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A consistency framework for macroeconomic analysis 0 0 2 481 1 15 18 1,442
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 0 3 6 20 34 4,695
Africa's growth tragedy: a retrospective, 1960-89 0 0 0 1,253 2 9 11 2,936
African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 135 1 8 14 379
Artificial States 1 1 2 223 3 7 18 628
Artificial States 2 3 7 202 5 27 47 772
Artificial States 0 0 3 162 1 6 20 713
Can institutions resolve ethnic conflict ? 0 0 1 810 3 10 16 2,498
Can the West Save Africa? 0 1 1 457 2 15 18 1,340
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War 0 0 0 84 1 11 20 472
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 0 0 0 135 0 10 20 180
Development, Democracy and Mass Killings 0 0 1 104 0 5 7 312
Development, Democracy, and Mass Killings 0 0 1 219 2 14 20 584
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 0 125 2 8 10 973
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 69 1 3 8 265
Explaining miracles: growth regressions meet the Gang of Four 0 0 1 180 1 4 7 944
Financial sector policy in Thailand: a macroeconomic perspective 0 0 0 121 2 6 8 985
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia, 1992-93 0 0 0 205 1 7 9 1,056
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 0 1 22 2,012 2 74 128 5,314
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 0 1 5 5,745 0 4 22 17,466
Fiscal adjustment and deficit financing during the debt crisis 0 0 0 202 4 19 19 567
Fractionalization 0 0 0 0 1 3 8 161
Fractionalization 0 0 1 271 1 13 24 972
Fractionalization 0 0 1 222 2 8 16 866
Fractionalization 0 0 4 101 0 4 20 427
Fractionalization 0 0 3 1,032 8 42 58 3,226
Good Policy or Good Luck? Country Growth Performance and Temporary Shocks 1 2 4 1,612 1 11 19 4,040
Growth implosions, debt explosions, and my Aunt Marilyn: do growth slowdowns cause public debt crises? 0 0 0 456 1 8 11 1,284
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 0 473 1 11 14 1,241
How Did Latin America’s Infrastructure Fare in the era of Macroeconomic Crises? 0 0 0 311 0 5 10 691
How Do National Policies Affect Long-Run Growth? A Research Agenda 0 0 0 1 0 4 6 669
How did highly indebted poor countries become highly indebted?: reviewing two decades of debt relief 0 0 4 1,290 2 16 29 4,222
How do national policies affect long-run growth?: a research agenda 0 0 1 255 0 1 6 787
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 0 758 0 7 19 1,873
How much fiscal adjustment is enough? The case of Colombia 0 0 0 22 0 1 6 91
In Search of Reforms for Growth: New Stylized Facts on Policy and Growth Outcomes 0 2 7 87 4 16 29 217
Inflation Crises and Long-Run Growth 0 0 5 1,052 4 18 47 3,010
Inflation and the poor 3 4 9 1,337 15 23 37 3,188
Inflation crises and long-run growth 0 0 1 963 5 11 21 2,797
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises that Beget Reforms 0 0 0 100 1 12 12 761
Infrastructure Compression and Public Sector Solvency in Latin America 0 0 0 333 1 11 14 860
Institutions: top down or bottom up? 0 0 3 162 3 8 15 401
Is investment in Africa too low or too high: macro and micro evidence 0 0 1 596 4 11 17 1,957
It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 1 6 2,017 9 28 74 5,050
Leader Value Added: Assessing the Growth Contribution of Individual National Leaders 0 1 2 37 1 15 23 110
Life during growth: international evidence on quality of life and per capita income 0 0 0 547 2 6 13 2,864
Low Investment is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 1 341 2 10 12 813
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 0 0 577 1 4 14 2,869
Modeling the macroeconomic requirements of policy reforms 0 0 0 73 4 10 12 363
Money demand and seignorage - maximizing inflation 1 3 4 442 4 18 28 2,495
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 0 1 2 546 0 7 13 1,111
New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting "Aid, Policies, and Growth" 0 0 3 1,036 1 12 19 2,260
New Data, New doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar's "Aid, Policies, and Growth" (2000) 0 0 2 1,186 2 48 59 3,082
On"good"politicians and"bad"policies - social cohesion, institutions, and growth 0 0 1 632 0 5 14 1,954
Policy Distortions, Size of Government, and Growth 0 0 0 141 2 8 9 598
Policy determinants of growth: survey of theory and evidence 0 0 1 199 0 5 8 435
Policy distortions, size of government, and growth 0 0 1 105 1 10 24 439
Policy, Technology Adoption and Growth 0 0 0 332 1 9 13 1,162
Policy, Technology Adoption, and Growth 0 0 0 557 2 10 13 1,378
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 1 512 0 5 15 2,145
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 1 57 0 6 13 395
Public goods and ethnic divisions 0 0 2 986 1 14 29 3,959
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 216 3 4 5 956
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 18 4 10 16 145
Reliving the '50s: The Big Push, Poverty Traps, and Takeoffs in Economic Development 0 0 3 619 2 11 25 2,068
Rhetoric versus reality: the best and worst of aid agency practices 0 1 2 250 0 10 16 847
Service as a major source of growth in Russia and other former Soviet states 0 0 0 46 0 6 8 298
Small states, small problems? 0 0 2 578 19 29 41 2,733
Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth 0 1 4 921 3 17 41 2,013
Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry 0 0 0 91 5 14 17 397
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 1 1 133 2 6 15 295
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 0 1 113 0 5 14 254
The European Origins of Economic Development 0 1 2 518 0 11 22 1,417
The European origins of economic development 1 1 2 141 3 9 20 369
The Lamentable Return of the Big Push in Economic Development 0 0 0 286 0 2 3 515
The Soviet Economic Decline: Historical and Republican Data 0 0 4 502 1 9 21 1,308
The Soviet economic decline: historical and republican data 0 1 4 419 3 20 37 1,494
The Surprising Instability of Export Specializations 0 0 1 50 2 5 12 150
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 0 4 10 12 669
The effect of International Monetary Fund and World Bank programs on poverty 0 0 3 718 19 27 43 3,138
The ghost of financing gap: how the Harrod-Domar growth model still haunts development economics 3 4 12 2,291 8 41 67 8,962
The macroeconomics of public sector deficits: a synthesis 0 0 0 350 4 12 20 1,601
The macroeconomics of the public sector deficit: the case of Colombia 0 0 0 77 1 7 13 613
The power of exports 0 0 1 239 1 4 6 414
The search for the key: aid, investment, and policies in Africa 0 0 0 731 2 9 13 1,960
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 0 341 2 12 14 1,266
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 1 5 5 1,534 7 22 29 4,217
Walking up the down escalator: public investment and fiscal stability 0 0 0 255 2 16 22 846
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 0 1 257 2 9 12 508
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 0 0 393 6 14 19 1,172
What did Structural Adjustment Adjust? The Association of Policies and Growth with Repeated IMF and World Bank Adjustment Loans 1 1 1 509 9 17 20 2,121
When is fiscal adjustment an illusion? 0 0 0 715 1 6 8 2,067
the middle class consensus and economic development 1 1 4 893 4 18 27 4,552
Total Working Papers 15 38 170 48,888 246 1,148 1,955 161,109


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ARTIFICIAL STATES 0 2 8 132 6 16 41 563
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 1 2 5 215 7 32 66 5,759
Aid, Policies, and Growth: Comment 0 0 0 853 0 4 10 1,848
An identity crisis? Examining IMF financial programming 0 0 0 268 2 6 6 554
Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth? 0 1 6 741 1 20 47 2,267
Can Institutions Resolve Ethnic Conflict? 0 0 1 34 2 7 12 896
Can the West Save Africa? 0 0 5 174 3 10 21 789
Comment on: "Latin America in the rear view mirror" 0 0 0 35 2 5 7 176
Comment évaluer les besoins d'aide ? Réponse: ne posez pas la question 0 0 0 13 1 2 3 64
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 0 1 3 146 1 11 33 995
Development, democracy, and mass killings 0 0 0 91 1 5 10 327
Do Crises Induce Reform? Simple Empirical Tests of Conventional Wisdom 0 1 1 145 1 3 6 678
Do superpower interventions have short and long term consequences for democracy? 1 2 2 64 3 22 27 284
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 146 0 6 7 378
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 0 87 3 7 11 285
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 50 2 10 15 280
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia 0 0 0 4 4 9 11 50
Fiscal Deficits and Macroeconomic Performance in Developing Countries 0 0 0 1 0 6 9 681
Fiscal policy and economic growth: An empirical investigation 0 4 29 2,070 13 53 166 6,142
Fractionalization 0 2 12 2,305 12 36 114 7,540
Globalization, Inequality, and Development: The Big Picture 0 0 0 161 2 21 22 844
Good policy or good luck?: Country growth performance and temporary shocks 0 1 3 1,047 7 14 43 3,064
Growth Implosions and Debt Explosions: Do Growth Slowdowns Cause Public Debt Crises? 0 0 1 253 0 5 9 667
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 1 1 1 210 12 25 28 605
How Did Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Become Heavily Indebted? Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief 0 1 9 584 3 13 31 1,382
How Much does Policy Affect Growth? 0 0 0 49 0 5 8 115
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 0 325 1 11 13 768
How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa 0 0 0 391 3 11 14 1,246
In Search of the Holy Grail 0 0 0 86 1 3 4 279
Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument 5 5 16 1,433 17 27 59 3,536
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 1 3 25 0 5 14 108
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 0 3 249 3 14 25 747
Inflation and the Poor 0 0 0 0 15 26 62 3,216
Inflation crises and long-run growth 0 1 5 629 2 19 56 2,096
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises That Beget Reforms 0 0 0 50 2 3 12 475
Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up? 0 0 0 256 1 10 14 759
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 2 98 3 8 17 520
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 0 53 0 3 5 590
Life during Growth 0 0 0 229 2 6 9 698
Low Investment Is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 1 6 1 6 14 346
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 1 3 370 2 9 15 1,088
Money Demand and Seigniorage-Maximizing Inflation 0 0 0 294 6 16 21 1,148
NAFTA and Convergence in North America: High Expectations, Big Events, Little Time 0 0 2 47 6 15 21 246
Planners versus Searchers in Foreign Aid 0 0 0 0 2 14 39 849
Planners vs. Searchers in African Agricultural Aid 0 0 0 48 0 6 7 229
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 1 1 8 1,139 4 16 76 4,340
Redistributive Public Employment 0 1 1 129 3 14 21 579
Reliving the 1950s: the big push, poverty traps, and takeoffs in economic development 0 1 6 516 9 28 53 2,914
Response to reviewers on “The Tyranny of Experts” 0 0 0 23 1 4 6 69
Rhetoric versus Reality: The Best and Worst of Aid Agency Practices 0 0 2 186 4 12 24 624
SESSION 2A: VALUES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 89
SOCIAL COHESION, INSTITUTIONS, AND GROWTH 1 4 9 297 7 16 46 763
Small States, Small Problems? Income, Growth, and Volatility in Small States 0 0 0 336 1 8 22 953
The Economic of the Government Budget Constraint 0 0 0 6 3 14 23 1,825
The European origins of economic development 0 1 9 309 4 16 50 1,044
The Impact of Globalization on Rural Poverty 0 0 0 175 3 9 9 653
The Lost Decades: Developing Countries' Stagnation in Spite of Policy Reform 1980-1998 1 3 6 466 6 18 31 1,130
The Middle Class Consensus and Economic Development 1 1 3 660 3 24 41 2,408
The Search for the Key: Aid, Investment and Policies in Africa 0 0 0 0 5 16 18 672
The Soviet Economic Decline 0 0 0 2 0 10 29 1,239
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 44 0 5 7 321
The cartel of good intentions: The problem of bureaucracy in foreign aid 0 0 10 557 1 25 52 2,278
The ghost of financing gap: testing the growth model used in the international financial institutions 0 0 0 528 2 6 14 1,222
Tropics, germs, and crops: how endowments influence economic development 2 5 19 1,542 10 27 98 4,851
Troubles with the Neighbours: Africa's Problem, Africa's Opportunity 0 0 0 0 0 4 7 1,183
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 61
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 6 0 6 7 78
Walking up the Down Escalator: Public Investment and Fiscal Stability 0 0 2 61 1 14 17 254
Was Development Assistance a Mistake? 0 0 0 367 0 5 9 1,189
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 BC? 3 3 5 313 10 79 93 1,334
What did structural adjustment adjust?: The association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans 2 2 6 449 9 20 45 1,345
Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid 0 1 2 63 0 13 22 674
Total Journal Articles 19 49 209 22,670 241 974 2,005 90,269
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Development Economics through the Decades 0 0 1 81 1 5 11 229
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics 0 0 0 0 3 16 58 1,525
The Limits of Stabilization: Infrastructure, Public Deficits, and Growth in Latin America 0 0 1 40 1 5 15 179
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 32 65 149 1,109
Total Books 0 0 2 121 37 91 233 3,042


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African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 34 0 10 17 174
Explaining Miracles: Growth Regressions Meet the Gang of Four 0 0 0 61 1 10 12 325
Fiscal Policy, Debt Crises, and Economic Growth 0 0 0 17 0 6 9 66
Globalization, Poverty, and All That: Factor Endowment versus Productivity Views 0 1 1 151 1 6 9 415
IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty 0 0 0 138 3 7 10 507
It´s Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 0 1 156 1 6 14 535
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 0 0 6 916 0 10 23 2,838
The Role of Growth Slowdowns and Forecast Errors in Public Debt Crises 0 0 0 54 0 5 9 141
Total Chapters 0 1 8 1,527 6 60 103 5,001


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