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RP2005-08: The Human Development Index Adjusted for Efficient Resource Utilization

Francisco J. Arcelus, Basu Sharma and Gopalan Srinivasan

DP2005-08: Channels and Policy Debate in the Globalization-Inequality-Poverty Nexus

Machiko Nissanke and Erik Thorbecke

DP2005-07: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars: What We Know, What We Need to Know

David M. Malone and Heiko Nitzschke

RP2005-07: Agricultural Development for Peace

Tony Addison

RP2005-06: Measuring the Quality of Life Across Countries: a Sensitivity Analysis of Well-Being Indices

Tauhidur Rahman, Ron Mittelhammer and Philip Wandschneider

DP2005-06: The Volatility of Aid

David Fielding and George Mavrotas

DP2005-05: Post-Conflict Recovery: Does the Global Economy Work for Peace?

Tony Addison

RP2005-05: A Framework for Incorporating Environmental Indicators to the Measurement of Human Well-Being

Osman Zaim

RP2005-04: Relative Deprivation, Personal Income Satisfaction, and Average Well-Being under Different Income Distributions

Christian Seidl, Stefan Traub and Andrea Morone

DP2005-04: Decent Work and the Informal Economy

Anne Trebilcock

DP2005-03: A Macro Policy for Poverty Eradication through Structural Change

Rehman Sobhan

RP2005-03: Population Ethics and the Value of Life

Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson

DP2005-02: From Local to Global and Informal to Formal: Entering Mainstream Markets

Reema Nanavaty

RP2005-02: Measuring Inequality Without the Pigou-Dalton Condition

Alain Chateauneuf and Patrick Moyes

RP2005-01: Intersociety Literacy Comparisons

Satya Chakravarty and Amita Majumder

DP2005-01: Unlocking Public Entrepreneurship and Public Economies

Elinor Ostrom

RP2004-66: Group-Oriented Values, Rules and Cooperation

Ke-Young Chu

RP2004-65: A Model of a Rule of Law and a Rule of Man: Implications for the Design of Institutions

Ke-Young Chu

RP2004-64: Exchange Rates and Competition for FDI

Yuqing Xing and Guanghua Wan

RP2004-63: Composite Indices of Human Well-being: Past, Present, and Future

Mark McGillivray and Farhad Noorbakhsh

RP2004-62: Globalization, Development, and Mobility of Technical Talent: India and Japan in Comparative Perspectives

Anthony P. D'Costa

RP2004-61: Income Risk and Welfare Status of Rural Households in Nigeria: Ekiti State as a Test Case

Isaac Oluwatayo

RP2004-60: A Contract Perspective on the International Finance Facility

Tun Lin and George Mavrotas

RP2004-59: Social Groups and Economic Poverty: A Problem in Measurement

Sreenivasan Subramanian

RP2004-58: Do Structural Reforms always Succeed?: Lessons from Brazil

Jorge Arbache

RP2004-57: Participatory Approaches and the Measurement of Human Well-being

Sarah White and Jethro Pettit

RP2004-56: Output and Price Fluctuations in China's Reform Years: What Role did Money Play?

Yin Zhang and Guanghua Wan

RP2004-55: What Accounts for China's Trade Balance Dynamics?

Yin Zhang and Guanghua Wan

RP2004-54: China's Business Cycles: Perspectives from an AD-AS Model

Yin Zhang and Guanghua Wan

RP2004-53: Decomposing Spatial Differences in Poverty in India

Shatakshee Dhongde

RP2004-52: Divergent Means and Convergent Inequality of Incomes among the Provinces and Cities of Urban China

John Knight, Shi Li and Renwei Zhao

RP2004-51: Income Inequality in Rural China: Regression-based Decomposition Using Household Data

Guanghua Wan and Zhangyue Zhou

RP2004-50: Fifty Years of Regional Inequality in China: A Journey through Central Planning, Reform, and Openness

Ravi Kanbur and Xiaobo Zhang

RP2004-49: Industrial Location and Spatial Inequality: Theory and Evidence from India

Somik Lall and Sanjoy Chakravorty

RP2004-48: Commune-Level Estimation of Poverty Measures and its Application in Cambodia

Tomoki Fujii

RP2004-47: Multiactor Global Funds: New Tools to Address Urgent Global Problems

Jeremy Heimans

RP2004-46: The Transition from Official Aid to Private Capital Flows: Implications for a Developing Country

Renu Kohli

RP2004-45: Imminent Prospects for Additional Finance: What Might Be Done Now or Soon and Under What Conditions

Anthony Clunies-Ross

RP2004-44: Foreign Aid Resurgent: New Spirit or Old Hangover?

Peter J. Burnell

RP2004-43: Spatial Horizontal Inequality and the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal

Mansoob Murshed and Scott Gates

RP2004-42: Prospects for 'Pro-Poor' Growth in Africa

Arne Bigsten and Abebe Abebe

RP2004-41: What Money Can't Buy: The Relevance of Income Redistribution for Functioning Levels

Sara Lelli

RP2004-40: Longevity in Russia's Regions: Do Poverty and Low Public Health Spending Kill?

Oleksiy Ivaschenko

RP2004-39: Dynamics of Poverty in Ethiopia

Arne Bigsten and Abebe Abebe

RP2004-38: Poverty Mapping with Aggregate Census Data: What is the Loss in Precision?

Nicholas Minot and Bob Baulch

RP2004-37: On the Arbitrariness and Robustness of Multi-Dimensional Poverty Rankings

Mozaffar Qizilbash

RP2004-36: Spatial Inequality and Development in Central Asia

Kathryn Anderson and Richard Pomfret

RP2004-35: Trade Liberalization and Spatial Inequality: A Methodological Innovation in Vietnamese Perspective

Henning Jensen and Finn Tarp

RP2004-34: Changes in Spatial Income Inequality in the Philippines: An Exploratory Analysis

Arsenio Balisacan and Nobuhiko Fuwa

RP2004-33: Social and Political Indicators of Human Well-being

Susan Harkness

RP2004-32: The Medium- and Long-term Effects of an Expansion of Education on Poverty in Côte d'Ivoire: A Dynamic Microsimulation Study

Michael Grimm

RP2004-31: Inequalities, Agency, and Well-being: Conceptual Linkages and Measurement Challenges in Development

Douglas A. Hicks

RP2004-30: Economic Well-being and Non-economic Well-being: A Review of the Meaning and Measurement of Poverty

Andy Sumner

RP2004-29: Well-being and the Complexity of Poverty: A Subjective Well-being Approach

Mariano Rojas

RP2004-28: Benchmarking Sustainable Development: A Synthetic Meta-index Approach

Laurens Cherchye and Timo Kuosmanen

RP2004-27: Capital Flows, Exchange Rate Regime, and Macroeconomic Performance in Mexico

Carlos A. Ibarra

RP2004-26: Assessing Poverty and Inequality at a Detailed Regional Level: New Advances in Spatial Microsimulation

Ann Harding, Rachel Lloyd, Anthea Bill and Anthony King

RP2004-25: Indicators of Inequality and Poverty

Sreenivasan Subramanian

RP2004-24: Income-based Measures of Average Well-being

Steve Dowrick

RP2004-23: Sustainability and Well-being Indicators

Eric Neumayer

RP2004-22: Modelling Macroeconomic Linkages in a Monetary Union: A West African Example

David Fielding, Kevin Lee and Kalvinder Shields

RP2004-21: The Characteristics of Macroeconomic Shocks in the CFA Franc Zone

David Fielding, Kevin Lee and Kalvinder Shields

RP2004-20: Monetary Policy in the Franc Zone: Estimating Interest Rate Rules for the BCEAO

Anja Shortland and David Stasavage

RP2004-19: Poverty and Growth in the WAEMU after the 1994 Devaluation

Jean-Paul Azam

RP2004-18: Analyse du Processus de Convergence Dans la Zone UEMOA

Lambert N'galadjo Bamba

RP2004-17: The Impact of Monetary Union on Macroeconomic Integration: Evidence from West Africa

David Fielding and Kalvinder Shields

RP2004-16: On the Measurement of Human Well-being: Fuzzy Set Theory and Sen's Capability Approach

Mina Baliamoune

RP2004-15: Monetary Policy in the CFA Zone: Country-level Credit Policy

Anja Shortland and David Stasavage

RP2004-14: The Costs and Benefits Analysis of CFA Membership: The Choice of an Exchange Rate Regime for the CFA Countries Zone

Mireille Linjouom

RP2004-13: Diffusion of Digital Mobile Telephony: Are Developing Countries Different?

Petri Rouvinen

RP2004-12: Poverty Measures and Anti-Poverty Policy with an Egalitarian Constraint

Sreenivasan Subramanian

RP2004-11: Some Simple Analytics of Poverty Redress through Direct Income Transfers and Wage Employment Programmes: A Review and Commentary

Sreenivasan Subramanian

DP2004-10: Globalization and Regional Income Inequality: Evidence from within China

Guanghua Wan, Ming Lu and Zhao Chen

RP2004-10: A Re-scaled Version of the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke Poverty Indices based on an Association with the Minkowski Distance Function

Sreenivasan Subramanian

DP2004-09: Development Policy: An Introduction for Students

Tony Addison

RP2004-09: An Aggregate View of Macroeconomic Shocks in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Study Using Innovation Accounting

Simeon Coleman

RP2004-08: An Inquiry into Cities and Their Role in Subnational Economic Growth in South Africa

Wim Naudé and Waldo Krugell

DP2004-08: Microsimulation, CGE and Macro Modelling for Transition and Developing Economies

James Davies

DP2004-07: Subjective Measures of Well-being

Ruut Veenhoven

RP2004-07: Return International Migration and Geographical Inequality: The Case of Egypt

Barry McCormick and Jackline Wahba

DP2004-06: Human Well-being: Concepts and Conceptualizations

Des Gasper

RP2004-06: Love Thy Neighbour?: Evidence from Ethnic Discrimination in Information Sharing within Villages

Mattia Romani

DP2004-05: Gender-Related Indicators of Well-Being

Stephan Klasen

RP2004-05: Crime, Isolation, and Law Enforcement

Marcel Fafchamps and Christine O. N. Moser

DP2004-04: Conceptual and Measurement Issues in Poverty Analysis

Erik Thorbecke

RP2004-04: Urban-Rural Inequality in Living Standards in Africa

David Sahn and David Stifel

DP2004-03: A Development-focused Allocation of the Special Drawing Rights

Ernest Aryeetey

RP2004-03: Economic Growth, Income Distribution and Poverty: Time-series and Cross-country Evidence from the CFA-zone Countries of sub-Saharan Africa

Michael Bleaney and Akira Nishiyama

DP2004-02: The Rise or Fall of World Inequality: A Spurious Controversy?

Bart Capéau and André Decoster

RP2004-02: How Does Monetary Policy Affect the Poor?: Evidence from the West African Economic and Monetary Union

David Fielding

DP2004-01: Spatial Decomposition of Inequality

Anthony F. Shorrocks and Guanghua Wan

RP2004-01: Inequality and Welfare Evaluation of Heterogeneous Income Distributions

Anthony F. Shorrocks

DP2003-90: Regional or National Poverty Lines?: The Case of Uganda in the 1990s

Simon Appleton

DP2003-89: Remittances by Emigrants: Issues and Evidence

Andrés Solimano

DP2003-88: Innovative Sources for Development Finance: Over-Arching Issues

Anthony Atkinson

DP2003-87: National Taxation, Fiscal Federalism and Global Taxation

Robin Boadway

DP2003-86: Environmental Taxation and Revenue for Development

Agnar Sandmo

DP2003-85: Which Types of Aid Have the Most Impact?

George Mavrotas

DP2003-84: Loan Processing Costs and Information Asymmetries-Implications for Financial Sector Development and Economic Growth

Salvatore Capasso and George Mavrotas

DP2003-83: The Revenue and Double Dividend Potential of Taxes on International Private Capital Flows and Securities Transactions

Ilene Grabel