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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

DP2003-34: Iraqi Forced Migrants in Jordan: Conditions, Religious Networks, and the Smuggling Process

Géraldine Chatelard

DP2003-33: Aid, Debt Burden and Government Fiscal Behaviour: A New Model Applied to Côte d'Ivoire

Mark McGillivray and Bazoumana Ouattara

DP2003-32: OECD Domestic Support and Developing Countries

Betina Dimaranan, Thomas Hertel and Roman Keeney

DP2003-31: Trends in Asylum Migration to Industrialized Countries: 1990-2001

Stephen Castles and Sean Loughna

DP2003-30: The Causal Relationship between Information and Communication Technology and Foreign Direct Investment

Roghieh Gholami, Sang-Yong Tom Lee and Almas Heshmati

DP2003-29: Development Cycles, Political Regimes and International Migration: Argentina in the Twentieth Century

Andrés Solimano

DP2003-28: Income Distribution Changes and their Impact in the Post-World War II Period

Giovanni Cornia, Tony Addison and Sampsa Kiiski

DP2003-27: Efficiency Gains from the Elimination of Global Restrictions on Labour Mobility: An Analysis using a Multiregional CGE Model

Ana Iregui

DP2003-26: Analysis of Deviations and Delays in Aid Disbursements

Matthew Odedokun

DP2003-25: Trade Liberalization, Agriculture, and Poverty in Low-income Countries

Kym Anderson

DP2003-24: Impact of Asylum on Receiving Countries

Susan F. Martin, Andrew I. Schoenholtz and David Fisher

DP2003-23: What Fundamentals Drive World Migration?

Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson

DP2003-22: The Theoretical, Conceptual and Empirical Impact of the Service Economy: A Critical Review

Birgitte Andersen and Marva Corley

DP2003-21: Descriptive and Prescriptive Analyses of Aid Allocation: Approaches, Issues and Consequences

Mark McGillivray

DP2003-20: Asylum Migration and Implications for Countries of Origin

Khalid Koser and Nicholas van Hear

DP2003-19: Asylum-seekers as Pariahs in the Australian State: Security Against the Few

Claudia Tazreiter

DP2003-18: Social and Economic Decline as Factors in Conflict in the Caucasus

Svetlana Glinkina and Dorothy J. Rosenberg

DP2003-17: Donor Funding of Multilateral Aid Agencies: Determining Factors and Revealed Burden Sharing

Tony Addison, Mark McGillivray and Matthew Odedokun

DP2003-16: Economic and Theological Approaches to Debt Cancellation

Robbie Mochrie

DP2003-15: Aid Disaggregation, Endogenous Aid and the Public Sector in Aid-Recipient Economies: Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire

George Mavrotas and Bazoumana Ouattara

DP2003-14: Financial Sector Development - Futile or Fruitful? An Examination of the Determinants of Savings in Sri Lanka

Roger Kelly and George Mavrotas

DP2003-13: Financial Sector Reforms and Savings Mobilization in Zambia

Samuel Munzele Maimbo and George Mavrotas

DP2003-12: Savings and Financial Sector Development: Panel Cointegration Evidence from Africa

Roger Kelly and George Mavrotas

DP2003-11: The Composition of Aid and the Fiscal Sector in an Aid-Recipient Economy: A Model

George Mavrotas and Bazoumana Ouattara

DP2003-10: Conflict and Peace-building in Africa: The Regional Dimensions

Timothy Shaw

DP2003-09: Food Aid and Informal Insurance

Stefan Dercon and Pramila Krishnan

DP2003-08: Health, Shocks and Poverty Persistence

Stefan Dercon and John Hoddinott

DP2003-07: Idiosyncratic Risk in the 1990s: Is It an IT Story?

Dietrich Domanski

DP2003-06: Use of ICTs and the Economic Performance of SMEs in East Africa

Susanna Wolf and Shyamal Chowdhury

DP2003-05: What Determines Foreign Aid to Papua New Guinea? An Inter-temporal Model of Aid Allocation

Simon Feeny

DP2003-04: Economics and Politics of Official Loans versus Grants: Panoramic Issues and Empirical Evidence

Matthew Odedokun

DP2003-03: Aid Effort and its Determinants

Jeffery I. Round and Matthew Odedokun

DP2003-01: A Holistic Perception of Foreign Financing of Developing Countries' Private Sectors: Analysis and Description of Structure and Trends

Matthew Odedokun

DP2002-127: Donors' Support for Microcredit as Social Enterprise: A Critical Reappraisal

Machiko Nissanke

DP2002-126: Developing Countries and the Political Economy of the Trading System

Bernard Hoekman

DP2002-125: Foreign Trade and the Gender Earnings Differential in Urban Mexico

Gautam Hazarika and Rafael Otero

DP2002-124: Building Institutions in Post-Conflict African Economies

Janine Aron

DP2002-123: Bilateral Donors' Aid Allocation Decisions: A Three-dimensional Panel Analysis

Jean-Claude Berthélemy and Ariane Tichit

DP2002-122: HIPC Relief: Too Late, Too Little?: Perspectives from a New Qualifier, Tanzania

Ammon V. Y. Mbelle

DP2002-121: Consumer Participation and Pro-Poor Regulation in Latin America

Cecilia Ugaz

DP2002-120: Transnational Terrorism as a Spillover of Domestic Disputes in Other Countries

Tony Addison and Mansoob Murshed

DP2002-119: Institutional Reforms and the Role of Multilateral Aid Agencies

Sylvanus Ikhide

DP2002-118: Multilateral Development Banks and Private Sector Financing: The Case of IFC

George Mavrotas

DP2002-117: Bilateral Official Finance for Private Sector Development and the Role of Non-Government Organizations

Ayodele Jimoh

DP2002-116: Emergent Global Information Infrastructure/Global Information Society: Regime Formation and the Impact on Africa

Derrick L. Cogburn

DP2002-115: Network Externality and Software Piracy

Sougata Poddar

DP2002-114: A CGE Analysis of the Short-run Welfare Effects of Tariff Liberalisation in Uganda

Jennifer Mbabazi

DP2002-113: The Political Economy of Malaysian Federalism: Economic Development, Public Policy and Conflict Containment

K. S. Jomo and Hui Wee Chong

DP2002-112: Comparative Appraisal of Multilateral and Bilateral Approaches to Financing Private Sector Development in Developing Countries

Peter Gibbon and Lau Schulpen

DP2002-111: ICT Diffusion and Skill Upgrading in Korean Industries

Jai-Joon Hur, Hwan-Joo Seo and Young Lee

DP2002-110: Financing the Provision of Global Public Goods

P B Anand

DP2002-109: Bankruptcy Proceedings for Sovereign State Insolvency

Jonathan Thomas