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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

RP2008-07: Enhancing Effective Utilization of Aid in Fragile States

Sanjeev Gupta

DP2008-07: Health and Labour Market Participation in Uganda

Sarah Bridges and David Lawson

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

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

Deepak Nayyar

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

Gurleen Popli

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

RP2008-03: Aid and Growth in Fragile States

Mark McGillivray and Simon Feeny

DP2008-03: The World Distribution of Household Wealth

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

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

Jarko Fidrmuc and Ivana Bátorová

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

Meghnad Desai

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

William Lazonick

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

A.J.E. Charman

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