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A consistency framework for macroeconomic analysis 0 0 0 481 3 5 28 1,455
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 0 3 4 7 48 4,718
Africa's growth tragedy: a retrospective, 1960-89 0 0 0 1,253 1 3 21 2,948
African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 135 1 3 18 386
Artificial States 0 1 4 203 6 10 69 809
Artificial States 0 0 1 223 2 4 16 635
Artificial States 0 1 5 165 3 6 28 733
Can institutions resolve ethnic conflict ? 0 1 2 812 2 5 24 2,509
Can the West Save Africa? 0 0 1 457 4 6 31 1,354
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War 0 1 2 86 1 2 26 483
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 2 3 3 138 3 8 30 195
Development, Democracy and Mass Killings 0 0 0 104 1 2 16 322
Development, Democracy, and Mass Killings 0 0 1 220 4 6 29 597
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 0 125 0 1 10 975
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 69 3 4 17 277
Explaining miracles: growth regressions meet the Gang of Four 0 0 1 180 2 3 18 955
Financial sector policy in Thailand: a macroeconomic perspective 0 0 0 121 0 1 10 989
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia, 1992-93 0 0 1 206 6 7 21 1,070
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 1 2 7 2,015 4 9 130 5,361
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 1 1 6 5,749 2 7 39 17,497
Fiscal adjustment and deficit financing during the debt crisis 0 0 0 202 10 12 47 595
Fractionalization 0 0 0 0 5 7 15 173
Fractionalization 0 0 0 271 10 14 45 1,000
Fractionalization 0 1 4 104 8 14 39 456
Fractionalization 1 2 8 1,040 23 31 110 3,291
Fractionalization 0 0 0 222 1 1 27 883
Good Policy or Good Luck? Country Growth Performance and Temporary Shocks 1 1 3 1,613 3 7 29 4,057
Growth implosions, debt explosions, and my Aunt Marilyn: do growth slowdowns cause public debt crises? 0 0 0 456 0 1 13 1,289
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 0 473 2 4 29 1,258
How Did Latin America’s Infrastructure Fare in the era of Macroeconomic Crises? 0 0 1 312 1 1 11 696
How Do National Policies Affect Long-Run Growth? A Research Agenda 0 0 0 1 1 1 8 673
How did highly indebted poor countries become highly indebted?: reviewing two decades of debt relief 1 1 1 1,291 3 7 35 4,235
How do national policies affect long-run growth?: a research agenda 0 0 1 255 1 2 9 793
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 1 759 3 6 17 1,882
How much fiscal adjustment is enough? The case of Colombia 0 0 0 22 0 0 5 94
In Search of Reforms for Growth: New Stylized Facts on Policy and Growth Outcomes 0 0 3 87 13 16 42 242
Inflation Crises and Long-Run Growth 0 0 1 1,053 6 14 65 3,052
Inflation and the poor 2 2 13 1,346 4 13 70 3,232
Inflation crises and long-run growth 0 0 0 963 4 7 39 2,819
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises that Beget Reforms 0 0 0 100 6 6 20 769
Infrastructure Compression and Public Sector Solvency in Latin America 1 1 1 334 2 6 21 870
Institutions: top down or bottom up? 0 0 0 162 1 1 11 403
Is investment in Africa too low or too high: macro and micro evidence 0 0 0 596 1 1 17 1,961
It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 0 2 2,017 3 11 63 5,077
Leader Value Added: Assessing the Growth Contribution of Individual National Leaders 0 1 2 38 11 16 38 132
Life during growth: international evidence on quality of life and per capita income 0 1 2 549 1 4 17 2,875
Low Investment is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 0 341 1 1 16 819
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 0 0 577 3 5 21 2,879
Modeling the macroeconomic requirements of policy reforms 0 0 0 73 1 2 16 367
Money demand and seignorage - maximizing inflation 0 0 3 442 2 3 42 2,516
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 0 0 1 546 2 2 20 1,121
New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting "Aid, Policies, and Growth" 0 0 1 1,036 3 4 21 2,268
New Data, New doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar's "Aid, Policies, and Growth" (2000) 0 0 1 1,187 1 2 59 3,092
On"good"politicians and"bad"policies - social cohesion, institutions, and growth 0 0 1 632 3 5 16 1,963
Policy Distortions, Size of Government, and Growth 0 0 0 141 1 2 17 607
Policy determinants of growth: survey of theory and evidence 0 0 0 199 2 2 11 441
Policy distortions, size of government, and growth 0 0 1 106 0 2 17 446
Policy, Technology Adoption and Growth 0 0 0 332 2 3 15 1,167
Policy, Technology Adoption, and Growth 0 0 0 557 2 3 24 1,389
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 1 58 7 8 28 413
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 0 512 14 21 140 2,277
Public goods and ethnic divisions 0 1 1 987 3 4 51 3,991
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 216 2 4 15 966
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 18 2 2 18 150
Reliving the '50s: The Big Push, Poverty Traps, and Takeoffs in Economic Development 0 0 1 620 2 7 32 2,087
Rhetoric versus reality: the best and worst of aid agency practices 0 0 2 250 3 6 37 871
Service as a major source of growth in Russia and other former Soviet states 0 0 0 46 0 0 8 300
Small states, small problems? 0 1 4 581 7 10 66 2,767
Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth 0 0 5 924 3 7 35 2,025
Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry 0 0 0 91 7 9 36 419
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 0 0 113 2 2 15 261
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 0 1 133 3 3 15 303
The European Origins of Economic Development 0 0 3 520 2 5 34 1,435
The European origins of economic development 0 0 1 141 2 4 22 379
The Lamentable Return of the Big Push in Economic Development 0 0 1 287 1 2 9 521
The Soviet Economic Decline: Historical and Republican Data 1 2 2 504 63 66 93 1,391
The Soviet economic decline: historical and republican data 0 2 3 421 38 42 92 1,564
The Surprising Instability of Export Specializations 0 0 0 50 1 2 11 154
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 0 10 11 25 683
The effect of International Monetary Fund and World Bank programs on poverty 0 0 3 720 1 8 81 3,188
The ghost of financing gap: how the Harrod-Domar growth model still haunts development economics 3 4 13 2,299 9 14 92 9,006
The macroeconomics of public sector deficits: a synthesis 0 0 1 351 1 2 21 1,609
The macroeconomics of the public sector deficit: the case of Colombia 0 0 0 77 0 0 10 614
The power of exports 0 0 0 239 3 9 15 425
The search for the key: aid, investment, and policies in Africa 0 0 0 731 1 1 13 1,963
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 1 1 7 1,536 5 6 53 4,247
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 0 341 4 4 30 1,283
Walking up the down escalator: public investment and fiscal stability 0 0 2 257 2 6 33 861
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 0 1 258 4 13 41 538
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 1 1 2 395 3 9 39 1,196
What did Structural Adjustment Adjust? The Association of Policies and Growth with Repeated IMF and World Bank Adjustment Loans 1 1 2 510 7 9 40 2,142
When is fiscal adjustment an illusion? 0 0 0 715 1 1 13 2,073
the middle class consensus and economic development 0 0 1 893 5 6 31 4,565
Total Working Papers 17 33 142 48,974 416 641 3,060 162,817


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ARTIFICIAL STATES 0 0 5 133 4 9 48 586
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 4 9 221 14 32 97 5,816
Aid, Policies, and Growth: Comment 0 1 5 858 0 6 24 1,866
An identity crisis? Examining IMF financial programming 0 0 1 269 1 1 10 558
Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth? 1 1 3 742 8 9 63 2,298
Can Institutions Resolve Ethnic Conflict? 0 0 0 34 0 1 13 900
Can the West Save Africa? 0 0 0 174 16 16 101 880
Comment on: "Latin America in the rear view mirror" 0 0 0 35 1 1 9 180
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 6 11 33 1,016
Development, democracy, and mass killings 0 0 0 91 2 4 11 333
Do Crises Induce Reform? Simple Empirical Tests of Conventional Wisdom 0 0 3 147 2 3 13 687
Do superpower interventions have short and long term consequences for democracy? 0 0 3 65 4 4 34 296
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 146 2 2 8 380
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 0 87 0 1 14 290
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 1 51 1 2 26 296
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia 0 0 0 4 1 1 14 55
Fiscal Deficits and Macroeconomic Performance in Developing Countries 0 0 0 1 7 7 15 689
Fiscal policy and economic growth: An empirical investigation 0 1 13 2,076 4 14 120 6,200
Fractionalization 1 2 12 2,315 50 57 158 7,643
Globalization, Inequality, and Development: The Big Picture 0 0 0 161 3 3 32 854
Good policy or good luck?: Country growth performance and temporary shocks 0 0 2 1,047 3 4 37 3,084
Growth Implosions and Debt Explosions: Do Growth Slowdowns Cause Public Debt Crises? 0 0 0 253 5 5 17 679
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 1 210 3 4 44 624
How Did Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Become Heavily Indebted? Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief 0 0 6 587 2 4 29 1,394
How Much does Policy Affect Growth? 1 1 1 50 2 3 8 118
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 1 326 1 1 19 775
How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa 0 1 1 392 2 3 17 1,252
In Search of the Holy Grail 0 0 0 86 2 2 8 284
Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument 0 1 13 1,438 3 6 56 3,556
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 0 3 26 3 4 16 117
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 0 1 249 1 2 33 764
Inflation and the Poor 0 0 0 0 8 13 96 3,277
Inflation crises and long-run growth 0 3 9 636 4 12 59 2,132
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises That Beget Reforms 0 0 0 50 3 4 12 481
Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up? 0 0 0 256 2 2 15 764
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 1 1 99 0 1 21 533
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 0 53 0 0 5 591
Life during Growth 0 0 0 229 3 3 11 703
Low Investment Is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 0 6 2 3 16 354
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 1 2 371 2 4 17 1,096
Money Demand and Seigniorage-Maximizing Inflation 0 0 0 294 2 2 20 1,150
NAFTA and Convergence in North America: High Expectations, Big Events, Little Time 0 0 0 47 0 0 20 249
Planners versus Searchers in Foreign Aid 0 0 0 0 6 12 52 883
Planners vs. Searchers in African Agricultural Aid 0 0 0 48 1 1 9 231
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 1 12 1,148 23 34 96 4,408
Redistributive Public Employment 0 2 3 131 3 7 30 594
Reliving the 1950s: the big push, poverty traps, and takeoffs in economic development 0 0 6 519 3 11 76 2,955
Response to reviewers on “The Tyranny of Experts” 0 0 0 23 2 3 11 75
Rhetoric versus Reality: The Best and Worst of Aid Agency Practices 0 0 0 186 1 1 29 640
SESSION 2A: VALUES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 22 1 1 4 93
SOCIAL COHESION, INSTITUTIONS, AND GROWTH 0 0 6 298 0 3 34 778
Small States, Small Problems? Income, Growth, and Volatility in Small States 1 2 4 340 1 4 34 977
The Economic of the Government Budget Constraint 0 0 0 6 2 4 32 1,843
The European origins of economic development 2 3 12 315 10 12 72 1,086
The Impact of Globalization on Rural Poverty 0 0 0 175 3 4 13 657
The Lost Decades: Developing Countries' Stagnation in Spite of Policy Reform 1980-1998 0 0 3 466 3 4 36 1,145
The Middle Class Consensus and Economic Development 0 0 1 660 3 4 36 2,419
The Search for the Key: Aid, Investment and Policies in Africa 0 0 0 0 3 3 24 679
The Soviet Economic Decline 0 0 0 2 9 16 57 1,281
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 44 3 3 10 325
The cartel of good intentions: The problem of bureaucracy in foreign aid 0 0 2 559 2 2 52 2,302
The ghost of financing gap: testing the growth model used in the international financial institutions 0 2 3 531 3 7 25 1,238
Tropics, germs, and crops: how endowments influence economic development 2 3 12 1,546 9 18 102 4,910
Troubles with the Neighbours: Africa's Problem, Africa's Opportunity 0 0 0 0 2 2 9 1,188
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 6 1 1 10 82
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 7 1 2 5 66
Walking up the Down Escalator: Public Investment and Fiscal Stability 0 0 0 61 1 1 18 258
Was Development Assistance a Mistake? 0 0 1 368 5 8 21 1,204
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 BC? 1 2 5 315 7 10 120 1,370
What did structural adjustment adjust?: The association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans 1 1 10 456 10 17 69 1,389
Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid 0 1 3 65 2 4 38 697
Total Journal Articles 10 34 180 22,771 299 465 2,547 91,638
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Development Economics through the Decades 0 0 0 81 0 0 15 238
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics 0 0 0 0 4 11 62 1,563
The Limits of Stabilization: Infrastructure, Public Deficits, and Growth in Latin America 0 0 1 41 5 5 19 188
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 13 45 221 1,247
Total Books 0 0 1 122 22 61 317 3,236


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African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 34 2 2 17 179
Explaining Miracles: Growth Regressions Meet the Gang of Four 0 0 1 62 2 4 30 344
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 3 3 13 421
IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty 0 1 3 141 2 7 30 530
It´s Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 0 0 156 2 2 12 539
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 1 2 5 920 5 8 34 2,857
The Role of Growth Slowdowns and Forecast Errors in Public Debt Crises 0 0 0 54 0 1 10 144
Total Chapters 1 3 10 1,535 16 27 152 5,080


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