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068: Debt Relief and the Rule of Thumb: Analytical History of HIPC Debt Sustainability Targets

Peter Hjertholm

068: Drivers of productivity in Vietnamese SMEs: The role of management standards and innovation

Elisa Calza, Micheline Goedhuys and Neda Trifković

068: Financial Sector Development and Productivity Growth

Subal Kumbhakar and George Mavrotas

068: Entrepreneurship and Human Development: A Capability Approach

Thomas Gries and Wim Naudé

068: Fungibility and the Choice of Aid Modalities

Stefan Leiderer

068: Asylum Policy in the West: Past Trends, Future Possibilities

Matthew J. Gibney and Randall Hansen

068: Structural transformation, biased technological change, and employment in Vietnam

Abbott Philip, Finn Tarp and Wu Ce

068: Evaluating Governance Indexes: Critical and Less Critical Questions

Rachel Gisselquist

068: The success of learnerships? Lessons from South Africa.s training and education programme

Neil Rankin, Gareth Roberts and Volker Schöer

068: E-business and Export Behaviour: Evidence from Indian Firms

Kaushalesh Lal

068: Changing Land-tenure Arrangements and Access to Primary Assets under Globalization: A Case Study of Two Villages in

Francis Menjo Baye

068: The transmission of socially responsible behaviour through international trade

Carol Newman, John Rand, Finn Tarp and Neda Trifković

068: The Liberalization of Capital Outflows in CIBS: What Opportunities for Other Developing Countries?

Ricardo Gottschalk and Cecilia Azevedo Sodre

068: Food Security in the South Pacific Island Countries with Special Reference to the Fiji Islands

K.L. Sharma

068: Improving Donor Support for Urban Poverty Reduction

Nicola Banks

067: Disadvantage and discrimination in self-employment: Caste gaps in earnings in Indian small businesses

Smriti Sharma and Ashwini Deshpande

067: Does Financial Liberalisation Improve Access to Investment Finance in Developing Countries?

Conor O'Toole

067: New Economy in Growth and Development

Matti Pohjola

067: Gender bias in education during conflict Evidence from Assam

Prakarsh Singh and Sutanuka Roy

067: Food Security in Vietnam during the 1990s: The Empirical Evidence

Vasco Molini

067: Indian Economic Growth: Lessons for the Emerging Economies

Suparna Chakraborty

067: Quo Vadis? Inequality and Poverty Dynamics across Russian Regions

Ruslan Yemtsov

067: Globalizing Households and Multi-ethnic Community Building in Japan

Chihiro Ishii

067: Fiscal Policy Design in Low-Income Countries

Christopher Adam and David Bevan

067: Characterizing Wind Power Resource Reliability in Southern Africa

Charles Fant and Udaya Bhaskar Gunturu

067: Gender Dimensions to the Incidence of Tariff Liberalization

Reza Daniels

067: The economics of marriage in North Africa

Ragui Assaad and Caroline Krafft

067: The Tax Reform Experience of Kenya

Stephen Karingi and Bernadette Wanjala

067: Discrimination, social capital, and financial constraints: The case of Viet Nam

Tho Pham and Oleksandr Talavera

067: Rethinking the World of Aid in the Twenty First Century

Peter Heller

066: Women's Labour Supply and Household Insurance in Africa

Marcela Umaña-Aponte and Sonia Bhalotra

066: The impact of hosting refugees on the intra-household allocation of tasks: A gender perspective

Isabel Ruiz and Carlos Vargas-Silva

066: Learning by exporting: The case of Mozambican manufacturing

Antonio Cruz, Carol Newman, John Rand and Finn Tarp

066: Achieving Sustainable Universal Primary Education through Debt Relief: The Case of Kenya

Nancy N. Nafula

066: Gender inequality and the empowerment of women in rural Viet Nam

Carol Newman

066: Group-Oriented Values, Rules and Cooperation

Ke-young Chu

066: Building New States: Lessons from Eritrea

Göte Hansson

066: International Integration and Regional Development in China

Thomas Gries and Margarete Redlin

066: Impact of Sectoral Allocation of Foreign Aid on Gender equity and Human Development

Léonce Ndikumana and Lynda Pickbourn

066: Tax Reforms in Ghana

Robert Osei and Peter Quartey

066: Distributional Impact of Globalization-Induced Migration: Evidence from a Nigerian Village

Steve Onyeiwu, Raluca Iorgulescu and John Polimeni

066: Spatial Inequality for Manufacturing Wages in Five African Countries

Dirk Willem te Velde and Oliver Morrissey

066: Widening Gap of Educational Opportunity? A Longitudinal Study of Educational Inequality in China

Min-Dong Paul Lee

066: Affirmative action policies and the evolution of post-apartheid South Africa's racial wage gap

Rulof Burger, Rachel Jafta and Dieter von Fintel

066: Health and the Urban Transition Effects of Household Perceptions, Illness, and Environmental Pollution on Clean Water Investment

James H. Spencer

066: Foreign Assistance in a Climate-Constrained World

Channing Arndt

065: Regional Poverty and Income Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study

Michael Förster, David Jesuit and Timothy Smeeding

065: Impact of soil conservation adoption on intrahousehold allocations in Zambia

Conor Carney and Monica Carney

065: The Effects of the European Union.s and China.s Trade Agreements on Africa.s Exports

Olayinka Kareem

065: Implications of Alternative Mitigation Policies on World Prices for Fossil Fuels and Agricultural Products

Sergey Paltsev

065: A Model of a Rule of Law and a Rule of Man: Implications for the Design of Institutions

Ke-young Chu

065: Development of Financial Intermediation and the Dynamics of Rural-Urban Inequality: China, 1978-98

Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen, Mingxing Liu and Qi Zhang

065: Local transformation in rural Vietnam: A commune level analysis

Beck Ulrik

065: Gender and Informal Sector Analysis in India: Economy Wide Approaches

Anushree Sinha and Haider Khan

065: Taxes and Tax Reform in Ethiopia, 1990-2003

Alemayehu Geda and Abebe Abebe

065: Gains from Trade: Implications for Labour Market Adjustment and Poverty Reduction in Africa

Augustin Fosu and Andrew Mold

065: Debt Relief and Health Care in Kenya

Paul Kieti Kimalu

065: Class Size Versus Class Composition: What Matters for Learning in East Africa?

Sam Jones

065: Protecting unsophisticated applicants in school choice through information disclosure

Christian Basteck and Marco Mantovani

065: Clustering, competition, and spillover effects: Evidence from Cambodia

Sokty Chhair and Carol Newman

065: Into the Void: Governing Finance in Central and Eastern Europe

Katharina Pistor

065: Fuelling War or Buying Peace: The Role of Corruption in Conflicts

Philippe Le Billon

064: Is the Brain Drain an Unmitigated Blessing?

Riccardo Faini

064: Privatization and Economic Strategy in Mozambique

Carlos Castel-Branco, Christopher Cramer and Degol Hailu

064: Moderating Urbanization and Managing Growth: How Can Colombo Prevent the Emerging Chaos?

Ranjith Dayaratne

064: Can climate finance achieve gender equity in developing countries?

Sam Wong

064: Globalization and the Human Development Trap

David Mayer-Foulkes

064: Escaping Capability Traps Through Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)

Matt Andrews, Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock

064: Consistent Testing for Poverty Dominance

Bram Thuysbaert and Ricardas Zitikis

064: Economic transformation and the diversification of livelihoods in rural Viet Nam

Carol Newman and Kinghan Christina

064: Exchange Rates and Competition for FDI

Yuqing Xing and Guanghua Wan

064: Foreign Aid, Infrastructure Development, and Welfare: An Intertemporal Analysis

Slobodan Djajic

064: Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy?

Thierry Kangoye

064: Migration and the autonomy of women left behind

Julia Matz and Linguere Mbaye

064: How Should We Measure Global Poverty in a Changing World?

Lars Osberg and Kuan Xu

064: The Impact of Adult Civic Education Programmes in Developing Democracies

Steven E. Finkel

064: Trade and Sustainable Finance for Development

Gianni Vaggi

064: The behavioural implications of women's empowerment programmes

Lata Gangadharan, Tarun Jain, Pushkar Maitra and Joseph Vecci

063: Female leaders and gender gaps within the firm: Evidence from three sub-Saharan African countries

Giulia La Mattina, Gabriel Picone, Alban Ahoure and Jose Carlos Kimou

063: The New Grand Bourgeoisie under Post-Communism: Central Europe, Russia and China Compared

Ivan Szelenyi

063: Poverty Accounting by Factor Components: With an Empirical Illustration Using Chinese Data

Guanghua Wan

063: Foreign Aid as Prize: Incentives for a Pro-Poor Policy

Tejashree Sayanak and Sajal Lahiri

063: Aid and the environment in Africa: A synthesis of eight case studies

Edwin Muchapondwa

063: Composite Indices of Human Well-being: Past, Present, and Future

Mark McGillivray and Farhad Noorbakhsh

063: Outfits: Narrowly Tailored Laws that Harm Instead of Help

Rosalia de la Cruz Gitau

063: Institutional differences across resource-based economies

Utku Teksoz and Katerina Kalcheva

063: Can New Aid Modalities Handle Politics?

Arjan de Haan and Max Everest-Phillips

063: The Microeconomics of Inequality, Poverty and Market Liberalizing Reforms

Rafael De Hoyos

063: A Capable State in Afghanistan: A Building Without a Foundation?

Frauke de Weijer

063: Some Welfare Implications of 'Who Goes First?' in WTO Negotiations

Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis

063: Public Spending and Poverty in Mozambique

Rasmus Heltberg, Kenneth Simler and Finn Tarp

063: Impact of Liberalization, Economic Growth and Trade Policies on Current Accounts of Developing Countries: An Econometric Study

Ashok Parikh

063: Looking Like a State: Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for Implementation

Matt Andrews, Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock

062: On a Distance Function-Based Inequality Measure in the Spirit of the Bonferroni and Gini Indices

Sreenivasan Subramanian

062: Is It What You Inherited Or What You Learnt?

Sylvie Lambert and Dominique van de Walle

062: Who Gains from Tariff Escalation?

Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis

062: Entrepreneurship and Structural Economic Transformation

Thomas Gries and Wim Naudé

062: Global Poverty, Aid, and Middle-Income Countries: Are the Country Classifications Moribund or is Global Poverty in the Process of 'Nationalizing'?

Andy Sumner

062: Globalization, Development, and Mobility of Technical Talent: India and Japan in Comparative Perspectives

D'Costa, Anthony P.

062: Constraints to biofuel feedstock production expansion in Zambia

Paul C. Samboko, Mulako Kabisa and Giles Henley

062: Poverty Measurement and Theories of Beneficence

S. Subramanian

062: Gender and distributional preferences: Experimental evidence from India

Smriti Sharma

062: The Gender Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Challenges in Development Aid

Marcia E. Greenberg and Elaine Zuckerman

062: The 'New Economy' and Economic Growth in Transition Economies

Marcin Piątkowski

062: Reform and Inequality during the Transition: An Analysis Using Panel Houshold Survey Data, 1990-2006

Branko Milanovic and Lire Ersado

062: Fiscal Policy, Conflict, and Reconstruction in Burundi and Rwanda

Leonce Ndikumana

062: Issues to Consider in Assessing International Support for Realizing Children?s Rights: A Reflection on Aid Modalities and

Eva Jespersen and Julia Benn

062: The linkages of energy, water, and land use in Southeast Asia Challenges and opportunities for the Mekong region

Kim Hang Pham Do and Ariel Dinar

062: Innovation capabilities for sustainable development in Africa

Keun Lee, Calestous Juma and John Mathews