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A consistency framework for macroeconomic analysis 0 0 0 481 1 3 26 1,452
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 0 3 3 3 47 4,714
Africa's growth tragedy: a retrospective, 1960-89 0 0 0 1,253 2 2 20 2,947
African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 135 1 2 19 385
Artificial States 0 1 4 203 1 6 65 803
Artificial States 0 1 5 165 1 4 26 730
Artificial States 0 0 1 223 1 2 17 633
Can institutions resolve ethnic conflict ? 0 2 2 812 0 4 23 2,507
Can the West Save Africa? 0 0 1 457 0 3 27 1,350
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War 0 1 2 86 0 1 26 482
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 1 1 1 136 1 6 27 192
Development, Democracy and Mass Killings 0 0 0 104 1 1 15 321
Development, Democracy, and Mass Killings 0 0 1 220 1 2 25 593
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 0 125 0 1 11 975
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 69 0 1 17 274
Explaining miracles: growth regressions meet the Gang of Four 0 0 1 180 0 1 16 953
Financial sector policy in Thailand: a macroeconomic perspective 0 0 0 121 1 1 11 989
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia, 1992-93 0 1 1 206 1 2 17 1,064
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 1 1 8 2,014 2 9 130 5,357
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 0 0 5 5,748 1 6 39 17,495
Fiscal adjustment and deficit financing during the debt crisis 0 0 0 202 0 4 37 585
Fractionalization 0 0 0 0 1 2 12 168
Fractionalization 0 1 5 104 4 6 34 448
Fractionalization 0 0 0 222 0 0 26 882
Fractionalization 0 1 8 1,039 5 8 90 3,268
Fractionalization 0 0 0 271 1 5 37 990
Good Policy or Good Luck? Country Growth Performance and Temporary Shocks 0 0 2 1,612 1 4 26 4,054
Growth implosions, debt explosions, and my Aunt Marilyn: do growth slowdowns cause public debt crises? 0 0 0 456 0 1 15 1,289
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 0 473 1 2 27 1,256
How Did Latin America’s Infrastructure Fare in the era of Macroeconomic Crises? 0 0 1 312 0 0 12 695
How Do National Policies Affect Long-Run Growth? A Research Agenda 0 0 0 1 0 0 7 672
How did highly indebted poor countries become highly indebted?: reviewing two decades of debt relief 0 0 2 1,290 2 4 34 4,232
How do national policies affect long-run growth?: a research agenda 0 0 1 255 1 2 10 792
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 1 1 759 2 4 15 1,879
How much fiscal adjustment is enough? The case of Colombia 0 0 0 22 0 0 8 94
In Search of Reforms for Growth: New Stylized Facts on Policy and Growth Outcomes 0 0 3 87 1 4 29 229
Inflation Crises and Long-Run Growth 0 0 1 1,053 3 9 60 3,046
Inflation and the poor 0 2 13 1,344 6 13 72 3,228
Inflation crises and long-run growth 0 0 0 963 2 4 35 2,815
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises that Beget Reforms 0 0 0 100 0 0 14 763
Infrastructure Compression and Public Sector Solvency in Latin America 0 0 0 333 3 4 20 868
Institutions: top down or bottom up? 0 0 0 162 0 0 11 402
Is investment in Africa too low or too high: macro and micro evidence 0 0 0 596 0 0 16 1,960
It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 0 2 2,017 2 10 61 5,074
Leader Value Added: Assessing the Growth Contribution of Individual National Leaders 1 1 2 38 5 5 29 121
Life during growth: international evidence on quality of life and per capita income 0 2 2 549 1 4 19 2,874
Low Investment is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 0 341 0 1 16 818
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 0 0 577 0 2 19 2,876
Modeling the macroeconomic requirements of policy reforms 0 0 0 73 0 1 15 366
Money demand and seignorage - maximizing inflation 0 0 3 442 0 2 41 2,514
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 0 0 1 546 0 1 18 1,119
New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting "Aid, Policies, and Growth" 0 0 1 1,036 1 1 20 2,265
New Data, New doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar's "Aid, Policies, and Growth" (2000) 0 0 1 1,187 0 2 59 3,091
On"good"politicians and"bad"policies - social cohesion, institutions, and growth 0 0 1 632 1 2 15 1,960
Policy Distortions, Size of Government, and Growth 0 0 0 141 1 1 17 606
Policy determinants of growth: survey of theory and evidence 0 0 0 199 0 1 10 439
Policy distortions, size of government, and growth 0 0 1 106 1 2 17 446
Policy, Technology Adoption and Growth 0 0 0 332 0 1 15 1,165
Policy, Technology Adoption, and Growth 0 0 0 557 1 1 22 1,387
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 1 58 0 1 21 406
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 0 512 3 7 127 2,263
Public goods and ethnic divisions 1 1 1 987 1 2 51 3,988
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 216 0 2 13 964
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 18 0 0 17 148
Reliving the '50s: The Big Push, Poverty Traps, and Takeoffs in Economic Development 0 0 1 620 4 5 31 2,085
Rhetoric versus reality: the best and worst of aid agency practices 0 0 2 250 1 3 35 868
Service as a major source of growth in Russia and other former Soviet states 0 0 0 46 0 0 9 300
Small states, small problems? 1 1 4 581 3 3 60 2,760
Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth 0 3 6 924 2 7 38 2,022
Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry 0 0 0 91 0 2 31 412
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 0 1 133 0 0 14 300
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 0 0 113 0 0 15 259
The European Origins of Economic Development 0 0 3 520 1 3 33 1,433
The European origins of economic development 0 0 1 141 1 2 22 377
The Lamentable Return of the Big Push in Economic Development 0 0 1 287 0 1 8 520
The Soviet Economic Decline: Historical and Republican Data 1 1 1 503 1 8 32 1,328
The Soviet economic decline: historical and republican data 1 2 4 421 2 5 56 1,526
The Surprising Instability of Export Specializations 0 0 0 50 0 1 10 153
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 0 0 2 16 673
The effect of International Monetary Fund and World Bank programs on poverty 0 0 4 720 3 8 82 3,187
The ghost of financing gap: how the Harrod-Domar growth model still haunts development economics 1 2 11 2,296 2 7 87 8,997
The macroeconomics of public sector deficits: a synthesis 0 0 1 351 0 2 20 1,608
The macroeconomics of the public sector deficit: the case of Colombia 0 0 0 77 0 0 12 614
The power of exports 0 0 0 239 3 6 13 422
The search for the key: aid, investment, and policies in Africa 0 0 0 731 0 1 13 1,962
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 6 1,535 0 3 52 4,242
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 0 341 0 1 27 1,279
Walking up the down escalator: public investment and fiscal stability 0 1 2 257 2 5 31 859
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 0 1 258 0 9 37 534
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 0 1 394 1 6 36 1,193
What did Structural Adjustment Adjust? The Association of Policies and Growth with Repeated IMF and World Bank Adjustment Loans 0 0 1 509 1 2 33 2,135
When is fiscal adjustment an illusion? 0 0 0 715 0 0 12 2,072
the middle class consensus and economic development 0 0 1 893 0 1 29 4,560
Total Working Papers 8 27 137 48,957 95 278 2,767 162,401


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ARTIFICIAL STATES 0 0 7 133 2 6 49 582
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 4 5 9 221 10 20 91 5,802
Aid, Policies, and Growth: Comment 1 1 5 858 4 7 25 1,866
An identity crisis? Examining IMF financial programming 0 1 1 269 0 1 9 557
Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth? 0 0 2 741 0 1 57 2,290
Can Institutions Resolve Ethnic Conflict? 0 0 0 34 0 2 14 900
Can the West Save Africa? 0 0 0 174 0 7 86 864
Comment on: "Latin America in the rear view mirror" 0 0 0 35 0 0 9 179
Comment évaluer les besoins d'aide ? Réponse: ne posez pas la question 0 0 0 13 0 0 4 65
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 0 0 1 146 1 6 30 1,010
Development, democracy, and mass killings 0 0 0 91 1 2 13 331
Do Crises Induce Reform? Simple Empirical Tests of Conventional Wisdom 0 1 3 147 1 2 11 685
Do superpower interventions have short and long term consequences for democracy? 0 0 3 65 0 0 32 292
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 146 0 0 6 378
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 0 87 1 1 15 290
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 1 1 51 1 2 26 295
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia 0 0 0 4 0 0 15 54
Fiscal Deficits and Macroeconomic Performance in Developing Countries 0 0 0 1 0 0 10 682
Fiscal policy and economic growth: An empirical investigation 0 2 19 2,076 6 13 132 6,196
Fractionalization 0 1 13 2,314 3 11 121 7,593
Globalization, Inequality, and Development: The Big Picture 0 0 0 161 0 1 29 851
Good policy or good luck?: Country growth performance and temporary shocks 0 0 2 1,047 0 4 39 3,081
Growth Implosions and Debt Explosions: Do Growth Slowdowns Cause Public Debt Crises? 0 0 0 253 0 0 13 674
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 1 210 1 1 42 621
How Did Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Become Heavily Indebted? Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief 0 1 6 587 1 3 27 1,392
How Much does Policy Affect Growth? 0 0 0 49 1 1 8 116
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 1 1 326 0 1 18 774
How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa 1 1 1 392 1 2 16 1,250
In Search of the Holy Grail 0 0 0 86 0 1 7 282
Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument 0 4 14 1,438 1 6 60 3,553
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 0 3 26 1 1 13 114
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 0 1 249 0 1 32 763
Inflation and the Poor 0 0 0 0 2 14 95 3,269
Inflation crises and long-run growth 2 5 10 636 6 10 60 2,128
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises That Beget Reforms 0 0 0 50 0 2 10 478
Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up? 0 0 0 256 0 0 13 762
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 0 53 0 0 6 591
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 1 1 1 99 1 3 23 533
Life during Growth 0 0 0 229 0 0 8 700
Low Investment Is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 0 6 1 1 14 352
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 1 1 4 371 2 2 17 1,094
Money Demand and Seigniorage-Maximizing Inflation 0 0 0 294 0 0 19 1,148
NAFTA and Convergence in North America: High Expectations, Big Events, Little Time 0 0 0 47 0 1 21 249
Planners versus Searchers in Foreign Aid 0 0 0 0 3 8 47 877
Planners vs. Searchers in African Agricultural Aid 0 0 0 48 0 0 8 230
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 2 13 1,148 5 15 81 4,385
Redistributive Public Employment 1 2 3 131 3 5 30 591
Reliving the 1950s: the big push, poverty traps, and takeoffs in economic development 0 0 6 519 3 9 75 2,952
Response to reviewers on “The Tyranny of Experts” 0 0 0 23 0 1 9 73
Rhetoric versus Reality: The Best and Worst of Aid Agency Practices 0 0 0 186 0 2 30 639
SESSION 2A: VALUES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 22 0 0 3 92
SOCIAL COHESION, INSTITUTIONS, AND GROWTH 0 1 6 298 1 6 43 778
Small States, Small Problems? Income, Growth, and Volatility in Small States 0 1 3 339 2 4 39 976
The Economic of the Government Budget Constraint 0 0 0 6 2 3 32 1,841
The European origins of economic development 1 1 11 313 2 2 63 1,076
The Impact of Globalization on Rural Poverty 0 0 0 175 1 1 10 654
The Lost Decades: Developing Countries' Stagnation in Spite of Policy Reform 1980-1998 0 0 4 466 0 1 35 1,142
The Middle Class Consensus and Economic Development 0 0 1 660 0 2 38 2,416
The Search for the Key: Aid, Investment and Policies in Africa 0 0 0 0 0 1 21 676
The Soviet Economic Decline 0 0 0 2 5 10 48 1,272
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 44 0 1 8 322
The cartel of good intentions: The problem of bureaucracy in foreign aid 0 0 3 559 0 1 51 2,300
The ghost of financing gap: testing the growth model used in the international financial institutions 1 2 3 531 2 4 22 1,235
Tropics, germs, and crops: how endowments influence economic development 1 2 11 1,544 4 13 98 4,901
Troubles with the Neighbours: Africa's Problem, Africa's Opportunity 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 1,186
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 6 0 1 9 81
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 7 0 2 5 65
Walking up the Down Escalator: Public Investment and Fiscal Stability 0 0 0 61 0 0 17 257
Was Development Assistance a Mistake? 0 0 1 368 2 4 16 1,199
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 BC? 1 1 4 314 2 6 115 1,363
What did structural adjustment adjust?: The association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans 0 0 9 455 3 12 64 1,379
Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid 1 2 3 65 2 4 36 695
Total Journal Articles 16 40 189 22,761 90 254 2,406 91,339
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Development Economics through the Decades 0 0 0 81 0 2 16 238
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics 0 0 0 0 5 10 65 1,559
The Limits of Stabilization: Infrastructure, Public Deficits, and Growth in Latin America 0 0 1 41 0 0 14 183
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 15 42 215 1,234
Total Books 0 0 1 122 20 54 310 3,214


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African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 34 0 0 15 177
Explaining Miracles: Growth Regressions Meet the Gang of Four 0 0 1 62 1 2 29 342
Fiscal Policy, Debt Crises, and Economic Growth 0 0 0 17 0 0 6 66
Globalization, Poverty, and All That: Factor Endowment versus Productivity Views 0 0 1 151 0 0 10 418
IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty 0 1 3 141 1 5 28 528
It´s Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 0 0 156 0 0 11 537
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 0 1 6 919 2 4 31 2,852
The Role of Growth Slowdowns and Forecast Errors in Public Debt Crises 0 0 0 54 0 2 10 144
Total Chapters 0 2 11 1,534 4 13 140 5,064


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