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DP2002-08: Targeting and Informal Insurance

Ethan Ligon

DP2002-07: Inequality and Risk

Marcel Fafchamps

DP2002-06: Do Public Transfers Crowd Out Private Transfers?: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mexico

Pedro Albarran and Orazio Attanasio

DP2002-05: Redistribution Does Matter: Growth and Redistribution for Poverty Reduction

Hulya Dagdeviren, Rolph van der Hoeven and John Weeks

DP2002-04: Making Debt Relief Conditionality Pro-Poor

Oliver Morrissey

DP2002-03: Proposals for Curbing the Boom-Bust Cycle in the Supply of Capital to Emerging Markets

John Williamson

DP2002-02: Ratings since the Asian Crisis

Helmut Reisen

DP2002-01: Performance of Microfinance Institutions in Burkina Faso

Youssoufou Congo

DP2001-147: Explaining Leakage of Public Funds

Ritva Reinikka and Jakob Svensson

DP2001-146: On the Choice of Appropriate Development Strategy: Insights from CGE Modelling of the Mozambican Economy

Henning Jensen and Finn Tarp

DP2001-145: Consumer Preferences for Water Supply?: an Application of Choice Models to Urban India

P B Anand

DP2001-144: Household Welfare and Education in Urban Ethiopia

Karin Kronlid

DP2001-143: How Volatile and Unpredictable are Aid Flows, and What are the Policy Implications?

Ales Bulir and A. Javier Hamann

DP2001-142: Twin Peaks: Convergence Empirics of Economic Growth across Indian States

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

DP2001-141: Do Donors Matter for Institutional Reform in Africa?

Tony Addison

DP2001-140: Water 'Scarcity' in Chennai, India: Institutions, Entitlements and Aspects of Inequality in Access

P B Anand

DP2001-139: Debt Dynamics and Contingency Financing: Theoretical Reappraisal of the HIPC Initiative

Machiko Nissanke and Benno Ferrarini

DP2001-138: The HIPC Debt Relief Initiative: Uganda's Social Sector Reforms and Outcomes

Justine Nannyonjo

DP2001-137: Education Is Good for the Poor: a Note on Dollar and Kraay (2001)

Erich Gundlach, Jose Navarro de Pablo and Natascha Weisert

DP2001-136: Institutional Framework and Poverty: A Transition Economy Perspective

Syed Ahsan

DP2001-135: The Development of Small Entrepreneurship in Russia

Vadim Radaev

DP2001-134: Convergence Clubs in Cross-Country Life Expectancy Dynamics

David Mayer-Foulkes

DP2001-133: Reaching the Poor: Fine Tuning Poverty Targeting Using a 'Poverty Map'— the Case of Mozambique

Orlando San Martin

DP2001-132: Are Inequality and Trade Liberalization Influences on Growth and Poverty?

Jennifer Mbabazi, Oliver Morrissey and Chris Milner

DP2001-131: Relevance of the Nordic Model for African Development

Arne Bigsten

DP2001-130: Sovereign Debt and Uncertainty in the Mozambican Economy

Constantino J. Gode

DP2001-129: Growth, Income Distribution, and Poverty

Arne Bigsten and Jörgen Levin

DP2001-128: Inequality and Economic Growth: the Empirical Relationship Reconsidered in the Light of Comparable Data

Stephen Knowles

DP2001-127: The Pattern and Valuation Effects of Corporate Diversification: A Comparison of the United States, Japan, and Other East Asian Economies

Stijn Claessens, Simeon Djankov, Joseph P. H. Fan and Larry H. P. Lang

DP2001-126: Governance and Policy in Africa: Recent Experiences

Abdalla Hamdok

DP2001-125: Transaction Cost Politics, Institutions for Commitment and Rent Seeking

Mansoob Murshed

DP2001-123: Poverty, Inequality and Growth in Zambia During the 1990s

Neil McCulloch, Bob Baulch and Milasoa Cherel-Robson

DP2001-122: The Uncertainty of Debt Service Payments and Economic Growth of HIPCs: Is there a Case for Debt Relief?

Geske Dijkstra and Niels Hermes

DP2001-121: PRSP Processes in Eight African Countries: Initial Impacts and Potential for Institutionalization

David Booth

DP2001-120: Policies to Roll-back the State and Privatize?: Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers Investigated

Alison Marshall, Jessica Woodroffe and Petra Kjell

DP2001-119: The HIPC Initiative and Poverty Reduction in Ghana

Robert Osei and Peter Quartey

DP2001-118: Simulating the Effects of Debt Relief in Zambia

Marko Nokkala

DP2001-117: Sector Investments as part of National Fiscal Policy: Experience from ASIP in Zambia

Marko Nokkala

DP2001-116: The Impact of External Debt on Economic Growth in Kenya: An Empirical Assessment

Maureen Were

DP2001-115: Decentralization, Local Bureaucracies and Service Delivery in Uganda

Moses L. Golola

DP2001-114: Agricultural Supply Response and Poverty in Mozambique

Rasmus Heltberg and Finn Tarp

DP2001-113: Debt Relief for Low-Income Countries: Arbitration as the Alternative to Present, Unsuccessful Debt Strategies

Kunibert Raffer

DP2001-112: Why Engendering PRSPs Reduce Poverty, and the Case of Rwanda

Elaine Zuckerman

DP2001-111: Waiving and Drowning? Debt and the Millennium Declaration Development Goals

Stephen Browne

DP2001-110: Debt Reduction for Poverty Eradication in the Least Developed Countries: Analysis and Recommendations on LDC Debt

European Network on Development

DP2001-109: Reform of the Malawian Public Sector: Incentives, Governance and Accountability

Dick Durevall

DP2001-108: Non-formal Institutions, Informal Economies, and the Politics of Inclusion

Aili Mari Tripp

DP2001-107: Changing Approaches to Public Expenditure Management in Low-Income Aid Dependent Countries

Adrian Fozzard and Mick Foster

DP2001-106: Can HIPC Reduce Poverty in Tanzania?

Anders Danielson

DP2001-105: HIPC Debt Relief and Policy Reform Incentives

Jean-Claude Berthélemy

DP2001-104: Debt Relief and Growth: A Study of Zambia and Tanzania

Arne Bigsten, Jörgen Levin and Håkan Persson

DP2001-103: Determinants of Income Inequality and its Effects on Economic Growth: Evidence from African Countries

Matthew Odedokun and Jeffery I. Round

DP2001-102: The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty

William Easterly

DP2001-101: Tax Competition, Globalization and Declining Social Protection

Mansoob Murshed

DP2001-100: Does the HIPC Initiative Achieve its Goal of Debt Sustainability?

Bernhard Gunter

DP2001-99: Hiccups for HIPCs?

Craig Burnside and Domenico Fanizza

DP2001-98: Collective Values, Behavioural Norms, and Rules: Building Institutions for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction

Ke-Young Chu

DP2001-97: Taxation and Fiscal Reform in Ghana

Tony Addison

DP2001-96: Debt Relief Under the HIPC Initiative: Context and Outlook for Debt Sustainability and Resource Flows

Lisandro Abrego and Doris C. Ross

DP2001-95: External Debt and Growth in Developing Countries: A Sensitivity and Causal Analysis

Abdur Chowdhury

DP2001-94: The HIPC Debt Relief Initiative: Uganda's Experience

E. S. K. Muwanga-Zake and Stephen Ndhaye

DP2001-93: Income Distribution Policies for Faster Poverty Reduction

Tony Addison and Giovanni Cornia

DP2001-92: Conditionality and Endogenous Policy Formation in a Political Setting

Mansoob Murshed

DP2001-91: A Decomposition of Inequality and Poverty Changes in the Context of Macroeconomic Adjustment: a Microsimulation Study for Côte d'Ivoire

Michael Grimm

DP2001-90: Financial Reconstruction in Conflict and 'Post-Conflict' Economies

Tony Addison, Alemayehu Geda, Philippe Le Billon and Mansoob Murshed

DP2001-89: Trends in Income Distribution in the Post-World War II Period: Evidence and Interpretation

Giovanni Cornia and Sampsa Kiiski

DP2001-88: The Effects of Expanding Education on the Distribution of Income in Ceará: A Microsimulation

Francisco Ferreira and Phillippe Leite

DP2001-87: Zambian Policy-Making and the Donor Community in the 1990s

Hendrik van der Heijden

DP2001-86: Incentive Structure, Civil Service Efficiency and the Hidden Economy in Nigeria

Mohammed Salisu

DP2001-85: The Mozambican Civil Service: Incentives, Reforms and Performance

Jose A. Sulemane and Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa

DP2001-84: Fiscal Policy in a Growth Framework

Norman Gemmell

DP2001-83: Information Technology and the Dynamics of Firm and Industrial Structure: The British IT Consulting Industry as a Contemporary Specimen

Kenneth Simons

DP2001-82: Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Economies: Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa

Linda Cotton and Vijaya Ramachandran

DP2001-81: Taxation Policy in Low-Income Countries

Christopher Heady

DP2001-80: Taxation in Tanzania

Jörgen Levin

DP2001-79: AIDS, Economic Growth and the HIPC Initiative in Honduras

Jose Cuesta

DP2001-78: The Impact of Financial Reform on Private Savings in Bangladesh

Abdur Chowdhury

DP2001-77: Prospects for the Digital Economy in South Africa: Technology, Policy, People, and Strategies

Derrick L. Cogburn and Catherine Nyaki Adeya

DP2001-76: New Economy and ICT Development in China

Qingxuan Meng and Mingzhi Li

DP2001-75: Access by the Poor in Latin America's Utility Reform: Subsidies and Service Obligations

Omar Chisari, Antonio Estache and Catherine Waddams Price

DP2001-74: The Reform of the Utilities Sector in Argentina

Jose A. Delfino and Ariel A. Casarin

DP2001-73: Microeconomic Policies in the New Economy

Rune Stenbacka

DP2001-72: Public Finance and Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from Developing Countries

Matthew Odedokun

DP2001-71: Macroeconomics of Fiscal Policy in Developing Countries

Raghbendra Jha

DP2001-70: Poverty-Reducing Institutional Change and PRSP Processes: The Ghana Case

Tony Killick

DP2001-69: On the Pitfalls of Measuring Aid

Robrecht Renard and Danny Cassimon

DP2001-68: Debt Relief and the Rule of Thumb: Analytical History of HIPC Debt Sustainability Targets

Peter Hjertholm

DP2001-67: Fiscal Policy Design in Low-Income Countries

Christopher Adam and David Bevan

DP2001-66: Building New States: Lessons from Eritrea

Göte Hansson

DP2001-65: Fuelling War or Buying Peace: the Role of Corruption in Conflicts

Philippe Le Billon

DP2001-64: Privatization and Economic Strategy in Mozambique

Carlos Nuno Castel-Branco, Christopher Cramer and Degol Hailu

DP2001-63: Public Spending and Poverty in Mozambique

Rasmus Heltberg, Kenneth Simler and Finn Tarp

DP2001-62: Fiscal Policy, Conflict, and Reconstruction in Burundi and Rwanda

Leonce Ndikumana

DP2001-61: Fiscal Effects of Aid

Mark McGillivray and Oliver Morrissey

DP2001-60: Quantitative Restrictions on the Flow of Narcotics: Supply and Demand Restraints in a North-South Macro-model

Mansoob Murshed

DP2001-59: Growth, Economic Development and Structural Transition in Small Vulnerable States

Robert Read

DP2001-58: Clans, Cliques, and Captured States: Rethinking “Transition” in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Janine R. Wedel

DP2001-57: Debt Relief and Civil War

Tony Addison and Mansoob Murshed

DP2001-56: The Fiscal Dimensions of Ethiopia's Transition and Reconstruction

David Bevan

DP2001-55: Ethiopia's New Financial Sector and Its Regulation

Tony Addison and Alemayehu Geda