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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

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

Simeon Coleman

DP2004-09: Development Policy: An Introduction for Students

Tony Addison

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

James Davies

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

Wim Naudé and Waldo Krugell

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

Barry McCormick and Jackline Wahba

DP2004-07: Subjective Measures of Well-being

Ruut Veenhoven

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

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

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

Ernest Aryeetey

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

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

Anthony F. Shorrocks

DP2004-01: Spatial Decomposition of Inequality

Anthony F. Shorrocks and Guanghua Wan

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

DP2003-82: Private Donations for International Development

John Micklewright and Anna Wright

DP2003-81: Revenue Potential of the Currency Transaction Tax for Development Finance: A Critical Appraisal

Machiko Nissanke

DP2003-80: A Global Lottery and a Global Premium Bond

Tony Addison and Abdur Chowdhury

DP2003-79: The International Finance Facility: The UK HM Treasury-DFID Proposal to Increase External Finance to Developing Countries

George Mavrotas

DP2003-78: The Economic Integration of Immigrants in the United States: Lessons for Policy

George Borjas

DP2003-77: Convergence Club Empirics: Some Dynamics and Explanations of Unequal Growth across Indian States

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

DP2003-76: Institutional Quality, Reforms and Integration in the Maghreb

Tony Addison and Mina Baliamoune

DP2003-75: Bankruptcy Proceedings for Sovereign State Insolvency and their Effect on Capital Flows

Jonathan Thomas

DP2003-74: A Decomposition Analysis of Regional Poverty in Russia

Stanislav Kolenikov and Anthony F. Shorrocks

DP2003-73: Adverse Geography and Differences in Welfare in Peru

Javier Escobal and Maximo Torero

DP2003-72: Illegal Immigration, Human Trafficking, and Organized Crime

Raimo Väyrynen

DP2003-71: Aid Effectiveness and Selectivity: Integrating Multiple Objectives into Aid Allocations

Mark McGillivray

DP2003-70: Reforms, Remoteness and Risk in Africa: Understanding Inequality and Poverty during the 1990s

Luc Christiaensen, Lionel Demery and Stefano Paternostro

DP2003-69: Measurement of a Multidimentional Index of Globalization and its Impact on Income Inequality

Almas Heshmati

DP2003-68: Asylum Policy in the West: Past Trends, Future Possibilities

Matthew J. Gibney and Randall Hansen

DP2003-67: Quo Vadis? Inequality and Poverty Dynamics across Russian Regions

Ruslan Yemtsov

DP2003-66: Spatial Inequality for Manufacturing Wages in Five African Countries

Dirk Willem te Velde and Oliver Morrissey

DP2003-65: Regional Poverty and Income Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study

Michael Förster, David Jesuit and Timothy M. Smeeding

DP2003-64: Is the Brain Drain an Unmitigated Blessing?

Riccardo Faini

DP2003-63: Some Welfare Implications of 'Who Goes First?' in WTO Negotiations

Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis

DP2003-62: Who Gains from Tariff Escalation?

Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis

DP2003-61: International Trade, Location and Wage Inequality in China

Songhua Lin

DP2003-60: Economic Polarization Through Trade: Trade Liberalization and Regional Growth in Mexico

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Javier Sanchez-Reaza

DP2003-59: Controlling Asylum Migration to the Enlarged EU

Catherine Phuong

DP2003-58: Who Pays Indirect Taxes in Russia?

André Decoster and Inna Verbina

DP2003-57: How Responsive is Poverty to Growth? A Regional Analysis of Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in Indonesia, 1984-99

Jed Friedman

DP2003-56: Opening the Convergence Black Box: Measurement Problems and Demographic Aspects

Carlos Azzoni, Naercio Menezes-Filho and Tatiane Menezes

DP2003-55: Regional Output Differences in International Perspective

Bettina Aten and Alan Heston

DP2003-54: Externalities in Rural Development: Evidence for China

Martin Ravallion

DP2003-53: Market Size, Linkages, and Productivity: A Study Of Japanese Regions

David Weinstein and Donald Davis

DP2003-52: Are Neighbours Equal? Estimating Local Inequality in Three Developing Countries

Chris Elbers, Peter Lanjouw, Johan Mistiaen, Berk Özler and Kenneth Simler

DP2003-51: Optimality and Overuse of Labour in Estonian Manufacturing Enterprises

Jaan Masso and Almas Heshmati

DP2003-50: Impact of Trade Liberalization on Returns from Land: A Regional Study of Indian Agriculture

Nilabja Ghosh

DP2003-49: Modelling Aid Allocation: Issues, Approaches and Results

Mark McGillivray

DP2003-48: Irregular Migration and Asylum Seekers in the Caribbean

Elizabeth M. Thomas-Hope

DP2003-47: The EU's Everything But Arms Initiative and the Least-developed Countries

Lucian Cernat, Sam Laird, Luca Monge-Roffarello and Alessandro Turrini

DP2003-46: Developed Country Trade Barriers and the Least Developed Countries: The Economic Results of Freeing Trade

Jon D. Haveman and Howard Shatz

DP2003-45: The New Global Determinants of FDI Flows to Developing Countries: The Importance of ICT and Democratization

Tony Addison and Almas Heshmati

DP2003-44: Inflation, Output and Perfectly Enforceable Price Controls in Orthodox and Heterodox Stabilization Programmes

Mario Reyna-Cerecero and George Mavrotas

DP2003-43: The 'Pull' and 'Push' Factors in North-South Private Capital Flows: Conceptual Issues and Empirical Estimates

Matthew Odedokun

DP2003-42: Export Dynamism and Market Access

Joerg Mayer

DP2003-41: If People were Money: Estimating the Potential Gains from Increased International Migration

Jonathon W. Moses and Bjørn Letnes

DP2003-40: E-business Model Innovation and Capability Building

Stéphane Gagnon

DP2003-39: Inconsistency in Savings Pattern: Is there an Endogeneity Bias?

Inna Verbina

DP2003-38: 'Looking at the Other Side of the Coin': The Relationship between Classical Growth and Early Development Theories

Maiju Perälä

DP2003-37: Persistence of Underdevelopment: Does the Type of Natural Resource Endowment Matter?

Maiju Perälä

DP2003-36: A Tale of Two Countries: Poverty among Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden since 1984

Kraen Blume, Björn Gustafsson, Peder Pedersen and Mette Verner

DP2003-35: Economic Integration and Migration: The Mexico-US Case

Philip Martin