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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

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

Tony Addison, George Mavrotas and Mark McGillivray

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

George Mavrotas and Dmitri Vinogradov

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

Machiko Nissanke and Erik Thorbecke

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

Francisco J. Arcelus, Basu Sharma and Gopalan Srinivasan

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

DP2005-04: Decent Work and the Informal Economy

Anne Trebilcock

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

Christian Seidl, Stefan Traub and Andrea Morone

RP2005-03: Population Ethics and the Value of Life

Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson

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

Rehman Sobhan

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

Alain Chateauneuf and Patrick Moyes

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

Reema Nanavaty

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