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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

RP2007-60: The Impact of Foreign Aid in Education Growth: How Relevant is the Heterogeneity of Aid Flows and the Heterogeneity of Aid Recipients?

Elizabeth Asiedu and Boaz Nandwa

RP2007-59: Aid Effectiveness, Debt Relief and Public Finance Response: Evidence from a Panel of HIPCs

Danny Cassimon and Bjorn Van Campenhout

RP2007-58: Trade Liberalization, Employment Flows and Wage Inequality in Brazil

Phillippe Leite, Matthew Wai-Poi and Francisco Ferreira

RP2007-57: Post-Apartheid South Africa: Poverty and Distribution Trends in an Era of Globalization

Servaas van der Berg, Ronelle Burger and Megan Louw

RP2007-56: Firm Location Choice in Cities: Evidence from China, India, and Brazil

Kala Sridhar and Guanghua Wan

RP2007-55: Globalization, Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Africa: A Macroeconomic Perspective

Jeffery I. Round

RP2007-54: Is the Nutritional Status of Males and Females Equally Affected by Economic Growth? Evidence from Vietnam in the 1990s

Vasco Molini and Maarten Nubé

RP2007-53: Differences in Food Insecurity between Girls and Boys: Evidence from Zimbabwe

Craig Gundersen, Oluyemisi Kuku and Thomas Kelly

RP2007-52: Monitoring and Evaluation Reform under Changing Aid Modalities: Seeking the Middle Ground in Aid-Dependent Low-Income Countries

Nathalie Holvoet and Robrecht Renard

RP2007-51: The Implications of Horizontal Inequality for Aid

Graham Brown, Frances Stewart and Arnim Langer

RP2007-50: Aid and Dutch Disease in the South Pacific

David Fielding

RP2007-49: Remittances and Financial Inclusion in Development

Helen S. Toxopeus and Robert Lensink

RP2007-48: Coordinating Aid for Regional Cooperation Projects: The Experience of Central Asia

Richard Pomfret

RP2007-47: Projecting Progress toward the Millennium Development Goals

Howard White and Nina Blöndal

RP2007-46: Public Sector Efficiency and Small Island Developing States

Simon Feeny and Mark Rogers

RP2007-45: Blind Spots on the Map of Aid Allocations: Concentration and Complementarity of International NGO Aid

Dirk-Jan Koch

RP2007-44: Migration Taxes and Human Capital Formation: Some Implications for Development

Saibal Kar

RP2007-43: Gearing Macroeconomic Policies to Manage Large Inflows of ODA: The Implications for HIV/AIDS Programmes

Anis Chowdhury and Terry McKinley

RP2007-42: Toward the Enhanced Effectiveness of Foreign Aid

Gustav Ranis

RP2007-41: Postconflict Countries: Strategy for Rebuilding Fiscal Institutions

Sanjeev Gupta, Shamsuddin Tareq, Benedict J. Clements, Alex Segura-Ubiergo and Rina Bhattacharya

RP2007-40: Assessing the Economic Vulnerability of Small Island Developing States and the Least Developed Countries

Patrick Guillaumont

RP2007-39: Entitlement, Rules, Coordination, Club, Market and Hierarchy - General Budget Support Practice and Theory: Implications of Results of the Joint Evaluation of General Budget Support

Michael Hubbard

RP2007-38: The Short-Run Macroeconomic Impact of Foreign Aid to Small States: An Agnostic Timeseries Analysis

Henrik Hansen and Derek Headey

RP2007-37: Foreign Aid and Economic Development in Postwar Lebanon

Ghassan Dibeh

RP2007-36: The External Debt-Servicing Constraint and Public Expenditure Composition: Evidence from African Economies

Augustin Fosu

RP2007-35: Aid and Rent-Driven Growth: Mauritania, Kenya and Mozambique Compared

Richard M. Auty

RP2007-34: A Survey of Growth and Development Issues of the Pacific Islands

B. Rao, Kanhaiya Lal Sharma, Rup Singh and Nalini Lata

RP2007-32: Rethinking the Policy Objectives of Development Aid: From Economic Growth to Conflict Prevention

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

RP2007-31: International Aid in Light of Global Poverty and Inequality: Some Unsubtle Propositions

Sreenivasan Subramanian

RP2007-30: The Cost of Failing States and the Limits to Sovereignty

Lisa Chauvet, Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler

RP2007-29: State Fragility and International Development Cooperation

Balazs Szent-Ivanyi

RP2007-28: Foreign Direct Investment in Small Island Developing States

Robert Read

RP2007-27: Housing and Personal Wealth in a Global Context

John Muellbauer

RP2007-26: Trade Sustainability and Aid under Liberalization in Fragile Least Developed Countries

Amelia Santos-Paulino

RP2007-25: Size Matters: The Impact of Aid on Institutions

Tanya Bowman and Satish Chand

RP2007-24: Macroeconomic Policies for Growth in Small Pacific Island Economies

Anis Chowdhury and Yogi Vidyattama

RP2007-23: Estimating the Net Effects of Migration and Remittances on Poverty and Inequality: Comparison of Fiji and Tonga

Richard P.C. Brown and Eliana Jiménez

RP2007-22: Remittances and the Macroeconomy: The Case of Small Island Developing States

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Susan Pozo and Carlos Vargas-Silva

RP2007-21: Pacific Islands' Bilateral Trade: The Role of Remoteness and of Transport Costs

Lisa Borgatti

RP2007-20: Terms of Trade Shocks and the Current Account in Small Island States

Amelia Santos-Paulino

RP2007-19: Tourism Competitiveness in Small Island Developing States

Roland Craigwell

RP2007-18: Aid Allocation Volatility to Small Island States

Matthew Clarke, Tim Fry and Sandra Mihajilo

RP2007-17: Survey Estimates of Wealth Holdings in OECD Countries: Evidence on the Level and Distribution across Selected Countries

Markus Jantti and Eva Sierminska

RP2007-16: Paradise Lost: The Costs of State Failure in the Pacific

Lisa Chauvet, Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler

RP2007-15: Gender Differentiation in the Analysis of Alternative Farm Mechanization Choices on Small Farms in Kenya

Julliet Wanjiku, John Uhuru Manyengo, Willis Oluoch-Kosura and Joseph T. Karugia

RP2007-14: The Burden of Government Debt in the Indian States: Implications for the MDG Poverty Target

Indranil Dutta

RP2007-13: Finance and Growth: An Empirical Assessment of the Indian Economy

Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis and Pranab Das

RP2007-12: How Does Vietnam's Accession to the World Trade Organization Change the Spatial Incidence of Poverty?

Tomoki Fujii and David Roland-Holst

RP2007-11: Export Diversity and Regional Growth: Empirical Evidence from South Africa

Marianne Matthee and Wim Naudé

RP2007-10: The Determinants of Regional Manufactured Exports from a Developing Country

Marianne Matthee and Wim Naudé

RP2007-09: The Geographical Location of Manufacturing Exporters in South Africa

Wim Naudé and Marianne Matthee

RP2007-08: The Financial Deepening-Productivity Nexus in China: 1987-2001

Jun Zhang, Guanghua Wan and Yu Jin

RP2007-07: Explaining the Poverty Difference between Inland and Coastal China: A Regression-based Decomposition Approach

Guanghua Wan and Yin Zhang

RP2007-06: Rehabilitating Health Systems in Post-Conflict Situations

Hugh Waters, Gilbert Burnham and Brinnon Garrett

DP2007-06: Loans or Grants?

Daniel Cohen, Pierre Jacquet and Helmut Reisen

RP2007-05: Regional Income Inequality in Rural China, 1985-2002: Trends, Causes and Policy Implications

Guanghua Wan

DP2007-05: Big Push versus Absorptive Capacity: How to Reconcile the Two Approaches

Patrick Guillaumont and Sylviane Guillaumont Jeanneney

RP2007-04: Rights-based Approach to Development: Lessons from the Right to Food Movement in India

Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis and Vivek Srinivasan

DP2007-04: Do Donors Target Aid in Line with the Millennium Development Goals?: A Sector Perspective of Aid Allocation

Rainer Thiele, Peter Nunnenkamp and Axel Dreher

DP2007-03: Geography and Development in Africa: Overview and Implications for Regional Cooperation

Wim Naudé

RP2007-03: Changes in the Distribution of Wealth in China 1995-2002

Shi Li and Renwei Zhao

DP2007-02: Peace, Prosperity, and Pro-Growth Entrepreneurship

Wim Naudé

RP2007-02: Housing Privatization and Household Wealth in Transition

Ruslan Yemtsov

RP2007-01: Global Inequality: Recent Evidence and Trends

Duangkamon Chotikapanich, D.S. Prasada Rao, William Griffiths and Vicar Valencia

DP2007-01: Aid to Fragile States: Do Donors Help or Hinder?

Stephen Browne