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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

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

Mahvash Qureshi and Guanghua Wan

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

Tony Barnett

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

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

Gurleen Popli

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

Deepak Nayyar

DP2008-04: Measurement and Explanation of Inequality in Health and Health Care in Low-Income Settings

Eddy Van Doorslaer and Owen O'Donnell

RP2008-04: Globalization, Literacy Levels, and Economic Development

Alok Bhargava

DP2008-03: The World Distribution of Household Wealth

James Davies, Susanna Sandström, Anthony F. Shorrocks and Edward Wolff

RP2008-03: Aid and Growth in Fragile States

Mark McGillivray and Simon Feeny

DP2008-02: Southern Engines of Global Growth: Very Long Cycles or Short Spurts?

Meghnad Desai

RP2008-02: China in the World Economy: Dynamic Correlation Analysis of Business Cycles

Jarko Fidrmuc and Ivana Bátorová

RP2008-01: Empowering Women Through Livelihoods Orientated Agricultural Service Provision: A Consideration of Evidence from Southern Africa

A.J.E. Charman

DP2008-01: Entrepreneurial Ventures and the Developmental State: Lessons from the Advanced Economies

William Lazonick

RP2007-87: Household Access to Microcredit and Children's Food Security in Rural Malawi: A Gender Perspective

Gautam Hazarika and Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis

RP2007-86: Forest Management, Gender, and Food Security of the Rural Poor in Africa

Daniel Gbetnkom

RP2007-85: Women's Status and Child Labour in Nepal

Milla Nyyssölä

RP2007-84: Women's Status and Children's Food Security in Nepal

Milla Nyyssölä

RP2007-83: Environmental Determinants of Child Mortality in Kenya

Clive J. Mutunga

RP2007-82: China, South Africa, and the Lewis Model

John Knight

RP2007-81: Development Effectiveness at the Country Level

Robert Picciotto

RP2007-80: Domestic Violence Against Women: Its Determinants and Implications for Gender Resource Allocation

Mohammad Mokammel Karim Toufique and Mohammad Razzaque

RP2007-79: Does Women's Status Matter for Food Security? Evidence from Bangladesh

Mohammad Razzaque and Mohammad Mokammel Karim Toufique

RP2007-78: Role of the Household and Community in Determining Child Health

Subha Mani

RP2007-77: Estimating the Level and Distribution of Global Household Wealth

James Davies, Susanna Sandström, Anthony F. Shorrocks and Edward Wolff

RP2007-76: Globalization and the Urban Poor

Janice E. Perlman

RP2007-75: Evaluating Aid Impact

Howard White

RP2007-74: Inequality and Poverty in Africa in an Era of Globalization: Looking Beyond Income to Health and Education

David Sahn and Stephen Younger

RP2007-73: Globalization and Marginalization in Africa: Poverty, Risk, and Vulnerability in Rural Ethiopia

Stefan Dercon

RP2007-72: Globalization, Crop Choice and Property Rights in Rural Peru, 1994-2004

Erica Field and Alfred Field

RP2007-71: Does Aid Improve Public Service Delivery?

Susanna Wolf

RP2007-70: Market Participation and Rural Poverty in Ghana in the Era of Globalization

Abena Oduro and Isaac Osei-Akoto

RP2007-69: Effect of the Liberalization of Investment Policies on Employment and Investment of Multinational Corporations in Africa

Elizabeth Asiedu and Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong

RP2007-68: Changing Land-tenure Arrangements and Access to Primary Assets under Globalization: A Case Study of Two Villages in Anglophone Cameroon

Francis Menjo Baye

RP2007-67: Gender Dimensions to the Incidence of Tariff Liberalization

Reza Daniels

RP2007-66: Distributional Impact of Globalization-Induced Migration: Evidence from a Nigerian Village

Steve Onyeiwu, Raluca Polimeni and John Polimeni

RP2007-65: Gains from Trade: Implications for Labour Market Adjustment and Poverty Reduction in Africa

Augustin Fosu and Andrew Mold

RP2007-64: Globalization and the Human Development Trap

David Mayer-Foulkes

RP2007-63: Can New Aid Modalities Handle Politics?

Arjan de Haan and Max Everest-Phillips

RP2007-62: Issues to Consider in Assessing International Support for Realizing Children's Rights: A Reflection on Aid Modalities and Transparency in Reporting, and a Review of Aid for Basic Social Services

Eva Jespersen and Julia Benn

RP2007-61: Japan's National Economic Identity and African Development

Howard P. Lehman