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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

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

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

Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis and Vivek Srinivasan

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

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

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 Assunção

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

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