WIDER Research Paper series 2004–2009

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RP2009/56 Mats Lundahl and Lennart Post-Apartheid South Africa: An Economic Success
Petersson Story?
RP2009/55 Luiz de Mello Brazil’s Growth Performance: Achievements and
Prospects
RP2009/54 Alberto Trejos Country Role Models for Development Success: The
Case of Costa Rica
RP2009/53 Jaap Voeten, Job de Haan, Is that Innovation?: Assessing Examples of Revitalized
and Gerard de Groot Economic Dynamics among Clusters of Small
Producers in Northern Vietnam
RP2009/52 İ. Semih Akçomak Incubators as Tools for Entrepreneurship Promotion in
Developing Countries
RP2009/51 Mulu Gebreeyesus Innovation and Microenterprises Growth in Ethiopia
RP2009/50 David B. Audretsch and Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and
Mark Sanders Development
RP2009/49 Sunil Mani Growth of Knowledge-intensive Entrepreneurship in
India, 1991–2007
RP2009/48 Otto Toivanen Innovation Policy, Entrepreneurship, and Development:
A Finnish View
RP2009/47 Erik Stam and André van Types of Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
Stel
RP2009/46 Alice H. Amsden Firm Ownership, FOEs, and POEs
RP2009/45 Wim Naudé Entrepreneurship is not a Binding Constraint on Growth
and Development in the Poorest Countries
RP2009/44 A. Leticia Arroyo Abad Trading Inequality? Insights from the Two
and Amelia U. Santos- Globalizations in Latin America
Paulino
RP2009/43 Pinaki Chakraborty and Economic Reforms and Infrastructure Spending:
Yan Zhang Evidence from China and India
RP2009/42 Augustin Kwasi Fosu Country Role Models for Development Success: The
Ghana Case
RP2009/41 Diego B. Avanzini Designing Composite Entrepreneurship Indicators: An
Application Using Consensus PCA
RP2009/40 James A. Robinson Botswana as a Role Model for Country Success
RP2009/39 Thomas Gries and Wim When to Start a New Firm?: Modelling the Timing of
Naudé Novice and Serial Entrepreneurs
RP2009/38 Robert Loon The Omani and Bahraini Paths to Development: Rare
and Contrasting Oil-based Economic Success Stories
RP2009/37 Andrés Solimano Three Decades of Neoliberal Economics in Chile:
Achievements, Failures and Dilemmas
RP2009/36 Arvind Subramanian The Mauritian Success Story and its Lessons
RP2009/35 Markus Jäntti and Juhana The Finnish Developmental State and its Growth
Vartiainen Regime

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RP2009/34 Keun Lee How Can Korea be a Role Model for Catch-up
Development?: A ‘Capability-based View’
RP2009/33 Yang Yao Disinterested Government: An Interpretation of China's
Economic Success in the Reform Era
RP2009/32 Mina Baliamoune-Lutz Tunisia's Development Experience: A Success Story?
RP2009/31 Nirvikar Singh India's Development Strategy: Accidents, Design and
Replicability
RP2009/30 John Thoburn Vietnam as a Role Model for Development
RP2009/29 Annina Kaltenbrunner and The Case for an Intermediate Exchange Rate Regime
Machiko Nissanke with Endogenizing Market Structures and Capital
Mobility
RP2009/28 Evans Jadotte International Migration, Remittances
and Labour Supply: The Case of the Republic of Haiti
RP2009/27 Wim Naudé ‘Rushing in where Angels Fear to Tread?’: The Early
Internationalization of Indigenous Chinese Firms
RP2009/26 Nanak Kakwani, Marcelo Linkages between Pro-Poor Growth, Social
Neri, and Hyun H. Son Programmes and Labour Market: The Recent Brazilian
Experience
RP2009/25 Beatrice Weder and Rolf Switzerland’s Rise to a Wealthy Nation: Competition
Weder and Contestability as Key Success Factors
RP2009/24 Paul Teague Developing Ireland: Committing to Economic Openess
and Building Domestic Institutional Capabilities
RP2009/23 Ådne Cappelen and Lars Can Norway be a Role Model for Natural Resource
Mjøset Abundant Countries?
RP2009/22 Fukunari Kimura Japan’s Model of Economic Development: Relevant
and Nonrelevant Elements for Developing Economies
RP2009/21 Jagannadha Pawan Entrepreneurship and Welfare
Tamvada
RP2009/20 Milo Bianchi Credit Constraints, Entrepreneurial Talent, and
Economic Development
RP2009/19 John Bennett Informal Firms in Developing Countries:
Entrepreneurial Stepping Stone or Consolation Prize?
RP2009/18 Bengt-Åke Lundvall The Danish Model and the Globalizing Learning
Economy: Lessons for Developing Countries
RP2009/17 Jan Svejnar, and Milica The Czech Transition: The Importance of
Uvalic Microeconomic Fundamentals
RP2009/16 Wim Naudé, and Stephanié Early International Entrepreneurship in China: Extent
Rossouw and Determinants
RP2009/15 Vladimir Popov Lessons from the Transition Economies: Putting the
Success Stories of the Postcommunist World into a
Broader Perspective
RP2009/14 Grzegorz W. Kolodko A Two-thirds Rate of Success: Polish Transformation
and Economic Development, 1989-2008
RP2009/13 László Csaba Hungary: The Janus-faced Success Story
RP2009/12 Roy Thurik Entrepreneurship, Economic Growth and Policy in
Emerging Economies
RP2009/11 Micheline Goedhuys and High-Growth Entrepreneurial Firms in Africa: A
Leo Sleuwaegen Quantile Regression Approach
RP2009/10 Sameeksha Desai Measuring Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

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RP2009/09 Gerrit Rooks, The Interplay of Human and Social Capital in
Adam Szirmai, Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries: The Case of
and Arthur Sserwanga Uganda
RP2009/08 Peter Nijkamp Entrepreneurship, Development,and the Spatial
Context: Retrospect and Prospect
RP2009/07 José Ernesto Amorós Entrepreneurship and Quality of Institutions: A
Developing-Country Approach
RP2009/06 Rosemary Atieno Linkages, Access to Finance
and the Performance of Small-Scale
Enterprises in Kenya
RP2009/05 Ayal Kimhi Entrepreneurship and Income Inequality
in Southern Ethiopia
RP2009/04 Mina Baliamoune-Lutz Entrepreneurship and Reforms
in Developing Countries
RP2009/03 Jun Du and Sourafel Girma Source of Finance, Growth and Firm Size – Evidence
from China
RP2009/02 Emmanuel Skoufias, Globalization and the Role of Public Transfers in
Kathy Lindert, Redistributing Income in Latin America and the
and Joseph Shapiro Caribbean
RP2009/01 Wim Naudé Out with the sleaze, in with the ease: insufficient for
entrepreneurial development?

RP2008/109 Manop Udomkerdmongkol Political Regime, Private Investment, and Foreign

and Oliver Morrissey Direct Investment in Developing Countries
RP2008/108 Lucio Castro Trade with China and India and Manufacturing Labour
and Daniel Saslavsky Demand in Argentina
RP2008/107 Augustin Kwasi Fosu Inequality and the Impact of Growth on Poverty:
Comparative Evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa
RP2008/106 David Roland-Holst, Growth and Trade Horizons for Asia: Long Term
Jean-Pierre Verbiest, Forecasts for Regional Integration
and Fan Zhai
RP2008/105 Mario Cimoli, Structural Change, Technology, and Economic Growth:
Wellington Pereira, Brazil and the CIBS in a Comparative Perspective
Gabriel Porcile,
and Fábio Scatolin
RP2008/104 Rhys Jenkins China’s Global Growth and Latin American Exports
RP2008/103 Yongqing Wang China’s Trade Imbalances: The Role of FDI
and Guanghua Wan
RP2008/102 Manop Udomkerdmongkol Exchange Rates and Outward Foreign Direct
Oliver Morrissey, Investment: US FDI in Emerging Economies
and Holger Görg
RP2008/101 Kunwang Li, Ligang Song, Component Trade and China’s Global Economic
and Xingjun Zhao Integration
RP2008/100 Amelia U. Santos Paulino, R&D (Re)location: A Bird’s Eye (Re)view
Mariagrazia Squicciarini,
and Peilei Fan
RP2008/99 Patrick Guillaumont An Economic Vulnerability Index: Its Design and Use
for International Development Policy
RP2008/98 Fiona Tregenna Sectoral Engines of Growth in South Africa: An
Analysis of Services and Manufacturing

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RP2008/97 Moritz Cruz Can Free Trade Guarantee Gains from Trade?
RP2008/96 Miao Fu, Xiaolan Fu, International and Intra-national Technology Spillovers
and Tieli Li and Technology Development Paths in Developing
Countries: The Case of China
RP2008/95 Jean-Yves Gnabo, Interdependencies between Monetary Policy and
Luiz de Mello, Foreign Exchange Intervention under Inflation
and Diego Moccero Targeting: The Case of Brazil and the Czech Republic
RP2008/94 Kailei Wei, Shujie Yao, Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Inequality in
and Aying Liu China
RP2008/93 Wim Naudé Export Diversification and Specialization in South
and Riaan Rossouw Africa: Extent and Impact
RP2008/92 Alexis Habi Yaremye Economic Proximity and Technology Flows: South
Africa’s Influence and the Role of Technological
Interaction in Botswana’s Diversification Effort
RP2008/91 Sebastián Claro FDI Liberalization as a Source of Comparative
Advantage in China
RP2008/90 Yevgeny Kuznetsov Innovation Systems, Radical Transformation, Step-by-
Step: India in Light of China
RP2008/89 Adegboyega Ojo, Developing and Harnessing Software Technology in the
Tomasz Janowski, South: The Roles of China, India, Brazil, and South
Rilwan Basanya, Africa
and Mike Reed
RP2008/88 Henri Bezuidenhout Foreign Direct Investment and Trade in the Southern
and Wim Naudé African Development Community
RP2008/87 Kunal Sen International Trade and Manufacturing Employment
Outcomes in India: A Comparative Study
RP2008/86 Nader Nazmi Economic Efficiency and Growth: Evidence from
and Julio E. Revilla Brazil, China, and India
RP2008/85 Wim Naudé Conflict, Disasters, and No Jobs: Reasons for
International Migration from Sub-Saharan Africa
RP2008/84 Jean-Raphael Chaponnière, Vietnam Following in China’s Footsteps: The Third
Jean-Pierre Cling, Wave of Emerging Asian Economies
and Bin Zhou
RP2008/83 Tilman Brück The Impact of Conflict and Fragility on Households: A
and Kati Schindler Conceptual Framework with Reference to Widows
RP2008/82 Yuan Zhang Can We Predict Vulnerability to Poverty?
and Guanghua Wan
RP2008/81 Daniela Marconi Comparative Advantage Patterns and Domestic
and Valeria Rolli Determinants in Emerging Countries: An Analysis with
a Focus on Technology
RP2008/80 Jorge Saba Arbache Hunting for Leopards: Long-Run Country Income
and John Page Dynamics in Africa
RP2008/79 Shekhar Aiyar, The Macroeconomic Management of Increased Aid:
Andrew Berg, Policy Lessons from Recent Experience
and Mumtaz Hussain
RP2008/78 Lisa Chauvet Aid, Volatility and Growth Again: When Aid Volatility
and Patrick Guillaumont Matters and When It Does Not

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RP2008/77 Christopher Adam, Monetary Policy Rules for Managing Aid Surges in
Edward Buffie, Africa
Stephen O’Connell,
and Catherine Pattillo
RP2008/76 Gil S. Epstein Poverty and Governance: The Contest for Aid
and Ira N. Gang
RP2008/75 Mina Baliamoune-Lutz Aid Effectiveness: Looking at the Aid-Social Capital-
and George Mavrotas Growth Nexus
RP2008/74 Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Globalization and Health: Impact Pathways and Recent
Stefano Rosignoli Evidence
and Luca Tiberti
RP2008/73 Marion Pircher What Lessons have been learnt since the East Asian
Crisis in 1997/98? CIBS, Capital Flows, and Exchange
Rates
RP2008/72 Rubina Verma The Service Sector Revolution in India: A Quantitative
Analysis
RP2008/71 S. Mansoob Murshed On the Non-Contractual Nature of Donor-Recipient
Interaction in Development Assistance
RP2008/70 Thomas Gries Entrepreneurship and Regional Economic Growth:
and Wim Naudé Towards A General Theory of Start-Ups
RP2008/69 Mariana Zanatta, National Policies to Attract FDI in R&D:
Eduardo Strachman, An Assessment of Brazil and Selected Countries
Flavia Carvalho,
Pollyana C. Varrichio,
Edilaine Camillo,
and Mariana Barra
RP2008/68 Ricardo Gottschalk The Liberalization of Capital Outflows in CIBS: What
and Cecilia Azevedo Sodre Opportunities for Other Developing Countries?
RP2008/67 Suparna Chakraborty Indian Economic Growth: Lessons for the Emerging
Economies
RP2008/66 Thomas Gries International Integration and Regional Development in
and Margarete Redlin China
RP2008/65 Anushree Sinha Gender and Informal Sector Analysis in India:
and Haider Khan Economy Wide Approaches
RP2008/64 Slobodan Djajić Foreign Aid, Infrastructure Development, and Welfare:
An Intertemporal Analysis
RP2008/63 Tejashree Sayanak Foreign Aid as Prize: Incentives for a Pro-Poor Policy
and Sajal Lahiri
RP2008/62 Thomas Gries Entrepreneurship and Structural Economic
and Wim Naudé Transformation
RP2008/61 Marlene Attzs Natural Disasters and Remittances: Exploring the
Linkages between Poverty, Gender, and Disaster
Vulnerability in Caribbean SIDS
RP2008/60 Peter Sheehan Beyond Industrialization: New Approaches to
Development Strategy Based on the Service Sector
RP2008/59 Sudhir K. Thakur Identification of Regional Fundamental Economic
Structure (FES) of India: An Input-Output and Field of
Influence Approach
RP2008/58 Jeffrey Henderson China and the Future of the Developing World: The
Coming Global-Asian Era and its Consequences

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RP2008/57 Mariano Rojas Intra-Household Arrangements and Health Satisfaction:
Evidence from Mexico
RP2008/56 Haider A. Khan China’s Development Strategy and Energy Security:
Growth, Distribution and Regional Cooperation
RP2008/55 Lino Briguglio, Economic Vulnerability and Resilience: Concepts and
Gordon Cordina, Measurements
Nadia Farrugia,
and Stephanie Vella
RP2008/54 Wim Naudé, Measuring the Vulnerability of Subnational Regions
Mark McGillivray,
and Stephanié Rossouw
RP2008/53 Harsha Aturupane, The Determinants of Child Weight and Height in Sri
Anil B. Deolalikar, Lanka: A Quantile Regression Approach
and Dileni Gunewardena
RP2008/52 Calum G. Turvey Vulnerability, Trust and Microcredit: The Case of
and Rong Kong China’s Rural Poor
RP2008/51 Patrick Guillaumont, How Macroeconomic Instability Lowers Child Survival
Catherine Korachais,
and Julie Subervie
RP2008/50 Jörn Birkmann Assessing Vulnerability Before, During and After a
Natural Disaster in Fragile Regions: Case Study of the
2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami in Sri Lanka and Indonesia
RP2008/49 B. Valentine Joseph Livelihood Risk from HIV in Semi-Arid Tropics of
Gandhi, M. Cynthia Rural Andhra Pradesh
Serquiña Bantilan, and
Devanathan Parthasarathy
RP2008/48 Karen Macours Seasonal Migration and Early Childhood Development
and Renos Vakis
RP2008/47 Anis Chowdhury Growth Oriented Macroeconomic Policies for Small
Islands Economies: Lessons from Singapore
RP2008/46 David Carment, Determinants of State Fragility and Implications for Aid
Stewart Prest, and Allocation: An Assessment Based on the Country
Yiagadeesen Samy Indicators for Foreign Policy Project
RP2008/45 S. Mansoob Murshed Enforcing Peace Agreements through Commitment
and Philip Verwimp Technologies
RP2008/44 Mina Baliamoune-Lutz State Fragility: Concept and Measurement
and Mark McGillivray
RP2008/43 Sumon Kumar Bhaumik, Gender and Ethnicity in Post-Conflict Kosovo
Ira N. Gang,
and Myeong-Su Yun
RP2008/42 Colin Andrews Vulnerability to Hunger: Improving Food Crisis
and Margarita Flores Responses in Fragile States
RP2008/41 Kate Bird Vulnerability, Poverty and Coping in Zimbabwe
and Martin Prowse
RP2008/40 Raghav Gaiha Measuring Vulnerability and Poverty: Estimates for
and Katsushi Imai Rural India
RP2008/39 Yuqing Xing China’s Exports in ICT and its Impact on Asian
Countries

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RP2008/38 Shujie Yao, Ownership Reform, Foreign Competition, and
Zhongwei Han, Efficiency of Chinese Commercial Banks: A Non-
and Genfu Feng Parametric Approach
RP2008/37 Yuefen Li and Bin Zhang Development Path of China and India and the
Challenges for their Sustainable Growth
RP2008/36 Xuan Li The Impact of Higher Standards in Patent Protection for
Pharmaceutical Industries under the TRIPS Agreement:
A Comparative Study of China and India
RP2008/35 Ghassan Dibeh Resources and the Political Economy of State Fragility
in Conflict States: Iraq and Somalia
RP2008/34 Terry Cannon Reducing People’s Vulnerability to Natural Hazards:
Communities and Resilience
RP2008/33 Jun Zhang China’s Economic Growth: Trajectories and Evolving
Institutions
RP2008/32 Thomas Gries, The Optimal Distance to Port for Exporting Firms
Wim Naudé, and
Marianne Matthee
RP2008/31 Peilei Fan Innovation Capacity and Economic Development:
China and India
RP2008/30 Liangzhi You A Tale of Two Countries: Spatial and Temporal
Patterns of Rice Productivity in China and Brazil
RP2008/29 Maurizio Bussolo, Global Growth and Distribution: Are China and India
Rafael E. De Hoyos, Reshaping the World?
Denis Medvedev,
and Dominique van der
Mensbrugghe
RP2008/28 Amelia U. Santos-Paulino Export Productivity and Specialization in China, Brazil,
India and South Africa
RP2008/27 Alessandra Guariglia and Export Productivity, Finance, and Economic Growth:
Amelia U. Santos-Paulino Are the Southern Engines of Growth Different?
RP2008/26 Oleksiy Ivaschenko Asset-Based Poverty in Rural Tajikistan: Who Climbs
and Cem Mete out and Who Falls in?
RP2008/25 Martin Heger, Alex Julca, Analysing the Impact of Natural Hazards in Small
and Oliver Paddison Economies: The Caribbean Case
RP2008/24 John Henley, Foreign Direct Investment from China, India and South
Stefan Kratzsch, Africa in Sub-Saharan Africa: A New or Old
Mithat Külür, Phenomenon?
and Tamer Tandogan
RP2008/23 T. H. Gindling Minimum Wages, Globalization, and Poverty in
and Katherine Terrell Honduras
RP2008/22 Ernesto Aguayo-Tellez, Globalization and Formal Sector Migration in Brazil
Marc-Andreas Muendler,
and Jennifer Pamela Poole
RP2008/21 Marie-Claude Martin Individual and Collective Resources and Health in
Morocco
RP2008/20 Wim Naudé Entrepreneurship in Economic Development
RP2008/19 Sumei Tang, Foreign Direct Investment, Domestic Investment, and
E. A. Selvanathan Economic Growth in China: A Time Series Analysis
and S. Selvanathan

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RP2008/18 Calogero Carletto, Globalization and Smallholders: The Adoption,
Diffusion, and Welfare Impact of Non-traditional
Angeli Kirk, Paul Winters,
and Benjamin Davis Export Crops in Guatemala
RP2008/17 Alejandro de la Fuente Remittances and Vulnerability to Poverty in Rural
Mexico
RP2008/16 Anthony Shorrocks Ungrouping Income Distributions: Synthesising
and Guanghua Wan Samples for Inequality and Poverty Analysis
RP2008/15 Kavita Sethuraman The Role of Women’s Empowerment and Domestic
Violence in Child Growth and Undernutrition in a
Tribal and Rural Community in South India
RP2008/14 Manoel Bittencourt Inflation and Financial Development: Evidence from
Brazil
RP2008/13 Yanrui Wu Comparing Regional Development in China and India
RP2008/12 Ligang Song and Yu Sheng The Impact of Reform on Economic Growth in China:
A Principal Component Analysis
RP2008/11 Rhys Jenkins Measuring the Competitive Threat from China
RP2008/10 Silvia Nenci The Rise of the Southern Economies: Implications for
the WTO-Multilateral Trading System
RP2008/09 Fang Cai Approaching a Triumphal Span: How Far Is China
Towards its Lewisian Turning Point?
RP2008/08 Mahvash Saeed Qureshi Trade Expansion of China and India: Threat or
and Guanghua Wan Opportunity
RP2008/07 Sanjeev Gupta Enhancing Effective Utilization of Aid in Fragile States
RP2008/06 Gary S. Fields and María Earnings Mobility in Times of Growth and Decline:
Laura Sánchez Puerta Argentina from 1996 to 2003
RP2008/05 Gurleen K. Popli Trade Liberalization and the Self-employed in Mexico
RP2008/04 Alok Bhargava Globalization, Literacy Levels, and Economic
Development
RP2008/03 Mark McGillivray Aid and Growth in Fragile States
and Simon Feeny
RP2008/02 Jarko Fidrmuc and China in the World Economy: Dynamic Correlation
Ivana Bátorová Analysis of Business Cycles
RP2008/01 A. J. E. Charman Empowering Women Through Livelihoods Orientated
Agricultural Service Provision: A Consideration of
Evidence from Southern Africa

RP2007/87 Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis Household Access to Microcredit and Children’s Food

and Gautam Hazarika Security in Rural Malawi: A Gender Perspective
RP2007/86 Daniel Gbetnkom Forest Management, Gender, and Food Security of the
Rural Poor in Africa
RP2007/85 Milla Nyyssölä Women’s Status and Child Labour in Nepal
RP2007/84 Milla Nyyssölä Women’s Status and Children’s Food Security in Nepal
RP2007/83 Clive J. Mutunga Environmental Determinants of Child Mortality in
Kenya
RP2007/82 John Knight China, South Africa and the Lewis Model
RP2007/81 Robert Picciotto Development Effectiveness at the Country Level
RP2007/80 Mohammad Mokammel Domestic Violence Against Women: Its Determinants
Karim Toufique and and Implications for Gender Resource Allocation
Mohammad A. Razzaque

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RP2007/79 Mohammad A. Razzaque Does Women’s Status Matter for Food Security?
and Mohammad Evidence from Bangladesh
Mokammel Karim
Toufique
RP2007/78 Subha Mani The Role of the Household and Community in
Determining Child Health
RP2007/77 James B. Davies, Estimating the Level and Distribution of Global
Susanna Sandström, Household Wealth
Anthony Shorrocks,
and Edward N. Wolff
RP2007/76 Janice E. Perlman Globalization and the Urban Poor
RP2007/75 Howard White Evaluating Aid Impact
RP2007/74 David E. Sahn Inequality and Poverty in Africa in an Era of
and Stephen D. Younger Globalization: Looking Beyond Income to Health and
Education
RP2007/73 Stefan Dercon Globalization and Marginalization in Africa: Poverty,
Risk, and Vulnerability in Rural Ethiopia
RP2007/72 Alfred J. Field Globalization, Crop Choice and Property Rights in
and Erica Field Rural Peru, 1994-2004
RP2007/71 Susanna Wolf Does Aid Improve Public Service Delivery?
RP2007/70 Abena D. Oduro Market Participation and Rural Poverty in Ghana in the
and Isaac Osei-Akoto Era of Globalization
RP2006/69 Elizabeth Asiedu The Effect of the Liberalization of Investment Policies
and Kwabena Gyimah- on Employment and Investment of Multinational
Brempong Corporations in Africa
RP2007/68 Francis Menjo Baye Changing Land-tenure Arrangements and Access to
Primary Assets under Globalization: A Case Study of
Two Villages in Anglophone Cameroon
RP2007/67 Reza C. Daniels Gender Dimensions to the Incidence of Tariff
Liberalization
RP2007/66 Steve Onyeiwu, Distributional Impact of Globalization-Induced
Raluca Iorgulescu Migration: Evidence from a Nigerian Village
Polimeni, and
John M. Polimeni
RP2007/65 Augustin Kwasi Fosu Gains from Trade: Implications for Labour Market
and Andrew Mold Adjustment and Poverty Reduction in Africa
RP2007/64 David Mayer-Foulkes Globalization and the Human Development Trap
RP2007/63 Arjan de Haan and Can Aid New Modalities Handle Politics?
Max Everest-Phillips
RP2007/62 Eva Jespersen and Issues to Consider in Assessing International Support
Julia Benn for Realizing Children’s Rights: A Reflection on Aid
Modalities and Transparency in Reporting, and a
Review of Aid for Basic Social Services
RP2007/61 Howard P. Lehman Japan’s National Economic Identity and African
Development: An Analysis of the Tokyo International
Conference on African Development
RP2007/60 Elizabeth Asiedu The Impact of Foreign Aid in Education Growth: How
and Boaz Nandwa Relevant is the Heterogeneity of Aid Flows and the
Heterogeneity of Aid Recipients?

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RP2007/59 Danny Cassimon and Aid Effectiveness, Debt Relief and Public Finance
Bjorn Van Campenhout Response: Evidence from a Panel of HIPCs
RP2007/58 Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Trade Liberalization, Employment Flows and Wage
Phillippe G. Leite Inequality in Brazil
and Matthew Wai-Poi
RP2007/57 Servaas van der Berg, Post-Apartheid South Africa: Poverty and Distribution
Ronelle Burger Trends in an Era of Globalization
and Megan Louw
RP2007/56 Kala Seetharam Sridhar Firm Location Choice in Cities: Evidence from China,
and Guanghua Wan India, and Brazil
RP2007/55 Jeffery I. Round Globalization, Growth, Inequality and Poverty in
Africa: A Macroeconomic Perspective
RP2007/54 Vasco Molini Is the Nutritional Status of Males and Females Equally
and Maarten Nubé Affected by Economic Growth? Evidence from
Vietnam in the 1990s
RP2007/53 Craig Gundersen, Differences in Food Insecurity between Girls and Boys:
Yemisi Kuku and Evidence from Zimbabwe
Thomas Kelly
RP2007/52 Nathalie Holvoet Monitoring and Evaluation Reform under Changing Aid
and Robrecht Renard Modalities: Seeking the Middle Ground in Aid-
Dependent Low-Income Countries
RP2007/51 Graham Brown, The Implications of Horizontal Inequality for Aid
Frances Stewart,
and Arnim Langer
RP2007/50 David Fielding Aid and Dutch Disease in the South Pacific
RP2007/49 Helen S. Toxopeus Remittances and Financial Inclusion in Development
and Robert Lensink
RP2007/48 Richard Pomfret Coordinating Aid for Regional Cooperation Projects:
The Experience of Central Asia
RP2007/47 Howard White Projecting Progress toward the Millennium
and Nina Blöndal Development Goals
RP2007/46 Simon Feeny Public Sector Efficiency and Small Island Developing
and Mark Rogers States
RP2007/45 Dirk-Jan Koch Blind Spots on the Map of Aid Allocations:
Concentration and Complementarity of International
NGO Aid
RP2007/44 Saibal Kar Migration Taxes and Human Capital Formation: Some
Implications for Development
RP2007/43 Anis Chowdhury Gearing Macroeconomic Policies to Manage Large
and Terry McKinley Inflows of ODA: The Implications for HIV/AIDS
Programmes
RP2007/42 Gustav Ranis Toward the Enhanced Effectiveness of Foreign Aid
RP2007/41 Sanjeev Gupta, Postconflict Countries: Strategy for Rebuilding Fiscal
Shamsuddin Tareq, Institutions
Benedict Clements,
Alex Segura-Ubiergo,
and Rina Bhattacharya
RP2007/40 Patrick Guillaumont Assessing the Economic Vulnerability of Small Island
Developing States and the Least Developed Countries

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RP2007/39 Michael Hubbard
RP2007/38 Henrik Hansen and
Derek Headey
RP2007/37 Ghassan Dibeh
RP2007/36 Augustin Kwasi Fosu
RP2007/35 Richard M. Auty
RP2007/34 B. Bhaskara Rao,
Kanhaiya Lal Sharma,
Rup Singh, and Nalini Lata
RP2007/33 Machiko Nissanke
and Benno Ferrarini
RP2007/32 Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
RP2007/31 S. Subramanian
RP2007/30 Lisa Chauvet, Paul Collier,
and Anke Hoeffler
RP2007/29 Balázs Szent-Iványi
RP2007/28 Robert Read
RP2007/27 John Muellbauer
RP2007/26 Amelia U. Santos-Paulino
RP2007/25 Chakriya Bowman
and Satish Chand
RP2007/24 Anis Chowdhury and
Yogi Vidyattama
RP2007/23 Richard P.C. Brown
and Eliana Jimenez
RP2007/22 Catalina Amuedo-
Dorantes, Susan Pozo,
and Carlos Vargas-Silva
RP2007/21 Lisa Borgatti
RP2007/20 Amelia U. Santos-Paulino
RP2007/19 Roland Craigwell
RP2007/18 Matthew Clarke, Tim Fry,
and Sandra Mihajilo
Entitlement, Rules, Coordination, Club, Market and
Hierarchy - General Budget Support Practice and
Theory: Implications of Results of the Joint Evaluation
of General Budget Support
The Short-Run Macroeconomic Impact of Foreign Aid
to Small States: An Agnostic Timeseries Analysis
Foreign Aid and Economic Development in Postwar
Lebanon
The External Debt-Servicing Constraint and Public
Expenditure Composition: Evidence from African
Economies
Aid and Rent-Driven Growth: Mauritania, Kenya and
Mozambique Compared
A Survey of Growth and Development Issues of the
Pacific Islands
Assessing the Aid Allocation and Debt Sustainability
Framework: Working Towards Incentive Compatible
Aid Contracts
Rethinking the Policy Objectives of Development Aid:
From Economic Growth to Conflict Prevention
International Aid in Light of Global Poverty and
Inequality: Some Unsubtle Propositions
The Cost of Failing States and the Limits to Sovereignty
State Fragility and International Development
Cooperation
Foreign Direct Investment in Small Island Developing
States
Housing and Personal Wealth in a Global Context
Trade Sustainability and Aid under Liberalization in
Fragile Least Developed Countries
Size Matters: The Impact of Aid on Institutions
Macroeconomic Policies for Growth in Small Pacific
Island Economies
Estimating the Net Effects of Migration and
Remittances on Poverty and Inequality: Comparison of
Fiji and Tonga
Remittances and the Macroeconomy: The Case of Small
Island Developing States
Pacific Islands’ Bilateral Trade: The Role of
Remoteness and of Transport Costs
Terms of Trade Shocks and the Current Account in
Small Island States
Tourism Competitiveness in Small Island Developing
States
Aid Allocation Volatility to Small Island States
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RP2007/17 Markus Jäntti and Survey Estimates of Wealth Holdings in OECD
Eva Sierminska Countries: Evidence on the Level and Distribution
across Selected Countries
RP2007/16 Lisa Chauvet, Paul Collier, Paradise Lost: The Costs of State Failure in the Pacific
and Anke Hoeffler
RP2007/15 Julliet Wanjiku, Gender Differentiation in the Analysis of Alternative
John Uhuru Manyengo, Farm Mechanization Choices on Small Farms in Kenya
Willis Oluoch-Kosura,
and Joseph T. Karugia
RP2007/14 Indranil Dutta The Burden of Government Debt in the Indian States:
Implications for the MDG Poverty Target
RP2007/13 Pranab Kumar Das and Finance and Growth: An Empirical Assessment of the
Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis Indian Economy
RP2007/12 Tomoki Fujii and How Does Vietnam’s Accession to the World Trade
David Roland-Holst Organization Change the Spatial Incidence of Poverty?
RP2007/11 Marianne Matthee Export Diversity and Regional Growth: Empirical
and Wim Naudé Evidence from South Africa
RP2007/10 Marianne Matthee The Determinants of Regional Manufactured Exports
and Wim Naudé from a Developing Country
RP2007/09 Wim Naudé and The Geographical Location of Manufacturing Exporters
Marianne Matthee in South Africa
RP2007/08 Jun Zhang, The Financial Deepening–Productivity Nexus in China:
Guanghua Wan, and Yu Jin 1987–2001
RP2007/07 Guanghua Wan Explaining the Poverty Difference between Inland and
and Yin Zhang Coastal China: A Regression-based Decomposition
Approach
RP2007/06 Hugh Waters, Rehabilitating Health Systems in Post-Conflict
Brinnon Garrett, Situations
and Gilbert Burnham
RP2007/05 Guanghua Wan Regional Income Inequality in Rural China, 1985-2002:
Trends, Causes and Policy Implications
RP2007/04 Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis Rights-based Approach to Development: Lessons from
and S. Vivek the Right to Food Movement in India
RP2007/03 Shi Li and Renwei Zhao Changes in the Distribution of Wealth in China, 1995-
2002
RP2007/02 Ruslan Yemtsov Housing Privatization and Household Wealth in
Transition
RP2007/01 Duangkamon Global Inequality: Recent Evidence and Trends
Chotikapanich,
D.S. Prasada Rao,
William E. Griffiths,
and Vicar Valencia

RP2006/155 Erik Thorbecke The Evolution of the Development Doctrine, 1950-2005

RP2006/154 Yin Zhang and Poverty, Pro-Poor Growth and Mobility: A
Guanghua Wan Decomposition Framework with Application to China
RP2006/153 Peilei Fan and China’s Regional Inequality in Innovation Capability,
Guanghua Wan 1995-2004
RP2006/152 Yin Zhang and Poverty Reduction in China: Trends and Causes
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RP2006/151 Anthony B. Atkinson Concentration among the Rich
RP2006/150 James C. MacGee Land Titles, Credit Markets and Wealth Distributions
RP2006/149 Frances Stewart Policies towards Horizontal Inequalities in Post-
Conflict Reconstruction
RP2006/148 Sirkku K. Hellsten Ethics, Rhetoric and Politics of Post-conflict
Reconstruction: How Can the Concept of Social
Contract Help Us in Understanding How to Make Peace
Work?
RP2006/147 Peter Burnell The Coherence of Democratic Peace-Building
RP2006/146 Meiyan Wang and Gender Wage Differentials in China’s Urban Labour
Fang Cai Market
RP2006/145 Christian Rogg Asset Portfolios in Africa: Evidence from Rural
Ethiopia
RP2006/144 Yevgeny Kuznetsov and Global Mobility of Talent from a Perspective of New
Charles Sabel Industrial Policy: Open Migration Chains and Diaspora
Networks
RP2006/143 Anthony P. D’Costa The International Mobility of Technical Talent: Trends
and Development Implications
RP2006/142 AnnaLee Saxenian International Mobility of Engineers and the Rise of
Entrepreneurship in the Periphery
RP2006/141 Michael Herrmann Agricultural Support Measures of Advanced Countries
and Food Insecurity in Developing Countries
RP2006/140 Patrick Webb and Entitlement Failure from a Food Quality Perspective:
Andrew Thorne-Lyman The Life and Death Role of Vitamins and Minerals in
Humanitarian Crises
RP2006/139 Guanghua Wan, Ming Lu, Globalization and Regional Income Inequality:
and Zhao Chen Empirical evidence from within China
RP2006/138 Ronelle Burger, Marketable Wealth in a Poor African Country: Using an
Frikkie Booysen, index of consumer durables to investigate wealth
Servaas van der Berg, and accumulation by households in Ghana
Michael von Maltitz
RP2006/137 Juliano Assunção Land Reform and Landholdings in Brazil
RP2006/136 Ying Chu Ng Gender Earnings Differentials and Regional Economic
Development in Urban China, 1988-97
RP2006/135 Terry Sicular, Ximing Yue, The Urban-Rural Income Gap and Inequality in China
Björn Gustafsson, and
Shi Li
RP2006/134 Duangkamon Estimating Income Inequality in China Using Grouped
Chotikapanich, Data and the Generalized Beta Distribution
D.S. Prasada Rao, and
Kam Ki Tang
RP2006/133 Xin Meng, Robert Gregory, China Urban Poverty and its Contributing Factors,
and Guanghua Wan 1986-2000
RP2006/132 George Cheriyan Enforcing the Right to Food in India: Bottlenecks in
Delivering the Expected Outcome
RP2006/131 Nira Ramachandran Women and Food Security in South Asia: Current
Issues and Emerging Concerns
RP2006/130 Sangeeta Pratap and The Informal Sector in Developing Countries: Output,
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RP2006/129 Justin Yifu Lin and Development Strategies and Regional Income
Peilin Liu Disparities in China
RP2006/128 Kai-yuen Tsui Forces Shaping China’s Interprovincial Inequality
RP2006/127 Ulrich Reuter What Kind of Education Does China Need? The Impact
of Educational Attainment on Local Growth and
Disparities
RP2006/126 Wang Xiaolu Income Inequality in China and its Influencing Factors
RP2006/125 Peter S. Heller, Making Fiscal Space Happen! Managing Fiscal Policy
Menachem Katz, in a World of Scaled-Up Aid
Xavier Debrun,
Theo Thomas,
Taline Koranchelian and
Isabell Adenauer
RP2006/124 Ramesh Chand International Trade, Food Security and the Response to
the WTO in South Asian Countries
RP2006/123 Nilabja Ghosh and Looking for Answers to the Food Security Problem:
Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis India under Current Compulsions
RP2006/122 Pradeep Bhargava and Realizing the Right to Food in South Asia
Manju Balana
RP2006/121 Xing Chunbing Human Capital and Wage Determination in Different
Ownerships, 1989-97
RP2006/120 Sergei Guriev and The Evolution of Personal Wealth in the Former Soviet
Andrei Rachinsky Union and Central and Eastern Europe
RP2006/119 Christian Romer Lovendal Tomorrow’s Hunger: A Framework for Analysing
and Macro Knowles Vulnerability to Food Security
RP2006/118 Brinda Viswanathan and The Changing Pattern of Undernutrition in India: A
J. V. Meenakshi Comparative Analysis across Regions
RP2006/117 Qin Gao Social Benefits in Urban China: Determinants and
Impact on Income Inequality in 1988 and 2002
RP2006/116 S. Subramanian and The Distribution of Household Wealth in India
D. Jayaraj
RP2006/115 Carmen Diana Deere and Gender and the Distribution of Wealth in Developing
Cheryl R. Doss Countries
RP2006/114 Florencia Torche and Household Wealth in Latin America
Seymour Spilerman
RP2006/113 Peter Evans Extending the ‘Institutional’ Turn: Property, Politics
and Development Trajectories
RP2006/112 Alemayehu Geda The Structure and Performance of Ethiopia’s Financial
Sector in the Pre- and Post-Reform Period with a
Special Focus on Banking
RP2006/111 Lynn Brown and On the Edge: The Role of Food-based Safety Nets in
Ugo Gentilini Helping Vulnerable Households Manage Food
Insecurity
RP2006/110 John Curry, Gender, HIV/AIDS and Rural Livelihoods: Micro-
Esther Wiegers, Level Investigations in Three African Countries
Alessandra Garbero,
Shannon Stokes, and
John Hourihan
RP2006/109 Jean-Marc Coicaud International Organizations as a Profession:
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RP2006/108 Tony Addison The International Mobility of Cultural Talent
RP2006/107 Mehmet Arda Food Retailing, Supermarkets and Food Security:
Highlights from Latin America
RP2006/106 J. Hodge and Analysis of the Potential Impact of the Current WTO
A. J. E. Charman Agricultural Negotiations on Government Strategies in
the SADC Region
RP2006/105 Ying Ge Regional Inequality, Industry Agglomeration and
Foreign Trade: The Case of China
RP2006/104 Xavier Giné and Credit Constraints as a Barrier to Technology Adoption
Stefan Klonner by the Poor: Lessons from South-Indian Small-Scale
Fishery
RP2006/103 Henry Ohlsson, Long-Run Changes in the Concentration of Wealth: An
Jesper Roine, and Overview of Recent Findings
Daniel Waldenström
RP2006/102 Salvatore Capasso Stock Market Development and Economic Growth
RP2006/101 Thomas David and Institutions and Economic Growth: The Successful
André Mach Experience of Switzerland (1870-1950)
RP2006/100 Mina Baliamoune-Lutz Financial Reform and the Mobilization of Domestic
Savings: The Experience of Morocco
RP2006/99 Janine Aron, Estimating the Balance Sheet of the Personal Sector in
John Muellbauer, and an Emerging Market Country: South Africa 1975-2003
Johan Prinsloo
RP2006/98 Zhang-Yue Zhou and The Public Distribution Systems of Foodgrains and
Guanghua Wan Implications for Food Security: A Comparison of the
Experiences of India and China
RP2006/97 Rimjhim M. Aggarwal Resource-Poor Farmers in South India: On the Margins
or Frontiers of Globalization?
RP2006/96 Zhicheng Liang Financial Development and Income Inequality in Rural
China 1991-2000
RP2006/95 Indranil Dutta, Measures of Food Insecurity at the Household Level
Craig Gundersen, and
Prasanta K. Pattanaik
RP2006/94 Yin Zhang The Impacts of Growth and Inequality on Rural Poverty
and Guanghua Wan in China
RP2006/93 Xiaobo Zhang Fiscal Decentralization and Political Centralization in
China: Implications for Growth and Inequality
RP2006/92 Guanghua Wan, Ming Lu, The Inequality–Growth Nexus in the Short and Long
and Zhao Chen Runs: Empirical Evidence from China
RP2006/91 Patrick Honohan Household Financial Assets in the Process of
Development
RP2006/90 Zhicheng Liang Financial Development, Growth, and Regional
Disparity in Post-Reform China
RP2006/89 Patricio Aroca, Dong Guo, Spatial Convergence in China: 1952-99
and
Geoffrey J. D. Hewings
RP2006/88 Mauro Migotto, Measuring Food Security Using Respondents’
Benjamin Davis, Perception of Food Consumption Adequacy
Gero Carletto,
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RP2006/87 Machiko Nissanke Institutional Analysis of Financial Market
and Ernest Aryeetey Fragmentation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Risk-Cost
Configuration Approach
RP2006/86 Pham Thi Thu Trà The Determinants of Loan Contracts to Business Firms:
and Robert Lensink Empirical Evidence from a Private Bank in Vietnam
RP2006/85 Iftekhar Hasan Financial Sector Development and Growth: The
and Mingming Zhou Chinese Experience
RP2006/84 Panicos O Demetriades Excess Credit and the South Korean Crisis
and Bassam A Fattouh
RP2006/83 Kristian Thorn and International Mobility of Researchers and Scientists:
Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen Policy Options for Turning a Drain into a Gain
RP2006/82 Stephen Bach International Mobility of Health Professionals: Brain
Drain or Brain Exchange?
RP2006/81 Leonardo Burlamaqui, The Rise and Halt of Economic Development in Brazil,
José A.P. de Souza, and 1945-2004: Industrial Catching-up, Institutional
Nelson H. Barbosa-Filho Innovation and Financial Fragility
RP2006/80 Sonia Bhalotra Primary Education in India: Prospects of Meeting the
and Bernarda Zamora MDG Target
RP2006/79 Sonia Bhalotra Childhood Mortality and Economic Growth
RP2006/78 M. Sajjad Hassan Reconstruction from Breakdown in Northeastern India:
Building State Capability
RP2006/77 Erik S. Reinert Institutionalism Ancient, Old and New: A Historical
Perspective on Institutions and Uneven Development
RP2006/76 Tianbiao Zhu Rethinking Import-substituting Industrialization:
Development Strategies and Institutions in Taiwan and
China
RP2006/75 Patrick Karl O’Brien The Formation of a Mercantilist State and the Economic
Growth of the United Kingdom 1453-1815
RP2006/74 Jonathan Di John The Political Economy of Taxation and Tax Reform in
Developing Countries
RP2006/73 Julius Kiiza Institutions and Economic Performance in Africa: A
Comparative Analysis of Mauritius, Botswana and
Uganda
RP2006/72 Eric Rauchway The Role of Federalism in Developing the US during
Nineteenth-century Globalization
RP2006/71 William Lazonick Corporate Governance, Innovative Enterprise, and
Economic Development
RP2006/70 S. S. Acharya National Food Policies Impacting on Food Security:
The Experience of India, a Large Populated Country
RP2006/69 Yianna Lambrou Gender, Local Knowledge, and Lessons Learnt in
and Regina Laub Documenting and Conserving Agrobiodiversity
RP2006/68 K. L. Sharma Food Security in the South Pacific Island Countries
with Special Reference to the Fiji Islands
RP2006/67 Vasco Molini Food Security in Vietnam during the 1990s: The
Empirical Evidence
RP2006/66 Min-Dong Paul Lee Widening Gap of Educational Opportunity? A
Longitudinal Study of Educational Inequality in China
RP2006/65 Yiu Por Chen, Development of Financial Intermediation and the
Mingxing Liu, and Dynamics of Rural-Urban Inequality: China, 1978-98
Qi Zhang

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RP2006/64 Lars Osberg and Kuan Xu How Should We Measure Global Poverty in a Changing
World?
RP2006/63 Guanghua Wan Poverty Accounting by Factor Components: With an
Empirical Illustration Using Chinese Data
RP2006/62 Marcia E. Greenberg The Gender Dimensions of Post-Conflict
and Elaine Zuckerman Reconstruction: The Challenges in Development Aid
RP2006/61 Margret Vidar State Recognition of the Right to Food at the National
Level
RP2006/60 Samuel K. Gayi Does the WTO Agreement on Agriculture Endanger
Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa?
RP2006/59 Terutomo Ozawa Asia’s Labour-Driven Economic Development, Flying-
Geese Style: An Unprecedented Opportunity for the
Poor to Rise?
RP2006/58 Yasuyuki Sawada Trade, Migration, and Poverty Reduction in the
and Jonna P. Estudillo Globalizing Economy: The Case of the Philippines
RP2006/57 Zhicheng Liang Threshold Estimation on the Globalization-Poverty
Nexus: Evidence from China
RP2006/56 Nanak Kakwani Pro-Poor Growth: The Asian Experience
and Hyun H. Son
RP2006/55 Nanak Kakwani Evaluating Targeting Efficiency of Government
and Hyun H. Son Programmes: International Comparisons
RP2006/54 Gerald Epstein Central Banks as Agents of Economic Development
RP2006/53 Meredith Woo-Cumings The Rule of Law, Legal Traditions, and Economic
Growth in East Asia
RP2006/52 John Toye Modern Bureaucracy
RP2006/51 Alemayehu Geda, Finance and Poverty in Ethiopia: A Household Level
Abebe Shimeles Analysis
and Daniel Zerfu
RP2006/50 Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis The Corporate Debt Market: A Firm-Level Panel Study
and Saibal Kar for India
RP2006/49 Sukti Dasgupta Manufacturing, Services and Premature
and Ajit Singh Deindustrialization in Developing Countries: A
Kaldorian Analysis
RP2006/48 Justin Yifu Lin, Development Strategy, Viability, and Economic
Mingxing Liu, Institutions: The Case of China
Shiyuan Pan,
and Pengfei Zhang
RP2006/47 François Bourguignon Absorptive Capacity and Achieving the MDGs
and Mark Sundberg
RP2006/46 Machiko Nissanke A Quest for Pro-Poor Globalization
and Erik Thorbecke
RP2006/45 M. S. Qureshi Trade Liberalization, Environment and Poverty: A
Developing Country Perspective
RP2006/44 Yujiro Hayami Globalization and Rural Poverty: A Perspective from a
Social Observatory in the Philippines
RP2006/43 Justin Yifu Lin Economic Development Strategy, Openness and Rural
and Peilin Liu Poverty: A Framework and China’s Experiences
RP2006/42 Yin Zhang Globalization and the Urban Poor in China
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RP2006/41 N.R. Bhanumurthy Globalization, Growth and Poverty in India
and Arup Mitra
RP2006/40 K. S. Kavi Kumar Vulnerability to Globalization in India: Relative
and Brinda Viswanathan Rankings of States Using Fuzzy Models
RP2006/39 Indranil Dutta The Burden of Government Debt in the Indian States:
Implications for the MDG Poverty Target
RP2006/38 Melanie Grosse, Measuring Pro-Poor Progress towards the Non-Income
Kenneth Harttgen, Millennium Development Goals
and Stephan Klasen
RP2006/37 Mark Blackden, Gender and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Issues and
Sudharshan Canagarajah, Evidence
Stephan Klasen,
and David Lawson
RP2006/36 Frances Stewart Do We Need a New ‘Great Transformation’? Is One
Likely?
RP2006/35 Valpy FitzGerald International Risk Tolerance, Capital Market Failure
and Capital Flows to Emerging Markets
RP2006/34 Eric M. Uslaner Corruption and Inequality
RP2006/33 Annelies Zoomers Three Decades of Rural Development Projects in Asia,
Latin America, and Africa: Learning From Successes
and Failures
RP2006/32 Richard Jolly Inequality in Historical Perspective
RP2006/31 Nancy Birdsall Stormy Days on an Open Field: Asymmetries in the
Global Economy
RP2006/30 Nora Lustig Investing in Health for Economic Development: The
Case of Mexico
RP2006/29 Deepak Nayyar Development through Globalization?
RP2006/28 S. Mansoob Murshed Indivisibility, Fairness, Farsightedness and their
Implications for Security
RP2006/27 Lakhwinder Singh Innovations, High-Tech Trade and Industrial
Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy
RP2006/26 Pertti Haaparanta Decomposing Growth: Do Low-Income and HIPCs
and Heli Virta Differ from High-Income Countries? Growth,
Technological Catch-up, Technological Change and
Human and Physical Capital Deepening
RP2006/25 Stephen Knowles Is Social Capital Part of the Institutions Continuum and
is it a Deep Determinant of Development?
RP2006/24 C. Leigh Anderson Applying Behavioural Economics to International
and Kostas Stamoulis Development Policy
RP2006/23 David Fielding, A Wider Approach to Aid Effectiveness: Correlated
Mark McGillivray, Impacts on Health, Wealth, Fertility and Education
and Sebastian Torres
RP2006/22 Mihály Simai The Human Dimensions of the Global Development
Process in the Early Part of the 21st Century: Critical
Trends and New Challenges
RP2006/21 Grzegorz W. Kolodko Institutions, Policies and Economic Development
RP2006/20 E. Wayne Nafziger From Seers to Sen: The Meaning of Economic
Development
RP2006/19 Arjan de Haan Migration in the Development Studies Literature: Has It
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RP2006/18 Marcia Byrom Hartwell Violence in Peace: Understanding Increased Violence
in Early Post-Conflict Transitions and Its Implications
for Development
RP2006/17 Robert J. McIntyre Credit Co-operatives in Locally Financed Economic
Development: Using Energy Efficiency as a Lever
RP2006/16 Richard M. Auty Patterns of Rent-Extraction and Deployment in
Developing Countries: Implications for Governance,
Economic Policy and Performance
RP2006/15 Farhad Noorbakhsh International Convergence or Higher Inequality in
Human Development? Evidence for 1975 to 2002
RP2006/14 Lance Taylor Development Questions for 25 Years
RP2006/13 Álvaro García Hurtado Development in Chile 1990-2005: Lessons from a
Positive Experience
RP2006/12 Guillermo Rozenwurcel Why Have All Development Strategies Failed in Latin
America?
RP2006/11 Silvia Marchesi Prolonged Use and Conditionality Failure: Investigating
and Laura Sabani IMF Responsibility
RP2006/10 Giovanni Andrea Cornia Health Improvements and Health Inequality during the
and Leonardo Menchini Last 40 Years
RP2006/09 Tony Addison International Finance and the Developing World: The
Next Twenty Years
RP2006/08 Louis Emmerij Turning Points in Development Thinking and Practice
RP2006/07 Alessia Isopi Aid Allocation and Aid Effectiveness: An Empirical
and George Mavrotas Analysis
RP2006/06 Gil S. Epstein Decentralizing Aid with Interested Parties
and Ira N. Gang
RP2006/05 Jan-Erik Antipin On the Empirics of Aid and Growth: A Fresh Look
and George Mavrotas
RP2006/04 David Roodman Aid Project Proliferation and Absorptive Capacity
RP2006/03 Ayodele Odusola Tax Policy Reforms in Nigeria
RP2006/02 Samuel Fambon Taxation in Developing Countries: Case Study of
Cameroon
RP2006/01 P.B. Anand Millennium Development Goal 7: An Assessment of
Progress With Respect to Water and Sanitation: Legacy,
Synergy, Complacency or Policy?

RP2005/76 Panicos O. Demetriades Sources and Effectiveness of Financial Development:

and Svetlana Andrianova What We Know and What We Need to Know
RP2005/75 George Mavrotas The Poverty Macroeconomic Policy Nexus: Some
and S. Mansoob Murshed Short-run Analytics
RP2005/74 Fabrizio Carmignani Does Financial Openness Promote Economic
and Abdur Chowdhury Integration? Some Evidence from Europe and the CIS
RP2005/73 Leonardo Becchetti The Effects of (within and with EU) Regional
and Iftekhar Hasan Integration: Impact on Real Effective Exchange Rate
Volatility, Institutional Quality and Growth for MENA
Countries
RP2005/72 Leonardo Becchetti, Education, Financial Institutions, Inflation and Growth
Iftekhar Hasan,
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RP2005/71 Peter Quartey Financial Sector Development, Savings Mobilization
and Poverty Reduction in Ghana
RP2005/70 Marco Mazzoli Financial Markets and R&D Investments: A Discrete-
Time Model to Interpret Public Policies
RP2005/69 Niels Hermes Does Financial Liberalization Influence Saving,
and Robert Lensink Investment and Economic Growth? Evidence from 25
Emerging Market Economies, 1973-96
RP2005/68 Subal C. Kumbhakar Financial Sector Development and Productivity Growth
and George Mavrotas
RP2005/67 Stephen Njuguna Karingi The Tax Reform Experience of Kenya
and Bernadette Wanjala
RP2005/66 Robert Darko Osei Tax Reforms in Ghana
and Peter Quartey
RP2005/65 Alemayehu Geda Taxes and Tax Reform in Ethiopia, 1990-2003
and Abebe Shimeles
RP2005/64 Bram Thuysbaert Consistent Testing for Poverty Dominance
and Ričardas Zitikis
RP2005/63 Rafael E. De Hoyos The Microeconomics of Inequality, Poverty and Market
Liberalizing Reforms
RP2005/62 S. Subramanian Poverty Measurement and Theories of Beneficence
RP2005/61 Robert Osei, The Fiscal Effects of Aid in Ghana
Oliver Morrissey,
and Tim Lloyd
RP2005/60 Karuna Gomanee, Aid and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Accounting for
Sourafel Girma, Transmission Mechanisms
and Oliver Morrissey
RP2005/59 S. Subramanian Reckoning Inter-group Poverty Differentials in the
Measurement of Aggregate Poverty
RP2005/58 Peter Quartey Innovative Ways of Making Aid Effective in Ghana:
Tied Aid versus Direct Budgetary Support
RP2005/57 Ethan Ligon Poverty and the Welfare Costs of Risk Associated with
Globalization
RP2005/56 Yin Zhang Why Do Poverty Rates Differ From Region to Region?
and Guanghua Wan The Case of Urban China
RP2005/55 D. Jayaraj Out of School and (Probably) in Work: Child Labour
and S. Subramanian and Capability Deprivation in India
RP2005/54 Mark McGillivray, It Works; It Doesn’t; It Can, But That Depends…: 50
Simon Feeny, Years of Controversy over the Macroeconomic Impact
Niels Hermes, of Development Aid
and Robert Lensink
RP2005/53 Alice Sindzingre Explaining Threshold Effects of Globalization on
Poverty: An Institutional Perspective
RP2005/52 Liisa Laakso Beyond the Notion of Security Community: What Role
for the African Regional Organizations in Peace and
Security?
RP2005/51 Jennifer Widner Constitution Writing and Conflict Resolution
RP2005/50 Joseph Hanlon Is the International Community Helping to Recreate the
Pre-Conditions for War in Sierra Leone?
RP2005/49 J. Andrew Grant Diamonds, Foreign Aid, and the Uncertain Prospects for
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RP2005/48 Saman Kelegama Transforming Conflict with an Economic Dividend:
The Sri Lankan Experience
RP2005/47 Justine Nannyonjo Conflicts, Poverty and Human Development in
Northern Uganda
RP2005/46 Indranil Dutta Inequality, Corruption, and Competition in the Presence
and Ajit Mishra of Market Imperfections
RP2005/45 Léonce Ndikumana Distributional Conflict, the State, and Peacebuilding in
Burundi
RP2005/44 Ghassan Dibeh The Political Economy of Postwar Reconstruction in
Lebanon
RP2005/43 Pierluigi Montalbano, Trade Openness and Vulnerability in Central and
Alessandro Federici, Eastern Europe
Umberto Triulzi,
and Carlo Pietrobelli
RP2005/42 P. B. Anand Getting Infrastructure Priorities Right in Post-Conflict
Reconstruction
RP2005/41 Jinhua Zhao The Role of Information in Technology Adoption under
Poverty
RP2005/40 Rhys Jenkins Globalization, Production and Poverty
RP2005/39 Anthony Enisan Akinlo Impact of Macroeconomic Factors on Total Factor
Productivity in Sub-Saharan African Countries
RP2005/38 Jiao Wang, David Mayes, Income Distribution and Labour Movement in China
and Guanghua Wan after WTO Membership: A CGE Analysis
RP2005/37 Almas Heshmati The Relationship between Income Inequality, Poverty,
and Globalization
RP2005/36 Adriaan Kalwij A Decomposition of Poverty Trends across Regions:
and Arjan Verschoor The Role of Variation in the Income and Inequality
Elasticities of Poverty
RP2005/35 Alan V. Deardorff Globalization’s Bystanders: Does Trade Liberalization
and Robert M. Stern Hurt Countries that Do Not Participate?
RP2005/34 Indranil Dutta Does Inequality lead to Conflict?
and Ajit Mishra
RP2005/33 Carol Graham Globalization, Poverty, Inequality, and Insecurity:
Some Insights from the Economics of Happiness
RP2005/32 Kaushik Basu Globalization, Poverty and Inequality: What Is the
Relationship? What Can Be Done?
RP2005/31 Henrik Hansen On the Causal Links between FDI and Growth in
and John Rand Developing Countries
RP2005/30 Pranab Bardhan Globalization and Rural Poverty
RP2005/29 Martin Ravallion Looking Beyond Averages in the Trade and Poverty
Debate
RP2005/28 Rimjhim M. Aggarwal Globalization, Local Ecosystems, and the Rural Poor
RP2005/27 Gregory Graff, Biotechnology and Poverty Reduction in Developing
David Roland-Holst, Countries
and David Zilberman
RP2005/26 Roghieh Gholami, The Causal Relationship between ICT and FDI
Sang-Yong Tom Lee
and Almas Heshmati
RP2005/25 Abdur Chowdhury FDI and Growth: A Causal Relationship
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RP2005/24 Elizabeth Asiedu Foreign Direct Investment in Africa: The Role of
Natural Resources, Market Size, Government Policy,
Institutions and Political Instability
RP2005/23 Tony Addison, Development Assistance and Development Finance:
George Mavrotas, Evidence and Global Policy Agendas
and Mark McGillivray
RP2005/22 Matthew Clarke Assessing Well-being Using Hierarchical Needs
RP2005/21 Daniel T. Haile Wealth Distribution, Lobbying and Economic Growth:
Theory and Evidence
RP2005/20 Coleen Fox Flood Pulses, International Watercourse Law, and
and Chris Sneddon Common Pool Resources: A Case Study of the Mekong
Lowlands
RP2005/19 Jeffrey B. Nugent Voluntary Contributions to Informal Activities
and Producing Public Goods: Can these be Induced by
Shailender Swaminathan Government and other Formal Sector Agents? Some
Evidence from Indonesian Posyandus
RP2005/18 Ralitza Dimova, The Informal Sector During Crisis and Transition
Ira N. Gang and
John Landon-Lane
RP2005/17 Eduardo Sojo Public Policies to Promote Productive Occupation and
and Roberto Villarreal Increase Formality among the Moderately Poor: The
Mexican Agenda
RP2005/16 Sally Roever Enforcement and Compliance in Lima’s Street Markets:
The Origins and Consequences of Policy Incoherence
toward Informal Traders
RP2005/15 Amos Sawyer Social Capital, Survival Strategies, and their Potential
for Post-Conflict Governance in Liberia
RP2005/14 Michael Grimm Inter- and Intra-household Linkages Between the
and Isabel Günther Informal and Formal Sector: A Case Study for Urban
Burkina Faso
RP2005/13 Peter Little Unofficial Trade When States are Weak: The Case of
Cross-Border Commerce in the Horn of Africa
RP2005/12 Sugata Marjit Globalization, Reform and the Informal Sector
and Dibyendu S. Maiti
RP2005/11 Keith Hart Formal Bureaucracy and the Emergent Forms of the
Informal Economy
RP2005/10 Martha Alter Chen Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the
Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory
Environment
RP2005/09 Tony Addison, Aid, Debt Relief and New Sources of Finance for
George Mavrotas, Meeting the Millennium Development Goals
and Mark McGillivray
RP2005/08 F. J. Arcelus, B. Sharma The Human Development Index Adjusted for Efficient
and G. Srinivasan Resource Utilization
RP2005/07 Tony Addison Agricultural Development for Peace
RP2005/06 Tauhidur Rahman, Measuring the Quality of Life across Countries: A
Ron C. Mittelhammer, Sensitivity Analysis of Well-being Indices
and Philip Wandschneider
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Stefan Traub, Average Well-being under Different Income
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Walter Bossert
and David Donaldson
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and Patrick Moyes Condition
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Implications for the Design of Institutions
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and Farhad Noorbakhsh and Future
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Talent: India and Japan in Comparative Perspectives
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Nigeria: Ekiti State as a Test Case
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and George Mavrotas Facility
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Measurement
RP2004/58 Jorge Saba Arbache Do Structural Reforms always Succeed? Lessons from
Brazil
RP2004/57 Sarah White Participatory Approaches and the Measurement of
and Jethro Pettit Human Well-being
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and Guanghua Wan What Role did Money Play?
RP2004/55 Yin Zhang What Accounts for China’s Trade Balance Dynamics?
and Guanghua Wan
RP2004/54 Yin Zhang China’s Business Cycles: Perspectives from an AD–AS
and Guanghua Wan Model
RP2004/53 Shatakshee Dhongde Decomposing Spatial Differences in Poverty in India
RP2004/52 John Knight, Li Shi Divergent Means and Convergent Inequality of Incomes
and Zhao Renwei among the Provinces and Cities of Urban China
RP2004/51 Guanghua Wan Income Inequality in Rural China: Regression-based
and Zhangyue Zhou Decomposition Using Household Data
RP2004/50 Ravi Kanbur and Fifty Years of Regional Inequality in China: A Journey
Xiaobo Zhang through Central Planning, Reform, and Openness
RP2004/49 Somik V. Lall Industrial Location and Spatial Inequality: Theory and
and Sanjoy Chakravorty Evidence from India
RP2004/48 Tomoki Fujii Commune-Level Estimation of Poverty Measures and
its Application in Cambodia
RP2004/47 Jeremy Heimans Multiactor Global Funds: New Tools to Address Urgent
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Flows Implications for a Developing Country
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Might Be Done Now or Soon and Under What
Conditions
RP2004/44 Peter Burnell Foreign Aid Resurgent: New Spirit or Old Hangover?
RP2004/43 S. Mansoob Murshed Spatial Horizontal Inequality and the Maoist Insurgency
and Scott Gates in Nepal
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and Abebe Shimeles
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Redistribution for Functioning Levels
RP2004/40 Oleksiy Ivaschenko Longevity in Russia’s Regions: Do Poverty and Low
Public Health Spending Kill?
RP2004/39 Arne Bigsten Dynamics of Poverty in Ethiopia
and Abebe Shimeles
RP2004/38 Nicholas Minot Poverty Mapping with Aggregate Census Data: What is
and Bob Baulch the Loss in Precision?
RP2004/37 Mozaffar Qizilbash On the Arbitrariness and Robustness of Multi-
Dimensional Poverty Rankings
RP2004/36 Kathryn Anderson Spatial Inequality and Development in Central Asia
and Richard Pomfret
RP2004/35 Henning Tarp Jensen Trade Liberalization and Spatial Inequality: A
and Finn Tarp Methodological Innovation in Vietnamese Perspective
RP2004/34 Arsenio M. Balisacan Changes in Spatial Income Inequality in the Philippines:
and Nobuhiko Fuwa An Exploratory Analysis
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RP2004/32 Michael Grimm The Medium- and Long-term Effects of an Expansion
of Education on Poverty in Côte d’Ivoire: A Dynamic
Microsimulation Study
RP2004/31 Douglas A. Hicks Inequalities, Agency, and Well-being: Conceptual
Linkages and Measurement Challenges in Development
RP2004/30 Andrew Sumner Economic Well-being and Non-economic Well-being:
A Review of the Meaning and Measurement of Poverty
RP2004/29 Mariano Rojas Well-being and the Complexity of Poverty: A
Subjective Well-being Approach
RP2004/28 Laurens Cherchye Benchmarking Sustainable Development: A Synthetic
and Timo Kuosmanen Meta-index Approach
RP2004/27 Carlos A. Ibarra Capital Flows, Exchange Rate Regime, and
Macroeconomic Performance in Mexico
RP2004/26 Ann Harding, Assessing Poverty and Inequality at a Detailed Regional
Rachel Lloyd, Anthea Bill, Level: New Advances in Spatial Microsimulation
and Anthony King
RP2004/25 S. Subramanian Indicators of Inequality and Poverty
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RP2004/23 Eric Neumayer Sustainability and Well-being Indicators
RP2004/22 David Fielding, Kevin Lee Modelling Macroeconomic Linkages in a Monetary
and Kalvinder Shields Union: A West African Example
RP2004/21 David Fielding, Kevin Lee The Characteristics of Macroeconomic Shocks in the
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and David Stasavage Rate Rulesfor the BCEAO
RP2004/19 Jean-Paul Azam Poverty and Growth in the WAEMU after the 1994
Devaluation
RP2004/18 Lambert N’galadjo Bamba Analyse du Processus de Convergence Dans la Zone
UEMOA
RP2004/17 David Fielding The Impact of Monetary Union on Macroeconomic
and Kalvinder Shields Integration: Evidence from West Africa
RP2004/16 Mina Baliamoune-Lutz On the Measurement of Human Well-being: Fuzzy Set
Theory and Sen’s Capability Approach
RP2004/15 Anja Shortland Monetary Policy in the CFA Zone: Country-level Credit
and David Stasavage Policy
RP2004/14 Mireille Linjouom The Costs and Benefits Analysis of CFA Membership:
The Choice of an Exchange Rate Regime for the CFA
Countries Zone
RP2004/13 Petri Rouvinen Diffusion of Digital Mobile Telephony: Are Developing
Countries Different?
RP2004/12 S. Subramanian Poverty Measures and Anti-Poverty Policy with an
Egalitarian Constraint
RP2004/11 S. Subramanian Some Simple Analytics of Poverty Redress through
Direct Income Transfers and Wage Employment
Programmes: A Review and Commentary
RP2004/10 S. Subramanian A Re-scaled Version of the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke
Poverty Indices based on an Association with the
Minkowski Distance Function
RP2004/09 Simeon Coleman An Aggregate View of Macroeconomic Shocks in Sub-
Saharan Africa: A Comparative Study Using Innovation
Accounting
RP2004/08 W.A. Naudé An Inquiry into Cities and Their Role in Subnational
and W. F. Krugell Economic Growth in South Africa
RP2004/07 Barry McCormick Return International Migration and Geographical
and Jackline Wahba Inequality: The Case of Egypt
RP2004/06 Mattia Romani Love Thy Neighbour? Evidence from Ethnic
Discrimination in Information Sharing within Villages
RP2004/05 Marcel Fafchamps Crime, Isolation, and Law Enforcement
and Christine Moser
RP2004/04 David E. Sahn Urban-Rural Inequality in Living Standards in Africa
and David C. Stifel
RP2004/03 Michael Bleaney Economic Growth, Income Distribution and Poverty:
and Akira Nishiyama Time-series and Cross-country Evidence from the CFA-
zone Countries of Sub-Saharan Africa
RP2004/02 David Fielding How Does Monetary Policy Affect the Poor? Evidence
from the West African Economic and Monetary Union
RP2004/01 Anthony Shorrocks Inequality and Welfare Evaluation of Heterogeneous
Income Distributions

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