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A consistency framework for macroeconomic analysis 0 0 0 481 1 2 24 1,450
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 0 3 0 5 45 4,711
Africa's growth tragedy: a retrospective, 1960-89 0 0 0 1,253 0 1 19 2,945
African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 135 0 0 18 383
Artificial States 0 1 4 164 1 7 26 727
Artificial States 0 0 4 202 2 8 64 799
Artificial States 0 0 2 223 0 0 18 631
Can institutions resolve ethnic conflict ? 1 1 1 811 1 2 20 2,504
Can the West Save Africa? 0 0 1 457 1 2 26 1,348
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War 0 1 1 85 0 2 26 481
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 0 0 0 135 1 2 24 187
Development, Democracy and Mass Killings 0 0 0 104 0 2 14 320
Development, Democracy, and Mass Killings 0 0 1 220 0 0 23 591
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 0 125 0 1 11 974
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 69 0 2 16 273
Explaining miracles: growth regressions meet the Gang of Four 0 0 1 180 0 1 15 952
Financial sector policy in Thailand: a macroeconomic perspective 0 0 0 121 0 0 10 988
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia, 1992-93 1 1 1 206 1 1 16 1,063
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 0 0 9 2,013 4 11 132 5,352
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 0 2 6 5,748 1 11 38 17,490
Fiscal adjustment and deficit financing during the debt crisis 0 0 0 202 2 8 35 583
Fractionalization 0 0 0 0 0 4 12 166
Fractionalization 0 0 0 271 1 6 36 986
Fractionalization 0 0 0 222 0 3 28 882
Fractionalization 0 5 7 1,038 0 9 85 3,260
Fractionalization 0 1 5 103 0 1 29 442
Good Policy or Good Luck? Country Growth Performance and Temporary Shocks 0 0 2 1,612 0 2 23 4,050
Growth implosions, debt explosions, and my Aunt Marilyn: do growth slowdowns cause public debt crises? 0 0 0 456 0 0 14 1,288
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 0 473 0 1 26 1,254
How Did Latin America’s Infrastructure Fare in the era of Macroeconomic Crises? 0 1 1 312 0 1 12 695
How Do National Policies Affect Long-Run Growth? A Research Agenda 0 0 0 1 0 1 7 672
How did highly indebted poor countries become highly indebted?: reviewing two decades of debt relief 0 0 3 1,290 0 3 32 4,228
How do national policies affect long-run growth?: a research agenda 0 0 1 255 1 2 10 791
How much do distortions affect growth? 1 1 1 759 1 1 12 1,876
How much fiscal adjustment is enough? The case of Colombia 0 0 0 22 0 0 9 94
In Search of Reforms for Growth: New Stylized Facts on Policy and Growth Outcomes 0 0 3 87 1 5 28 226
Inflation Crises and Long-Run Growth 0 0 2 1,053 1 7 63 3,038
Inflation and the poor 2 2 13 1,344 4 12 64 3,219
Inflation crises and long-run growth 0 0 0 963 1 3 32 2,812
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 0 1 17 864
Institutions: top down or bottom up? 0 0 2 162 0 0 14 402
Is investment in Africa too low or too high: macro and micro evidence 0 0 0 596 0 2 18 1,960
It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 0 3 2,017 2 5 59 5,066
Leader Value Added: Assessing the Growth Contribution of Individual National Leaders 0 0 1 37 0 1 26 116
Life during growth: international evidence on quality of life and per capita income 1 1 1 548 1 2 18 2,871
Low Investment is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 0 341 1 2 16 818
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 0 0 577 0 1 19 2,874
Modeling the macroeconomic requirements of policy reforms 0 0 0 73 0 0 14 365
Money demand and seignorage - maximizing inflation 0 0 3 442 1 5 41 2,513
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 0 0 1 546 1 2 18 1,119
New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting "Aid, Policies, and Growth" 0 0 1 1,036 0 0 20 2,264
New Data, New doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar's "Aid, Policies, and Growth" (2000) 0 1 1 1,187 1 2 60 3,090
On"good"politicians and"bad"policies - social cohesion, institutions, and growth 0 0 1 632 0 0 16 1,958
Policy Distortions, Size of Government, and Growth 0 0 0 141 0 0 16 605
Policy determinants of growth: survey of theory and evidence 0 0 0 199 1 2 10 439
Policy distortions, size of government, and growth 0 0 1 106 0 1 21 444
Policy, Technology Adoption and Growth 0 0 0 332 0 1 15 1,164
Policy, Technology Adoption, and Growth 0 0 0 557 0 3 21 1,386
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 1 1 58 0 3 20 405
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 0 512 0 98 124 2,256
Public goods and ethnic divisions 0 0 0 986 1 11 52 3,987
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 216 0 0 11 962
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 18 0 1 19 148
Reliving the '50s: The Big Push, Poverty Traps, and Takeoffs in Economic Development 0 0 3 620 0 2 30 2,080
Rhetoric versus reality: the best and worst of aid agency practices 0 0 2 250 0 16 32 865
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? 0 0 3 580 0 1 58 2,757
Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth 3 3 7 924 3 3 41 2,018
Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry 0 0 0 91 0 1 29 410
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 0 1 113 0 0 18 259
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 0 1 133 0 2 19 300
The European Origins of Economic Development 0 0 3 520 0 1 31 1,430
The European origins of economic development 0 0 1 141 0 1 21 375
The Lamentable Return of the Big Push in Economic Development 0 0 1 287 0 0 7 519
The Soviet Economic Decline: Historical and Republican Data 0 0 1 502 5 7 32 1,325
The Soviet economic decline: historical and republican data 0 0 2 419 1 13 52 1,522
The Surprising Instability of Export Specializations 0 0 0 50 0 0 11 152
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 0 1 1 15 672
The effect of International Monetary Fund and World Bank programs on poverty 0 1 4 720 1 13 77 3,180
The ghost of financing gap: how the Harrod-Domar growth model still haunts development economics 1 2 13 2,295 2 10 89 8,992
The macroeconomics of public sector deficits: a synthesis 0 1 1 351 1 3 22 1,607
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 1 239 0 1 8 416
The search for the key: aid, investment, and policies in Africa 0 0 0 731 1 1 14 1,962
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 0 341 1 4 27 1,279
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 6 1,535 2 9 52 4,241
Walking up the down escalator: public investment and fiscal stability 1 1 2 257 1 3 28 855
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 0 1 258 0 3 28 525
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 1 1 394 0 7 31 1,187
What did Structural Adjustment Adjust? The Association of Policies and Growth with Repeated IMF and World Bank Adjustment Loans 0 0 1 509 0 2 32 2,133
When is fiscal adjustment an illusion? 0 0 0 715 0 2 12 2,072
the middle class consensus and economic development 0 0 3 893 0 2 31 4,559
Total Working Papers 11 28 143 48,941 53 380 2,689 162,176


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ARTIFICIAL STATES 0 1 7 133 1 7 49 577
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 1 1 6 217 2 10 77 5,784
Aid, Policies, and Growth: Comment 0 2 4 857 1 5 21 1,860
An identity crisis? Examining IMF financial programming 1 1 1 269 1 1 9 557
Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth? 0 0 2 741 0 6 58 2,289
Can Institutions Resolve Ethnic Conflict? 0 0 1 34 1 2 14 899
Can the West Save Africa? 0 0 0 174 7 67 88 864
Comment on: "Latin America in the rear view mirror" 0 0 0 35 0 1 9 179
Comment évaluer les besoins d'aide ? Réponse: ne posez pas la question 0 0 0 13 0 1 4 65
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 0 0 1 146 1 5 29 1,005
Development, democracy, and mass killings 0 0 0 91 0 0 11 329
Do Crises Induce Reform? Simple Empirical Tests of Conventional Wisdom 1 2 3 147 1 5 11 684
Do superpower interventions have short and long term consequences for democracy? 0 1 3 65 0 4 35 292
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 146 0 0 7 378
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 0 87 0 0 15 289
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 1 1 1 51 1 5 26 294
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 1 10 682
Fiscal policy and economic growth: An empirical investigation 1 1 21 2,075 3 18 149 6,186
Fractionalization 0 2 17 2,313 4 16 131 7,586
Globalization, Inequality, and Development: The Big Picture 0 0 0 161 1 1 29 851
Good policy or good luck?: Country growth performance and temporary shocks 0 0 2 1,047 3 6 45 3,080
Growth Implosions and Debt Explosions: Do Growth Slowdowns Cause Public Debt Crises? 0 0 0 253 0 1 14 674
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 1 210 0 3 42 620
How Did Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Become Heavily Indebted? Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief 1 3 6 587 1 7 27 1,390
How Much does Policy Affect Growth? 0 0 0 49 0 0 8 115
How much do distortions affect growth? 1 1 1 326 1 2 18 774
How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa 0 0 0 391 1 1 16 1,249
In Search of the Holy Grail 0 0 0 86 1 1 7 282
Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument 3 3 15 1,437 3 8 60 3,550
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 0 4 26 0 1 16 113
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 0 2 249 0 2 33 762
Inflation and the Poor 0 0 0 0 9 24 94 3,264
Inflation crises and long-run growth 2 2 8 633 2 8 56 2,120
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises That Beget Reforms 0 0 0 50 1 1 11 477
Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up? 0 0 0 256 0 0 14 762
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 1 98 2 3 23 532
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 0 53 0 0 6 591
Life during Growth 0 0 0 229 0 0 9 700
Low Investment Is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 0 6 0 0 15 351
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 0 3 370 0 1 15 1,092
Money Demand and Seigniorage-Maximizing Inflation 0 0 0 294 0 0 20 1,148
NAFTA and Convergence in North America: High Expectations, Big Events, Little Time 0 0 1 47 1 1 22 249
Planners versus Searchers in Foreign Aid 0 0 0 0 2 7 51 871
Planners vs. Searchers in African Agricultural Aid 0 0 0 48 0 0 8 230
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 1 6 12 1,147 4 22 75 4,374
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 1 129 1 4 27 587
Reliving the 1950s: the big push, poverty traps, and takeoffs in economic development 0 2 6 519 1 11 73 2,944
Response to reviewers on “The Tyranny of Experts” 0 0 0 23 0 0 8 72
Rhetoric versus Reality: The Best and Worst of Aid Agency Practices 0 0 1 186 2 10 32 639
SESSION 2A: VALUES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 22 0 0 3 92
SOCIAL COHESION, INSTITUTIONS, AND GROWTH 1 1 7 298 3 6 49 775
Small States, Small Problems? Income, Growth, and Volatility in Small States 0 1 2 338 1 14 39 973
The Economic of the Government Budget Constraint 0 0 0 6 1 7 31 1,839
The European origins of economic development 0 0 10 312 0 7 64 1,074
The Impact of Globalization on Rural Poverty 0 0 0 175 0 0 9 653
The Lost Decades: Developing Countries' Stagnation in Spite of Policy Reform 1980-1998 0 0 6 466 0 1 38 1,141
The Middle Class Consensus and Economic Development 0 0 2 660 1 3 39 2,415
The Search for the Key: Aid, Investment and Policies in Africa 0 0 0 0 1 1 21 676
The Soviet Economic Decline 0 0 0 2 3 8 42 1,265
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 44 1 1 8 322
The cartel of good intentions: The problem of bureaucracy in foreign aid 0 2 5 559 1 11 56 2,300
The ghost of financing gap: testing the growth model used in the international financial institutions 0 0 1 529 0 2 20 1,231
Tropics, germs, and crops: how endowments influence economic development 1 1 13 1,543 4 17 100 4,892
Troubles with the Neighbours: Africa's Problem, Africa's Opportunity 0 0 0 0 0 1 10 1,186
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 6 1 1 10 81
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 7 1 1 4 64
Walking up the Down Escalator: Public Investment and Fiscal Stability 0 0 0 61 0 0 17 257
Was Development Assistance a Mistake? 0 1 1 368 1 3 15 1,196
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 BC? 0 0 3 313 3 10 114 1,360
What did structural adjustment adjust?: The association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans 0 3 10 455 5 12 63 1,372
Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid 1 1 3 64 2 4 35 693
Total Journal Articles 16 39 194 22,737 88 389 2,429 91,173
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The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics 0 0 0 0 3 13 65 1,552
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 10 46 207 1,202
Total Books 0 0 0 0 13 59 272 2,754
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African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 34 0 2 16 177
Explaining Miracles: Growth Regressions Meet the Gang of Four 0 0 1 62 0 1 27 340
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 1 10 418
IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty 0 1 2 140 0 9 24 523
It´s Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 0 0 156 0 1 12 537
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 0 1 5 918 1 2 29 2,849
The Role of Growth Slowdowns and Forecast Errors in Public Debt Crises 0 0 0 54 1 1 10 143
Total Chapters 0 2 9 1,532 2 17 134 5,053


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