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A consistency framework for macroeconomic analysis 0 2 9 481 0 2 17 1,426
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 0 3 1 3 7 4,665
Africa's growth tragedy: a retrospective, 1960-89 0 0 0 1,253 1 1 3 2,926
African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 135 0 0 2 365
Artificial States 2 3 5 198 2 7 21 733
Artificial States 0 0 1 221 0 2 6 613
Artificial States 0 1 2 160 2 5 30 700
Can institutions resolve ethnic conflict ? 0 0 0 809 0 1 4 2,483
Can the West Save Africa? 0 0 1 456 0 0 9 1,322
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War 0 0 1 84 0 3 7 455
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 0 0 0 135 0 3 7 163
Development, Democracy and Mass Killings 0 1 1 104 0 1 5 306
Development, Democracy, and Mass Killings 0 1 2 219 0 3 9 568
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 0 125 0 0 1 963
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 0 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 3 10 27 2,002 3 21 94 5,217
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 0 2 7 5,742 0 5 26 17,451
Fiscal adjustment and deficit financing during the debt crisis 0 0 1 202 0 0 3 548
Fractionalization 0 1 2 222 0 4 8 854
Fractionalization 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 154
Fractionalization 0 1 2 271 0 2 6 950
Fractionalization 0 1 5 1,030 0 3 22 3,173
Fractionalization 0 1 2 98 0 2 14 411
Good Policy or Good Luck? Country Growth Performance and Temporary Shocks 0 2 3 1,610 0 6 13 4,027
Growth implosions, debt explosions, and my Aunt Marilyn: do growth slowdowns cause public debt crises? 0 0 1 456 1 1 4 1,274
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 0 473 0 0 2 1,228
How Did Latin America’s Infrastructure Fare in the era of Macroeconomic Crises? 0 0 1 311 0 1 2 682
How Do National Policies Affect Long-Run Growth? A Research Agenda 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 665
How did highly indebted poor countries become highly indebted?: reviewing two decades of debt relief 0 1 3 1,287 0 2 10 4,196
How do national policies affect long-run growth?: a research agenda 0 0 0 254 0 0 4 781
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 1 758 0 1 13 1,863
How much fiscal adjustment is enough? The case of Colombia 0 0 0 22 0 0 1 85
In Search of Reforms for Growth: New Stylized Facts on Policy and Growth Outcomes 1 1 6 83 2 4 18 197
Inflation Crises and Long-Run Growth 2 3 11 1,051 2 8 30 2,975
Inflation and the poor 1 3 6 1,331 1 3 10 3,154
Inflation crises and long-run growth 0 1 2 963 0 3 6 2,780
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises that Beget Reforms 0 0 0 100 0 0 1 749
Infrastructure Compression and Public Sector Solvency in Latin America 0 0 1 333 1 1 3 847
Institutions: top down or bottom up? 0 1 2 160 0 2 5 388
Is investment in Africa too low or too high: macro and micro evidence 1 1 2 596 2 2 3 1,942
It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 2 9 2,013 8 18 79 5,000
Leader Value Added: Assessing the Growth Contribution of Individual National Leaders 0 0 2 36 0 0 9 89
Life during growth: international evidence on quality of life and per capita income 0 0 2 547 1 1 7 2,852
Low Investment is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 1 1 341 0 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 0 1 2 439 1 4 7 2,471
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 0 0 2 544 0 0 8 1,099
New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting "Aid, Policies, and Growth" 0 1 2 1,034 1 2 9 2,243
New Data, New doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar's "Aid, Policies, and Growth" (2000) 0 2 3 1,186 0 6 9 3,029
On"good"politicians and"bad"policies - social cohesion, institutions, and growth 0 0 1 631 1 1 6 1,941
Policy Distortions, Size of Government, and Growth 0 0 0 141 0 0 2 589
Policy determinants of growth: survey of theory and evidence 0 1 2 199 0 2 7 429
Policy distortions, size of government, and growth 0 0 1 105 3 4 29 423
Policy, Technology Adoption and Growth 0 0 1 332 0 0 4 1,149
Policy, Technology Adoption, and Growth 0 0 0 557 0 0 3 1,365
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 1 3 57 0 2 8 384
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 1 1 1 512 1 1 10 2,131
Public goods and ethnic divisions 0 2 4 986 2 5 22 3,935
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 216 0 0 2 951
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 18 0 0 4 129
Reliving the '50s: The Big Push, Poverty Traps, and Takeoffs in Economic Development 1 1 5 617 3 7 13 2,050
Rhetoric versus reality: the best and worst of aid agency practices 0 0 3 248 0 1 7 833
Service as a major source of growth in Russia and other former Soviet states 0 0 0 46 0 0 4 290
Small states, small problems? 0 0 1 576 0 4 11 2,697
Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth 0 0 5 917 1 2 14 1,976
Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry 0 0 0 91 1 1 7 381
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 0 1 132 1 1 5 281
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 0 1 112 1 1 3 241
The European Origins of Economic Development 1 1 1 517 1 3 14 1,398
The European origins of economic development 1 1 1 140 2 3 8 354
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 2 4 500 0 3 7 1,291
The Soviet economic decline: historical and republican data 1 1 4 417 3 9 28 1,469
The Surprising Instability of Export Specializations 0 1 3 50 1 2 8 140
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 1 1 2 716 1 4 16 3,101
The ghost of financing gap: how the Harrod-Domar growth model still haunts development economics 0 0 18 2,281 1 2 37 8,901
The macroeconomics of public sector deficits: a synthesis 0 0 2 350 0 2 13 1,585
The macroeconomics of the public sector deficit: the case of Colombia 0 0 0 77 0 2 4 602
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 1 1 3 4,189
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 0 341 0 0 3 1,252
Walking up the down escalator: public investment and fiscal stability 0 0 1 255 1 2 8 826
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 1 2 257 0 1 7 497
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 0 0 393 0 2 5 1,156
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 2 2,101
When is fiscal adjustment an illusion? 0 0 3 715 0 0 9 2,060
the middle class consensus and economic development 0 0 3 890 1 2 12 4,528
Total Working Papers 16 58 207 48,787 56 208 919 159,438


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ARTIFICIAL STATES 1 2 2 126 1 5 19 528
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 9 211 2 9 37 5,705
Aid, Policies, and Growth: Comment 0 0 0 853 0 1 7 1,839
An identity crisis? Examining IMF financial programming 0 0 2 268 0 0 3 548
Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth? 0 4 5 739 0 9 21 2,230
Can Institutions Resolve Ethnic Conflict? 0 0 1 33 1 1 4 885
Can the West Save Africa? 1 3 10 174 1 5 19 775
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 0 2 3 145 4 10 28 972
Development, democracy, and mass killings 0 0 0 91 0 1 3 318
Do Crises Induce Reform? Simple Empirical Tests of Conventional Wisdom 0 0 0 144 1 1 5 673
Do superpower interventions have short and long term consequences for democracy? 0 0 8 62 0 0 13 257
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 146 0 0 2 371
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 0 87 0 0 3 274
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 50 0 2 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 0 4 672
Fiscal policy and economic growth: An empirical investigation 2 12 38 2,054 10 38 177 6,029
Fractionalization 0 3 16 2,296 3 20 86 7,447
Globalization, Inequality, and Development: The Big Picture 0 0 2 161 0 0 5 822
Good policy or good luck?: Country growth performance and temporary shocks 0 0 7 1,045 1 9 47 3,035
Growth Implosions and Debt Explosions: Do Growth Slowdowns Cause Public Debt Crises? 0 0 3 253 0 0 6 660
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 0 209 0 0 3 577
How Did Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Become Heavily Indebted? Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief 0 3 13 579 0 8 36 1,360
How Much does Policy Affect Growth? 0 0 0 49 0 0 1 107
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 0 325 0 1 12 756
How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa 0 0 1 391 0 0 5 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 1 2 12 1,421 2 9 41 3,489
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 1 5 247 3 6 22 728
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 0 2 22 1 3 8 97
Inflation and the Poor 0 0 0 0 2 11 45 3,167
Inflation crises and long-run growth 0 0 16 624 7 16 72 2,061
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises That Beget Reforms 0 0 0 50 1 1 2 464
Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up? 0 0 0 256 2 2 4 747
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 3 97 0 3 24 509
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 0 53 0 0 1 585
Life during Growth 0 0 3 229 1 2 8 691
Low Investment Is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 1 1 6 1 4 6 336
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 0 2 367 1 1 7 1,076
Money Demand and Seigniorage-Maximizing Inflation 0 0 0 294 1 1 7 1,128
NAFTA and Convergence in North America: High Expectations, Big Events, Little Time 0 0 0 45 0 1 5 226
Planners versus Searchers in Foreign Aid 0 0 0 0 2 6 21 817
Planners vs. Searchers in African Agricultural Aid 0 0 0 48 0 0 2 222
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 1 4 10 1,135 3 29 74 4,296
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 3 128 0 1 4 559
Reliving the 1950s: the big push, poverty traps, and takeoffs in economic development 0 2 6 512 1 7 22 2,868
Reply to Brendan Beare 0 0 0 13 0 0 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 0 10 185 1 3 30 605
SESSION 2A: VALUES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 89
SOCIAL COHESION, INSTITUTIONS, AND GROWTH 0 2 5 290 1 7 30 724
Small States, Small Problems? Income, Growth, and Volatility in Small States 0 0 0 336 0 1 3 932
The Economic of the Government Budget Constraint 0 0 0 6 1 6 14 1,808
The European origins of economic development 1 2 7 302 4 12 42 1,007
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 0 0 5 460 1 1 9 1,101
The Middle Class Consensus and Economic Development 0 1 8 658 1 6 44 2,375
The Search for the Key: Aid, Investment and Policies in Africa 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 655
The Soviet Economic Decline 0 0 0 2 4 7 23 1,218
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 0 4 12 553 3 12 46 2,243
The ghost of financing gap: testing the growth model used in the international financial institutions 0 0 3 528 0 1 13 1,209
Tropics, germs, and crops: how endowments influence economic development 1 6 17 1,530 4 22 89 4,786
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 6 0 0 0 71
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 60
Walking up the Down Escalator: Public Investment and Fiscal Stability 1 2 2 61 2 3 3 240
Was Development Assistance a Mistake? 0 0 2 367 0 0 6 1,180
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 BC? 0 1 4 310 1 3 17 1,246
What did structural adjustment adjust?: The association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans 0 2 8 445 1 6 32 1,308
Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid 0 0 2 61 3 5 16 657
Total Journal Articles 9 59 269 22,548 79 319 1,362 88,792


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Development Economics through the Decades 0 0 2 80 0 0 7 219
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics 0 0 0 0 4 11 87 1,482
The Limits of Stabilization: Infrastructure, Public Deficits, and Growth in Latin America 0 0 6 40 2 2 18 168
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 23 62 989
Total Books 0 0 8 120 16 36 174 2,858


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 1 34 3 3 5 161
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 2 59
Globalization, Poverty, and All That: Factor Endowment versus Productivity Views 0 0 0 150 0 1 4 408
IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty 0 0 0 138 0 2 4 499
It´s Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 1 1 156 0 2 10 525
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 0 2 11 913 0 3 27 2,820
The Role of Growth Slowdowns and Forecast Errors in Public Debt Crises 0 0 0 54 1 1 3 133
Total Chapters 0 3 13 1,523 4 13 57 4,918


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