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RP2006-20: From Seers to Sen: The Meaning of Economic Development

Wayne Nafziger

RP2006-19: Migration in the Development Studies Literature: Has It Come Out of Its Marginality?

Arjan de Haan

RP2006-18: Violence in Peace: Understanding Increased Violence in Early Post-Conflict Transitions and Its Implications for Development

Marcia Byrom Hartwell

RP2006-17: Credit Co-operatives in Locally Financed Economic Development: Using Energy Efficiency as a Lever

Robert J. McIntyre

RP2006-16: Patterns of Rent-Extraction and Deployment in Developing Countries: Implications for Governance, Economic Policy and Performance

Richard M. Auty

RP2006-15: International Convergence or Higher Inequality in Human Development?: Evidence for 1975 to 2003

Farhad Noorbakhsh

RP2006-14: Development Questions for 25 Years

Lance Taylor

RP2006-13: Development in Chile 1990-2005: Lessons from a Positive Experience

Álvaro García Hurtado

RP2006-12: Why Have All Development Strategies Failed in Latin America?

Guillermo Rozenwurcel

RP2006-11: Prolonged Use and Conditionality Failure: Investigating IMF Responsibility

Silvia Marchesi and Laura Sabani

RP2006-10: Health Improvements and Health Inequality during the Last 40 Years

Giovanni Cornia and Leonardo Menchini

DP2006-09: Political Economy of Additional Development Finance

Anthony Clunies-Ross and John Langmore

RP2006-09: International Finance and the Developing World: The Next Twenty Years

Tony Addison

DP2006-08: The International Mobility of Talent and its Impact on Global Development

Andrés Solimano

RP2006-08: Turning Points in Development Thinking and Practice

Louis Emmerij

DP2006-07: Income, Income Inequality, and Health: Evidence from China

Hongbin Li and Yi Zhu

RP2006-07: Aid Allocation and Aid Effectiveness: An Empirical Analysis

Alessia Isopi and George Mavrotas

DP2006-06: Growth and Equity in Finland

Markus Jantti, Juho Saari and Juhana Vartiainen

RP2006-06: Decentralizing Aid with Interested Parties

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

RP2006-05: On the Empirics of Aid and Growth: A Fresh Look

Jan-Erik Antipin and George Mavrotas

DP2006-05: Understanding the Relationship between Institutions and Economic Development: Some Key Theoretical Issues

Ha-Joon Chang

DP2006-04: The Impact of Domestic and International Commodity Price Volatility on Agricultural Income Instability: Ghana, Vietnam and Peru

George Rapsomanikis and Alexander Sarris

RP2006-04: Aid Project Proliferation and Absorptive Capacity

David Roodman

RP2006-03: Tax Policy Reforms in Nigeria

Ayodele Odusola

DP2006-03: Women's Status and Children's Food Security in Pakistan

Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis and Gautam Hazarika

RP2006-02: Taxation in Developing Countries: Case Study of Cameroon

Samuel Fambon

DP2006-02: Multilateral Aid Agencies and Strategic Donor Behaviour

George Mavrotas and Espen Villanger

RP2006-01: Millennium Development Goal 7: An Assessment of Progress With Respect to Water and Sanitation: Legacy, Synergy, Complacency or Policy?

P B Anand

DP2006-01: Aid Allocation and Fragile States

Mark McGillivray

RP2005-76: Sources and Effectiveness of Financial Development: What We Know and What We Need to Know

Panicos Demetriades and Svetlana Andrianova

RP2005-75: The Poverty Macroeconomic Policy Nexus: Some Short-Run Analytics

George Mavrotas and Mansoob Murshed

RP2005-74: Does Financial Openness Promote Economic Integration?: Some Evidence from Europe and the CIS

Fabrizio Carmignani and Abdur Chowdhury

RP2005-73: The Effects of (within and with EU) Regional Integration: Impact on Real Effective Exchange Rate Volatility, Institutional Quality and Growth for MENA Countries

Leonardo Becchetti and Iftekhar Hasan

RP2005-72: Education, Financial Institutions, Inflation and Growth

Leonardo Becchetti, Iftekhar Hasan and George Mavrotas

RP2005-71: Financial Sector Development, Savings Mobilization and Poverty Reduction in Ghana

Peter Quartey

RP2005-70: Financial Markets and R&D Investments: a Discrete-Time Model to Interpret Public Policies

Marco Mazzoli

RP2005-69: Does Financial Liberalization Influence Saving, Investment and Economic Growth?: Evidence from 25 Emerging Market Economies, 1973-97

Niels Hermes and Robert Lensink

RP2005-68: Financial Sector Development and Productivity Growth

Subal Kumbhakar and George Mavrotas

RP2005-67: The Tax Reform Experience of Kenya

Stephen Karingi and Bernadette Wanjala

RP2005-66: Tax Reforms in Ghana

Robert Osei and Peter Quartey

RP2005-65: Taxes and Tax Reform in Ethiopia, 1990-2004

Alemayehu Geda and Abebe Abebe

RP2005-64: Consistent Testing for Poverty Dominance

Bram Thuysbaert and Ricardas Zitikis

RP2005-63: The Microeconomics of Inequality, Poverty and Market Liberalizing Reforms

Rafael De Hoyos

RP2005-62: Poverty Measurement and Theories of Beneficence

Sreenivasan Subramanian

RP2005-61: The Fiscal Effects of Aid in Ghana

Robert Osei, Oliver Morrissey and Tim Lloyd

RP2005-60: Aid and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Accounting for Transmission Mechanisms

Karuna Gomanee, Sourafel Girma and Oliver Morrissey

RP2005-59: Reckoning Inter-Group Poverty Differentials in the Measurement of Aggregate Poverty

Sreenivasan Subramanian

RP2005-58: Innovative Ways of Making Aid Effective in Ghana: Tied Aid Versus Direct Budgetary Support

Peter Quartey

RP2005-57: Poverty and the Welfare Costs of Risk Associated with Globalization

Ethan Ligon

RP2005-56: Why Do Poverty Rates Differ From Region to Region?: the Case of Urban China

Yin Zhang and Guanghua Wan

RP2005-55: Out of School and (Probably) in Work: Child Labour and Capability Deprivation in India

D. Jayaraj and Sreenivasan Subramanian

RP2005-54: It Works; It Doesn't; It Can, But that Depends...: 50 Years of Controversy Over the Macroeconomic Impact of Development Aid

Mark McGillivray, Simon Feeny, Niels Hermes and Robert Lensink

RP2005-53: Explaining Threshold Effects of Globalization on Poverty: an Institutional Perspective

Alice Sindzingre

RP2005-52: Beyond the Notion of Security Community: What Role for the African Regional Organizations in Peace and Security?

Liisa Laakso

RP2005-51: Constitution Writing and Conflict Resolution

Jennifer A. Widner

RP2005-50: Is the International Community Helping to Recreate the Pre-Conditions for War in Sierra Leone?

Joseph Hanlon

RP2005-49: Diamonds, Foreign Aid, and the Uncertain Prospects for Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Sierra Leone

Andrew Grant

RP2005-48: Transforming Conflict with an Economic Dividend: the Sri Lankan Experience

Saman Kelegama

RP2005-47: Conflicts, Poverty and Human Development in Northern Uganda

Justine Nannyonjo

RP2005-46: Inequality, Corruption, and Competition in the Presence of Market Imperfections

Indranil Dutta and Ajit Mishra

RP2005-45: Distributional Conflict, the State, and Peacebuilding in Burundi

Leonce Ndikumana

RP2005-44: The Political Economy of Postwar Reconstruction in Lebanon

Ghassan Dibeh

RP2005-43: Trade Openness and Vulnerability in Central and Eastern Europe

Pierluigi Montalbano, Alessandro Federici, Umberto Triulzi and Carlo Pietrobelli

RP2005-42: Getting Infrastructure Priorities Right in Post-Conflict Reconstruction

P B Anand

RP2005-41: The Role of Information in Technology Adoption under Poverty

Jinhua Zhao

RP2005-40: Globalization, Production and Poverty

Rhys Jenkins

RP2005-39: Impact of Macroeconomic Factors on Total Factor Productivity in Sub-Saharan African Countries

Anthony Akinlo

RP2005-38: Income Distribution and Labour Movement in China After WTO Membership: a CGE Analysis

Jiao Wang, David Mayes and Guanghua Wan

RP2005-37: The Relationship Between Income Inequality, Poverty, and Globalization

Almas Heshmati

RP2005-36: A Decomposition of Poverty Trends Across Regions: the Role of Variation in the Income and Inequality Elasticities of Poverty

Adriaan Kalwij and Arjan Verschoor

RP2005-35: Globalization's Bystanders: Does Trade Liberalization Hurt Countries that Do Not Participate?

Alan Deardorff and Robert Stern

RP2005-34: Does Inequality Lead to Conflict?

Indranil Dutta and Ajit Mishra

RP2005-33: Globalization, Poverty, Inequality, and Insecurity: Some Insights from the Economics of Happiness

Carol Graham

RP2005-32: Globalization, Poverty and Inequality: What Is the Relationship? What Can Be Done?

Kaushik Basu

RP2005-31: On the Causal Links between FDI and Growth in Developing Countries

Henrik Hansen and John Rand

RP2005-30: Globalization and Rural Poverty

Pranab Bardhan

RP2005-29: Looking Beyond Averages in the Trade and Poverty Debate

Martin Ravallion

RP2005-28: Globalization, Local Ecosystems, and the Rural Poor

Rimjhim M. Aggarwal

RP2005-27: Biotechnology and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries

Gregory D. Graff, David Roland-Holst and David Zilberman

RP2005-26: The Causal Relationship between ICT and FDI

Roghieh Gholami, Sang-Yong Tom Lee and Almas Heshmati

RP2005-25: FDI and Growth: a Causal Relationship

Abdur Chowdhury and George Mavrotas

RP2005-24: Foreign Direct Investment in Africa: The Role of Natural Resources, Market Size, Government Policy, Institutions and Political Instability

Elizabeth Asiedu

RP2005-23: Development Assistance and Development Finance: Evidence and Global Policy Agendas

Tony Addison, George Mavrotas and Mark McGillivray

RP2005-22: Assessing Well-being Using Hierarchical Needs

Matthew Clarke

RP2005-21: Wealth Distribution, Lobbying and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence

Daniel T. Haile

RP2005-20: Flood Pulses, International Watercourse Law, and Common Pool Resources: a Case Study of the Mekong Lowlands

Coleen Fox and Chris Sneddon

RP2005-19: Voluntary Contributions to Informal Activities Producing Public Goods: Can These be Induced by Government and Other Formal Sector Agents?: Some Evidence from Indonesian Posyandus

Jeffrey Nugent and Shailender Swaminathan

RP2005-18: The Informal Sector During Crisis and Transition

Ralitza Dimova, Ira Gang and John Landon-Lane

RP2005-17: Public Policies to Promote Productive Occupation and Increase Formality Among the Moderately Poor: The Mexican Agenda

Eduardo Sojo and Roberto Villarreal

RP2005-16: Enforcement and Compliance in Lima's Street Markets: the Origins and Consequences of Policy Incoherence Toward Informal Traders

Sally Roever

RP2005-15: Social Capital, Survival Strategies, and their Potential for Post-Conflict Governance in Liberia

Amos Sawyer

RP2005-14: Inter- and Intra-household Linkages Between the Informal and Formal Sector: a Case Study for Urban Burkina Faso

Michael Grimm and Isabel Günther

RP2005-13: Unofficial Trade When States Are Weak: the Case of Cross-Border Commerce in the Horn of Africa

Peter D. Little

RP2005-12: Globalization, Reform and the Informal Sector

Sugata Marjit and Dibyendu Maiti

DP2005-11: Examining Private Investment Heterogeneity: Evidence from a Dynamic Panel

Kul Luintel and George Mavrotas

RP2005-11: Formal Bureaucracy and the Emergent Forms of the Informal Economy

Keith Hart

DP2005-10: Economic Growth and Financial Depth: Is the Relationship Extinct Already?

Peter Rousseau and Paul Wachtel

RP2005-10: Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment

Marty Chen

DP2005-09: Financial Sector Structure and Financial Crisis Burden: A Model Based on the Russian Default of 1998

George Mavrotas and Dmitri Vinogradov

RP2005-09: Aid, Debt Relief and New Sources of Finance for Meeting the Millennium Development Goals

Tony Addison, George Mavrotas and Mark McGillivray