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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

RP2008-65: Gender and Informal Sector Analysis in India: Economy Wide Approaches

Anushree Sinha and Haider Khan

RP2008-64: Foreign Aid, Infrastructure Development, and Welfare: An Intertemporal Analysis

Slobodan Djajić

RP2008-63: Foreign Aid as Prize: Incentives for a Pro-Poor Policy

Tejashree Sayanak and Sajal Lahiri

RP2008-62: Entrepreneurship and Structural Economic Transformation

Thomas Gries and Wim Naudé

RP2008-61: Natural Disasters and Remittances: Exploring the Linkages between Poverty, Gender, and Disaster Vulnerability in Caribbean SIDS

Marlene Attzs

RP2008-60: Beyond Industrialization: New Approaches to Development Strategy Based on the Service Sector

Peter Sheehan

RP2008-59: Identification of Regional Fundamental Economic Structure (FES) of India: An Input-Output and Field of Influence Approach

Sudhir K. Thakur

RP2008-58: China and the Future of the Developing World: The Coming Global-Asian Era and its Consequences

Jeffrey W. Henderson

RP2008-57: Intra-Household Arrangements and Health Satisfaction: Evidence from Mexico

Mariano Rojas

RP2008-56: China's Development Strategy and Energy Security: Growth, Distribution and Regional Cooperation

Haider Khan

RP2008-55: Economic Vulnerability and Resilience: Concepts and Measurements

Lino Briguglio, Gordon Cordina, Nadia Farrugia and Stephanie Vella

RP2008-54: Measuring the Vulnerability of Subnational Regions

Wim Naudé, Mark McGillivray and Stephanie Rossouw

RP2008-53: The Determinants of Child Weight and Height in Sri Lanka: A Quantile Regression Approach

Harsha Aturupane, Anil Deolalikar and Dileni Gunewardena

RP2008-52: Vulnerability, Trust and Microcredit: The Case of China's Rural Poor

Calum Turvey and Rong Kong

RP2008-51: How Macroeconomic Instability Lowers Child Survival

Patrick Guillaumont, Catherine Korachais and Julie Subervie

RP2008-50: Assessing Vulnerability Before, During and After a Natural Disaster in Fragile Regions: Case Study of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami in Sri Lanka and Indonesia

Jörn Birkmann

RP2008-49: Livelihood Risk from HIV in Semi-Arid Tropics of Rural Andhra Pradesh

Valentine Joseph Gandhi, Cynthia Serquina Bantilan and Devanathan Parthasarathy

RP2008-48: Seasonal Migration and Early Childhood Development

Karen Macours and Renos Vakis

RP2008-47: Growth Oriented Macroeconomic Policies for Small Islands Economies: Lessons from Singapore

Patrick Guillaumont, Catherine Korachais and Julie Subervie

RP2008-46: Determinants of State Fragility and Implications for Aid Allocation: An Assessment Based on the Country Indicators for Foreign Policy Project

David Carment, Stewart Prest and Yiagadeesen Samy

RP2008-45: Enforcing Peace Agreements through Commitment Technologies

Mansoob Murshed and Philip Verwimp

RP2008-44: State Fragility: Concept and Measurement

Mina Baliamoune and Mark McGillivray

RP2008-43: Gender and Ethnicity in Post-Conflict Kosovo

Sumon Bhaumik, Ira Gang and Myeong-Su Yun

RP2008-42: Vulnerability to Hunger: Improving Food Crisis Responses in Fragile States

Colin Andrews and Margarita Flores

RP2008-41: Vulnerability, Poverty and Coping in Zimbabwe

Kate Bird and Martin Prowse

RP2008-40: Measuring Vulnerability and Poverty: Estimates for Rural India

Raghav Gaiha and Katsushi Imai

RP2008-39: China's Exports in ICT and its Impact on Asian Countries

Yuqing Xing

RP2008-38: Ownership Reform, Foreign Competition, and Efficiency of Chinese Commercial Banks: A Non-Parametric Approach

Shujie Yao, Zhongwei Han and Genfu Feng

RP2008-37: Development Path of China and India and the Challenges for Their Sustainable Growth

Yuefen Li and Bin Zhang

RP2008-36: The Impact of Higher Standards in Patent Protection for Pharmaceutical Industries under the TRIPS Agreement: A Comparative Study of China and India

Xuan Li

RP2008-35: Resources and the Political Economy of State Fragility in Conflict States: Iraq and Somalia

Ghassan Dibeh

RP2008-34: Reducing People's Vulnerability to Natural Hazards: Communities and Resilience

Terry Cannon

RP2008-33: China's Economic Growth: Trajectories and Evolving Institutions

Jun Zhang

RP2008-32: The Optimal Distance to Port for Exporting Firms

Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé and Marianne Matthee

RP2008-31: Innovation Capacity and Economic Development: China and India

Peilei Fan

RP2008-30: A Tale of Two Countries: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Rice Productivity in China and Brazil

Liangzhi You

RP2008-29: Global Growth and Distribution: Are China and India Re shaping the World?

Maurizio Bussolo, Rafael De Hoyos, Denis Medvedev and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

RP2008-28: Export Productivity and Specialization in China, Brazil, India and South Africa

Amelia Santos-Paulino

RP2008-27: Export Productivity, Finance, and Economic Growth: Are the Southern Engines of Growth Different?

Alessandra Guariglia and Amelia Santos-Paulino

RP2008-26: Asset-Based Poverty in Rural Tajikistan: Who Climbs out and Who Falls in?

Oleksiy Ivaschenko and Cem Mete

RP2008-25: Analysing the Impact of Natural Hazards in Small Economies: The Caribbean Case

Martin Heger, Alex Julca and Oliver Paddison

RP2008-24: Foreign Direct Investment from China, India and South Africa in Sub-Saharan Africa: A New or Old Phenomenon?

John Henley, Stefan Kratzsch, Mithat Külür and Tamer Tandogan

RP2008-23: Minimum Wages, Globalization, and Poverty in Honduras

Katherine Terrell and Thomas (Tim) Gindling

RP2008-22: Globalization and Formal Sector Migration in Brazil

Ernesto Aguayo-Téllez, Marc-Andreas Muendler and Jennifer Poole

RP2008-21: Individual and Collective Resources and Health in Morocco

Marie-Claude Martin

RP2008-20: Entrepreneurship in Economic Development

Wim Naudé

RP2008-19: Foreign Direct Investment, Domestic Investment, and Economic Growth in China: A Time Series Analysis

Sumei Tang, Antony Selvanathan and Saroja Selvanathan

RP2008-18: Globalization and Smallholders: The Adoption, Diffusion, and Welfare Impact of Non-traditional Export Crops in Guatemala

Calogero Carletto, Angeli Kirk, Paul Winters and Benjamin Davis

RP2008-17: Remittances and Vulnerability to Poverty in Rural Mexico

Alejandro de la Fuente

RP2008-16: Ungrouping Income Distributions: Synthesising Samples for Inequality and Poverty Analysis

Anthony F. Shorrocks and Guanghua Wan

RP2008-15: The Role of Women's Empowerment and Domestic Violence in Child Growth and Undernutrition in a Tribal and Rural Community in South India

Kavita Sethuraman

RP2008-14: Inflation and Financial Development: Evidence from Brazil

Manoel Bittencourt

RP2008-13: Comparing Regional Development in China and India

Yanrui Wu

RP2008-12: The Impact of Reform on Economic Growth in China: A Principal Component Analysis

Ligang Song and Yu Sheng

RP2008-11: Measuring the Competitive Threat from China

Rhys Jenkins

RP2008-10: The Rise of the Southern Economies: Implications for the WTO-Multilateral Trading System

Silvia Nenci

RP2008-09: Approaching a Triumphal Span: How Far Is China Towards its Lewisian Turning Point?

Fang Cai

DP2008-08: Hoping or Discounting the Future: A New Perspective on the Transmission of HIV/AIDS

Tony Barnett

RP2008-08: Trade Expansion of China and India: Threat or Opportunity

Mahvash Qureshi and Guanghua Wan

DP2008-07: Health and Labour Market Participation in Uganda

Sarah Bridges and David Lawson

RP2008-07: Enhancing Effective Utilization of Aid in Fragile States

Sanjeev Gupta

RP2008-06: Earnings Mobility in Times of Growth and Decline: Argentina from 1996 to 2003

Gary Fields and Maria Sanchez Puerta

DP2008-06: Does Aid Mitigate External Shocks?

Paul Collier and Benedikt Goderis

DP2008-05: China, India, Brazil and South Africa in the World Economy: Engines of Growth?

Deepak Nayyar

RP2008-05: Trade Liberalization and the Self-employed in Mexico

Gurleen Popli