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DP2002-60: What Determines Public Education Expenditures in a Transition Economy?

Inna Verbina and Abdur Chowdhury

DP2002-59: Testing for a Significant Change in the Egyptian Economy Under the Economic Reform Programme Era

Mohammed Omran

DP2002-58: Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty

Gisele Kamanou and Jonathan Morduch

DP2002-57: Risk-Sharing and Endogenous Network Formation

Joachim De Weerdt

DP2002-56: Incorporating Insurance Provisions in Microfinance Contracts: Learning from Visa®?

Loic Sadoulet

DP2002-55: Consumption Smoothing Across Space: Testing Theories of Risk-Sharing in the ICRISAT Study Region of South India

Jonathan Morduch

DP2002-54: Debt and PRSP Conditionality: The Kenya Case

Jane Kiringai

DP2002-53: Unsustainable Debt Burden and Poverty in Pakistan: A Case for Enhanced HIPC Initiative

Tilat Anwar

DP2002-52: Debt Relief, Demand for Education, and Poverty

Era Dabla-Norris, John M. Matoovu and Paul Wade

DP2002-51: Globalization and Catching-up in Emerging Market Economies

Grzegorz W. Kolodko

DP2002-50: Will HIPC Matter? The Debt Game and Donor Behaviour in Africa

Nancy Birdsall, Stijn Claessens and Ishac Diwan

DP2002-49: Endettement du Cameroun: Problèmes et Solutions

Samuel Fambon

DP2002-48: By How Much Does Conflict Reduce Financial Development?

Tony Addison, Abdur Chowdhury and Mansoob Murshed

DP2002-47: The Benefits and Costs of Group Affiliation: Evidence from East Asia

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

DP2002-46: The Macroeconomic Repercussions of Agricultural Shocks and their Implications for Insurance

Paul Collier

DP2002-45: Financial Regulation and Supervision in Emerging Markets: The Experience of Latin America since the Tequila Crisis

Barbara Stallings and Rogerio Studart

DP2002-44: Debt Relief under the HIPC Initiative: Context and Outlook for Debt Sustainability and Resource Flows

Lisandro Abrego and Doris C. Ross

DP2002-43: Assessing the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Poverty

Andy McKay

DP2002-42: International Bank Lending: Water Flowing Uphill?

John Hawkins

DP2002-41: Countercyclical Fiscal Policy: A Review of the Literature, Empirical Evidence and some Policy Proposals

Carlos Budnevich

DP2002-40: Aid, Public Sector Fiscal Behaviour and Developing Country Debt

Simon Feeny and Mark McGillivray

DP2002-39: Producing an Improved Geographic Profile of Poverty: Methodology and Evidence from Three Developing Countries

Gabriel Demombynes, Chris Elbers, Jean Lanjouw, Peter Lanjouw, Johan Mistiaen and Berk Özler

DP2002-38: One Third of the World's Growth and Inequality

Danny Quah

DP2002-37: Gender and Education as Determinants of Household Poverty in Nigeria

Christiana E. E. Okojie

DP2002-36: The New Basel Capital Accord and Developing Countries: Issues, Implications and Policy Proposals

Stephany Griffith-Jones and Stephen Spratt

DP2002-35: Debt Issues in Africa: Thinking beyond the HIPC Initiative to Solving Structural Problems

Alemayehu Geda

DP2002-34: (Re)Distribution of Personal Incomes, Education and Economic Performance Across Countries

Günther Rehme

DP2002-33: Fiscal Policy, Growth and Poverty Reduction in Uganda

Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa

DP2002-32: Welfare Implications of Fiscal Reform: The Case of Food Subsidies in India

Sonia Bhalotra

DP2002-31: Liquidity Black Holes: And Why Modern Financial Regulation in Developed Countries is making Short-Term Capital Flows to Developing Countries Even More Volatile

Avinash Persaud

DP2002-30: Non-Financial Corporate Risk Management and Exchange Rate Volatility in Latin America

Graciela Moguillansky

DP2002-29: Does a Switch of Budget Regimes Constrain Managerial Discretion?: Evidence for Italian Public Enterprises' Investment

Elisabetta Bertero and Laura Rondi

DP2002-28: Why Isn't There More Financial Intermediation in Developing Countries?

Jonathan Conning and Michael Kevane

DP2002-27: Insolvency and Debt Recovery Procedures in Economic Development: An Overview of African Law

Clas Wihlborg

DP2002-26: The Gradual Erosion of the Social Security Function of Customary Land Tenure Arrangements in Lineage-Based Societies

Jean-Philippe Platteau

DP2002-25: Is a Friend in Need a Friend Indeed?: Inclusion and Exclusion in Mutual Insurance Networks in Southern Ghana

Markus Goldstein, Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet

DP2002-24: Can Food-for-Work Programmes Reduce Vulnerability?

Christopher Barrett, Stein Holden and Daniel C. Clay

DP2002-23: Can Financial Markets be Tapped to Help Poor People Cope with Weather Risks?

Jerry R. Skees, Panos Varangis, Donald Larson and Paul Siegel

DP2002-22: Income Risk, Coping Strategies and Safety Nets

Stefan Dercon

DP2002-21: The Poverty Elasticity of Growth

Rasmus Heltberg

DP2002-20: Poverty Incidence and Sectoral Growth: Evidence from Southeast Asia

Peter Warr

DP2002-19: How Economic Growth Reduces Poverty: A General Equilibrium Analysis for Indonesia

George Fane and Peter Warr

DP2002-18: How Optimal are the Extremes?: Latin American Exchange Rate Policies During the Asian Crisis

Ricardo Ffrench-Davis and Guillermo Larraín

DP2002-17: Impact of Globalization and Liberalization on Growth, Employment and Poverty: A Case Study of Pakistan

Tilat Anwar

DP2002-16: Hardening a Soft Budget Constraint Through 'Upward Devolution' to a Supranational Institution: The Case of Italian State-Owned Firms and the European Union

Elisabetta Bertero and Laura Rondi

DP2002-15: Poverty in India: Misspecified Policies and Estimates

M. H. Suryanarayana

DP2002-14: Déterminants de l'Endettement Extérieur des PPTE: Cas de la Côte d'Ivoire

Leonce Yapo

DP2002-13: From the Grabbing Hand to the Helping Hand: A Rent Seeking Model of China's Township-Village Enterprises

Jiahua Che

DP2002-12: Privatization in Sub-Saharan Africa: On Factors Affecting Implementation

Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa

DP2002-11: Understanding the Silicon Valley Phenomena

Masahiko Aoki and Hirokazu Takizawa

DP2002-10: Household Income Dynamics in Rural China

Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion

DP2002-09: Institutional Investors, Corporate Ownership, and Corporate Governance: Global Perspectives

Stuart L. Gillan and Laura T. Starks

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