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RP2006-120: The Evolution of Personal Wealth in the Former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe

Sergei Guriev and Andrei Rachinsky

RP2006-119: Tomorrow's Hunger: A Framework for Analysing Vulnerability to Food Security

Christian Romer Lovendal and Marco Knowles

RP2006-118: The Changing Pattern of Undernutrition in India: A Comparative Analysis across Regions

Brinda Viswanathan and J.V. Meenakshi

RP2006-117: Social Benefits in Urban China: Determinants and Impact on Income Inequality in 1988 and 2002

Qin Gao

RP2006-116: The Distribution of Household Wealth in India

Sreenivasan Subramanian and D. Jayaraj

RP2006-115: Gender and the Distribution of Wealth in Developing Countries

Carmen Diana Deere and Cheryl Doss

RP2006-114: Household Wealth in Latin America

Florencia Torche and Seymour Spilerman

RP2006-113: Extending the 'Institutional' Turn: Property, Politics and Development Trajectories

Peter Evans

RP2006-112: The Structure and Performance of Ethiopia's Financial Sector in the Pre- and Post-Reform Period with a Special Focus on Banking

Alemayehu Geda

RP2006-111: On the Edge: The Role of Food-based Safety Nets in Helping Vulnerable Households Manage Food Insecurity

Lynn R. Brown and Ugo Gentilini

RP2006-110: Gender, HIV/AIDS and Rural Livelihoods: Micro-Level Investigations in Three African Countries

John Curry, Esther Wiegers, Alessandra Garbero, Shannon Stokes and John Hourihan

RP2006-109: International Organizations as a Profession: Professional Mobility and Power Distribution

Jean-Marc Coicaud

RP2006-108: The International Mobility of Cultural Talent

Tony Addison

RP2006-107: Food Retailing, Supermarkets and Food Security: Highlights from Latin America

Mehmet Arda

RP2006-106: Analysis of the Potential Impact of the Current WTO Agricultural Negotiations on Government Strategies in the SADC Region

James Hodge and A.J.E. Charman

RP2006-105: Regional Inequality, Industry Agglomeration and Foreign Trade: The Case of China

Ying Ge

RP2006-104: Credit Constraints as a Barrier to Technology Adoption by the Poor: Lessons from South-Indian Small-Scale Fishery

Xavier Gine and Stefan Klonner

RP2006-103: Long-Run Changes in the Concentration of Wealth: An Overview of Recent Findings

Henry Ohlsson, Jesper Roine and Daniel Waldenström

RP2006-102: Stock Market Development and Economic Growth

Salvatore Capasso

RP2006-101: Institutions and Economic Growth: The Successful Experience of Switzerland (1870-1950)

Thomas David and André Mach

RP2006-100: Financial Reform and the Mobilization of Domestic Savings: The Experience of Morocco

Mina Baliamoune

RP2006-99: Estimating the Balance Sheet of the Personal Sector in an Emerging Market Country: South Africa 1975-2003

Janine Aron, John Muellbauer and Johan Prinsloo

RP2006-98: The Public Distribution Systems of Foodgrains and Implications for Food Security: A Comparison of the Experiences of India and China

Zhangyue Zhou and Guanghua Wan

RP2006-97: Resource-Poor Farmers in South India: On the Margins or Frontiers of Globalization?

Rimjhim M. Aggarwal

RP2006-96: Financial Development and Income Inequality in Rural China 1991-2000

Zhicheng Liang

RP2006-95: Measures of Food Insecurity at the Household Level

Indranil Dutta, Craig Gundersen and Prasanta K. Pattanaik

RP2006-94: The Impacts of Growth and Inequality on Rural Poverty in China

Yin Zhang and Guanghua Wan

RP2006-93: Fiscal Decentralization and Political Centralization in China: Implications for Growth and Inequality

Xiaobo Zhang

RP2006-92: The Inequality-Growth Nexus in the Short and Long Runs: Empirical Evidence from China

Guanghua Wan, Ming Lu and Zhao Chen

RP2006-91: Household Financial Assets in the Process of Development

Patrick Honohan

RP2006-90: Financial Development, Growth, and Regional Disparity in Post-Reform China

Zhicheng Liang

RP2006-89: Spatial Convergence in China: 1952-99

Patricio Aroca, Dong Guo and Geoffrey Hewings

RP2006-88: Measuring Food Security Using Respondents' Perception of Food Consumption Adequacy

Mauro Migotto, Benjamin Davis, Calogero Carletto and Kathleen Beegle

RP2006-87: Institutional Analysis of Financial Market Fragmentation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Risk-Cost Configuration Approach

Machiko Nissanke and Ernest Aryeetey

RP2006-86: The Determinants of Loan Contracts to Business Firms: Empirical Evidence from a Private Bank in Vietnam

Thi Thu Tra Pham and Robert Lensink

RP2006-85: Financial Sector Development and Growth: The Chinese Experience

Iftekhar Hasan and Mingming Zhou

RP2006-84: Excess Credit and the South Korean Crisis

Panicos Demetriades and Bassam Fattouh

RP2006-83: International Mobility of Researchers and Scientists: Policy Options for Turning a Drain into a Gain

Kristian Thorn and Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen

RP2006-82: International Mobility of Health Professionals: Brain Drain or Brain Exchange?

Stephen Bach

RP2006-81: The Rise and Halt of Economic Development in Brazil, 1945-2004: Industrial Catching-up, Institutional Innovation and Financial Fragility

Leonardo Burlamaqui, Jose A. P. De Souza and Nelson Barbosa-Filho

RP2006-80: Primary Education in India: Prospects of Meeting the MDG Target

Sonia Bhalotra and Bernarda Zamora Talaya

RP2006-79: Childhood Mortality and Economic Growth

Sonia Bhalotra

RP2006-78: Reconstruction from Breakdown in Northeastern India: Building State Capability

Sajjad Hassan

RP2006-77: Institutionalism Ancient, Old and New: A Historical Perspective on Institutions and Uneven Development

Erik Reinert

RP2006-76: Rethinking Import-substituting Industrialization: Development Strategies and Institutions in Taiwan and China

Tianbiao Zhu

RP2006-75: The Formation of a Mercantilist State and the Economic Growth of the United Kingdom 1453-1815

Patrick Karl O'Brien

RP2006-74: The Political Economy of Taxation and Tax Reform in Developing Countries

Jonathan Di John

RP2006-73: Institutions and Economic Performance in Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Mauritius, Botswana and Uganda

Julius Kiiza

RP2006-72: The Role of Federalism in Developing the US during Nineteenth-century Globalization

Eric Rauchway

RP2006-71: Corporate Governance, Innovative Enterprise, and Economic Development

William Lazonick

RP2006-70: National Food Policies Impacting on Food Security: The Experience of India, a Large Populated Country

Shabd S. Acharya

RP2006-69: Gender, Local Knowledge, and Lessons Learnt in Documenting and Conserving Agrobiodiversity

Yianna Lambrou and Regina Laub

RP2006-68: Food Security in the South Pacific Island Countries with Special Reference to the Fiji Islands

Kanhaiya Lal Sharma

RP2006-67: Food Security in Vietnam during the 1990s: The Empirical Evidence

Vasco Molini

RP2006-66: Widening Gap of Educational Opportunity?: A Longitudinal Study of Educational Inequality in China

Min-Dong Lee

RP2006-65: Development of Financial Intermediation and the Dynamics of Rural-Urban Inequality: China, 1978-98

Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen, Mingxing Liu and Qi Zhang

RP2006-64: How Should We Measure Global Poverty in a Changing World?

Lars Osberg and Kuan Xu

RP2006-63: Poverty Accounting by Factor Components: With an Empirical Illustration Using Chinese Data

Guanghua Wan

RP2006-62: The Gender Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Challenges in Development Aid

Marcia E. Greenberg and Elaine Zuckerman

RP2006-61: State Recognition of the Right to Food at the National Level

Margret Vidar

RP2006-60: Does the WTO Agreement on Agriculture Endanger Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Samuel K. Gayi

RP2006-59: Asia's Labour-Driven Economic Development, Flying-Geese Style: An Unprecedented Opportunity for the Poor to Rise?

Terutomo Ozawa

RP2006-58: Trade, Migration, and Poverty Reduction in the Globalizing Economy: The Case of the Philippines

Yasuyuki Sawada and Jonna Estudillo

RP2006-57: Threshold Estimation on the Globalization-Poverty Nexus: Evidence from China

Zhicheng Liang

RP2006-56: Pro-Poor Growth: The Asian Experience

Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H. Son

RP2006-55: Evaluating Targeting Efficiency of Government Programmes: International Comparisons

Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H. Son

RP2006-54: Central Banks as Agents of Economic Development

Gerald Epstein

RP2006-53: The Rule of Law, Legal Traditions, and Economic Growth in East Asia

Meredith Woo-Cumings

RP2006-52: Modern Bureaucracy

John Toye

RP2006-51: Finance and Poverty in Ethiopia: A Household Level Analysis

Alemayehu Geda, Abebe Abebe and Daniel Zerfu Gurara

RP2006-50: The Corporate Debt Market: A Firm-Level Panel Study for India

Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis and Saibal Kar

RP2006-49: Manufacturing, Services and Premature Deindustrialization in Developing Countries: A Kaldorian Analysis

Sukti Dasgupta and Ajit Singh

RP2006-48: Development Strategy, Viability, and Economic Institutions: The Case of China

Justin Lin, Mingxing Liu, Shiyuan Pan and Pengfei Zhang

RP2006-47: Absorptive Capacity and Achieving the MDGs

François Bourguignon and Mark Sundberg

RP2006-46: A Quest for Pro-Poor Globalization

Machiko Nissanke and Erik Thorbecke

RP2006-45: Trade Liberalization, Environment and Poverty: A Developing Country Perspective

Mahvash Qureshi

RP2006-44: Globalization and Rural Poverty: A Perspective from a Social Observatory in the Philippines

Yujiro Hayami

RP2006-43: Economic Development Strategy, Openness and Rural Poverty: A Framework and China's Experiences

Justin Lin and Peilin Liu

RP2006-42: Globalization and the Urban Poor in China

Yin Zhang and Guanghua Wan

RP2006-41: Globalization, Growth and Poverty in India

N R Bhanumurthy and Arup Mitra

RP2006-40: Vulnerability to Globalization in India: Relative Rankings of States Using Fuzzy Models

K.S. Kavi Kumar and Brinda Viswanathan

RP2006-39: The Burden of Government Debt in the Indian States: Implications for the MDG Poverty Target

Indranil Dutta

RP2006-38: Measuring Pro-Poor Progress towards the Non-Income Millennium Development Goals

Melanie Grosse, Kenneth Harttgen and Stephan Klasen

RP2006-37: Gender and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Issues and Evidence

Mark Blackden, R. Sudharshan Canagarajah, Stephan Klasen and David Lawson

RP2006-36: Do We Need a New 'Great Transformation'? Is One Likely?

Frances Stewart

RP2006-35: International Risk Tolerance, Capital Market Failure and Capital Flows to Emerging Markets

Valpy Fitzgerald

RP2006-34: Corruption and Inequality

Eric Uslaner

RP2006-33: Three Decades of Rural Development Projects in Asia, Latin America, and Africa: Learning From Successes and Failures

Annelies Zoomers

RP2006-32: Inequality in Historical Perspective

Richard Jolly

RP2006-31: Stormy Days on an Open Field: Asymmetries in the Global Economy

Nancy Birdsall

RP2006-30: Investing in Health for Economic Development: The Case of Mexico

Nora Lustig

RP2006-29: Development through Globalization?

Deepak Nayyar

RP2006-28: Indivisibility, Fairness, Farsightedness and their Implications for Security

Mansoob Murshed

RP2006-27: Innovations, High-Tech Trade and Industrial Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Lakhwinder Singh

RP2006-26: Decomposing Growth: Do Low-Income and HIPCs Differ from High-Income Countries?: Growth, Technological Catch-up, Technological Change and Human and Physical Capital Deepening

Pertti Haaparanta and Heli Virta

RP2006-25: Is Social Capital Part of the Institutions Continuum and is it a Deep Determinant of Development?

Stephen Knowles

RP2006-24: Applying Behavioural Economics to International Development Policy

Leigh Anderson and Kostas G. Stamoulis

RP2006-23: A Wider Approach to Aid Effectiveness: Correlated Impacts on Health, Wealth, Fertility and Education

David Fielding, Mark McGillivray and Sebastián Torres Ledezma

RP2006-22: The Human Dimensions of the Global Development Process in the Early Part of the 21st Century: Critical Trends and New Challenges

Mihaly Simai

RP2006-21: Institutions, Policies and Economic Development

Grzegorz W. Kolodko