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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

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