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A consistency framework for macroeconomic analysis 0 0 8 479 0 0 17 1,424
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 0 3 2 3 11 4,664
Africa's growth tragedy: a retrospective, 1960-89 0 0 0 1,253 0 0 2 2,925
African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 135 0 0 3 365
Artificial States 0 0 1 221 0 1 5 611
Artificial States 0 0 2 195 2 5 18 728
Artificial States 0 1 1 159 1 6 37 696
Can institutions resolve ethnic conflict ? 0 0 0 809 1 3 5 2,483
Can the West Save Africa? 0 0 1 456 0 1 9 1,322
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War 0 0 1 84 1 3 5 453
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 0 0 0 135 1 2 7 161
Development, Democracy and Mass Killings 1 1 1 104 1 3 6 306
Development, Democracy, and Mass Killings 0 0 1 218 2 4 9 567
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 1 125 0 0 4 963
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 69 0 0 1 257
Explaining miracles: growth regressions meet the Gang of Four 0 0 0 179 0 0 1 937
Financial sector policy in Thailand: a macroeconomic perspective 0 0 0 121 1 1 1 978
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia, 1992-93 0 0 1 205 0 0 1 1,047
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 1 2 9 5,741 1 5 27 17,447
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 5 8 28 1,997 9 26 106 5,205
Fiscal adjustment and deficit financing during the debt crisis 0 0 2 202 0 2 4 548
Fractionalization 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 153
Fractionalization 1 1 3 98 1 3 14 410
Fractionalization 0 0 5 1,029 2 5 24 3,172
Fractionalization 1 1 5 222 2 3 10 852
Fractionalization 1 1 2 271 1 1 5 949
Good Policy or Good Luck? Country Growth Performance and Temporary Shocks 1 1 2 1,609 3 4 15 4,024
Growth implosions, debt explosions, and my Aunt Marilyn: do growth slowdowns cause public debt crises? 0 0 1 456 0 0 4 1,273
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 0 473 0 1 2 1,228
How Did Latin America’s Infrastructure Fare in the era of Macroeconomic Crises? 0 0 1 311 1 1 2 682
How Do National Policies Affect Long-Run Growth? A Research Agenda 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 663
How did highly indebted poor countries become highly indebted?: reviewing two decades of debt relief 0 0 3 1,286 1 2 11 4,195
How do national policies affect long-run growth?: a research agenda 0 0 1 254 0 1 6 781
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 1 758 1 10 13 1,863
How much fiscal adjustment is enough? The case of Colombia 0 0 0 22 0 0 2 85
In Search of Reforms for Growth: New Stylized Facts on Policy and Growth Outcomes 0 3 5 82 1 8 16 194
Inflation Crises and Long-Run Growth 1 4 11 1,049 2 9 29 2,969
Inflation and the poor 0 0 4 1,328 0 1 11 3,151
Inflation crises and long-run growth 0 0 1 962 1 2 6 2,778
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises that Beget Reforms 0 0 0 100 0 0 2 749
Infrastructure Compression and Public Sector Solvency in Latin America 0 0 1 333 0 0 3 846
Institutions: top down or bottom up? 0 0 3 159 1 1 7 387
Is investment in Africa too low or too high: macro and micro evidence 0 0 1 595 0 0 1 1,940
It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 2 3 12 2,013 7 16 80 4,989
Leader Value Added: Assessing the Growth Contribution of Individual National Leaders 0 2 3 36 0 3 12 89
Life during growth: international evidence on quality of life and per capita income 0 0 3 547 0 0 8 2,851
Low Investment is Not the Constraint on African Development 1 1 1 341 1 1 3 802
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 0 1 577 0 0 3 2,855
Modeling the macroeconomic requirements of policy reforms 0 0 1 73 0 0 1 351
Money demand and seignorage - maximizing inflation 1 1 3 439 1 1 7 2,468
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 0 0 2 544 0 4 10 1,099
New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting "Aid, Policies, and Growth" 0 0 2 1,033 0 1 8 2,241
New Data, New doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar's "Aid, Policies, and Growth" (2000) 2 2 3 1,186 5 5 8 3,028
On"good"politicians and"bad"policies - social cohesion, institutions, and growth 0 0 1 631 0 0 5 1,940
Policy Distortions, Size of Government, and Growth 0 0 0 141 0 0 2 589
Policy determinants of growth: survey of theory and evidence 1 1 5 199 1 1 9 428
Policy distortions, size of government, and growth 0 1 1 105 0 7 31 419
Policy, Technology Adoption and Growth 0 0 1 332 0 1 4 1,149
Policy, Technology Adoption, and Growth 0 0 0 557 0 0 3 1,365
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 1 2 56 0 2 6 382
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 0 511 0 2 14 2,130
Public goods and ethnic divisions 0 0 2 984 1 2 19 3,931
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 18 0 1 4 129
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 216 0 0 2 951
Reliving the '50s: The Big Push, Poverty Traps, and Takeoffs in Economic Development 0 0 9 616 1 1 16 2,044
Rhetoric versus reality: the best and worst of aid agency practices 0 0 3 248 1 2 7 833
Service as a major source of growth in Russia and other former Soviet states 0 0 0 46 0 1 4 290
Small states, small problems? 0 0 2 576 1 4 9 2,694
Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth 0 0 5 917 1 4 15 1,975
Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry 0 0 0 91 0 0 8 380
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 1 1 132 0 1 4 280
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 0 1 112 0 0 3 240
The European Origins of Economic Development 0 0 1 516 0 1 14 1,395
The European origins of economic development 0 0 0 139 0 2 6 351
The Lamentable Return of the Big Push in Economic Development 0 0 0 286 0 0 0 512
The Soviet Economic Decline: Historical and Republican Data 1 2 4 499 1 3 7 1,289
The Soviet economic decline: historical and republican data 0 2 5 416 1 5 25 1,461
The Surprising Instability of Export Specializations 0 1 3 49 0 2 8 138
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 657
The effect of International Monetary Fund and World Bank programs on poverty 0 0 1 715 1 5 16 3,098
The ghost of financing gap: how the Harrod-Domar growth model still haunts development economics 0 2 24 2,281 1 7 48 8,900
The macroeconomics of public sector deficits: a synthesis 0 0 2 350 2 5 16 1,585
The macroeconomics of the public sector deficit: the case of Colombia 0 0 0 77 0 2 3 600
The power of exports 0 0 0 238 0 0 2 408
The search for the key: aid, investment, and policies in Africa 0 0 0 731 0 0 1 1,947
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 0 1,529 0 0 2 4,188
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 0 341 0 2 3 1,252
Walking up the down escalator: public investment and fiscal stability 0 0 1 255 0 0 8 824
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 0 0 393 2 3 6 1,156
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 1 1 2 257 1 3 7 497
What did Structural Adjustment Adjust? The Association of Policies and Growth with Repeated IMF and World Bank Adjustment Loans 0 0 1 508 0 0 6 2,101
When is fiscal adjustment an illusion? 0 0 3 715 0 2 9 2,060
the middle class consensus and economic development 0 3 3 890 1 5 11 4,527
Total Working Papers 21 47 221 48,750 69 225 968 159,299


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ARTIFICIAL STATES 0 0 1 124 1 5 17 524
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 1 12 211 3 6 48 5,699
Aid, Policies, and Growth: Comment 0 0 0 853 0 1 6 1,838
An identity crisis? Examining IMF financial programming 0 0 2 268 0 1 3 548
Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth? 2 3 3 737 4 7 17 2,225
Can Institutions Resolve Ethnic Conflict? 0 0 1 33 0 1 6 884
Can the West Save Africa? 2 4 9 173 3 6 18 773
Comment on: "Latin America in the rear view mirror" 0 0 0 35 0 0 0 169
Comment évaluer les besoins d'aide ? Réponse: ne posez pas la question 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 61
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 1 1 3 144 1 10 22 963
Development, democracy, and mass killings 0 0 0 91 1 2 3 318
Do Crises Induce Reform? Simple Empirical Tests of Conventional Wisdom 0 0 0 144 0 1 4 672
Do superpower interventions have short and long term consequences for democracy? 0 0 9 62 0 1 16 257
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 146 0 1 2 371
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 1 87 0 0 4 274
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 50 2 3 7 268
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia 0 0 0 4 0 0 2 39
Fiscal Deficits and Macroeconomic Performance in Developing Countries 0 0 0 1 0 2 7 672
Fiscal policy and economic growth: An empirical investigation 5 7 38 2,047 12 38 195 6,003
Fractionalization 2 3 15 2,295 10 20 84 7,437
Globalization, Inequality, and Development: The Big Picture 0 1 2 161 0 1 6 822
Good policy or good luck?: Country growth performance and temporary shocks 0 2 13 1,045 5 14 58 3,031
Growth Implosions and Debt Explosions: Do Growth Slowdowns Cause Public Debt Crises? 0 1 3 253 0 3 6 660
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 0 209 0 0 5 577
How Did Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Become Heavily Indebted? Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief 0 2 13 576 3 5 38 1,355
How Much does Policy Affect Growth? 0 0 0 49 0 0 1 107
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 1 325 0 3 12 755
How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa 0 0 1 391 0 1 6 1,232
In Search of the Holy Grail 0 0 0 86 0 0 1 275
Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument 0 3 11 1,419 3 9 40 3,483
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 0 4 246 1 2 18 723
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 0 2 22 1 2 6 95
Inflation and the Poor 0 0 0 0 2 6 45 3,158
Inflation crises and long-run growth 0 3 18 624 4 14 79 2,049
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises That Beget Reforms 0 0 0 50 0 1 1 463
Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up? 0 0 0 256 0 1 2 745
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 0 53 0 0 2 585
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 1 6 97 1 6 34 507
Life during Growth 0 0 4 229 0 0 7 689
Low Investment Is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 0 5 1 1 3 333
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 0 2 367 0 2 6 1,075
Money Demand and Seigniorage-Maximizing Inflation 0 0 0 294 0 1 7 1,127
NAFTA and Convergence in North America: High Expectations, Big Events, Little Time 0 0 0 45 0 0 4 225
Planners versus Searchers in Foreign Aid 0 0 0 0 2 5 24 813
Planners vs. Searchers in African Agricultural Aid 0 0 0 48 0 0 2 222
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 2 3 11 1,133 16 25 80 4,283
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 3 128 1 1 4 559
Reliving the 1950s: the big push, poverty traps, and takeoffs in economic development 1 2 5 511 3 5 20 2,864
Reply to Brendan Beare 0 0 0 13 0 1 1 131
Response to reviewers on “The Tyranny of Experts” 0 0 1 23 0 0 2 63
Rhetoric versus Reality: The Best and Worst of Aid Agency Practices 0 1 12 185 1 5 34 603
SESSION 2A: VALUES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 89
SOCIAL COHESION, INSTITUTIONS, AND GROWTH 0 0 7 288 2 4 36 719
Small States, Small Problems? Income, Growth, and Volatility in Small States 0 0 1 336 0 1 5 931
The Economic of the Government Budget Constraint 0 0 0 6 3 4 16 1,805
The European origins of economic development 0 1 8 300 4 10 43 999
The Impact of Globalization on Rural Poverty 0 0 2 175 0 0 3 644
The Lost Decades: Developing Countries' Stagnation in Spite of Policy Reform 1980-1998 0 1 6 460 0 2 12 1,100
The Middle Class Consensus and Economic Development 1 1 10 658 2 7 50 2,371
The Search for the Key: Aid, Investment and Policies in Africa 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 655
The Soviet Economic Decline 0 0 0 2 1 6 19 1,212
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 44 0 0 1 314
The cartel of good intentions: The problem of bureaucracy in foreign aid 1 5 12 550 5 14 51 2,236
The ghost of financing gap: testing the growth model used in the international financial institutions 0 1 4 528 1 3 14 1,209
Tropics, germs, and crops: how endowments influence economic development 4 7 18 1,528 15 34 94 4,779
Troubles with the Neighbours: Africa's Problem, Africa's Opportunity 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1,176
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 60
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 71
Walking up the Down Escalator: Public Investment and Fiscal Stability 0 0 1 59 0 0 1 237
Was Development Assistance a Mistake? 0 0 3 367 0 0 9 1,180
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 BC? 1 3 6 310 2 7 21 1,245
What did structural adjustment adjust?: The association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans 0 2 9 443 1 5 36 1,303
Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid 0 0 3 61 0 0 16 652
Total Journal Articles 22 59 296 22,511 118 318 1,453 88,591


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Development Economics through the Decades 0 0 3 80 0 1 8 219
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics 0 0 0 0 4 10 89 1,475
The Limits of Stabilization: Infrastructure, Public Deficits, and Growth in Latin America 0 1 8 40 0 2 21 166
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 5 15 52 971
Total Books 0 1 11 120 9 28 170 2,831


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African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 1 34 0 1 2 158
Explaining Miracles: Growth Regressions Meet the Gang of Four 0 0 0 61 0 0 2 313
Fiscal Policy, Debt Crises, and Economic Growth 0 0 0 17 0 1 1 58
Globalization, Poverty, and All That: Factor Endowment versus Productivity Views 0 0 0 150 1 2 4 408
IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty 0 0 0 138 0 0 3 497
It´s Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 0 1 155 1 4 11 524
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 1 2 10 912 1 4 30 2,818
The Role of Growth Slowdowns and Forecast Errors in Public Debt Crises 0 0 0 54 0 1 2 132
Total Chapters 1 2 12 1,521 3 13 55 4,908


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