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A consistency framework for macroeconomic analysis 0 0 2 481 6 7 24 1,448
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 0 3 4 17 42 4,706
Africa's growth tragedy: a retrospective, 1960-89 0 0 0 1,253 2 10 19 2,944
African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 135 4 5 18 383
Artificial States 0 1 4 163 4 8 24 720
Artificial States 0 2 7 202 12 24 63 791
Artificial States 0 1 2 223 2 6 20 631
Can institutions resolve ethnic conflict ? 0 0 1 810 3 7 19 2,502
Can the West Save Africa? 0 0 1 457 5 8 24 1,346
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War 0 0 0 84 5 8 26 479
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 0 0 0 135 2 5 24 185
Development, Democracy and Mass Killings 0 0 0 104 6 6 12 318
Development, Democracy, and Mass Killings 1 1 2 220 5 9 24 591
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 0 125 0 2 10 973
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 69 2 7 14 271
Explaining miracles: growth regressions meet the Gang of Four 0 0 1 180 5 8 14 951
Financial sector policy in Thailand: a macroeconomic perspective 0 0 0 121 3 5 10 988
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia, 1992-93 0 0 0 205 5 7 15 1,062
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 1 1 16 2,013 19 29 136 5,341
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 0 1 5 5,746 10 13 32 17,479
Fiscal adjustment and deficit financing during the debt crisis 0 0 0 202 6 12 27 575
Fractionalization 0 0 0 0 1 2 9 162
Fractionalization 1 1 4 102 14 14 31 441
Fractionalization 0 0 0 222 8 15 27 879
Fractionalization 1 1 4 1,033 18 33 79 3,251
Fractionalization 0 0 0 271 7 9 31 980
Good Policy or Good Luck? Country Growth Performance and Temporary Shocks 0 1 3 1,612 8 9 24 4,048
Growth implosions, debt explosions, and my Aunt Marilyn: do growth slowdowns cause public debt crises? 0 0 0 456 3 5 15 1,288
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 0 473 10 13 25 1,253
How Did Latin America’s Infrastructure Fare in the era of Macroeconomic Crises? 0 0 0 311 3 3 12 694
How Do National Policies Affect Long-Run Growth? A Research Agenda 0 0 0 1 2 2 8 671
How did highly indebted poor countries become highly indebted?: reviewing two decades of debt relief 0 0 4 1,290 1 5 30 4,225
How do national policies affect long-run growth?: a research agenda 0 0 1 255 2 2 8 789
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 0 758 2 2 12 1,875
How much fiscal adjustment is enough? The case of Colombia 0 0 0 22 3 3 9 94
In Search of Reforms for Growth: New Stylized Facts on Policy and Growth Outcomes 0 0 5 87 2 8 27 221
Inflation Crises and Long-Run Growth 1 1 4 1,053 14 25 62 3,031
Inflation and the poor 4 8 14 1,342 14 34 56 3,207
Inflation crises and long-run growth 0 0 1 963 10 17 31 2,809
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises that Beget Reforms 0 0 0 100 2 3 14 763
Infrastructure Compression and Public Sector Solvency in Latin America 0 0 0 333 3 4 17 863
Institutions: top down or bottom up? 0 0 3 162 1 4 15 402
Is investment in Africa too low or too high: macro and micro evidence 0 0 1 596 1 5 18 1,958
It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 0 4 2,017 3 20 72 5,061
Leader Value Added: Assessing the Growth Contribution of Individual National Leaders 0 0 1 37 2 6 26 115
Life during growth: international evidence on quality of life and per capita income 0 0 0 547 4 7 18 2,869
Low Investment is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 0 341 2 5 14 816
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 0 0 577 3 5 18 2,873
Modeling the macroeconomic requirements of policy reforms 0 0 0 73 2 6 14 365
Money demand and seignorage - maximizing inflation 0 1 3 442 5 17 40 2,508
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 0 0 2 546 3 6 18 1,117
New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting "Aid, Policies, and Growth" 0 0 3 1,036 3 5 23 2,264
New Data, New doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar's "Aid, Policies, and Growth" (2000) 0 0 0 1,186 5 8 60 3,088
On"good"politicians and"bad"policies - social cohesion, institutions, and growth 0 0 1 632 3 4 18 1,958
Policy Distortions, Size of Government, and Growth 0 0 0 141 7 9 16 605
Policy determinants of growth: survey of theory and evidence 0 0 0 199 2 2 9 437
Policy distortions, size of government, and growth 0 1 1 106 3 5 24 443
Policy, Technology Adoption and Growth 0 0 0 332 1 2 14 1,163
Policy, Technology Adoption, and Growth 0 0 0 557 4 7 18 1,383
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 1 512 13 13 28 2,158
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 1 57 4 7 20 402
Public goods and ethnic divisions 0 0 2 986 13 18 45 3,976
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 18 1 6 18 147
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 216 4 9 11 962
Reliving the '50s: The Big Push, Poverty Traps, and Takeoffs in Economic Development 0 1 4 620 7 12 34 2,078
Rhetoric versus reality: the best and worst of aid agency practices 0 0 2 250 2 2 16 849
Service as a major source of growth in Russia and other former Soviet states 0 0 0 46 2 2 10 300
Small states, small problems? 0 2 4 580 4 42 62 2,756
Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth 0 0 4 921 2 5 40 2,015
Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry 0 0 0 91 7 17 29 409
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 0 1 133 3 5 18 298
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 0 1 113 3 5 19 259
The European Origins of Economic Development 0 2 4 520 9 12 34 1,429
The European origins of economic development 0 1 2 141 4 8 23 374
The Lamentable Return of the Big Push in Economic Development 1 1 1 287 3 4 7 519
The Soviet Economic Decline: Historical and Republican Data 0 0 3 502 4 11 29 1,318
The Soviet economic decline: historical and republican data 0 0 3 419 7 18 48 1,509
The Surprising Instability of Export Specializations 0 0 1 50 2 4 14 152
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 0 2 6 14 671
The effect of International Monetary Fund and World Bank programs on poverty 0 1 4 719 15 48 69 3,167
The ghost of financing gap: how the Harrod-Domar growth model still haunts development economics 2 5 12 2,293 11 28 82 8,982
The macroeconomics of public sector deficits: a synthesis 0 0 0 350 1 7 19 1,604
The macroeconomics of the public sector deficit: the case of Colombia 0 0 0 77 1 2 14 614
The power of exports 0 0 1 239 1 2 7 415
The search for the key: aid, investment, and policies in Africa 0 0 0 731 0 3 14 1,961
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 0 341 9 11 23 1,275
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 2 6 1,535 10 22 44 4,232
Walking up the down escalator: public investment and fiscal stability 1 1 1 256 6 8 28 852
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 1 1 258 11 16 25 522
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 0 0 393 5 14 24 1,180
What did Structural Adjustment Adjust? The Association of Policies and Growth with Repeated IMF and World Bank Adjustment Loans 0 1 1 509 3 19 30 2,131
When is fiscal adjustment an illusion? 0 0 0 715 3 4 10 2,070
the middle class consensus and economic development 0 1 3 893 3 9 30 4,557
Total Working Papers 13 40 163 48,913 466 933 2,497 161,796


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ARTIFICIAL STATES 0 0 8 132 6 13 46 570
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 2 5 216 7 22 75 5,774
Aid, Policies, and Growth: Comment 2 2 2 855 4 7 17 1,855
An identity crisis? Examining IMF financial programming 0 0 0 268 2 4 8 556
Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth? 0 0 4 741 10 17 58 2,283
Can Institutions Resolve Ethnic Conflict? 0 0 1 34 1 3 13 897
Can the West Save Africa? 0 0 1 174 7 11 24 797
Comment on: "Latin America in the rear view mirror" 0 0 0 35 2 4 9 178
Comment évaluer les besoins d'aide ? Réponse: ne posez pas la question 0 0 0 13 0 1 3 64
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 0 0 2 146 2 6 37 1,000
Development, democracy, and mass killings 0 0 0 91 2 3 11 329
Do Crises Induce Reform? Simple Empirical Tests of Conventional Wisdom 0 0 1 145 0 2 7 679
Do superpower interventions have short and long term consequences for democracy? 0 1 2 64 2 7 31 288
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 3 7 15 289
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 50 7 11 21 289
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia 0 0 0 4 3 8 15 54
Fiscal Deficits and Macroeconomic Performance in Developing Countries 0 0 0 1 0 0 9 681
Fiscal policy and economic growth: An empirical investigation 0 4 27 2,074 17 39 165 6,168
Fractionalization 1 6 16 2,311 15 42 133 7,570
Globalization, Inequality, and Development: The Big Picture 0 0 0 161 3 8 28 850
Good policy or good luck?: Country growth performance and temporary shocks 0 0 2 1,047 7 17 43 3,074
Growth Implosions and Debt Explosions: Do Growth Slowdowns Cause Public Debt Crises? 0 0 0 253 3 6 13 673
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 1 1 210 5 24 40 617
How Did Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Become Heavily Indebted? Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief 0 0 8 584 0 4 28 1,383
How Much does Policy Affect Growth? 0 0 0 49 0 0 8 115
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 0 325 4 5 17 772
How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa 0 0 0 391 1 5 16 1,248
In Search of the Holy Grail 0 0 0 86 2 3 6 281
Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument 0 6 15 1,434 1 23 59 3,542
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 0 3 249 5 16 37 760
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 1 1 4 26 3 4 17 112
Inflation and the Poor 0 0 0 0 10 39 82 3,240
Inflation crises and long-run growth 1 2 7 631 12 18 63 2,112
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises That Beget Reforms 0 0 0 50 0 3 13 476
Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up? 0 0 0 256 3 4 17 762
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 1 98 6 12 22 529
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 0 53 1 1 6 591
Life during Growth 0 0 0 229 0 4 11 700
Low Investment Is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 1 6 4 6 18 351
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 0 3 370 3 5 16 1,091
Money Demand and Seigniorage-Maximizing Inflation 0 0 0 294 0 6 21 1,148
NAFTA and Convergence in North America: High Expectations, Big Events, Little Time 0 0 2 47 1 8 23 248
Planners versus Searchers in Foreign Aid 0 0 0 0 10 17 51 864
Planners vs. Searchers in African Agricultural Aid 0 0 0 48 1 1 8 230
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 1 3 8 1,141 5 16 69 4,352
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 1 129 4 7 24 583
Reliving the 1950s: the big push, poverty traps, and takeoffs in economic development 1 1 6 517 14 28 69 2,933
Response to reviewers on “The Tyranny of Experts” 0 0 0 23 3 4 9 72
Rhetoric versus Reality: The Best and Worst of Aid Agency Practices 0 0 1 186 2 9 26 629
SESSION 2A: VALUES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 22 2 3 3 92
SOCIAL COHESION, INSTITUTIONS, AND GROWTH 0 1 9 297 3 13 50 769
Small States, Small Problems? Income, Growth, and Volatility in Small States 0 1 1 337 3 7 28 959
The Economic of the Government Budget Constraint 0 0 0 6 4 10 27 1,832
The European origins of economic development 1 3 12 312 11 27 68 1,067
The Impact of Globalization on Rural Poverty 0 0 0 175 0 3 9 653
The Lost Decades: Developing Countries' Stagnation in Spite of Policy Reform 1980-1998 0 1 6 466 3 16 40 1,140
The Middle Class Consensus and Economic Development 0 1 2 660 1 7 41 2,412
The Search for the Key: Aid, Investment and Policies in Africa 0 0 0 0 1 8 20 675
The Soviet Economic Decline 0 0 0 2 3 18 45 1,257
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 0 7 557 8 12 53 2,289
The ghost of financing gap: testing the growth model used in the international financial institutions 0 1 1 529 4 9 20 1,229
Tropics, germs, and crops: how endowments influence economic development 0 2 14 1,542 17 34 96 4,875
Troubles with the Neighbours: Africa's Problem, Africa's Opportunity 0 0 0 0 2 2 9 1,185
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 6 1 2 9 80
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 7 2 2 3 63
Walking up the Down Escalator: Public Investment and Fiscal Stability 0 0 2 61 0 4 20 257
Was Development Assistance a Mistake? 0 0 0 367 2 4 13 1,193
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 BC? 0 3 3 313 7 26 105 1,350
What did structural adjustment adjust?: The association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans 2 5 9 452 11 24 57 1,360
Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid 0 0 2 63 11 15 37 689
Total Journal Articles 10 47 200 22,698 299 756 2,324 90,784
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Development Economics through the Decades 0 0 1 81 3 5 14 233
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics 0 0 0 0 10 17 64 1,539
The Limits of Stabilization: Infrastructure, Public Deficits, and Growth in Latin America 0 0 0 40 2 3 15 181
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 30 79 185 1,156
Total Books 0 0 1 121 45 104 278 3,109


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African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 34 1 1 17 175
Explaining Miracles: Growth Regressions Meet the Gang of Four 0 1 1 62 10 15 26 339
Fiscal Policy, Debt Crises, and Economic Growth 0 0 0 17 0 0 8 66
Globalization, Poverty, and All That: Factor Endowment versus Productivity Views 0 0 1 151 1 3 9 417
IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty 0 1 1 139 3 10 17 514
It´s Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 0 1 156 1 2 12 536
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 1 1 5 917 6 9 29 2,847
The Role of Growth Slowdowns and Forecast Errors in Public Debt Crises 0 0 0 54 0 1 10 142
Total Chapters 1 3 9 1,530 22 41 128 5,036


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