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A consistency framework for macroeconomic analysis 0 0 2 481 5 6 12 1,432
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 0 3 9 17 23 4,684
Africa's growth tragedy: a retrospective, 1960-89 0 0 0 1,253 3 3 5 2,930
African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 135 1 6 7 372
Artificial States 0 0 2 222 3 8 16 624
Artificial States 0 2 4 162 2 5 24 709
Artificial States 0 0 5 199 13 20 39 758
Can institutions resolve ethnic conflict ? 0 0 1 810 4 8 12 2,492
Can the West Save Africa? 1 1 2 457 6 8 12 1,331
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War 0 0 0 84 2 7 13 463
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 0 0 0 135 7 12 18 177
Development, Democracy and Mass Killings 0 0 1 104 1 2 5 308
Development, Democracy, and Mass Killings 0 0 1 219 2 4 10 572
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 0 125 4 5 6 969
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 69 1 6 6 263
Explaining miracles: growth regressions meet the Gang of Four 0 1 1 180 2 5 6 942
Financial sector policy in Thailand: a macroeconomic perspective 0 0 0 121 2 3 4 981
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia, 1992-93 0 0 0 205 2 4 4 1,051
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 0 5 22 2,011 64 77 130 5,304
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 0 1 6 5,744 2 8 27 17,464
Fiscal adjustment and deficit financing during the debt crisis 0 0 0 202 2 2 4 550
Fractionalization 0 0 0 0 2 4 7 160
Fractionalization 0 0 1 271 8 14 19 967
Fractionalization 0 0 2 222 2 4 12 860
Fractionalization 0 1 4 1,032 17 23 38 3,201
Fractionalization 0 2 5 101 1 10 20 424
Good Policy or Good Luck? Country Growth Performance and Temporary Shocks 0 0 2 1,610 3 4 13 4,032
Growth implosions, debt explosions, and my Aunt Marilyn: do growth slowdowns cause public debt crises? 0 0 0 456 2 4 5 1,278
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 0 473 1 2 4 1,231
How Did Latin America’s Infrastructure Fare in the era of Macroeconomic Crises? 0 0 0 311 0 3 5 686
How Do National Policies Affect Long-Run Growth? A Research Agenda 0 0 0 1 3 3 6 668
How did highly indebted poor countries become highly indebted?: reviewing two decades of debt relief 0 2 4 1,290 5 13 19 4,211
How do national policies affect long-run growth?: a research agenda 0 1 1 255 0 4 7 786
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 0 758 3 5 17 1,869
How much fiscal adjustment is enough? The case of Colombia 0 0 0 22 1 5 6 91
In Search of Reforms for Growth: New Stylized Facts on Policy and Growth Outcomes 0 1 6 85 4 5 19 205
Inflation Crises and Long-Run Growth 0 0 8 1,052 4 10 39 2,996
Inflation and the poor 0 2 7 1,333 2 11 19 3,167
Inflation crises and long-run growth 0 0 1 963 3 9 13 2,789
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises that Beget Reforms 0 0 0 100 5 5 5 754
Infrastructure Compression and Public Sector Solvency in Latin America 0 0 0 333 2 3 6 851
Institutions: top down or bottom up? 0 0 4 162 2 4 11 395
Is investment in Africa too low or too high: macro and micro evidence 0 0 1 596 5 7 11 1,951
It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 1 2 7 2,017 8 17 62 5,030
Leader Value Added: Assessing the Growth Contribution of Individual National Leaders 0 0 2 36 6 9 15 101
Life during growth: international evidence on quality of life and per capita income 0 0 0 547 0 3 9 2,858
Low Investment is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 1 341 4 5 7 807
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 0 0 577 1 9 11 2,866
Modeling the macroeconomic requirements of policy reforms 0 0 1 73 0 2 3 353
Money demand and seignorage - maximizing inflation 2 2 3 441 5 9 15 2,482
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 0 0 1 545 3 6 12 1,107
New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting "Aid, Policies, and Growth" 0 1 4 1,036 5 8 16 2,253
New Data, New doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar's "Aid, Policies, and Growth" (2000) 0 0 2 1,186 17 19 29 3,051
On"good"politicians and"bad"policies - social cohesion, institutions, and growth 0 1 1 632 2 6 11 1,951
Policy Distortions, Size of Government, and Growth 0 0 0 141 2 3 4 592
Policy determinants of growth: survey of theory and evidence 0 0 1 199 2 3 6 432
Policy distortions, size of government, and growth 0 0 1 105 7 7 26 436
Policy, Technology Adoption and Growth 0 0 0 332 3 6 9 1,156
Policy, Technology Adoption, and Growth 0 0 0 557 6 9 9 1,374
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 1 512 1 5 16 2,141
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 2 57 2 6 13 391
Public goods and ethnic divisions 0 0 2 986 5 13 27 3,950
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 18 1 5 10 136
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 216 1 2 3 953
Reliving the '50s: The Big Push, Poverty Traps, and Takeoffs in Economic Development 0 0 4 619 5 8 21 2,062
Rhetoric versus reality: the best and worst of aid agency practices 1 2 3 250 2 6 10 839
Service as a major source of growth in Russia and other former Soviet states 0 0 0 46 2 3 5 294
Small states, small problems? 0 1 2 578 1 5 15 2,705
Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth 0 2 4 920 5 17 33 2,001
Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry 0 0 0 91 2 4 5 385
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 1 1 2 133 2 5 13 291
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 0 2 113 2 7 13 251
The European Origins of Economic Development 0 0 1 517 5 11 21 1,411
The European origins of economic development 0 0 1 140 2 7 13 362
The Lamentable Return of the Big Push in Economic Development 0 0 0 286 0 1 1 513
The Soviet Economic Decline: Historical and Republican Data 0 0 5 502 1 4 15 1,300
The Soviet economic decline: historical and republican data 1 2 5 419 11 15 30 1,485
The Surprising Instability of Export Specializations 0 0 2 50 0 2 10 145
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 660
The effect of International Monetary Fund and World Bank programs on poverty 0 2 3 718 3 9 22 3,114
The ghost of financing gap: how the Harrod-Domar growth model still haunts development economics 1 3 11 2,288 10 21 41 8,931
The macroeconomics of public sector deficits: a synthesis 0 0 0 350 4 5 14 1,593
The macroeconomics of the public sector deficit: the case of Colombia 0 0 0 77 2 6 10 608
The power of exports 0 0 1 239 1 2 4 411
The search for the key: aid, investment, and policies in Africa 0 0 0 731 5 7 9 1,956
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 0 1,529 6 11 13 4,201
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 0 341 2 4 6 1,256
Walking up the down escalator: public investment and fiscal stability 0 0 0 255 6 8 12 836
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 0 0 393 1 2 6 1,159
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 0 2 257 2 4 10 501
What did Structural Adjustment Adjust? The Association of Policies and Growth with Repeated IMF and World Bank Adjustment Loans 0 0 0 508 6 8 9 2,110
When is fiscal adjustment an illusion? 0 0 0 715 2 3 5 2,063
the middle class consensus and economic development 0 0 5 892 7 10 19 4,541
Total Working Papers 8 38 175 48,858 391 718 1,385 160,352


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ARTIFICIAL STATES 1 5 7 131 2 16 34 549
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 1 6 213 11 27 52 5,738
Aid, Policies, and Growth: Comment 0 0 0 853 2 5 10 1,846
An identity crisis? Examining IMF financial programming 0 0 0 268 1 1 2 549
Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth? 1 2 7 741 8 22 37 2,255
Can Institutions Resolve Ethnic Conflict? 0 0 1 34 1 4 8 890
Can the West Save Africa? 0 0 5 174 2 3 16 781
Comment on: "Latin America in the rear view mirror" 0 0 0 35 1 2 3 172
Comment évaluer les besoins d'aide ? Réponse: ne posez pas la question 0 0 0 13 0 1 1 62
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 0 0 2 145 4 8 35 988
Development, democracy, and mass killings 0 0 0 91 1 5 7 323
Do Crises Induce Reform? Simple Empirical Tests of Conventional Wisdom 1 1 1 145 1 2 8 676
Do superpower interventions have short and long term consequences for democracy? 0 0 3 62 2 4 12 264
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 146 0 0 2 372
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 0 87 0 3 4 278
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 50 1 2 6 271
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia 0 0 0 4 1 3 4 42
Fiscal Deficits and Macroeconomic Performance in Developing Countries 0 0 0 1 0 3 5 675
Fiscal policy and economic growth: An empirical investigation 4 13 35 2,070 15 40 158 6,104
Fractionalization 0 2 13 2,303 13 45 108 7,517
Globalization, Inequality, and Development: The Big Picture 0 0 1 161 0 1 3 823
Good policy or good luck?: Country growth performance and temporary shocks 0 1 3 1,046 0 8 35 3,050
Growth Implosions and Debt Explosions: Do Growth Slowdowns Cause Public Debt Crises? 0 0 1 253 3 4 8 665
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 0 209 2 3 6 582
How Did Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Become Heavily Indebted? Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief 0 2 10 583 1 5 23 1,370
How Much does Policy Affect Growth? 0 0 0 49 2 4 5 112
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 0 325 1 2 9 758
How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa 0 0 0 391 4 5 8 1,239
In Search of the Holy Grail 0 0 0 86 1 2 2 277
Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument 0 4 13 1,428 4 20 43 3,513
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 1 4 249 2 4 22 735
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 1 2 4 25 2 4 14 105
Inflation and the Poor 0 0 0 0 5 21 49 3,195
Inflation crises and long-run growth 0 2 9 628 7 16 55 2,084
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises That Beget Reforms 0 0 0 50 1 5 11 473
Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up? 0 0 0 256 2 2 7 751
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 2 98 0 2 12 512
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 0 53 1 3 3 588
Life during Growth 0 0 0 229 3 3 7 695
Low Investment Is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 1 6 2 4 10 342
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 1 3 3 370 3 5 9 1,082
Money Demand and Seigniorage-Maximizing Inflation 0 0 0 294 5 8 12 1,137
NAFTA and Convergence in North America: High Expectations, Big Events, Little Time 0 0 2 47 3 6 11 234
Planners versus Searchers in Foreign Aid 0 0 0 0 2 7 31 837
Planners vs. Searchers in African Agricultural Aid 0 0 0 48 2 3 4 225
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 3 8 1,138 3 23 72 4,327
Redistributive Public Employment 1 1 2 129 3 7 11 568
Reliving the 1950s: the big push, poverty traps, and takeoffs in economic development 1 3 9 516 8 17 39 2,894
Response to reviewers on “The Tyranny of Experts” 0 0 0 23 1 2 3 66
Rhetoric versus Reality: The Best and Worst of Aid Agency Practices 0 0 4 186 1 4 17 613
SESSION 2A: VALUES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 89
SOCIAL COHESION, INSTITUTIONS, AND GROWTH 2 3 7 295 4 16 40 751
Small States, Small Problems? Income, Growth, and Volatility in Small States 0 0 0 336 3 11 19 948
The Economic of the Government Budget Constraint 0 0 0 6 7 9 17 1,818
The European origins of economic development 1 7 10 309 7 22 50 1,035
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 1 2 5 464 5 10 20 1,117
The Middle Class Consensus and Economic Development 0 0 3 659 4 10 28 2,388
The Search for the Key: Aid, Investment and Policies in Africa 0 0 0 0 4 5 7 660
The Soviet Economic Decline 0 0 0 2 1 6 26 1,230
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 44 1 3 3 317
The cartel of good intentions: The problem of bureaucracy in foreign aid 0 1 12 557 21 25 53 2,274
The ghost of financing gap: testing the growth model used in the international financial institutions 0 0 1 528 1 4 13 1,217
Tropics, germs, and crops: how endowments influence economic development 2 6 19 1,539 8 29 100 4,832
Troubles with the Neighbours: Africa's Problem, Africa's Opportunity 0 0 0 0 2 3 6 1,181
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 6 0 0 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 5 5 8 245
Was Development Assistance a Mistake? 0 0 1 367 3 4 9 1,187
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 BC? 0 0 3 310 29 36 47 1,284
What did structural adjustment adjust?: The association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans 0 1 6 447 4 14 34 1,329
Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid 1 1 2 63 5 7 15 666
Total Journal Articles 18 67 227 22,639 254 616 1,551 89,549
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Development Economics through the Decades 0 0 1 81 1 3 8 225
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics 0 0 0 0 5 20 56 1,514
The Limits of Stabilization: Infrastructure, Public Deficits, and Growth in Latin America 0 0 1 40 3 8 14 177
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 16 41 112 1,060
Total Books 0 0 2 121 25 72 190 2,976


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African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 34 2 4 9 166
Explaining Miracles: Growth Regressions Meet the Gang of Four 0 0 0 61 2 4 4 317
Fiscal Policy, Debt Crises, and Economic Growth 0 0 0 17 1 1 4 61
Globalization, Poverty, and All That: Factor Endowment versus Productivity Views 0 0 0 150 1 2 4 410
IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty 0 0 0 138 1 1 5 501
It´s Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 0 1 156 1 4 10 530
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 0 3 6 916 6 13 21 2,834
The Role of Growth Slowdowns and Forecast Errors in Public Debt Crises 0 0 0 54 0 2 5 136
Total Chapters 0 3 7 1,526 14 31 62 4,955


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