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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

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