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A consistency framework for macroeconomic analysis 0 0 0 481 1 3 25 1,451
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 0 3 0 2 45 4,711
Africa's growth tragedy: a retrospective, 1960-89 0 0 0 1,253 0 0 18 2,945
African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 135 1 1 19 384
Artificial States 0 0 1 223 1 1 17 632
Artificial States 1 1 4 203 3 7 65 802
Artificial States 1 1 5 165 2 7 27 729
Can institutions resolve ethnic conflict ? 1 2 2 812 3 4 23 2,507
Can the West Save Africa? 0 0 1 457 2 3 28 1,350
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War 1 1 2 86 1 1 27 482
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 0 0 0 135 4 5 27 191
Development, Democracy and Mass Killings 0 0 0 104 0 1 14 320
Development, Democracy, and Mass Killings 0 0 1 220 1 1 24 592
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 0 125 1 2 12 975
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 69 1 2 17 274
Explaining miracles: growth regressions meet the Gang of Four 0 0 1 180 1 1 16 953
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 0 1 1 206 0 1 16 1,063
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 0 0 5 5,748 4 7 40 17,494
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 0 0 8 2,013 3 11 130 5,355
Fiscal adjustment and deficit financing during the debt crisis 0 0 0 202 2 5 37 585
Fractionalization 0 0 0 271 3 8 39 989
Fractionalization 0 0 0 222 0 2 28 882
Fractionalization 1 2 6 104 2 3 31 444
Fractionalization 0 0 0 0 1 1 12 167
Fractionalization 1 3 8 1,039 3 8 87 3,263
Good Policy or Good Luck? Country Growth Performance and Temporary Shocks 0 0 2 1,612 3 4 25 4,053
Growth implosions, debt explosions, and my Aunt Marilyn: do growth slowdowns cause public debt crises? 0 0 0 456 1 1 15 1,289
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 0 473 1 2 26 1,255
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 2 32 4,230
How do national policies affect long-run growth?: a research agenda 0 0 1 255 0 1 9 791
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 1 1 759 1 2 13 1,877
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 2 6 29 228
Inflation Crises and Long-Run Growth 0 0 1 1,053 5 7 59 3,043
Inflation and the poor 0 2 13 1,344 3 11 66 3,222
Inflation crises and long-run growth 0 0 0 963 1 4 33 2,813
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 1 1 17 865
Institutions: top down or bottom up? 0 0 1 162 0 0 13 402
Is investment in Africa too low or too high: macro and micro evidence 0 0 0 596 0 1 18 1,960
It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 0 3 2,017 6 9 63 5,072
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 2 2 549 2 4 19 2,873
Low Investment is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 0 341 0 2 16 818
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 0 0 577 2 2 20 2,876
Modeling the macroeconomic requirements of policy reforms 0 0 0 73 1 1 15 366
Money demand and seignorage - maximizing inflation 0 0 3 442 1 2 41 2,514
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 0 0 1 546 0 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 3 59 3,091
On"good"politicians and"bad"policies - social cohesion, institutions, and growth 0 0 1 632 1 1 16 1,959
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 0 1 10 439
Policy distortions, size of government, and growth 0 0 1 106 1 1 18 445
Policy, Technology Adoption and Growth 0 0 0 332 1 1 15 1,165
Policy, Technology Adoption, and Growth 0 0 0 557 0 1 21 1,386
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 0 512 4 5 127 2,260
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 1 58 1 3 21 406
Public goods and ethnic divisions 0 0 0 986 0 8 51 3,987
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 216 2 2 13 964
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 18 0 0 19 148
Reliving the '50s: The Big Push, Poverty Traps, and Takeoffs in Economic Development 0 0 2 620 1 2 29 2,081
Rhetoric versus reality: the best and worst of aid agency practices 0 0 2 250 2 17 34 867
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 0 57 2,757
Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth 0 3 7 924 2 5 40 2,020
Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry 0 0 0 91 2 2 31 412
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 0 1 133 0 0 15 300
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 0 0 113 0 0 17 259
The European Origins of Economic Development 0 0 3 520 2 3 32 1,432
The European origins of economic development 0 0 1 141 1 2 21 376
The Lamentable Return of the Big Push in Economic Development 0 0 1 287 1 1 8 520
The Soviet Economic Decline: Historical and Republican Data 0 0 1 502 2 7 32 1,327
The Soviet economic decline: historical and republican data 1 1 3 420 2 11 54 1,524
The Surprising Instability of Export Specializations 0 0 0 50 1 1 11 153
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 0 1 2 16 673
The effect of International Monetary Fund and World Bank programs on poverty 0 1 4 720 4 11 80 3,184
The ghost of financing gap: how the Harrod-Domar growth model still haunts development economics 0 2 13 2,295 3 8 91 8,995
The macroeconomics of public sector deficits: a synthesis 0 0 1 351 1 3 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 4 10 419
The search for the key: aid, investment, and policies in Africa 0 0 0 731 0 1 14 1,962
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 6 1,535 1 7 52 4,242
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 0 341 0 2 27 1,279
Walking up the down escalator: public investment and fiscal stability 0 1 2 257 2 3 29 857
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 0 1 258 9 9 37 534
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 1 1 394 5 10 35 1,192
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 32 2,134
When is fiscal adjustment an illusion? 0 0 0 715 0 2 12 2,072
the middle class consensus and economic development 0 0 1 893 1 3 30 4,560
Total Working Papers 8 26 139 48,949 130 296 2,742 162,306


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ARTIFICIAL STATES 0 1 7 133 3 7 50 580
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 1 6 217 8 14 83 5,792
Aid, Policies, and Growth: Comment 0 0 4 857 2 4 22 1,862
An identity crisis? Examining IMF financial programming 0 1 1 269 0 1 9 557
Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth? 0 0 2 741 1 2 57 2,290
Can Institutions Resolve Ethnic Conflict? 0 0 0 34 1 2 14 900
Can the West Save Africa? 0 0 0 174 0 67 88 864
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 4 9 31 1,009
Development, democracy, and mass killings 0 0 0 91 1 1 12 330
Do Crises Induce Reform? Simple Empirical Tests of Conventional Wisdom 0 2 3 147 0 4 10 684
Do superpower interventions have short and long term consequences for democracy? 0 1 3 65 0 3 32 292
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 0 1 1 51 0 4 25 294
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 0 10 682
Fiscal policy and economic growth: An empirical investigation 1 2 22 2,076 4 16 142 6,190
Fractionalization 1 3 18 2,314 4 14 127 7,590
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 1 5 41 3,081
Growth Implosions and Debt Explosions: Do Growth Slowdowns Cause Public Debt Crises? 0 0 0 253 0 1 13 674
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 1 210 0 0 42 620
How Did Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Become Heavily Indebted? Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief 0 2 6 587 1 5 26 1,391
How Much does Policy Affect Growth? 0 0 0 49 0 0 8 115
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 1 1 326 0 2 18 774
How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa 0 0 0 391 0 1 15 1,249
In Search of the Holy Grail 0 0 0 86 0 1 7 282
Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument 1 4 14 1,438 2 8 59 3,552
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 0 2 249 1 2 33 763
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 0 4 26 0 0 15 113
Inflation and the Poor 0 0 0 0 3 24 97 3,267
Inflation crises and long-run growth 1 3 9 634 2 7 56 2,122
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises That Beget Reforms 0 0 0 50 1 2 11 478
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 0 0 1 98 0 3 23 532
Life during Growth 0 0 0 229 0 0 8 700
Low Investment Is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 0 6 0 0 13 351
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 0 3 370 0 0 15 1,092
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 1 47 0 1 22 249
Planners versus Searchers in Foreign Aid 0 0 0 0 3 7 52 874
Planners vs. Searchers in African Agricultural Aid 0 0 0 48 0 0 8 230
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 1 6 13 1,148 6 21 77 4,380
Redistributive Public Employment 1 1 2 130 1 4 27 588
Reliving the 1950s: the big push, poverty traps, and takeoffs in economic development 0 2 6 519 5 11 75 2,949
Response to reviewers on “The Tyranny of Experts” 0 0 0 23 1 1 9 73
Rhetoric versus Reality: The Best and Worst of Aid Agency Practices 0 0 0 186 0 7 30 639
SESSION 2A: VALUES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 22 0 0 3 92
SOCIAL COHESION, INSTITUTIONS, AND GROWTH 0 1 7 298 2 5 49 777
Small States, Small Problems? Income, Growth, and Volatility in Small States 1 1 3 339 1 4 40 974
The Economic of the Government Budget Constraint 0 0 0 6 0 4 31 1,839
The European origins of economic development 0 0 10 312 0 4 61 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 5 466 1 1 36 1,142
The Middle Class Consensus and Economic Development 0 0 1 660 1 3 39 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 2 7 44 1,267
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 5 559 0 4 53 2,300
The ghost of financing gap: testing the growth model used in the international financial institutions 1 1 2 530 2 4 22 1,233
Tropics, germs, and crops: how endowments influence economic development 0 1 12 1,543 5 12 101 4,897
Troubles with the Neighbours: Africa's Problem, Africa's Opportunity 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 1,186
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 6 0 1 10 81
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 7 1 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 1 2 15 1,197
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 BC? 0 0 3 313 1 8 114 1,361
What did structural adjustment adjust?: The association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans 0 3 9 455 4 14 65 1,376
Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid 0 1 3 64 0 3 35 693
Total Journal Articles 8 39 194 22,745 76 343 2,415 91,249
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The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics 0 0 0 0 2 8 64 1,554
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 17 35 213 1,219
Total Books 0 0 0 0 19 43 277 2,773
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African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 34 0 1 15 177
Explaining Miracles: Growth Regressions Meet the Gang of Four 0 0 1 62 1 1 28 341
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 1 2 3 141 4 11 28 527
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 1 1 6 919 1 2 29 2,850
The Role of Growth Slowdowns and Forecast Errors in Public Debt Crises 0 0 0 54 1 2 11 144
Total Chapters 2 3 11 1,534 7 18 139 5,060


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