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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

wp-1999-170: Regulation of Social Services in the Least Developed Countries: What Are the Issues at Stake?

Cecilia Ugaz

wp-1999-169: The IMF Model and Resource-Abundant Transition Economies: Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Richard M. Auty

wp-1999-168: Guinea-Bissau: War, Reconstruction and Reform

Jens Kovsted and Finn Tarp

wp-1999-167: Natural Resources and Economic Growth: A Nordic Perspective on the Dutch Disease

Thorvaldur Gylfason

wp-1999-166: Development Discountinuities: Leaders and Intermediaries in Producers' Associations

Tito Bianchi

wp-1999-165: A Macroeconomic Model of a Developing Country Endowed with a Natural Resource

Mansoob Murshed

wp-1999-164: Kyrgyzstan: A Case Study of Social Stratification

Vladimir Mikhalev and Georges Heinrich

wp-1999-163: On the Regulation of Telecommunications Markets

Manfred J. Holler

wp-1999-162: Resource-Led Growth - A Long-Term Perspective: The Relevance of the 1870-1914 Experience for Today's Developing Economies

Ronald Findlay and Mats Lundahl

wp-1999-161: Group Behaviour and Development

Judith Heyer, Frances Stewart and Rosemary Thorp

wp-1999-160: Rising Wealth Inequality and Changing Social Structure in Rural China, 1988-95

Terry McKinley and Mark D. Brenner

wp-1999-159: Economics Theories of the Household: A Critical Review

Päivi Mattila-Wiro

wp-1999-158: Inequality in Income and Access to Education: A Cross-Country Analysis

Daniele Checchi

wp-1999-157: Liberalization, Globalization and Income Distribution

Giovanni Cornia

wp-1999-156: Wage Reform, Soft Budget Constraints and Competition

Jian Sun

wp-1999-155: The Weightless Economy in Economic Development

Danny Quah

wp-1998-154: Costa Rica: Policies and Conditions for Export Diversification

Ennio Rodrigues

wp-1998-153: Information Technology and Economic Development: An Introduction to the Research Issues

Matti Pohjola

wp-1998-152: Computers and Labour Markets: International Evidence

Francis Kramarz

wp-1998-151: Unemployment, Labour Policies and Health in Transition: Evidence from Kazakhstan

Paolo Verme

wp-1998-150: State-Owned versus Township and Village Enterprises in China

Enrico Perotti, Laixiang Sun and Liang Zou

wp-1998-149: The Role of Knowledge and Capital in Economic Growth

Sergio Rebelo

wp-1998-148: Computers and Economic Growth in Finland

Petri Niininen

wp-1998-147: Provision of Health Care and Education in Transitional Asia: Key Issues and Lessons from Vietnam

Paul Glewwe and Jennie Litvack

wp-1998-146: Privatization in the Countries of Eastern and Central Europe and of the Former Soviet Union

Pekka Sutela

wp-1997-145: South-North Challenges in Global Forestry

Alexander S. Mather

wp-1997-144: Export Performance in Chile: Lessons for Africa

Manuel Agosin

wp-1997-143: The Rise and Fall of Development Aid

Stephen Browne

wp-1997-142: War, Hunger, and Displacement: An Econometric Investigation into the Sources of Humanitarian Emergencies

Wayne Nafziger and Juha Auvinen

wp-1997-141: Health Status and Health Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Long-Term Perspective

Giovanni Cornia and Germano Mwabu

wp-1997-140: Humanitarian Emergencies and Warlord Economies in Liberia and Sierra Leone

William Reno

wp-1997-139: The Road to the Market in North Korea: Projects, Problems and Prospects

Keun Lee

wp-1997-138: Income Distribution during the Transition in China

Ping Zhang

wp-1997-137: Gender Aspects of Urban Economic Growth and Development

Sylvia Chant

wp-1997-136: Viet Nam: Transition as a Socialist Project in East Asia

Manuel F. Montes

wp-1997-135: Uzbekistan: Welfare Impact of Slow Transition

Richard Pomfret and Kathryn H. Anderson

wp-1997-134: User Fees, Expenditure Restructuring and Voucher Systems in Education

Simon Appleton

wp-1997-133: Sustainable and Excessive Current Account Deficits

Helmut Reisen

wp-1997-132: Causes and Lessons of the Mexican Peso Crisis

Stephany Griffith-Jones

wp-1997-131: The Political Economy of Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: Lessons from El Salvador

Manuel Pastor and James Boyce

wp-1997-130: Decentralization and the Provision and Financing of Social Services: Concepts and Issues

Cecilia Ugaz

wp-1997-129: The Scale and Nature of International Donor Assistance to Housing, Basic Services and Other Human-Settlements Related Projects

David Satterthwaite

wp-1997-128: The Process of Economic Change

Douglass North

wp-1997-127: User Charges for Health Care: A Review of the Underlying Theory and Assumptions

Germano Mwabu

wp-1997-126: Economic Shocks, Impoverishment and Poverty-Related Mortality during the Eastern European Transition

Renato Paniccià

wp-1997-125: Privatization, Asset Distribution and Equity in Transitional Economies

Juha Honkkila

wp-1997-124: Evolution of the Women's Movement in Contemporary Algeria: Organization, Objectives and Prospects

Cherifa Bouatta

wp-1997-123: Promoting Education within the Context of a Neo-Patrimonial State: The Case of Nigeria

Daniel Edevbaro