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A consistency framework for macroeconomic analysis 0 1 6 278 2 6 29 622
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 0 3 46 84 209 3,967
Africa's growth tragedy: a retrospective, 1960-89 1 4 15 1,189 6 11 60 2,721
African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 1 3 20 78 6 14 55 137
Artificial States 1 2 14 131 6 14 51 374
Artificial States 1 3 15 185 4 6 31 441
Artificial States 3 4 9 113 17 26 66 413
Can institutions resolve ethnic conflict ? 2 4 18 761 11 22 59 2,272
Can the West Save Africa? 11 27 58 358 29 77 169 759
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War 1 2 5 37 6 11 35 166
Development, Democracy and Mass Killings 1 1 4 85 6 7 22 207
Development, Democracy, and Mass Killings 1 2 12 191 4 6 34 444
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 1 4 10 104 9 22 73 803
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 3 51 2 7 23 145
Explaining miracles: growth regressions meet the Gang of Four 1 1 6 157 5 13 42 814
Financial sector policy in Thailand: a macroeconomic perspective 0 2 6 110 0 2 19 905
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia, 1992-93 1 2 10 154 6 19 77 651
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 3 5 31 1,633 23 43 124 3,852
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 15 65 290 5,116 108 281 882 15,226
Fiscal adjustment and deficit financing during the debt crisis 3 4 16 160 6 7 37 414
Fractionalization 1 4 13 13 14 20 60 60
Fractionalization 2 4 7 151 18 33 67 406
Fractionalization 1 2 7 203 17 29 98 573
Fractionalization 7 17 48 911 47 96 229 2,532
Good Policy or Good Luck? Country Growth Performance and Temporary Shocks 5 17 64 1,389 25 63 214 3,262
Growth implosions, debt explosions, and my Aunt Marilyn: do growth slowdowns cause public debt crises? 0 3 25 406 3 10 52 1,074
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 1 1 16 427 15 30 62 1,069
How Did Latin America’s Infrastructure Fare in the era of Macroeconomic Crises? 0 1 6 283 1 5 18 588
How Do National Policies Affect Long-Run Growth? A Research Agenda 0 0 0 1 2 5 23 520
How did highly indebted poor countries become highly indebted?: reviewing two decades of debt relief 1 2 20 1,226 8 21 118 3,944
How do national policies affect long-run growth?: a research agenda 1 2 16 200 2 5 32 649
How much do distortions affect growth? 6 14 43 618 10 31 85 1,494
How much fiscal adjustment is enough? The case of Colombia 0 0 0 14 1 2 4 52
Inflation Crises and Long-Run Growth 2 5 46 868 16 38 145 2,128
Inflation and the poor 3 15 63 916 14 40 136 2,258
Inflation crises and long-run growth 2 2 13 917 17 32 78 2,505
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises that Beget Reforms 0 0 1 88 4 6 22 671
Infrastructure Compression and Public Sector Solvency in Latin America 1 4 11 284 4 13 34 673
Institutions: top down or bottom up? 0 7 29 29 4 16 53 53
Is investment in Africa too low or too high: macro and micro evidence 0 1 5 573 1 4 30 1,824
It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 3 17 76 1,789 35 112 311 3,876
Life during growth: international evidence on quality of life and per capita income 1 2 8 483 7 15 65 2,608
Low Investment is Not the Constraint on African Development 1 5 25 291 15 25 82 578
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 1 3 19 506 12 20 81 2,552
Modeling the macroeconomic requirements of policy reforms 0 1 5 56 1 4 9 300
Money demand and seignorage - maximizing inflation 1 3 15 383 9 18 66 2,141
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 4 13 55 382 12 27 113 686
New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting "Aid, Policies, and Growth" 6 31 89 803 30 82 208 1,559
New Data, New doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar's "Aid, Policies, and Growth" (2000) 5 11 37 1,012 16 34 107 2,504
On"good"politicians and"bad"policies - social cohesion, institutions, and growth 0 2 9 588 1 5 24 1,815
Policy Distortions, Size of Government, and Growth 0 1 6 130 7 12 41 480
Policy determinants of growth: survey of theory and evidence 0 0 7 133 2 5 20 272
Policy distortions, size of government, and growth 0 1 6 83 2 7 22 194
Policy, Technology Adoption and Growth 0 1 6 306 2 5 20 1,023
Policy, Technology Adoption, and Growth 0 2 11 491 3 8 28 1,124
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 4 12 38 430 17 45 181 1,576
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 2 3 13 13 13 25 83 83
Public goods and ethnic divisions 5 9 21 877 32 53 117 3,291
Redistributive Public Employment 0 4 8 8 1 9 20 20
Redistributive Public Employment 0 2 11 206 3 10 49 797
Reliving the '50s: The Big Push, Poverty Traps, and Takeoffs in Economic Development 3 9 34 509 9 26 113 1,726
Rhetoric versus reality: the best and worst of aid agency practices 4 18 38 38 15 45 77 77
Service as a major source of growth in Russia and other former Soviet states 0 1 1 37 0 2 7 163
Small states, small problems? 1 4 19 494 10 22 107 2,163
Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth 6 13 53 657 18 39 140 1,159
Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry 0 2 6 65 3 11 21 193
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 2 13 25 6 8 23 45
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 2 2 12 97 5 6 25 166
The European Origins of Economic Development 5 15 183 183 13 47 185 185
The European origins of economic development 3 9 47 47 8 18 71 71
The Lamentable Return of the Big Push in Economic Development 2 3 10 226 4 10 30 371
The Soviet Economic Decline: Historical and Republican Data 0 1 5 460 3 6 26 1,141
The Soviet economic decline: historical and republican data 2 3 19 351 10 18 99 1,102
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 621
The effect of International Monetary Fund and World Bank programs on poverty 2 4 16 581 6 21 76 1,836
The ghost of financing gap: how the Harrod-Domar growth model still haunts development economics 3 10 70 1,687 27 86 364 6,743
The macroeconomics of public sector deficits: a synthesis 1 5 21 201 4 15 66 929
The macroeconomics of the public sector deficit: the case of Colombia 0 1 5 56 4 6 14 524
The power of exports 2 4 22 187 4 11 50 245
The search for the key: aid, investment, and policies in Africa 1 1 19 658 3 4 43 1,708
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 3 5 18 285 16 30 92 823
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 9 28 75 1,324 39 85 248 3,371
Walking up the down escalator: public investment and fiscal stability 1 5 12 228 6 13 35 685
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 1 1 13 216 8 13 46 293
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 2 7 24 322 13 39 84 817
What did Structural Adjustment Adjust? The Association of Policies and Growth with Repeated IMF and World Bank Adjustment Loans 0 7 28 357 22 70 184 1,353
When is fiscal adjustment an illusion? 4 5 15 599 7 17 56 1,723
the middle class consensus and economic development 4 13 52 769 16 40 145 4,025
Total Working Papers 174 538 2,276 40,040 1,024 2,408 7,735 123,405


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ARTIFICIAL STATES 2 3 11 24 9 18 57 82
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 0 8 65 121 299 4,224
Aid, Policies, and Growth: Comment 2 5 37 625 4 11 67 1,224
An identity crisis? Examining IMF financial programming 1 3 17 223 3 9 40 433
Are aid agencies improving? 0 2 17 73 1 4 60 201
Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth? 2 6 20 553 14 31 109 1,590
Can Institutions Resolve Ethnic Conflict? 0 0 0 0 2 9 35 656
Can the West Save Africa? 2 7 28 86 8 29 94 355
Comment on: "Latin America in the rear view mirror" 0 0 3 34 1 3 6 134
Comment évaluer les besoins d'aide ? Réponse: ne posez pas la question 0 1 2 9 2 6 10 36
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 7 7 7 7 29 29 29 29
Do Crises Induce Reform? Simple Empirical Tests of Conventional Wisdom 0 2 3 84 4 9 19 263
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 1 10 127 1 3 13 317
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 1 2 3 68 2 4 10 174
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 1 4 31 4 10 36 114
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia 1 0 1 2 4 0 1 4 10
Fiscal Deficits and Macroeconomic Performance in Developing Countries 0 0 0 1 4 5 31 551
Fiscal policy and economic growth: An empirical investigation 10 18 84 1,484 51 95 328 3,531
Globalization, Inequality, and Development: The Big Picture 2 3 5 115 3 8 23 564
Good policy or good luck?: Country growth performance and temporary shocks 2 8 43 658 19 50 148 1,618
Growth Implosions and Debt Explosions: Do Growth Slowdowns Cause Public Debt Crises? 1 9 22 158 2 12 35 448
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 6 148 9 14 37 332
How Did Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Become Heavily Indebted? Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief 1 3 11 469 5 8 41 948
How Much does Policy Affect Growth? 0 0 4 32 1 1 13 62
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 3 6 258 3 14 31 493
How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa 5 26 105 278 22 86 290 696
In Search of the Holy Grail 1 1 2 74 2 4 7 212
Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument 18 47 127 641 50 116 295 1,213
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inflation and the Poor 0 0 0 0 10 38 116 1,787
Inflation crises and long-run growth 2 4 18 327 23 35 91 837
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises That Beget Reforms 0 0 2 40 2 5 18 342
Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up? 1 6 29 208 9 27 92 453
LA MACROECONOMÍA DEL DÉFICIT DEL SECTOR PÚBLICO EL CASO DE COLOMBIA 3 5 5 34 14 27 60 406
Life during Growth 1 1 6 164 5 10 26 484
Low Investment Is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 0 0 4 12 40 229
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 2 4 25 311 9 17 68 873
Money Demand and Seigniorage-Maximizing Inflation 1 3 12 253 9 24 47 890
NAFTA and Convergence in North America: High Expectations, Big Events, Little Time 0 2 4 7 2 5 27 52
Planners versus Searchers in Foreign Aid 0 0 0 0 4 12 51 73
Planners vs. Searchers in African Agricultural Aid 1 2 7 27 3 7 22 129
Public Goods And Ethnic Divisions 6 11 47 953 27 60 231 3,365
Redistributive Public Employment 0 1 6 84 5 18 61 281
Reliving the 1950s: the big push, poverty traps, and takeoffs in economic development 1 7 24 352 20 60 171 2,129
Reply to Brendan Beare 0 0 1 8 1 2 15 57
Rhetoric versus Reality: The Best and Worst of Aid Agency Practices 1 5 6 6 3 14 34 34
SESSION 2A: VALUES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 19 0 0 1 73
SOCIAL COHESION, INSTITUTIONS, AND GROWTH 3 5 16 178 5 10 39 402
Small States, Small Problems? Income, Growth, and Volatility in Small States 1 2 21 135 10 19 61 364
The Economic of the Government Budget Constraint 0 0 0 6 1 6 10 1,536
The Impact of Globalization on Rural Poverty 0 0 7 127 13 25 57 449
The Lost Decades: Developing Countries' Stagnation in Spite of Policy Reform 1980-1998 4 7 44 346 8 26 113 724
The Middle Class Consensus and Economic Development 9 17 73 446 36 72 236 1,499
The Search for the Key: Aid, Investment and Policies in Africa 0 0 0 0 2 3 18 552
The Soviet Economic Decline 0 0 0 2 0 7 18 978
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 1 1 33 4 5 16 225
The cartel of good intentions: The problem of bureaucracy in foreign aid 7 20 50 275 22 49 144 846
The ghost of financing gap: testing the growth model used in the international financial institutions 1 3 18 365 6 12 60 798
Tropics, germs, and crops: how endowments influence economic development 3 11 55 945 36 72 228 2,363
Troubles with the Neighbours: Africa's Problem, Africa's Opportunity 0 0 0 0 2 8 19 1,071
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 6
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 2 2 4 3 7 11 18
Walking up the Down Escalator: Public Investment and Fiscal Stability 0 2 9 43 2 9 26 138
Was Development Assistance a Mistake? 4 20 43 248 11 40 92 730
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 BC? 1 1 13 73 13 26 96 261
What did structural adjustment adjust?: The association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans 2 2 19 266 6 9 70 643
When is fiscal adjustment an illusion? 2 3 9 83 3 10 31 261
Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid 1 5 7 7 5 18 68 411
Total Journal Articles 114 311 1,158 12,647 658 1,517 4,753 47,279
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Development Economics through the Decades: A Critical Look at 30 Years of the World Development Report 0 0 0 0 3 3 3 3
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics 0 0 0 0 4 17 59 527
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill And So Little Good 0 0 0 0 4 16 43 75
Total Books 0 0 0 0 11 36 105 605


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Explaining Miracles: Growth Regressions Meet the Gang of Four 0 0 2 34 5 9 21 113
Globalization, Poverty, and All That: Factor Endowment versus Productivity Views 2 3 6 96 2 9 39 244
IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty 0 3 16 84 5 17 74 246
It´s Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 3 11 31 92 27 44 91 239
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 5 23 87 512 38 110 329 1,389
The Role of Growth Slowdowns and Forecast Errors in Public Debt Crises 0 2 7 10 2 8 28 35
Total Chapters 10 42 149 828 79 197 582 2,266


Statistics updated 2013-05-03