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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

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

Channing Arndt, Sam Jones and Finn Tarp

RP2009-05: Entrepreneurship and Income Inequality in Southern Ethiopia

Ayal Kimhi

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

Luc Christiaensen

RP2009-04: Entrepreneurship and Reforms in Developing Countries

Mina Baliamoune

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

RP2008-100: R&D (Re)location: A Bird's Eye (Re)view

Amelia Santos-Paulino, Mariagrazia Squicciarini and Peilei Fan

RP2008-99: An Economic Vulnerability Index: Its Design and Use for International Development Policy

Patrick Guillaumont

RP2008-98: Sectoral Engines of Growth in South Africa: An Analysis of Services and Manufacturing

Fiona Tregenna

RP2008-97: Can Free Trade Guarantee Gains from Trade?

Moritz Cruz

RP2008-96: International and Intra-national Technology Spillovers and Technology Development Paths in Developing Countries: The Case of China

Miao Fu, Xiaolan Fu and Tieli Li

RP2008-95: Interdependencies between Monetary Policy and Foreign Exchange Intervention under Inflation Targeting: The Case of Brazil and the Czech Republic

Jean-Yves Gnabo, Luiz de Mello and Diego Moccero

RP2008-94: Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Inequality in China

Kailei Wei, Shujie Yao and Aying Liu

RP2008-93: Export Diversification and Specialization in South Africa: Extent and Impact

Wim Naudé and Riaan Rossouw

RP2008-92: Economic Proximity and Technology Flows: South Africa's Influence and the Role of Technological Interaction in Botswana's Diversification Effort

Alexis Habiyaremye

RP2008-91: FDI Liberalization as a Source of Comparative Advantage in China

Sebastian Claro

RP2008-90: Innovation Systems, Radical Transformation, Step-by-Step: India in Light of China

Yevgeny Kuznetsov

RP2008-89: Developing and Harnessing Software Technology in the South: The Roles of China, India, Brazil, and South Africa

Adegboyega Ojo, Tomasz Janowski, Rilwan Basanya and Mike Reed

RP2008-88: Foreign Direct Investment and Trade in the Southern African Development Community

Henri Bezuidenhout and Wim Naudé

RP2008-87: International Trade and Manufacturing Employment Outcomes in India: A Comparative Study

Kunal Sen

RP2008-86: Economic Efficiency and Growth: Evidence from Brazil, China, and India

Nader Nazmi and Julio E. Revilla

RP2008-85: Conflict, Disasters, and No Jobs: Reasons for International Migration from Sub-Saharan Africa

Wim Naudé

RP2008-84: Vietnam Following in China's Footsteps: The Third Wave of Emerging Asian Economies

Jean-Raphael Chaponnière, Jean-Pierre Cling and Bin Zhou

RP2008-83: The Impact of Conflict and Fragility on Households: A Conceptual Framework with Reference to Widows

Tilman Brück and Kati Schindler

RP2008-82: Can We Predict Vulnerability to Poverty?

Yuan Zhang and Guanghua Wan

RP2008-81: Comparative Advantage Patterns and Domestic Determinants in Emerging Countries: An Analysis with a Focus on Technology

Daniela Marconi and Valeria Rolli

RP2008-80: Hunting for Leopards: Long-Run Country Income Dynamics in Africa

Jorge Arbache and John Page

RP2008-79: The Macroeconomic Management of Increased Aid: Policy Lessons from Recent Experience

Shekhar Aiyar, Andrew Berg and Mumtaz Hussain

RP2008-78: Aid, Volatility and Growth Again: When Aid Volatility Matters and When It Does Not

Lisa Chauvet and Patrick Guillaumont

RP2008-77: Monetary Policy Rules for Managing Aid Surges in Africa

Christopher Adam, Edward F. Buffie, Stephen O'Connell and Catherine A. Pattillo

RP2008-76: Poverty and Governance: The Contest for Aid

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

RP2008-75: Aid Effectiveness: Looking at the Aid-Social Capital-Growth Nexus

Mina Baliamoune and George Mavrotas

RP2008-74: Globalization and Health: Impact Pathways and Recent Evidence

Giovanni Cornia, Stefano Rosignoli and Luca Tiberti

RP2008-73: What Lessons have been learnt since the East Asian Crisis in 1997/98?: CIBS, Capital Flows, and Exchange Rates

Marion Pircher

RP2008-72: The Service Sector Revolution in India: A Quantitative Analysis

Rubina Verma

RP2008-71: On the Non-Contractual Nature of Donor-Recipient Interaction in Development Assistance

Mansoob Murshed

RP2008-70: Entrepreneurship and Regional Economic Growth: Towards A General Theory of Start-Ups

Thomas Gries and Wim Naudé

RP2008-69: National Policies to Attract FDI in R&D: An Assessment of Brazil and Selected Countries

Mariana Zanatta, Eduardo Strachman, Flavia Carvalho, Pollyana C. Varrichio, Edilaine Camillo and Mariana Barra

RP2008-68: The Liberalization of Capital Outflows in CIBS: What Opportunities for Other Developing Countries?

Ricardo Gottschalk and Cecilia Azevedo Sodre

RP2008-67: Indian Economic Growth: Lessons for the Emerging Economies

Suparna Chakraborty

RP2008-66: International Integration and Regional Development in China

Thomas Gries and Margarete Redlin