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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

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