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A consistency framework for macroeconomic analysis 0 0 3 481 1 1 9 1,427
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 0 3 3 4 9 4,670
Africa's growth tragedy: a retrospective, 1960-89 0 0 0 1,253 0 1 3 2,927
African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 135 2 3 3 368
Artificial States 0 1 6 199 2 5 25 740
Artificial States 0 0 2 160 1 4 23 705
Artificial States 0 1 2 222 3 6 12 619
Can institutions resolve ethnic conflict ? 0 0 1 810 1 1 5 2,485
Can the West Save Africa? 0 0 1 456 0 1 6 1,323
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War 0 0 0 84 1 2 8 457
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 0 0 0 135 0 2 7 165
Development, Democracy and Mass Killings 0 0 1 104 0 0 3 306
Development, Democracy, and Mass Killings 0 0 1 219 0 0 7 568
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 0 125 1 2 2 965
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 69 3 3 3 260
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 2 979
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia, 1992-93 0 0 0 205 2 2 2 1,049
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 0 1 7 5,743 2 6 27 17,458
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 2 4 27 2,008 4 11 83 5,231
Fiscal adjustment and deficit financing during the debt crisis 0 0 0 202 0 0 2 548
Fractionalization 0 0 2 222 0 2 9 856
Fractionalization 1 1 5 1,032 3 6 20 3,181
Fractionalization 0 0 0 0 2 4 6 158
Fractionalization 0 0 2 271 2 5 10 955
Fractionalization 1 2 4 100 3 4 16 417
Good Policy or Good Luck? Country Growth Performance and Temporary Shocks 0 0 3 1,610 0 1 10 4,028
Growth implosions, debt explosions, and my Aunt Marilyn: do growth slowdowns cause public debt crises? 0 0 0 456 2 2 4 1,276
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 0 473 0 1 3 1,229
How Did Latin America’s Infrastructure Fare in the era of Macroeconomic Crises? 0 0 0 311 2 2 4 685
How Do National Policies Affect Long-Run Growth? A Research Agenda 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 665
How did highly indebted poor countries become highly indebted?: reviewing two decades of debt relief 2 3 4 1,290 2 4 10 4,200
How do national policies affect long-run growth?: a research agenda 0 0 0 254 2 3 6 784
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 0 758 1 1 14 1,865
How much fiscal adjustment is enough? The case of Colombia 0 0 0 22 3 4 4 89
In Search of Reforms for Growth: New Stylized Facts on Policy and Growth Outcomes 0 0 5 84 0 2 18 200
Inflation Crises and Long-Run Growth 0 1 8 1,052 1 12 32 2,987
Inflation and the poor 2 2 7 1,333 6 7 15 3,162
Inflation crises and long-run growth 0 0 2 963 0 0 5 2,780
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises that Beget Reforms 0 0 0 100 0 0 0 749
Infrastructure Compression and Public Sector Solvency in Latin America 0 0 0 333 1 2 4 849
Institutions: top down or bottom up? 0 2 4 162 1 4 9 392
Is investment in Africa too low or too high: macro and micro evidence 0 0 2 596 0 2 5 1,944
It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 1 5 2,015 1 7 60 5,014
Leader Value Added: Assessing the Growth Contribution of Individual National Leaders 0 0 2 36 2 4 9 94
Life during growth: international evidence on quality of life and per capita income 0 0 1 547 3 5 11 2,858
Low Investment is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 1 341 1 1 4 803
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 0 0 577 1 3 4 2,858
Modeling the macroeconomic requirements of policy reforms 0 0 1 73 0 0 1 351
Money demand and seignorage - maximizing inflation 0 0 1 439 1 2 7 2,474
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 0 0 1 545 0 0 6 1,101
New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting "Aid, Policies, and Growth" 0 0 3 1,035 2 3 11 2,247
New Data, New doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar's "Aid, Policies, and Growth" (2000) 0 0 2 1,186 1 3 11 3,033
On"good"politicians and"bad"policies - social cohesion, institutions, and growth 0 0 0 631 2 5 9 1,947
Policy Distortions, Size of Government, and Growth 0 0 0 141 1 1 2 590
Policy determinants of growth: survey of theory and evidence 0 0 2 199 1 1 7 430
Policy distortions, size of government, and growth 0 0 1 105 0 6 24 429
Policy, Technology Adoption and Growth 0 0 0 332 2 3 6 1,152
Policy, Technology Adoption, and Growth 0 0 0 557 0 0 1 1,365
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 1 512 1 5 14 2,137
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 2 57 0 0 7 385
Public goods and ethnic divisions 0 0 3 986 3 5 24 3,940
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 18 1 3 7 132
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 2 4 619 1 5 15 2,055
Rhetoric versus reality: the best and worst of aid agency practices 0 0 1 248 1 1 5 834
Service as a major source of growth in Russia and other former Soviet states 0 0 0 46 1 1 6 292
Small states, small problems? 0 0 2 577 1 2 13 2,701
Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth 1 2 4 919 6 13 25 1,990
Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry 0 0 0 91 2 2 6 383
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 1 2 113 2 5 8 246
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 0 1 132 2 7 12 288
The European Origins of Economic Development 0 0 1 517 1 2 12 1,401
The European origins of economic development 0 0 1 140 2 3 9 357
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 0 1 5 502 2 5 13 1,298
The Soviet economic decline: historical and republican data 1 1 4 418 2 2 20 1,472
The Surprising Instability of Export Specializations 0 0 2 50 0 2 8 143
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 658
The effect of International Monetary Fund and World Bank programs on poverty 1 1 2 717 2 4 20 3,107
The ghost of financing gap: how the Harrod-Domar growth model still haunts development economics 1 4 14 2,286 4 11 31 8,914
The macroeconomics of public sector deficits: a synthesis 0 0 1 350 0 3 11 1,588
The macroeconomics of the public sector deficit: the case of Colombia 0 0 0 77 2 2 6 604
The power of exports 0 1 1 239 1 2 4 410
The search for the key: aid, investment, and policies in Africa 0 0 0 731 1 2 3 1,950
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 0 341 1 1 3 1,253
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 0 1,529 4 5 6 4,194
Walking up the down escalator: public investment and fiscal stability 0 0 0 255 0 1 4 828
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 0 2 257 0 0 7 497
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 0 0 393 0 1 6 1,157
What did Structural Adjustment Adjust? The Association of Policies and Growth with Repeated IMF and World Bank Adjustment Loans 0 0 0 508 0 1 1 2,102
When is fiscal adjustment an illusion? 0 0 1 715 0 0 5 2,060
the middle class consensus and economic development 0 2 5 892 3 6 13 4,534
Total Working Papers 12 34 178 48,832 123 270 949 159,757


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ARTIFICIAL STATES 2 2 4 128 5 10 25 538
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 1 7 212 8 12 43 5,719
Aid, Policies, and Growth: Comment 0 0 0 853 1 3 7 1,842
An identity crisis? Examining IMF financial programming 0 0 1 268 0 0 2 548
Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth? 0 0 5 739 2 4 23 2,235
Can Institutions Resolve Ethnic Conflict? 0 1 2 34 1 2 6 887
Can the West Save Africa? 0 0 8 174 1 3 17 779
Comment on: "Latin America in the rear view mirror" 0 0 0 35 1 1 2 171
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 0 0 3 145 3 7 36 983
Development, democracy, and mass killings 0 0 0 91 4 4 6 322
Do Crises Induce Reform? Simple Empirical Tests of Conventional Wisdom 0 0 0 144 0 1 6 674
Do superpower interventions have short and long term consequences for democracy? 0 0 6 62 2 5 15 262
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 146 0 1 2 372
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 0 87 1 2 3 276
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 50 1 2 7 270
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia 0 0 0 4 2 2 3 41
Fiscal Deficits and Macroeconomic Performance in Developing Countries 0 0 0 1 2 2 4 674
Fiscal policy and economic growth: An empirical investigation 6 9 35 2,063 16 43 174 6,080
Fractionalization 2 7 15 2,303 13 30 94 7,485
Globalization, Inequality, and Development: The Big Picture 0 0 1 161 0 0 4 822
Good policy or good luck?: Country growth performance and temporary shocks 0 0 2 1,045 5 12 39 3,047
Growth Implosions and Debt Explosions: Do Growth Slowdowns Cause Public Debt Crises? 0 0 2 253 1 2 7 662
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 0 209 1 2 4 580
How Did Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Become Heavily Indebted? Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief 0 0 11 581 0 2 26 1,365
How Much does Policy Affect Growth? 0 0 0 49 2 3 3 110
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 0 325 0 0 8 756
How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa 0 0 0 391 1 2 5 1,235
In Search of the Holy Grail 0 0 0 86 1 1 1 276
Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument 1 3 11 1,425 7 10 37 3,500
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 1 2 23 0 4 10 101
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 1 3 248 0 2 22 731
Inflation and the Poor 0 0 0 0 7 11 40 3,181
Inflation crises and long-run growth 1 2 14 627 5 9 63 2,073
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises That Beget Reforms 0 0 0 50 1 3 7 469
Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up? 0 0 0 256 0 1 6 749
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 0 53 1 1 1 586
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 1 3 98 2 3 18 512
Life during Growth 0 0 1 229 0 1 5 692
Low Investment Is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 1 6 0 2 6 338
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 2 2 3 369 2 2 8 1,079
Money Demand and Seigniorage-Maximizing Inflation 0 0 0 294 1 2 7 1,130
NAFTA and Convergence in North America: High Expectations, Big Events, Little Time 0 1 2 47 1 2 7 229
Planners versus Searchers in Foreign Aid 0 0 0 0 1 11 28 831
Planners vs. Searchers in African Agricultural Aid 0 0 0 48 0 0 2 222
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 1 1 9 1,136 8 13 68 4,312
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 2 128 3 4 8 564
Reliving the 1950s: the big push, poverty traps, and takeoffs in economic development 0 0 7 513 2 8 26 2,879
Response to reviewers on “The Tyranny of Experts” 0 0 0 23 0 0 1 64
Rhetoric versus Reality: The Best and Worst of Aid Agency Practices 0 1 5 186 2 4 20 611
SESSION 2A: VALUES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 89
SOCIAL COHESION, INSTITUTIONS, AND GROWTH 0 1 5 292 9 18 34 744
Small States, Small Problems? Income, Growth, and Volatility in Small States 0 0 0 336 6 9 14 943
The Economic of the Government Budget Constraint 0 0 0 6 2 3 12 1,811
The European origins of economic development 1 1 4 303 1 4 37 1,014
The Impact of Globalization on Rural Poverty 0 0 0 175 0 0 1 644
The Lost Decades: Developing Countries' Stagnation in Spite of Policy Reform 1980-1998 1 3 6 463 2 6 15 1,109
The Middle Class Consensus and Economic Development 0 1 4 659 5 7 38 2,383
The Search for the Key: Aid, Investment and Policies in Africa 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 655
The Soviet Economic Decline 0 0 0 2 0 1 23 1,224
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 44 1 1 1 315
The cartel of good intentions: The problem of bureaucracy in foreign aid 1 3 12 557 1 6 37 2,250
The ghost of financing gap: testing the growth model used in the international financial institutions 0 0 1 528 0 2 11 1,213
Tropics, germs, and crops: how endowments influence economic development 1 4 19 1,534 5 16 94 4,808
Troubles with the Neighbours: Africa's Problem, Africa's Opportunity 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 1,179
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 7 1 1 1 61
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 6 0 1 1 72
Walking up the Down Escalator: Public Investment and Fiscal Stability 0 0 2 61 0 0 3 240
Was Development Assistance a Mistake? 0 0 1 367 0 2 7 1,183
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 BC? 0 0 4 310 2 4 16 1,250
What did structural adjustment adjust?: The association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans 0 1 7 446 5 11 33 1,320
Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid 0 1 1 62 0 1 13 659
Total Journal Articles 19 48 231 22,591 158 347 1,362 89,091
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Development Economics through the Decades 0 1 2 81 1 3 9 223
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics 0 0 0 0 7 14 61 1,501
The Limits of Stabilization: Infrastructure, Public Deficits, and Growth in Latin America 0 0 2 40 0 1 10 169
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 7 31 86 1,026
Total Books 0 1 4 121 15 49 166 2,919


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African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 34 0 1 5 162
Explaining Miracles: Growth Regressions Meet the Gang of Four 0 0 0 61 1 1 2 314
Fiscal Policy, Debt Crises, and Economic Growth 0 0 0 17 0 0 3 60
Globalization, Poverty, and All That: Factor Endowment versus Productivity Views 0 0 0 150 0 0 3 408
IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty 0 0 0 138 0 1 4 500
It´s Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 0 1 156 1 2 7 527
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 2 2 9 915 2 3 19 2,823
The Role of Growth Slowdowns and Forecast Errors in Public Debt Crises 0 0 0 54 0 1 4 134
Total Chapters 2 2 10 1,525 4 9 47 4,928


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