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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

wp-2010-030: The Face of Urban Poverty: Explaining the Prevalence of Slums in Developing Countries

Ben C. Arimah

wp-2010-029: Agglomeration Index: Towards a New Measure of Urban Concentration

Hirotsugu Uchida and Andrew Nelson

wp-2010-028: Urban Myths and the Mis-use of Data that Underpin Them

David Satterthwaite

wp-2010-027: Parsing the Urban Poverty Puzzle: A Multi-generational Panel Study in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas, 1968-2008

Janice E. Perlman

wp-2010-026: Evolving City Systems

Henry Overman and Anthony Venables

wp-2010-025: The Legacy Effect of Squatter Settlements on Urban Redevelopment

Ignacio A. Navarro and Geoffrey K. Turnbull

wp-2010-024: Suburbanization and Residential Desegregation in South Africa's Cities

Wim Naudé

wp-2010-023: Solid Wastes, Poverty and the Environment in Developing Country Cities: Challenges and Opportunities

Martin Medina

wp-2010-022: Infrastructure and City Competitiveness in India

Somik V. Lall, Hyoung Gun Wang and Uwe Deichmann

wp-2010-021: Building Sustainable Historic Centres: A Comparative Approach for Innovative Urban Projects

Adriana Rabinovich and Andrea Catenazzi

wp-2010-020: Urban Violence Is not (Necessarily) a Way of Life: Towards a Political Economy of Conflict in Cities

Dennis Rodgers

wp-2010-019: Dar es Salaam as a 'Harbour of Peace' in East Africa: Tracing the Role of Creolized Urban Ethnicity in Nation-State Formation

Deborah Fahy Bryceson

wp-2010-018: Violent Urbanization and Homogenization of Space and Place: Reconstructing the Story of Sectarian Violence in Beirut

Nasser Yassin

wp-2010-017: The Gendered Nature of Asset Accumulation in Urban Contexts: Longitudinal Results from Guayaquil, Ecuador

Caroline Moser and Andrew Felton

wp-2010-016: Firm-Level Corruption in Vietnam

John Rand and Finn Tarp

wp-2010-015: The Demographic Transformation of Post-Socialist Countries: Causes, Consequences, and Questions

Elizabeth Brainerd

wp-2010-014: Measuring the Business Environment for Entrepreneurship in Fragile States

Chiara Guglielmetti

wp-2010-013: The Long Road to Normalcy: Where Russia Now Stands

Vladimir Popov

wp-2010-012: Urban Settlement: Data, Measures, and Trends

David E. Bloom, David Canning, Günther Fink, Tarun Khanna and Patrick Salyer

wp-2010-011: The United Arab Emirates: Some Lessons in Economic Development

Yaw Nyarko

wp-2010-010: Development Strategies: Lessons from the Experiences of South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam

Haider Khan

wp-2010-009: Non-state Sovereign Entrepreneurs and Non-territorial Sovereign Organizations

Jurgen Brauer and Robert Haywood

wp-2010-008: Conflict and Entrepreneurial Activity in Afghanistan: Findings from the National Risk Vulnerability Assessment Data

Tommaso Ciarli, Saeed Parto and Maria Savona

wp-2010-007: Development Progress in sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Botswana, Ghana, Mauritius and South Africa

Wim Naudé

wp-2010-006: Entrepreneurial Activity and Civil War in Colombia: Exploring the Mutual Determinants between Armed Conflict and the Private Sector

Angelika Rettberg, Ralf J. Leiteritz and Carlo Nasi

wp-2010-005: Globalization and the Emergence of a Transnational Oligarchy

Elise Brezis

wp-2010-004: Economic Adversity and Entrepreneurship-led Growth: Lessons from the Indian Software Sector

Suma Athreye

wp-2010-003: Importance of Technological Innovation for SME Growth: Evidence from India

M. H. Bala Subrahmanya, M. Mathirajan and K. N. Krishnaswamy

wp-2010-002: Global Capitalism Theory and the Emergence of Transnational Elites

William Robinson

wp-2010-001: The Triple Crisis and the Global Aid Architecture

Tony Addison, Channing Arndt and Finn Tarp

RP2009-56: Post-Apartheid South Africa: An Economic Success Story?

Mats Lundahl and Lennart Petersson

RP2009-55: Brazil's Growth Performance: Achievements and Prospects

Luiz de Mello

RP2009-54: Country Role Models for Development Success: The Case of Costa Rica

Alberto Trejos

RP2009-53: Is that Innovation?: Assessing Examples of Revitalized Economic Dynamics among Clusters of Small Producers in Northern Vietnam

Jaap Voeten, Job de Haan and Gerard de Groot

RP2009-52: Incubators as Tools for Entrepreneurship Promotion in Developing Countries

Semih Akçomak