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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

RP2009-51: Innovation and Microenterprises Growth in Ethiopia

Mulu Gebreeyesus

RP2009-50: Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Development

David B. Audretsch and Mark Sanders

RP2009-49: Growth of Knowledge-intensive Entrepreneurship in India, 1991-2007

Sunil Mani

RP2009-48: Innovation Policy, Entrepreneurship, and Development: A Finnish View

Otto Toivanen

RP2009-47: Types of Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth

Erik Stam and André van Stel

RP2009-46: Firm Ownership, FOEs, and POEs

Alice H. Amsden

RP2009-45: Entrepreneurship is not a Binding Constraint on Growth and Development in the Poorest Countries

Wim Naudé

RP2009-44: Trading Inequality? Insights from the Two Globalizations in Latin America

Leticia Arroyo Abad and Amelia Santos-Paulino

RP2009-43: Economic Reforms and Infrastructure Spending: Evidence from China and India

Pinaki Chakraborty and Yan Zhang

RP2009-42: Country Role Models for Development Success: The Ghana Case

Augustin Fosu

RP2009-41: Designing Composite Entrepreneurship Indicators: An Application Using Consensus PCA

Diego Bernardo Avanzini

RP2009-40: Botswana as a Role Model for Country Success

James Robinson

RP2009-39: When to Start a New Firm?: Modelling the Timing of Novice and Serial Entrepreneurs

Thomas Gries and Wim Naudé

RP2009-38: The Omani and Bahraini Paths to Development: Rare and Contrasting Oil-based Economic Success Stories

Robert E. Looney

RP2009-37: Three Decades of Neoliberal Economics in Chile: Achievements, Failures and Dilemmas

Andrés Solimano

RP2009-36: The Mauritian Success Story and its Lessons

Arvind Subramanian

RP2009-35: The Finnish Developmental State and its Growth Regime

Markus Jantti and Juhana Vartiainen

RP2009-34: How Can Korea be a Role Model for Catch-up Development?: A 'Capability-based View'

Keun Lee

RP2009-33: The Disinterested Government: An Interpretation of China's Economic Success in the Reform Era

Yang Yao

RP2009-32: Tunisia's Development Experience: A Success Story?

Mina Baliamoune

RP2009-31: India's Development Strategy: Accidents, Design and Replicability

Nirvikar Singh

RP2009-30: Vietnam as a Role Model for Development

John Thoburn

RP2009-29: The Case for an Intermediate Exchange Rate Regime with Endogenizing Market Structures and Capital Mobility: The Empirical Study of Brazil

Annina Kaltenbrunner and Machiko Nissanke

RP2009-28: International Migration, Remittances and Labour Supply: The Case of the Republic of Haiti

Evans Jadotte

RP2009-27: 'Rushing in where Angels Fear to Tread?': The Early Internationalization of Indigenous Chinese Firms

Wim Naudé

RP2009-26: Linkages between Pro-Poor Growth, Social Programmes and Labour Market: The Recent Brazilian Experience

Nanak Kakwani, Marcelo Neri and Hyun H. Son

RP2009-25: Switzerland's Rise to a Wealthy Nation: Competition and Contestability as Key Success Factors

Beatrice Weder di Mauro and Rolf Weder

RP2009-24: Developing Ireland: Committing to Economic Openness and Building Domestic Institutional Capabilities

Paul Teague

RP2009-23: Can Norway Be a Role Model for Natural Resource Abundant Countries?

Ådne Cappelen and Lars Mjøset

RP2009-22: Japan's Model of Economic Development: Relevant and Nonrelevant Elements for Developing Economies

Fukunari Kimura

RP2009-21: Entrepreneurship and Welfare

Jagannadha Tamvada

RP2009-20: Credit Constraints, Entrepreneurial Talent, and Economic Development

Milo Bianchi

RP2009-19: Informal Firms in Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Stepping Stone or Consolation Prize?

John Bennett

RP2009-18: The Danish Model and the Globalizing Learning Economy: Lessons for Developing Countries

Bengt-Åke Lundvall

RP2009-17: The Czech Transition: The Importance of Microeconomic Fundamentals

Jan Svejnar and Milica Uvalic

RP2009-16: Early International Entrepreneurship in China: Extent and Determinants

Wim Naudé and Stephanie Rossouw

RP2009-15: Lessons from the Transition Economies: Putting the Success Stories of the Postcommunist World into a Broader Perspective

Vladimir Popov

RP2009-14: A Two-thirds Rate of Success: Polish Transformation and Economic Development, 1989-2008

Grzegorz W. Kolodko

RP2009-13: Hungary: The Janus-faced Success Story

Làszlò Csaba

RP2009-12: Entrepreneurship, Economic Growth and Policy in Emerging Economies

Roy Thurik

RP2009-11: High-Growth Entrepreneurial Firms in Africa: A Quantile Regression Approach

Micheline Goedhuys and Leo Sleuwaegen

RP2009-10: Measuring Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Sameeksha Desai

RP2009-09: Interplay of Human and Social Capital in Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries: The Case of Uganda

Gerrit Rooks, Adam Szirmai and Arthur Sserwanga

RP2009-08: Entrepreneurship, Development, and the Spatial Context: Retrospect and Prospect

Peter Nijkamp

RP2009-07: Entrepreneurship and Quality of Institutions: A Developing-Country Approach

José Amorós

RP2009-06: Linkages, Access to Finance and the Performance of Small-Scale Enterprises in Kenya

Rosemary Atieno

RP2009-05: Entrepreneurship and Income Inequality in Southern Ethiopia

Ayal Kimhi

DP2009-05: Aid and Growth: Have We Come Full Circle?

Channing Arndt, Sam Jones and Finn Tarp

RP2009-04: Entrepreneurship and Reforms in Developing Countries

Mina Baliamoune

DP2009-04: Revisiting the Global Food Architecture: Lessons from the 2008 Food Crisis

Luc Christiaensen

DP2009-03: The Global Economic Crisis: Towards Syndrome-Free Recovery for Africa

Augustin Fosu and Wim Naudé

RP2009-03: Source of Finance, Growth and Firm Size - Evidence from China

Jun Du and Sourafel Girma

DP2009-02: Understanding the African Growth Record: The Importance of Policy Syndromes and Governance

Augustin Fosu

RP2009-02: Globalization and the Role of Public Transfers in Redistributing Income in Latin America and the Caribbean

Emmanuel Skoufias, Kathy Lindert and Joseph Shapiro

RP2009-01: Out with the Sleaze, in with the Ease: Insufficient for Entrepreneurial Development?

Wim Naudé

DP2009-01: The Financial Crisis of 2008 and the Developing Countries

Wim Naudé

RP2008-109: Political Regime, Private Investment, and Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries

Manop Udomkerdmongkol and Oliver Morrissey

RP2008-108: Trade with China and India and Manufacturing Labour Demand in Argentina

Lucio Castro and Daniel Saslavsky

RP2008-107: Inequality and the Impact of Growth on Poverty: Comparative Evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa

Augustin Fosu

RP2008-106: Growth and Trade Horizons for Asia: Long Term Forecasts for Regional Integration

David Roland-Holst, Jean-Pierre Verbiest and Fan Zhai

RP2008-105: Structural Change, Technology, and Economic Growth: Brazil and the CIBS in a Comparative Perspective

Mario Cimoli, Wellington Pereira, Gabriel Porcile and Fábio Dória Scatolin

RP2008-104: China's Global Growth and Latin American Exports

Rhys Jenkins

RP2008-103: China's Trade Imbalances: The Role of FDI

Yongqing Wang and Guanghua Wan

RP2008-102: Exchange Rates and Outward Foreign Direct Investment: US FDI in Emerging Economies

Manop Udomkerdmongkol, Oliver Morrissey and Holger Görg

RP2008-101: Component Trade and China's Global Economic Integration

Kunwang Li, Ligang Song and Xingjun Zhao