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A consistency framework for macroeconomic analysis 0 0 0 481 1 7 23 1,449
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 0 3 2 9 46 4,711
Africa's growth tragedy: a retrospective, 1960-89 0 0 0 1,253 0 3 19 2,945
African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 135 0 4 18 383
Artificial States 0 0 2 223 0 2 18 631
Artificial States 0 1 4 164 4 10 26 726
Artificial States 0 0 4 202 2 18 64 797
Can institutions resolve ethnic conflict ? 0 0 1 810 0 4 20 2,503
Can the West Save Africa? 0 0 1 457 0 6 25 1,347
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War 0 1 1 85 0 7 26 481
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 0 0 0 135 0 3 23 186
Development, Democracy and Mass Killings 0 0 0 104 1 8 14 320
Development, Democracy, and Mass Killings 0 1 1 220 0 5 23 591
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 0 125 1 1 11 974
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 69 1 4 16 273
Explaining miracles: growth regressions meet the Gang of Four 0 0 1 180 0 6 15 952
Financial sector policy in Thailand: a macroeconomic perspective 0 0 0 121 0 3 10 988
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia, 1992-93 0 0 0 205 0 5 15 1,062
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 0 1 11 2,013 4 26 131 5,348
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 0 2 6 5,748 2 20 38 17,489
Fiscal adjustment and deficit financing during the debt crisis 0 0 0 202 1 12 33 581
Fractionalization 0 0 0 271 4 12 35 985
Fractionalization 0 0 0 222 2 11 28 882
Fractionalization 1 2 5 103 1 15 31 442
Fractionalization 2 6 8 1,038 5 27 87 3,260
Fractionalization 0 0 0 0 0 5 12 166
Good Policy or Good Luck? Country Growth Performance and Temporary Shocks 0 0 2 1,612 1 10 23 4,050
Growth implosions, debt explosions, and my Aunt Marilyn: do growth slowdowns cause public debt crises? 0 0 0 456 0 3 14 1,288
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 0 473 1 11 26 1,254
How Did Latin America’s Infrastructure Fare in the era of Macroeconomic Crises? 0 1 1 312 0 4 13 695
How Do National Policies Affect Long-Run Growth? A Research Agenda 0 0 0 1 0 3 7 672
How did highly indebted poor countries become highly indebted?: reviewing two decades of debt relief 0 0 3 1,290 0 4 32 4,228
How do national policies affect long-run growth?: a research agenda 0 0 1 255 0 3 9 790
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 0 758 0 2 12 1,875
How much fiscal adjustment is enough? The case of Colombia 0 0 0 22 0 3 9 94
In Search of Reforms for Growth: New Stylized Facts on Policy and Growth Outcomes 0 0 4 87 3 6 28 225
Inflation Crises and Long-Run Growth 0 1 2 1,053 1 20 62 3,037
Inflation and the poor 0 4 11 1,342 4 22 61 3,215
Inflation crises and long-run growth 0 0 0 963 2 12 31 2,811
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises that Beget Reforms 0 0 0 100 0 2 14 763
Infrastructure Compression and Public Sector Solvency in Latin America 0 0 0 333 0 4 17 864
Institutions: top down or bottom up? 0 0 2 162 0 1 14 402
Is investment in Africa too low or too high: macro and micro evidence 0 0 0 596 1 3 18 1,960
It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 0 4 2,017 1 6 64 5,064
Leader Value Added: Assessing the Growth Contribution of Individual National Leaders 0 0 1 37 1 3 27 116
Life during growth: international evidence on quality of life and per capita income 0 0 0 547 1 5 18 2,870
Low Investment is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 0 341 1 3 15 817
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 0 0 577 0 4 19 2,874
Modeling the macroeconomic requirements of policy reforms 0 0 0 73 0 2 14 365
Money demand and seignorage - maximizing inflation 0 0 3 442 0 9 41 2,512
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 0 0 2 546 1 4 19 1,118
New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting "Aid, Policies, and Growth" 0 0 2 1,036 0 3 21 2,264
New Data, New doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar's "Aid, Policies, and Growth" (2000) 1 1 1 1,187 1 6 60 3,089
On"good"politicians and"bad"policies - social cohesion, institutions, and growth 0 0 1 632 0 3 17 1,958
Policy Distortions, Size of Government, and Growth 0 0 0 141 0 7 16 605
Policy determinants of growth: survey of theory and evidence 0 0 0 199 0 3 9 438
Policy distortions, size of government, and growth 0 0 1 106 0 4 21 444
Policy, Technology Adoption and Growth 0 0 0 332 0 2 15 1,164
Policy, Technology Adoption, and Growth 0 0 0 557 1 7 21 1,386
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 1 1 58 2 7 21 405
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 0 512 1 111 125 2,256
Public goods and ethnic divisions 0 0 0 986 7 23 51 3,986
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 18 0 2 19 148
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 216 0 4 11 962
Reliving the '50s: The Big Push, Poverty Traps, and Takeoffs in Economic Development 0 0 3 620 1 9 30 2,080
Rhetoric versus reality: the best and worst of aid agency practices 0 0 2 250 15 18 32 865
Service as a major source of growth in Russia and other former Soviet states 0 0 0 46 0 2 10 300
Small states, small problems? 0 0 4 580 0 5 60 2,757
Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth 0 0 4 921 0 2 39 2,015
Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry 0 0 0 91 0 8 29 410
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 0 1 113 0 3 18 259
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 0 1 133 0 5 19 300
The European Origins of Economic Development 0 0 3 520 1 10 32 1,430
The European origins of economic development 0 0 1 141 1 5 21 375
The Lamentable Return of the Big Push in Economic Development 0 1 1 287 0 3 7 519
The Soviet Economic Decline: Historical and Republican Data 0 0 2 502 0 6 29 1,320
The Soviet economic decline: historical and republican data 0 0 2 419 8 19 52 1,521
The Surprising Instability of Export Specializations 0 0 0 50 0 2 12 152
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 0 0 2 14 671
The effect of International Monetary Fund and World Bank programs on poverty 1 1 4 720 6 27 78 3,179
The ghost of financing gap: how the Harrod-Domar growth model still haunts development economics 1 3 13 2,294 3 19 89 8,990
The macroeconomics of public sector deficits: a synthesis 0 1 1 351 1 3 21 1,606
The macroeconomics of the public sector deficit: the case of Colombia 0 0 0 77 0 1 12 614
The power of exports 0 0 1 239 1 2 8 416
The search for the key: aid, investment, and policies in Africa 0 0 0 731 0 0 14 1,961
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 0 341 1 12 26 1,278
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 6 1,535 4 17 50 4,239
Walking up the down escalator: public investment and fiscal stability 0 1 1 256 0 8 28 854
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 1 1 1 394 5 12 31 1,187
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 0 1 258 0 14 28 525
What did Structural Adjustment Adjust? The Association of Policies and Growth with Repeated IMF and World Bank Adjustment Loans 0 0 1 509 1 5 32 2,133
When is fiscal adjustment an illusion? 0 0 0 715 2 5 12 2,072
the middle class consensus and economic development 0 0 3 893 2 5 31 4,559
Total Working Papers 7 30 143 48,930 113 793 2,685 162,123


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ARTIFICIAL STATES 1 1 7 133 3 12 48 576
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 5 216 4 15 77 5,782
Aid, Policies, and Growth: Comment 0 4 4 857 1 8 20 1,859
An identity crisis? Examining IMF financial programming 0 0 0 268 0 2 8 556
Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth? 0 0 2 741 1 16 59 2,289
Can Institutions Resolve Ethnic Conflict? 0 0 1 34 0 2 13 898
Can the West Save Africa? 0 0 0 174 60 67 82 857
Comment on: "Latin America in the rear view mirror" 0 0 0 35 0 3 10 179
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 4 6 32 1,004
Development, democracy, and mass killings 0 0 0 91 0 2 11 329
Do Crises Induce Reform? Simple Empirical Tests of Conventional Wisdom 1 1 2 146 3 4 10 683
Do superpower interventions have short and long term consequences for democracy? 1 1 3 65 3 6 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 3 15 289
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 50 3 11 25 293
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia 0 0 0 4 0 3 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 0 0 20 2,074 9 32 154 6,183
Fractionalization 2 3 17 2,313 6 27 135 7,582
Globalization, Inequality, and Development: The Big Picture 0 0 0 161 0 3 28 850
Good policy or good luck?: Country growth performance and temporary shocks 0 0 2 1,047 1 10 42 3,077
Growth Implosions and Debt Explosions: Do Growth Slowdowns Cause Public Debt Crises? 0 0 0 253 1 4 14 674
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 1 210 0 8 43 620
How Did Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Become Heavily Indebted? Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief 1 2 7 586 3 6 29 1,389
How Much does Policy Affect Growth? 0 0 0 49 0 0 8 115
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 0 325 1 5 17 773
How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa 0 0 0 391 0 1 16 1,248
In Search of the Holy Grail 0 0 0 86 0 2 6 281
Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument 0 0 13 1,434 3 6 58 3,547
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 0 2 249 1 7 34 762
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 1 4 26 0 4 16 113
Inflation and the Poor 0 0 0 0 12 25 88 3,255
Inflation crises and long-run growth 0 1 7 631 3 18 57 2,118
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises That Beget Reforms 0 0 0 50 0 0 12 476
Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up? 0 0 0 256 0 3 15 762
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 1 98 1 7 21 530
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 0 53 0 1 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 4 15 351
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 0 3 370 0 4 16 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 2 47 0 1 22 248
Planners versus Searchers in Foreign Aid 0 0 0 0 2 15 52 869
Planners vs. Searchers in African Agricultural Aid 0 0 0 48 0 1 8 230
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 4 6 11 1,146 11 23 74 4,370
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 1 129 2 7 27 586
Reliving the 1950s: the big push, poverty traps, and takeoffs in economic development 2 3 7 519 5 24 75 2,943
Response to reviewers on “The Tyranny of Experts” 0 0 0 23 0 3 9 72
Rhetoric versus Reality: The Best and Worst of Aid Agency Practices 0 0 1 186 5 10 32 637
SESSION 2A: VALUES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 22 0 2 3 92
SOCIAL COHESION, INSTITUTIONS, AND GROWTH 0 0 7 297 0 6 48 772
Small States, Small Problems? Income, Growth, and Volatility in Small States 0 1 2 338 2 16 40 972
The Economic of the Government Budget Constraint 0 0 0 6 3 10 30 1,838
The European origins of economic development 0 1 10 312 4 18 67 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 4 40 1,141
The Middle Class Consensus and Economic Development 0 0 2 660 1 3 39 2,414
The Search for the Key: Aid, Investment and Policies in Africa 0 0 0 0 0 1 20 675
The Soviet Economic Decline 0 0 0 2 2 8 44 1,262
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 44 0 0 7 321
The cartel of good intentions: The problem of bureaucracy in foreign aid 0 2 6 559 3 18 56 2,299
The ghost of financing gap: testing the growth model used in the international financial institutions 0 0 1 529 2 6 22 1,231
Tropics, germs, and crops: how endowments influence economic development 0 0 12 1,542 3 30 102 4,888
Troubles with the Neighbours: Africa's Problem, Africa's Opportunity 0 0 0 0 1 3 10 1,186
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 6 0 1 9 80
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 7 0 2 3 63
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 0 4 15 1,195
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 BC? 0 0 3 313 4 14 111 1,357
What did structural adjustment adjust?: The association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans 3 5 10 455 5 18 59 1,367
Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid 0 0 2 63 1 13 34 691
Total Journal Articles 15 33 186 22,721 179 600 2,424 91,085
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Development Economics through the Decades 0 0 1 81 0 6 17 236
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics 0 0 0 0 3 20 67 1,549
The Limits of Stabilization: Infrastructure, Public Deficits, and Growth in Latin America 1 1 1 41 1 4 15 183
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 8 66 203 1,192
Total Books 1 1 2 122 12 96 302 3,160


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African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 34 1 3 16 177
Explaining Miracles: Growth Regressions Meet the Gang of Four 0 0 1 62 0 11 27 340
Fiscal Policy, Debt Crises, and Economic Growth 0 0 0 17 0 0 7 66
Globalization, Poverty, and All That: Factor Endowment versus Productivity Views 0 0 1 151 0 2 10 418
IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty 1 1 2 140 7 12 24 523
It´s Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 0 0 156 1 2 12 537
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 0 2 5 918 0 7 28 2,848
The Role of Growth Slowdowns and Forecast Errors in Public Debt Crises 0 0 0 54 0 0 9 142
Total Chapters 1 3 9 1,532 9 37 133 5,051


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