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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

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

RP2006-08: Turning Points in Development Thinking and Practice

Louis Emmerij

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

Andrés Solimano

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

Alessia Isopi and George Mavrotas

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

Hongbin Li and Yi Zhu

RP2006-06: Decentralizing Aid with Interested Parties

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

DP2006-06: Growth and Equity in Finland

Markus Jantti, Juho Saari and Juhana Vartiainen

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

Ha-Joon Chang

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

Jan-Erik Antipin and George Mavrotas

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