Ranjith Dayaratne

wp-2010-063: The New Grand Bourgeoisie under Post-Communism: Central Europe, Russia and China Compared

Ivan Szelenyi

wp-2010-062: Reform and Inequality during the Transition: An Analysis Using Panel Household Survey Data, 1990-2005

Branko Milanovic and Lire Ersado

wp-2010-061: The Excluded Poor: How Targeting Has Left out the Poor in Peripheral Cities in the Philippines

Michael P. Canares

wp-2010-060: The Travails of Unification: East Germany's Economic Transition since 1989

Charles S. Maier

wp-2010-059: Twenty Years Later and the Socialist Heritage is still Kicking: The Case of Russia

Gur Ofer

wp-2010-058: Fiscal Decentralization and Urbanization in Indonesia

Margherita Comola and Luiz de Mello

wp-2010-057: Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and a Global Economic Crisis

Thomas Gries and Wim Naudé

wp-2010-056: Women and Landed Property in Urban India: Negotiating Closed Doors and Windows of Opportunity

Bipasha Baruah

wp-2010-055: Ethnic Entrepreneurs and Collective Violence: Assessing Spatial Variations in Anti-Chinese Rioting within Jakarta during the May 1998 Riots

Suranjan Weeraratne

wp-2010-054: Entrepreneurship and the National System of Innovation: What is Missing in Turkey?

Elif Bascavusoglu-Moreau

wp-2010-053: Central Asia after Two Decades of Independence

Richard Pomfret

wp-2010-052: Foreign Banks and Credit Volatility: The Case of Latin American Countries

Meriem Haouat, Diego Moccero and Ramiro Sosa Navarro

wp-2010-051: The Challenges of Global Environmental Change for Urban Africa

David Simon

wp-2010-050: The Tangled Web of Associational Life: Urban Governance and the Politics of Popular Livelihoods in Nigeria

Kate Meagher

wp-2010-049: Passage, Profit, Protection and the Challenge of Participation: Building and Belonging in African Cities

Loren B. Landau

wp-2010-048: Is There Such a Thing as a Post-Apartheid City?

Bill Freund

wp-2010-047: Concepts and Operationalization of Pro-Poor Growth

Mario Negre

wp-2010-046: The Allocation of Entrepreneurial Talent and Destructive Entrepreneurship

Mark Sanders and Utz Weitzel

wp-2010-045: Urban Development Transitions and their Implications for Poverty Reduction and Policy Planning in Uganda

Paul Isolo Mukwaya, Hannington Sengendo and Shuaib Lwasa

wp-2010-044: A Phoenix in Flames?: Portfolio Choice and Violence in Civil War in Rural Burundi

Eleonora Nillesen and Philip Verwimp

wp-2010-043: Infrastructure and Poverty Reduction: Implications for Urban Development in Nigeria

Taiwo Peace Ogun

wp-2010-042: Cityness and African Urban Development

Edgar Pieterse

wp-2010-041: Transition in Southeast Europe: Understanding Economic Development and Institutional Change

Milica Uvalic

wp-2010-040: The Great Transformation 1989-2029: Could It Have Been Better? Will It Be Better?

Grzegorz W. Kolodko

wp-2010-039: Identity and Space on the Borderland between Old and New in Shanghai: a Case Study

Deljana Iossifova

wp-2010-038: Civil Society, Institutional Change and the Politics of Reform: The Great Transition

László Bruszt, Jan Fidrmuc, Gérard Roland and Nauro Campos

wp-2010-037: Urbanization and the South Asian Enigma: A Case Study of India

Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis and K. S. James

wp-2010-036: The (Evolving) Role of Agriculture in Poverty Reduction

Luc Christiaensen, Lionel Demery and Jesper Kühl

wp-2010-035: Drivers of Poverty Reduction in Lagging Regions: Evidence from Rural Western China

Luc Christiaensen, Lei Pan and Sangui Wang

wp-2010-034: A Model of Destructive Entrepreneurship

Sameeksha Desai, Zoltan Acs and Utz Weitzel

wp-2010-033: Innovation and Dynamism: Interaction between Systems and Technical Progress

János Kornai

wp-2010-032: Transition, Structural Divergence, and Performance: Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union over 2000-2007

Giovanni Cornia

wp-2010-031: Twenty Years of Political Transition

Daniel Treisman