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A consistency framework for macroeconomic analysis 0 0 2 481 0 1 7 1,427
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 0 3 5 9 14 4,675
Africa's growth tragedy: a retrospective, 1960-89 0 0 0 1,253 0 0 3 2,927
African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 135 3 6 6 371
Artificial States 0 0 2 222 2 6 13 621
Artificial States 2 2 4 162 2 5 24 707
Artificial States 0 0 5 199 5 8 29 745
Can institutions resolve ethnic conflict ? 0 0 1 810 3 4 8 2,488
Can the West Save Africa? 0 0 1 456 2 3 7 1,325
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War 0 0 0 84 4 6 11 461
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 0 0 0 135 5 6 11 170
Development, Democracy and Mass Killings 0 0 1 104 1 1 4 307
Development, Democracy, and Mass Killings 0 0 1 219 2 2 8 570
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 0 125 0 2 2 965
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 69 2 5 5 262
Explaining miracles: growth regressions meet the Gang of Four 1 1 1 180 3 3 4 940
Financial sector policy in Thailand: a macroeconomic perspective 0 0 0 121 0 1 2 979
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia, 1992-93 0 0 0 205 0 2 2 1,049
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 3 6 24 2,011 9 15 77 5,240
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 1 1 6 5,744 4 8 26 17,462
Fiscal adjustment and deficit financing during the debt crisis 0 0 0 202 0 0 2 548
Fractionalization 0 0 2 222 2 4 11 858
Fractionalization 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 158
Fractionalization 1 3 5 101 6 10 22 423
Fractionalization 0 0 2 271 4 9 13 959
Fractionalization 0 1 5 1,032 3 8 23 3,184
Good Policy or Good Luck? Country Growth Performance and Temporary Shocks 0 0 2 1,610 1 1 10 4,029
Growth implosions, debt explosions, and my Aunt Marilyn: do growth slowdowns cause public debt crises? 0 0 0 456 0 2 4 1,276
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 0 473 1 1 3 1,230
How Did Latin America’s Infrastructure Fare in the era of Macroeconomic Crises? 0 0 0 311 1 3 5 686
How Do National Policies Affect Long-Run Growth? A Research Agenda 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 665
How did highly indebted poor countries become highly indebted?: reviewing two decades of debt relief 0 2 4 1,290 6 8 16 4,206
How do national policies affect long-run growth?: a research agenda 1 1 1 255 2 4 7 786
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 0 758 1 2 15 1,866
How much fiscal adjustment is enough? The case of Colombia 0 0 0 22 1 5 5 90
In Search of Reforms for Growth: New Stylized Facts on Policy and Growth Outcomes 1 1 6 85 1 2 17 201
Inflation Crises and Long-Run Growth 0 0 8 1,052 5 8 36 2,992
Inflation and the poor 0 2 7 1,333 3 9 17 3,165
Inflation crises and long-run growth 0 0 2 963 6 6 11 2,786
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises that Beget Reforms 0 0 0 100 0 0 0 749
Infrastructure Compression and Public Sector Solvency in Latin America 0 0 0 333 0 1 4 849
Institutions: top down or bottom up? 0 1 4 162 1 4 9 393
Is investment in Africa too low or too high: macro and micro evidence 0 0 1 596 2 4 6 1,946
It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 1 2 6 2,016 8 13 63 5,022
Leader Value Added: Assessing the Growth Contribution of Individual National Leaders 0 0 2 36 1 5 10 95
Life during growth: international evidence on quality of life and per capita income 0 0 0 547 0 4 9 2,858
Low Investment is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 1 341 0 1 3 803
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 0 0 577 7 9 11 2,865
Modeling the macroeconomic requirements of policy reforms 0 0 1 73 2 2 3 353
Money demand and seignorage - maximizing inflation 0 0 1 439 3 4 10 2,477
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 0 0 1 545 3 3 9 1,104
New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting "Aid, Policies, and Growth" 1 1 4 1,036 1 4 11 2,248
New Data, New doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar's "Aid, Policies, and Growth" (2000) 0 0 2 1,186 1 2 12 3,034
On"good"politicians and"bad"policies - social cohesion, institutions, and growth 1 1 1 632 2 6 9 1,949
Policy Distortions, Size of Government, and Growth 0 0 0 141 0 1 2 590
Policy determinants of growth: survey of theory and evidence 0 0 1 199 0 1 4 430
Policy distortions, size of government, and growth 0 0 1 105 0 2 20 429
Policy, Technology Adoption and Growth 0 0 0 332 1 3 6 1,153
Policy, Technology Adoption, and Growth 0 0 0 557 3 3 4 1,368
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 2 57 4 4 11 389
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 1 512 3 7 15 2,140
Public goods and ethnic divisions 0 0 2 986 5 9 27 3,945
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 18 3 6 9 135
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 216 1 1 2 952
Reliving the '50s: The Big Push, Poverty Traps, and Takeoffs in Economic Development 0 1 4 619 2 5 17 2,057
Rhetoric versus reality: the best and worst of aid agency practices 1 1 2 249 3 4 8 837
Service as a major source of growth in Russia and other former Soviet states 0 0 0 46 0 1 4 292
Small states, small problems? 1 1 2 578 3 4 14 2,704
Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth 1 3 4 920 6 16 28 1,996
Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry 0 0 0 91 0 2 4 383
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 0 1 132 1 4 12 289
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 0 2 113 3 7 11 249
The European Origins of Economic Development 0 0 1 517 5 6 16 1,406
The European origins of economic development 0 0 1 140 3 5 11 360
The Lamentable Return of the Big Push in Economic Development 0 0 0 286 1 1 1 513
The Soviet Economic Decline: Historical and Republican Data 0 1 5 502 1 4 14 1,299
The Soviet economic decline: historical and republican data 0 1 4 418 2 4 21 1,474
The Surprising Instability of Export Specializations 0 0 2 50 2 3 10 145
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 659
The effect of International Monetary Fund and World Bank programs on poverty 1 2 3 718 4 7 20 3,111
The ghost of financing gap: how the Harrod-Domar growth model still haunts development economics 1 5 13 2,287 7 17 35 8,921
The macroeconomics of public sector deficits: a synthesis 0 0 1 350 1 1 11 1,589
The macroeconomics of the public sector deficit: the case of Colombia 0 0 0 77 2 4 8 606
The power of exports 0 0 1 239 0 1 4 410
The search for the key: aid, investment, and policies in Africa 0 0 0 731 1 3 4 1,951
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 0 341 1 2 4 1,254
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 0 1,529 1 5 7 4,195
Walking up the down escalator: public investment and fiscal stability 0 0 0 255 2 2 6 830
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 0 2 257 2 2 8 499
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 0 0 393 1 1 5 1,158
What did Structural Adjustment Adjust? The Association of Policies and Growth with Repeated IMF and World Bank Adjustment Loans 0 0 0 508 2 2 3 2,104
When is fiscal adjustment an illusion? 0 0 1 715 1 1 6 2,061
the middle class consensus and economic development 0 0 5 892 0 4 13 4,534
Total Working Papers 18 40 177 48,850 204 397 1,065 159,961


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ARTIFICIAL STATES 2 4 6 130 9 17 32 547
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 1 2 6 213 8 18 44 5,727
Aid, Policies, and Growth: Comment 0 0 0 853 2 4 9 1,844
An identity crisis? Examining IMF financial programming 0 0 0 268 0 0 1 548
Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth? 1 1 6 740 12 14 29 2,247
Can Institutions Resolve Ethnic Conflict? 0 0 1 34 2 3 7 889
Can the West Save Africa? 0 0 6 174 0 3 15 779
Comment on: "Latin America in the rear view mirror" 0 0 0 35 0 1 2 171
Comment évaluer les besoins d'aide ? Réponse: ne posez pas la question 0 0 0 13 1 1 1 62
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 0 0 2 145 1 6 31 984
Development, democracy, and mass killings 0 0 0 91 0 4 6 322
Do Crises Induce Reform? Simple Empirical Tests of Conventional Wisdom 0 0 0 144 1 1 7 675
Do superpower interventions have short and long term consequences for democracy? 0 0 3 62 0 2 12 262
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 146 0 1 2 372
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 0 87 2 4 5 278
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 50 0 1 7 270
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia 0 0 0 4 0 2 3 41
Fiscal Deficits and Macroeconomic Performance in Developing Countries 0 0 0 1 1 3 5 675
Fiscal policy and economic growth: An empirical investigation 3 12 35 2,066 9 41 161 6,089
Fractionalization 0 7 15 2,303 19 41 105 7,504
Globalization, Inequality, and Development: The Big Picture 0 0 1 161 1 1 4 823
Good policy or good luck?: Country growth performance and temporary shocks 1 1 3 1,046 3 10 39 3,050
Growth Implosions and Debt Explosions: Do Growth Slowdowns Cause Public Debt Crises? 0 0 2 253 0 1 6 662
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 0 209 0 2 4 580
How Did Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Become Heavily Indebted? Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief 2 2 10 583 4 4 24 1,369
How Much does Policy Affect Growth? 0 0 0 49 0 3 3 110
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 0 325 1 1 8 757
How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa 0 0 0 391 0 1 4 1,235
In Search of the Holy Grail 0 0 0 86 0 1 1 276
Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument 3 4 14 1,428 9 16 43 3,509
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 1 2 4 249 2 3 24 733
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 1 2 3 24 2 5 12 103
Inflation and the Poor 0 0 0 0 9 20 47 3,190
Inflation crises and long-run growth 1 3 13 628 4 11 61 2,077
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises That Beget Reforms 0 0 0 50 3 5 10 472
Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up? 0 0 0 256 0 0 5 749
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 0 53 1 2 2 587
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 1 2 98 0 3 16 512
Life during Growth 0 0 1 229 0 0 5 692
Low Investment Is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 1 6 2 2 8 340
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 2 2 369 0 2 6 1,079
Money Demand and Seigniorage-Maximizing Inflation 0 0 0 294 2 3 7 1,132
NAFTA and Convergence in North America: High Expectations, Big Events, Little Time 0 1 2 47 2 4 9 231
Planners versus Searchers in Foreign Aid 0 0 0 0 4 13 31 835
Planners vs. Searchers in African Agricultural Aid 0 0 0 48 1 1 3 223
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 2 3 9 1,138 12 21 74 4,324
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 1 128 1 4 8 565
Reliving the 1950s: the big push, poverty traps, and takeoffs in economic development 2 2 9 515 7 12 33 2,886
Response to reviewers on “The Tyranny of Experts” 0 0 0 23 1 1 2 65
Rhetoric versus Reality: The Best and Worst of Aid Agency Practices 0 0 5 186 1 3 19 612
SESSION 2A: VALUES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 89
SOCIAL COHESION, INSTITUTIONS, AND GROWTH 1 2 5 293 3 19 36 747
Small States, Small Problems? Income, Growth, and Volatility in Small States 0 0 0 336 2 11 16 945
The Economic of the Government Budget Constraint 0 0 0 6 0 3 11 1,811
The European origins of economic development 5 6 9 308 14 15 49 1,028
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 2 4 463 3 6 16 1,112
The Middle Class Consensus and Economic Development 0 0 4 659 1 7 31 2,384
The Search for the Key: Aid, Investment and Policies in Africa 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 656
The Soviet Economic Decline 0 0 0 2 5 6 27 1,229
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 44 1 2 2 316
The cartel of good intentions: The problem of bureaucracy in foreign aid 0 3 12 557 3 6 34 2,253
The ghost of financing gap: testing the growth model used in the international financial institutions 0 0 1 528 3 5 13 1,216
Tropics, germs, and crops: how endowments influence economic development 3 6 18 1,537 16 28 97 4,824
Troubles with the Neighbours: Africa's Problem, Africa's Opportunity 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 1,179
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 6 0 1 1 72
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 7 0 1 1 61
Walking up the Down Escalator: Public Investment and Fiscal Stability 0 0 2 61 0 0 3 240
Was Development Assistance a Mistake? 0 0 1 367 1 2 6 1,184
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 BC? 0 0 4 310 5 8 20 1,255
What did structural adjustment adjust?: The association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans 1 1 7 447 5 14 33 1,325
Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid 0 1 1 62 2 3 12 661
Total Journal Articles 30 70 230 22,621 204 461 1,421 89,295
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Development Economics through the Decades 0 0 2 81 1 2 9 224
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics 0 0 0 0 8 19 58 1,509
The Limits of Stabilization: Infrastructure, Public Deficits, and Growth in Latin America 0 0 1 40 5 6 13 174
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 18 38 96 1,044
Total Books 0 0 3 121 32 65 176 2,951


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African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 34 2 2 7 164
Explaining Miracles: Growth Regressions Meet the Gang of Four 0 0 0 61 1 2 3 315
Fiscal Policy, Debt Crises, and Economic Growth 0 0 0 17 0 0 3 60
Globalization, Poverty, and All That: Factor Endowment versus Productivity Views 0 0 0 150 1 1 3 409
IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty 0 0 0 138 0 1 4 500
It´s Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 0 1 156 2 4 9 529
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 1 3 7 916 5 7 20 2,828
The Role of Growth Slowdowns and Forecast Errors in Public Debt Crises 0 0 0 54 2 3 6 136
Total Chapters 1 3 8 1,526 13 20 55 4,941


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