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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

DP2007-06: Loans or Grants?

Daniel Cohen, Pierre Jacquet and Helmut Reisen

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

Hugh Waters, Gilbert Burnham and Brinnon Garrett

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

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

Shi Li and Renwei Zhao

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

Wim Naudé

RP2007-02: Housing Privatization and Household Wealth in Transition

Ruslan Yemtsov

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

Wim Naudé

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

RP2006-155: The Evolution of the Development Doctrine, 1950-2005

Erik Thorbecke

RP2006-154: Poverty, Pro-Poor Growth and Mobility: A Decomposition Framework with Application to China

Yin Zhang and Guanghua Wan

RP2006-153: China's Regional Inequality in Innovation Capability, 1995-2004

Peilei Fan and Guanghua Wan

RP2006-152: Poverty Reduction in China: Trends and Causes

Yin Zhang and Guanghua Wan

RP2006-151: Concentration among the Rich

Anthony Atkinson

RP2006-150: Land Titles, Credit Markets and Wealth Distributions

James (Jim) MacGee

RP2006-149: Policies towards Horizontal Inequalities in Post-Conflict Reconstruction

Frances Stewart

RP2006-148: Ethics, Rhetoric and Politics of Post-conflict Reconstruction: How Can the Concept of Social Contract Help Us in Understanding How to Make Peace Work?

Sirkku K. Hellsten

RP2006-147: The Coherence of Democratic Peace-Building

Peter J. Burnell

RP2006-146: Gender Wage Differentials in China's Urban Labour Market

Meiyan Wang and Fang Cai

RP2006-145: Asset Portfolios in Africa: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Christian Rogg

RP2006-144: Global Mobility of Talent from a Perspective of New Industrial Policy: Open Migration Chains and Diaspora Networks

Yevgeny Kuznetsov and Charles F. Sabel

RP2006-143: The International Mobility of Technical Talent: Trends and Development Implications

Anthony P. D'Costa

RP2006-142: International Mobility of Engineers and the Rise of Entrepreneurship in the Periphery

AnnaLee Saxenian

RP2006-141: Agricultural Support Measures of Advanced Countries and Food Insecurity in Developing Countries

Michael Herrmann

RP2006-140: Entitlement Failure from a Food Quality Perspective: The Life and Death Role of Vitamins and Minerals in Humanitarian Crises

Patrick Webb and Andrew Thorne-Lyman

RP2006-139: Globalization and Regional Income Inequality: Empirical Evidence from Within China

Guanghua Wan, Ming Lu and Zhao Chen

RP2006-138: Marketable Wealth in a Poor African Country: Using an index of consumer durables to investigate wealth accumulation by households in Ghana

Ronelle Burger, Frikkie Booysen, Servaas van der Berg and Michael von Maltitz

RP2006-137: Land Reform and Landholdings in Brazil

Juliano Assuncao

RP2006-136: Gender Earnings Differentials and Regional Economic Development in Urban China, 1988-97

Ying Chu Ng

RP2006-135: The Urban-Rural Income Gap and Inequality in China

Terry Sicular, Ximing Yue, Björn Gustafsson and Shi Li

RP2006-134: Estimating Income Inequality in China Using Grouped Data and the Generalized Beta Distribution

Duangkamon Chotikapanich, D.S. Prasada Rao and Kam Ki Tang

RP2006-133: China Urban Poverty and its Contributing Factors, 1986-2000

Xin Meng, Robert Gregory and Guanghua Wan

RP2006-132: Enforcing the Right to Food in India: Bottlenecks in Delivering the Expected Outcome

George Cheriyan

RP2006-131: Women and Food Security in South Asia: Current Issues and Emerging Concerns

Nira Ramachandran

RP2006-130: The Informal Sector in Developing Countries: Output, Assets and Employment

Sangeeta Pratap and Erwan Quintin

RP2006-129: Development Strategies and Regional Income Disparities in China

Justin Lin and Peilin Liu

RP2006-128: Forces Shaping China's Interprovincial Inequality

Kai-yuen Tsui

RP2006-127: What Kind of Education Does China Need?: The Impact of Educational Attainment on Local Growth and Disparities

Ulrich Reuter

RP2006-126: Income Inequality in China and its Influencing Factors

Xiaolu Wang

RP2006-125: Making Fiscal Space Happen!: Managing Fiscal Policy in a World of Scaled-Up Aid

Peter Heller, Menachem Katz, Xavier Debrun, Theo Thomas, Taline Koranchelian and Isabell Adenauer

RP2006-124: International Trade, Food Security and the Response to the WTO in South Asian Countries

Ramesh Chand

RP2006-123: Looking for Answers to the Food Security Problem: India under Current Compulsions

Nilabja Ghosh and Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis

RP2006-122: Realizing the Right to Food in South Asia

Pradeep Bhargava and Manju Balana

RP2006-121: Human Capital and Wage Determination in Different Ownerships, 1989-97

Chunbing Xing