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A consistency framework for macroeconomic analysis 0 0 8 481 0 0 15 1,426
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 0 3 0 2 6 4,666
Africa's growth tragedy: a retrospective, 1960-89 0 0 0 1,253 1 2 4 2,927
African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 135 0 0 0 365
Artificial States 1 3 6 199 2 6 23 737
Artificial States 1 1 2 222 2 2 8 615
Artificial States 0 0 2 160 1 4 27 702
Can institutions resolve ethnic conflict ? 0 1 1 810 0 1 5 2,484
Can the West Save Africa? 0 0 1 456 0 0 5 1,322
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War 0 0 0 84 0 0 6 455
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 0 0 0 135 1 1 7 164
Development, Democracy and Mass Killings 0 0 1 104 0 0 4 306
Development, Democracy, and Mass Killings 0 0 2 219 0 0 8 568
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 0 125 0 0 0 963
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 69 0 0 1 257
Explaining miracles: growth regressions meet the Gang of Four 0 0 0 179 0 0 1 937
Financial sector policy in Thailand: a macroeconomic perspective 0 0 0 121 0 0 1 978
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia, 1992-93 0 0 1 205 0 0 1 1,047
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 1 1 7 5,743 2 3 26 17,454
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 1 6 28 2,005 5 11 93 5,225
Fiscal adjustment and deficit financing during the debt crisis 0 0 1 202 0 0 3 548
Fractionalization 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 155
Fractionalization 0 0 2 222 0 0 7 854
Fractionalization 0 0 2 98 0 2 16 413
Fractionalization 0 1 5 1,031 1 3 24 3,176
Fractionalization 0 0 2 271 0 0 6 950
Good Policy or Good Luck? Country Growth Performance and Temporary Shocks 0 0 3 1,610 1 1 13 4,028
Growth implosions, debt explosions, and my Aunt Marilyn: do growth slowdowns cause public debt crises? 0 0 0 456 0 1 2 1,274
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 0 473 1 1 3 1,229
How Did Latin America’s Infrastructure Fare in the era of Macroeconomic Crises? 0 0 1 311 0 1 3 683
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 1 1 3 1,288 2 2 10 4,198
How do national policies affect long-run growth?: a research agenda 0 0 0 254 1 1 5 782
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 1 758 0 1 14 1,864
How much fiscal adjustment is enough? The case of Colombia 0 0 0 22 0 0 1 85
In Search of Reforms for Growth: New Stylized Facts on Policy and Growth Outcomes 0 2 7 84 1 4 20 199
Inflation Crises and Long-Run Growth 1 3 11 1,052 9 11 34 2,984
Inflation and the poor 0 1 5 1,331 1 3 10 3,156
Inflation crises and long-run growth 0 0 2 963 0 0 6 2,780
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises that Beget Reforms 0 0 0 100 0 0 1 749
Infrastructure Compression and Public Sector Solvency in Latin America 0 0 1 333 1 2 4 848
Institutions: top down or bottom up? 1 1 3 161 1 1 6 389
Is investment in Africa too low or too high: macro and micro evidence 0 1 2 596 0 2 3 1,942
It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 1 5 2,014 2 17 70 5,009
Leader Value Added: Assessing the Growth Contribution of Individual National Leaders 0 0 2 36 0 1 9 90
Life during growth: international evidence on quality of life and per capita income 0 0 2 547 1 3 9 2,854
Low Investment is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 1 341 0 0 3 802
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 0 1 577 1 1 4 2,856
Modeling the macroeconomic requirements of policy reforms 0 0 1 73 0 0 1 351
Money demand and seignorage - maximizing inflation 0 0 1 439 1 3 8 2,473
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 0 1 3 545 0 2 9 1,101
New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting "Aid, Policies, and Growth" 0 1 3 1,035 0 2 9 2,244
New Data, New doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar's "Aid, Policies, and Growth" (2000) 0 0 2 1,186 2 3 11 3,032
On"good"politicians and"bad"policies - social cohesion, institutions, and growth 0 0 1 631 1 3 6 1,943
Policy Distortions, Size of Government, and Growth 0 0 0 141 0 0 1 589
Policy determinants of growth: survey of theory and evidence 0 0 2 199 0 0 6 429
Policy distortions, size of government, and growth 0 0 1 105 4 7 31 427
Policy, Technology Adoption and Growth 0 0 1 332 1 1 5 1,150
Policy, Technology Adoption, and Growth 0 0 0 557 0 0 2 1,365
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 3 57 0 1 9 385
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 1 1 512 1 3 10 2,133
Public goods and ethnic divisions 0 0 3 986 1 3 22 3,936
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 216 0 0 2 951
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 18 0 0 4 129
Reliving the '50s: The Big Push, Poverty Traps, and Takeoffs in Economic Development 1 2 6 618 2 5 15 2,052
Rhetoric versus reality: the best and worst of aid agency practices 0 0 3 248 0 0 7 833
Service as a major source of growth in Russia and other former Soviet states 0 0 0 46 0 1 5 291
Small states, small problems? 0 1 2 577 1 3 13 2,700
Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth 0 0 4 917 3 5 17 1,980
Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry 0 0 0 91 0 1 7 381
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 0 1 132 4 5 9 285
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 1 1 2 113 1 2 4 242
The European Origins of Economic Development 0 1 1 517 1 3 15 1,400
The European origins of economic development 0 1 1 140 1 3 9 355
The Lamentable Return of the Big Push in Economic Development 0 0 0 286 0 0 0 512
The Soviet Economic Decline: Historical and Republican Data 0 1 5 501 2 4 11 1,295
The Soviet economic decline: historical and republican data 0 1 3 417 0 4 22 1,470
The Surprising Instability of Export Specializations 0 0 3 50 1 3 8 142
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 657
The effect of International Monetary Fund and World Bank programs on poverty 0 1 1 716 1 4 18 3,104
The ghost of financing gap: how the Harrod-Domar growth model still haunts development economics 0 1 14 2,282 1 4 30 8,904
The macroeconomics of public sector deficits: a synthesis 0 0 1 350 3 3 13 1,588
The macroeconomics of the public sector deficit: the case of Colombia 0 0 0 77 0 0 4 602
The power of exports 1 1 1 239 1 1 3 409
The search for the key: aid, investment, and policies in Africa 0 0 0 731 0 1 1 1,948
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 0 341 0 0 2 1,252
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 0 1,529 1 2 3 4,190
Walking up the down escalator: public investment and fiscal stability 0 0 0 255 1 3 6 828
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 0 2 257 0 0 7 497
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 0 0 393 1 1 6 1,157
What did Structural Adjustment Adjust? The Association of Policies and Growth with Repeated IMF and World Bank Adjustment Loans 0 0 1 508 1 1 2 2,102
When is fiscal adjustment an illusion? 0 0 3 715 0 0 8 2,060
the middle class consensus and economic development 2 2 5 892 2 3 13 4,530
Total Working Papers 12 39 202 48,810 77 182 928 159,564


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ARTIFICIAL STATES 0 1 2 126 2 3 21 530
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 9 211 2 6 38 5,709
Aid, Policies, and Growth: Comment 0 0 0 853 1 1 7 1,840
An identity crisis? Examining IMF financial programming 0 0 1 268 0 0 2 548
Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth? 0 0 5 739 2 3 22 2,233
Can Institutions Resolve Ethnic Conflict? 1 1 2 34 1 2 5 886
Can the West Save Africa? 0 1 10 174 0 2 18 776
Comment on: "Latin America in the rear view mirror" 0 0 0 35 0 1 1 170
Comment évaluer les besoins d'aide ? Réponse: ne posez pas la question 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 61
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 0 0 3 145 2 10 31 978
Development, democracy, and mass killings 0 0 0 91 0 0 2 318
Do Crises Induce Reform? Simple Empirical Tests of Conventional Wisdom 0 0 0 144 1 2 6 674
Do superpower interventions have short and long term consequences for democracy? 0 0 6 62 3 3 14 260
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 146 0 0 1 371
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 0 87 0 0 2 274
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 50 1 1 8 269
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 39
Fiscal Deficits and Macroeconomic Performance in Developing Countries 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 672
Fiscal policy and economic growth: An empirical investigation 0 2 33 2,054 11 29 178 6,048
Fractionalization 0 0 13 2,296 8 19 93 7,463
Globalization, Inequality, and Development: The Big Picture 0 0 1 161 0 0 4 822
Good policy or good luck?: Country growth performance and temporary shocks 0 0 5 1,045 5 6 46 3,040
Growth Implosions and Debt Explosions: Do Growth Slowdowns Cause Public Debt Crises? 0 0 2 253 1 1 6 661
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 0 209 0 1 3 578
How Did Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Become Heavily Indebted? Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief 0 2 14 581 2 5 31 1,365
How Much does Policy Affect Growth? 0 0 0 49 0 0 1 107
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 0 325 0 0 11 756
How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa 0 0 1 391 1 2 6 1,234
In Search of the Holy Grail 0 0 0 86 0 0 0 275
Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument 2 4 11 1,424 3 6 39 3,493
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 0 4 247 1 5 23 730
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 0 2 22 1 2 9 98
Inflation and the Poor 0 0 0 0 0 5 43 3,170
Inflation crises and long-run growth 0 1 14 625 2 12 65 2,066
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises That Beget Reforms 0 0 0 50 1 4 5 467
Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up? 0 0 0 256 1 4 6 749
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 0 53 0 0 0 585
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 2 97 0 0 19 509
Life during Growth 0 0 2 229 1 2 8 692
Low Investment Is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 1 6 2 3 8 338
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 0 2 367 0 2 8 1,077
Money Demand and Seigniorage-Maximizing Inflation 0 0 0 294 1 2 8 1,129
NAFTA and Convergence in North America: High Expectations, Big Events, Little Time 0 1 1 46 0 1 6 227
Planners versus Searchers in Foreign Aid 0 0 0 0 2 7 24 822
Planners vs. Searchers in African Agricultural Aid 0 0 0 48 0 0 2 222
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 1 10 1,135 4 10 71 4,303
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 3 128 1 2 6 561
Reliving the 1950s: the big push, poverty traps, and takeoffs in economic development 0 1 7 513 3 7 26 2,874
Reply to Brendan Beare 0 0 0 13 0 0 1 131
Response to reviewers on “The Tyranny of Experts” 0 0 1 23 0 1 3 64
Rhetoric versus Reality: The Best and Worst of Aid Agency Practices 1 1 9 186 2 5 28 609
SESSION 2A: VALUES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 89
SOCIAL COHESION, INSTITUTIONS, AND GROWTH 0 1 5 291 2 5 28 728
Small States, Small Problems? Income, Growth, and Volatility in Small States 0 0 0 336 0 2 5 934
The Economic of the Government Budget Constraint 0 0 0 6 0 1 10 1,808
The European origins of economic development 0 1 4 302 3 10 42 1,013
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 1 6 461 3 6 14 1,106
The Middle Class Consensus and Economic Development 1 1 8 659 1 3 39 2,377
The Search for the Key: Aid, Investment and Policies in Africa 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 655
The Soviet Economic Decline 0 0 0 2 0 9 27 1,223
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 44 0 0 1 314
The cartel of good intentions: The problem of bureaucracy in foreign aid 0 1 12 554 3 7 41 2,247
The ghost of financing gap: testing the growth model used in the international financial institutions 0 0 1 528 0 2 13 1,211
Tropics, germs, and crops: how endowments influence economic development 1 2 17 1,531 4 14 93 4,796
Troubles with the Neighbours: Africa's Problem, Africa's Opportunity 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 1,178
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 71
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 60
Walking up the Down Escalator: Public Investment and Fiscal Stability 0 1 2 61 0 2 3 240
Was Development Assistance a Mistake? 0 0 2 367 1 2 7 1,182
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 BC? 0 0 4 310 1 2 16 1,247
What did structural adjustment adjust?: The association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans 1 1 9 446 2 4 33 1,311
Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid 0 0 1 61 0 4 13 658
Total Journal Articles 8 25 247 22,564 90 252 1,364 88,965


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Development Economics through the Decades 1 1 2 81 2 3 8 222
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics 0 0 0 0 3 12 79 1,490
The Limits of Stabilization: Infrastructure, Public Deficits, and Growth in Latin America 0 0 5 40 0 2 13 168
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 11 27 75 1,006
Total Books 1 1 7 121 16 44 175 2,886


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African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 34 1 4 5 162
Explaining Miracles: Growth Regressions Meet the Gang of Four 0 0 0 61 0 0 1 313
Fiscal Policy, Debt Crises, and Economic Growth 0 0 0 17 0 1 3 60
Globalization, Poverty, and All That: Factor Endowment versus Productivity Views 0 0 0 150 0 0 3 408
IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty 0 0 0 138 0 0 3 499
It´s Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 0 1 156 0 0 6 525
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 0 0 10 913 1 1 22 2,821
The Role of Growth Slowdowns and Forecast Errors in Public Debt Crises 0 0 0 54 0 1 3 133
Total Chapters 0 0 11 1,523 2 7 46 4,921


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