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DP2001-54: Warlord Competition

Stergios Skaperdas

DP2001-53: Owning Economic Reforms: A Comparative Study of Ghana and Tanzania

Yvonne M. Tsikata

DP2001-52: Incentive Structure and Efficiency in the Kenyan Civil Service

Damiano Kulundu Manda

DP2001-51: Conflict in Africa: The Cost of Peaceful Behaviour

Tony Addison, Philippe Le Billon and Mansoob Murshed

DP2001-50: Globalization, Global Public 'Bads', Rising Criminal Activity and Growth

David Bloom and Mansoob Murshed

DP2001-49: The Fiscal Dimensions of Conflict and Reconstruction

Tony Addison and Mansoob Murshed

DP2001-48: From Conflict to Reconstruction: Reviving the Social Contract

Tony Addison and Mansoob Murshed

DP2001-47: Angola's Incomplete Transition

Renato Aguilar

DP2001-46: Violence Against Civilians in Civil Wars: Looting or Terror?

Jean-Paul Azam and Anke Hoeffler

DP2001-45: Credibility and Reputation in Peacemaking

Tony Addison and Mansoob Murshed

DP2001-44: Finance in Conflict and Reconstruction

Tony Addison, Philippe Le Billon and Mansoob Murshed

DP2001-43: The Politics of Revenue Sharing in Resource-Dependent States

Jeffrey Herbst

DP2001-42: Paradise is a Bazaar? Greed, Creed, Grievance and Governance

Indra de Soysa

DP2001-41: Globalization and the Island Economies of the South Pacific

Rukmani Gounder and Vilaphonh Xayavong

DP2001-40: The Challenges Posed by Globalization for Economic Liberalization in Two Asian Transitional Countries: Laos and Vietnam

Nick J. Freeman

DP2001-39: Globalization, Technology Transfer, and Skill Accumulation in Low-Income Countries

Joerg Mayer

DP2001-38: Botswana and Zimbabwe: Relative Success and Comparative Failure

Guy C. Z. Mhone and Patrick Bond

DP2001-37: Small States in a Global Economy: the Role of Institutions in Managing Vulnerability and Opportunity in Small Developing Countries

Deborah Brautigam and Michael Woolcock

DP2001-36: WTO Negotiation and Accession Issues for Vulnerable Economies

Rolf Langhammer and Matthias Lücke

DP2001-35: Globalization and Openness: Lessons from the Recent Crisis in Southeast Asia

Chirathivat Suthiphand and Mansoob Murshed

DP2001-34: Capitalization, Regulation and the Poor: Access to Basic Services in Bolivia

Gover Barja Daza and Miguel Urquiola

DP2001-33: Can the Gains from Argentina's Utilities Reform Offset Credit Shocks?

Daniel Benitez, Omar Chisari and Antonio Estache

DP2001-32: Fiscal Policy and Private Investment in Less Developed Countries

Niels Hermes and Robert Lensink

DP2001-31: Global Integration and Growth in Honduras and Nicaragua

Manuel Agosin

DP2001-30: Analyzing Corruption Possibilities in the Gaze of the Media

Samarth Vaidya

DP2001-29: Why is so Little Spent on Educating the Poor?

Tony Addison and Aminur Rahman

DP2001-28: Economic and Institutional Reforms in French-Speaking West Africa: Impact on Efficiency and Growth

Anders Danielson

DP2001-27: Blooming Together or Wilting Alone?: Network Externalities and Mondragón and La Lega Co-Operative Networks

Stephen Smith

DP2001-26: The Market for Extortions

Halvor Mehlum, Karl Ove Moene and Ragnar Torvik

DP2001-25: Sharing Ownership via Employee Stock Ownership

James C. Sesil, Douglas Kruse and Joseph R. Blasi

DP2001-24: Economics of China's Joint-Stock Co-Operatives

Laixiang Sun

DP2001-23: Displaced Communities and the Reconstruction of Livelihoods in Eritrea

Gaim Kibreab

DP2001-22: From Humanitarian Assistance to Poverty Reduction in Angola

Mário Adauta de Sousa, Tony Addison, Björn Ekman and Åsa Stenman

DP2001-21: Changes in Poverty Profile in China

Shi Li

DP2001-20: The Software Industry and India's Economic Development

Ashish Arora and Suma Athreye

DP2001-19: Redistributive Impact of Privatization and the Regulation of Utilities in Chile

Ricardo D. Paredes

DP2001-18: Reconstruction from War in Africa: Communities, Entrepreneurs, and States

Tony Addison

DP2001-17: The Social Impact of Privatization and the Regulation of Utilities in Peru

Maximo Torero and Alberto Pascó-Font

DP2001-16: From Conflict to Reconstruction

Tony Addison

DP2001-15: Access to Utilities by the Poor: A Global Perspective

Kristin Komives, Dale Whittington and Xun Wu

DP2001-14: The Agrarian Question in Mozambique's Transition and Reconstruction

Marc Wuyts

DP2001-13: The Reform of the Utilities Sector in Spain

Pablo Arocena

DP2001-12: Overcoming the Fiscal Crisis of the African State

Tony Addison and Leonce Ndikumana

DP2001-11: Cross-country Diffusion of the Internet

Sampsa Kiiski and Matti Pohjola

DP2001-10: UK Utility Reforms: Distributional Implications and Government Response

Catherine Waddams Price and Alison Young

DP2001-09: A Public Goods Approach to Regulation of Utilities

Cecilia Ugaz

DP2001-08: ICT Production and Diffusion in Asia: Digital Dividends or Digital Divide?

Poh-Kam Wong

DP2001-07: Culture and the Fertility Transition in India

Pramila Krishnan

DP2001-06: ICT Clusters in Europe: the Great Central Banana and the Small Nordic Potato

Heli Koski, Petri Rouvinen and Pekka Ylä-Anttila

DP2001-05: Economic Growth in the New Economy: Evidence from Advanced Economies

Jukka Jalava and Matti Pohjola

DP2001-04: Financing the New Economy: Financial Institutions and Corporate Governance

Colin Mayer

DP2001-03: The Impact of IT Investment on Income and Wealth Inequality in the Postwar US Economy

Edward N. Wolff

DP2001-02: Silicon Mountains, Silicon Molehills: Geographic Concentration and Convergence of Internet Industries in the US

Jed Kolko

DP2001-01: The Impact of Adjustment-Related Social Funds on Income Distribution and Poverty

Giovanni Cornia and Sanjay Reddy

wp-2000-216: Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development in Poland after 1990

Aleksander Surdej

wp-2000-215: External Liberalization, Economic Performance, and Distribution in Latin America and Elsewhere

Lance Taylor

wp-2000-214: Income Distribution and Tax, and Government Social Spending Policies in Developing Countries

Ke-Young Chu, Hamid Davoodi and Sanjeev Gupta

wp-2000-213: Diverse Property Forms within Planned or Partly Planned Economies: NEP, NEM and TVE

Robert J. McIntyre

wp-2000-212: Labour Standards in Exports and Developing Countries

Waseem Noor

wp-2000-211: Human Rights and the Prevention of Humanitarian Emergencies

Andrew Clapham

wp-2000-210: Globalization, Technology, and Income Inequality: A Critical Analysis

Ajit Singh and Rahul Dhumale

wp-2000-209: Labour Markets and Income Inequality: What Are the New Insights after the Washington Consensus?

Rolph van der Hoeven

wp-2000-208: Does Educational Achievement Help to Explain Income Inequality?

Daniele Checchi

wp-2000-207: Growth, Structural Change and Inequality: The Experience of Thailand

Isra Sarntisart

wp-2000-206: The Impact of Financial Liberalization and the Rise of Financial Rents on Income Inequality: The Case of Turkey

Erinc Yeldan

wp-2000-205: Factor Shares and Resource Booms: Accounting for the Evolution of Venezuelan Inequality

Francisco Rodríguez

wp-2000-204: Reducing Poverty and Inequality in India: Has Liberalization Helped?

Raghbendra Jha

wp-2000-203: The Changing Nature of Inequality in South Africa

Carolyn Jenkins and Lynne Thomas

wp-2000-202: Increased Income Inequality in OECD Countries and the Redistributive Impact of the Government Budget

Anthony Atkinson

wp-2000-201: Land Ownership Inequality and the Income Distribution Consequences of Economic Growth

Michael R. Carter

wp-2000-200: Rural-Urban Dimensions of Inequality Change

Robert Eastwood and Michael Lipton

wp-2000-199: Prudential Regulation of Banks in Less Developed Economies

Mansoob Murshed and Djono Subagjo

wp-2000-198: The Problem of Anti-Dumping Protection and Developing Country Exports

P. K. M. Tharakan

wp-2000-197: Special and Differential Treatment for Developing Countries: Does It Help Those Who Help Themselves?

Kiichiro Fukasaku

wp-2000-196: Protectionist Tendencies in the North and Vulnerable Economies in the South

Matthew Slaughter

wp-2000-195: From GATT to WTO and Beyond

S. P. Shukla

wp-2000-194: Cross-Border Movements of People

Deepak Nayyar

wp-2000-193: Entrepreneurship and Proprietorship in Transition: Policy Implications for the Small- and Medium-Size Enterprise Sector

Richard Scase

wp-2000-192: New Paradigms on Ownership of the Firm: A comparative Analysis across Development Stages and Institutional and Technological Contexts

Laixiang Sun

wp-2000-191: Politics, Society and Financial Sector Reform in Bangladesh

Anis Chowdhury

wp-2000-190: Capital Flows to Developing Countries of the International Financial System

Yilmaz Akyüz and Andrew Cornford

wp-2000-189: The United Nations System: Prospects for Institutional Renewal

Richard A. Falk

wp-2000-188: Nationalism and Economic Policy in the Era of Globalization

Amit Bhaduri

wp-2000-187: Hospital Efficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from South Africa

Eyob Zere

wp-2000-186: Price Scissors, Rationing, and Coercion: An Extended Framework for Understanding Primitive Socialist Accumulation

Laixiang Sun

wp-2000-185: Sex Workers in Calcutta and the Dynamics of Collective Action: Political Activism, Community Identity and Group Behaviour

Nandini Gooptu

wp-2000-184: Individual Motivation, Its Nature, Determinants and Consequences for within group Behaviour

Sabina Alkire and Séverine Deneulin

wp-2000-183: Has the Coffee Federation Become Redundant?: Collective Action and the Market in Colombian Development

Rosemary Thorp

wp-2000-182: Collective Action and Bilateral Interaction in Ghanaian Entrepreneurial Networks

Abigail Barr

wp-2000-181: The Currency composition of Foreign Exchange Reserves: Retrospect and Prospect

Barry Eichengreen and Donald J. Mathieson

wp-2000-180: EMU Effects on International Trade and Investment

Harry Flam and Per Jansson

wp-2000-179: The Impact of EMU on European Transition Economies: Commitment, institutional Capacity and the Monetary-Fiscal Mix

David Begg

wp-2000-178: Will the Emergence of the Euro Affect World Commodity Prices?

John Cuddington and Hong Liang

wp-2000-177: EMU and the Developing Countries

Benjamin J. Cohen

wp-2000-176: Will the Euro Trigger More Monetary Unions in Africa?

Patrick Honohan and Philip R. Lane

wp-2000-175: Globalization, Marginalization and Development

Mansoob Murshed

wp-2000-174: Fundamental Economic and Social Change: The Case of Kyrgyzstan 1993-97

Georges Heinrich

wp-2000-173: Information Technology and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis

Matti Pohjola

wp-2000-172: Group Functioning and Community Forestry in South Asia: A Gender Analysis and Conceptual Framework

Bina Agarwal

wp-1999-171: Rebuilding Rural Livelihoods and Social Capital: Mozambique's Experience

Clara de Sousa