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A consistency framework for macroeconomic analysis 0 0 2 481 9 14 17 1,441
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 0 3 5 19 28 4,689
Africa's growth tragedy: a retrospective, 1960-89 0 0 0 1,253 4 7 9 2,934
African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 135 6 10 13 378
Artificial States 0 0 1 222 1 6 15 625
Artificial States 0 2 4 162 3 7 22 712
Artificial States 1 1 5 200 9 27 44 767
Can institutions resolve ethnic conflict ? 0 0 1 810 3 10 15 2,495
Can the West Save Africa? 0 1 1 457 7 15 17 1,338
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War 0 0 0 84 8 14 21 471
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 0 0 0 135 3 15 21 180
Development, Democracy and Mass Killings 0 0 1 104 4 6 9 312
Development, Democracy, and Mass Killings 0 0 1 219 10 14 19 582
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 0 125 2 6 8 971
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 69 1 4 7 264
Explaining miracles: growth regressions meet the Gang of Four 0 1 1 180 1 6 6 943
Financial sector policy in Thailand: a macroeconomic perspective 0 0 0 121 2 4 6 983
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia, 1992-93 0 0 0 205 4 6 8 1,055
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 1 4 23 2,012 8 81 133 5,312
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 1 2 6 5,745 2 8 24 17,466
Fiscal adjustment and deficit financing during the debt crisis 0 0 0 202 13 15 17 563
Fractionalization 0 0 3 1,032 17 37 51 3,218
Fractionalization 0 0 1 271 4 16 23 971
Fractionalization 0 1 4 101 3 10 20 427
Fractionalization 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 160
Fractionalization 0 0 1 222 4 8 15 864
Good Policy or Good Luck? Country Growth Performance and Temporary Shocks 1 1 3 1,611 7 11 19 4,039
Growth implosions, debt explosions, and my Aunt Marilyn: do growth slowdowns cause public debt crises? 0 0 0 456 5 7 10 1,283
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 0 473 9 11 13 1,240
How Did Latin America’s Infrastructure Fare in the era of Macroeconomic Crises? 0 0 0 311 5 6 10 691
How Do National Policies Affect Long-Run Growth? A Research Agenda 0 0 0 1 1 4 7 669
How did highly indebted poor countries become highly indebted?: reviewing two decades of debt relief 0 0 4 1,290 9 20 27 4,220
How do national policies affect long-run growth?: a research agenda 0 1 1 255 1 3 7 787
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 0 758 4 8 20 1,873
How much fiscal adjustment is enough? The case of Colombia 0 0 0 22 0 2 6 91
In Search of Reforms for Growth: New Stylized Facts on Policy and Growth Outcomes 2 3 8 87 8 13 27 213
Inflation Crises and Long-Run Growth 0 0 7 1,052 10 19 46 3,006
Inflation and the poor 1 1 6 1,334 6 11 23 3,173
Inflation crises and long-run growth 0 0 1 963 3 12 16 2,792
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises that Beget Reforms 0 0 0 100 6 11 11 760
Infrastructure Compression and Public Sector Solvency in Latin America 0 0 0 333 8 10 13 859
Institutions: top down or bottom up? 0 0 3 162 3 6 12 398
Is investment in Africa too low or too high: macro and micro evidence 0 0 1 596 2 9 13 1,953
It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 2 7 2,017 11 27 68 5,041
Leader Value Added: Assessing the Growth Contribution of Individual National Leaders 1 1 3 37 8 15 23 109
Life during growth: international evidence on quality of life and per capita income 0 0 0 547 4 4 11 2,862
Low Investment is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 1 341 4 8 10 811
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 0 0 577 2 10 13 2,868
Modeling the macroeconomic requirements of policy reforms 0 0 0 73 6 8 8 359
Money demand and seignorage - maximizing inflation 0 2 3 441 9 17 24 2,491
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 1 1 2 546 4 10 16 1,111
New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting "Aid, Policies, and Growth" 0 1 3 1,036 6 12 19 2,259
New Data, New doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar's "Aid, Policies, and Growth" (2000) 0 0 2 1,186 29 47 57 3,080
On"good"politicians and"bad"policies - social cohesion, institutions, and growth 0 1 1 632 3 7 14 1,954
Policy Distortions, Size of Government, and Growth 0 0 0 141 4 6 7 596
Policy determinants of growth: survey of theory and evidence 0 0 1 199 3 5 8 435
Policy distortions, size of government, and growth 0 0 1 105 2 9 26 438
Policy, Technology Adoption and Growth 0 0 0 332 5 9 13 1,161
Policy, Technology Adoption, and Growth 0 0 0 557 2 11 11 1,376
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 1 512 4 8 17 2,145
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 2 57 4 10 15 395
Public goods and ethnic divisions 0 0 2 986 8 18 29 3,958
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 216 0 2 2 953
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 18 5 9 13 141
Reliving the '50s: The Big Push, Poverty Traps, and Takeoffs in Economic Development 0 0 3 619 4 11 23 2,066
Rhetoric versus reality: the best and worst of aid agency practices 0 2 2 250 8 13 16 847
Service as a major source of growth in Russia and other former Soviet states 0 0 0 46 4 6 9 298
Small states, small problems? 0 1 2 578 9 13 24 2,714
Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth 1 2 4 921 9 20 39 2,010
Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry 0 0 0 91 7 9 12 392
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 0 1 113 3 8 14 254
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 1 2 133 2 5 14 293
The European Origins of Economic Development 1 1 2 518 6 16 23 1,417
The European origins of economic development 0 0 1 140 4 9 17 366
The Lamentable Return of the Big Push in Economic Development 0 0 0 286 2 3 3 515
The Soviet Economic Decline: Historical and Republican Data 0 0 5 502 7 9 21 1,307
The Soviet economic decline: historical and republican data 0 1 5 419 6 19 35 1,491
The Surprising Instability of Export Specializations 0 0 2 50 3 5 12 148
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 0 5 7 8 665
The effect of International Monetary Fund and World Bank programs on poverty 0 1 3 718 5 12 26 3,119
The ghost of financing gap: how the Harrod-Domar growth model still haunts development economics 0 2 9 2,288 23 40 61 8,954
The macroeconomics of public sector deficits: a synthesis 0 0 0 350 4 9 17 1,597
The macroeconomics of the public sector deficit: the case of Colombia 0 0 0 77 4 8 14 612
The power of exports 0 0 1 239 2 3 5 413
The search for the key: aid, investment, and policies in Africa 0 0 0 731 2 8 11 1,958
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 4 4 4 1,533 9 16 22 4,210
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 0 341 8 11 14 1,264
Walking up the down escalator: public investment and fiscal stability 0 0 0 255 8 16 20 844
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 0 1 257 5 9 12 506
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 0 0 393 7 9 13 1,166
What did Structural Adjustment Adjust? The Association of Policies and Growth with Repeated IMF and World Bank Adjustment Loans 0 0 0 508 2 10 11 2,112
When is fiscal adjustment an illusion? 0 0 0 715 3 6 8 2,066
the middle class consensus and economic development 0 0 5 892 7 14 26 4,548
Total Working Papers 15 41 170 48,873 511 1,106 1,789 160,863


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ARTIFICIAL STATES 1 4 8 132 8 19 38 557
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 1 2 4 214 14 33 59 5,752
Aid, Policies, and Growth: Comment 0 0 0 853 2 6 11 1,848
An identity crisis? Examining IMF financial programming 0 0 0 268 3 4 5 552
Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth? 0 2 7 741 11 31 48 2,266
Can Institutions Resolve Ethnic Conflict? 0 0 1 34 4 7 11 894
Can the West Save Africa? 0 0 5 174 5 7 19 786
Comment on: "Latin America in the rear view mirror" 0 0 0 35 2 3 5 174
Comment évaluer les besoins d'aide ? Réponse: ne posez pas la question 0 0 0 13 1 2 2 63
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 1 1 3 146 6 11 41 994
Development, democracy, and mass killings 0 0 0 91 3 4 10 326
Do Crises Induce Reform? Simple Empirical Tests of Conventional Wisdom 0 1 1 145 1 3 6 677
Do superpower interventions have short and long term consequences for democracy? 1 1 1 63 17 19 25 281
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 146 6 6 8 378
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 0 87 4 6 8 282
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 50 7 8 13 278
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia 0 0 0 4 4 5 7 46
Fiscal Deficits and Macroeconomic Performance in Developing Countries 0 0 0 1 6 7 11 681
Fiscal policy and economic growth: An empirical investigation 0 7 30 2,070 25 49 164 6,129
Fractionalization 2 2 13 2,305 11 43 111 7,528
Globalization, Inequality, and Development: The Big Picture 0 0 1 161 19 20 21 842
Good policy or good luck?: Country growth performance and temporary shocks 1 2 4 1,047 7 10 40 3,057
Growth Implosions and Debt Explosions: Do Growth Slowdowns Cause Public Debt Crises? 0 0 1 253 2 5 10 667
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 0 209 11 13 16 593
How Did Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Become Heavily Indebted? Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief 1 3 10 584 9 14 29 1,379
How Much does Policy Affect Growth? 0 0 0 49 3 5 8 115
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 0 325 9 11 15 767
How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa 0 0 0 391 4 8 12 1,243
In Search of the Holy Grail 0 0 0 86 1 2 3 278
Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument 0 3 12 1,428 6 19 45 3,519
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 1 3 249 9 13 23 744
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 2 3 25 3 7 15 108
Inflation and the Poor 0 0 0 0 6 20 49 3,201
Inflation crises and long-run growth 1 2 8 629 10 21 59 2,094
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises That Beget Reforms 0 0 0 50 0 4 11 473
Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up? 0 0 0 256 7 9 14 758
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 2 98 5 5 16 517
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 0 53 2 4 5 590
Life during Growth 0 0 0 229 1 4 7 696
Low Investment Is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 1 6 3 7 13 345
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 1 3 370 4 7 13 1,086
Money Demand and Seigniorage-Maximizing Inflation 0 0 0 294 5 12 16 1,142
NAFTA and Convergence in North America: High Expectations, Big Events, Little Time 0 0 2 47 6 11 15 240
Planners versus Searchers in Foreign Aid 0 0 0 0 10 16 39 847
Planners vs. Searchers in African Agricultural Aid 0 0 0 48 4 7 7 229
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 2 8 1,138 9 24 78 4,336
Redistributive Public Employment 0 1 1 129 8 12 18 576
Reliving the 1950s: the big push, poverty traps, and takeoffs in economic development 0 3 7 516 11 26 46 2,905
Response to reviewers on “The Tyranny of Experts” 0 0 0 23 2 4 5 68
Rhetoric versus Reality: The Best and Worst of Aid Agency Practices 0 0 2 186 7 9 22 620
SESSION 2A: VALUES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 89
SOCIAL COHESION, INSTITUTIONS, AND GROWTH 1 4 8 296 5 12 41 756
Small States, Small Problems? Income, Growth, and Volatility in Small States 0 0 0 336 4 9 22 952
The Economic of the Government Budget Constraint 0 0 0 6 4 11 21 1,822
The European origins of economic development 0 6 10 309 5 26 51 1,040
The Impact of Globalization on Rural Poverty 0 0 0 175 6 6 6 650
The Lost Decades: Developing Countries' Stagnation in Spite of Policy Reform 1980-1998 1 2 6 465 7 15 26 1,124
The Middle Class Consensus and Economic Development 0 0 2 659 17 22 41 2,405
The Search for the Key: Aid, Investment and Policies in Africa 0 0 0 0 7 12 14 667
The Soviet Economic Decline 0 0 0 2 9 15 33 1,239
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 44 4 6 7 321
The cartel of good intentions: The problem of bureaucracy in foreign aid 0 0 12 557 3 27 55 2,277
The ghost of financing gap: testing the growth model used in the international financial institutions 0 0 1 528 3 7 14 1,220
Tropics, germs, and crops: how endowments influence economic development 1 6 19 1,540 9 33 96 4,841
Troubles with the Neighbours: Africa's Problem, Africa's Opportunity 0 0 0 0 2 4 7 1,183
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 6 6 6 7 78
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 61
Walking up the Down Escalator: Public Investment and Fiscal Stability 0 0 2 61 8 13 16 253
Was Development Assistance a Mistake? 0 0 0 367 2 6 9 1,189
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 BC? 0 0 3 310 40 74 86 1,324
What did structural adjustment adjust?: The association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans 0 1 6 447 7 16 38 1,336
Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid 0 1 2 63 8 15 22 674
Total Journal Articles 12 60 212 22,651 479 937 1,885 90,028
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Development Economics through the Decades 0 0 1 81 3 5 10 228
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics 0 0 0 0 8 21 57 1,522
The Limits of Stabilization: Infrastructure, Public Deficits, and Growth in Latin America 0 0 1 40 1 9 14 178
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 17 51 121 1,077
Total Books 0 0 2 121 29 86 202 3,005


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African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 34 8 12 17 174
Explaining Miracles: Growth Regressions Meet the Gang of Four 0 0 0 61 7 10 11 324
Fiscal Policy, Debt Crises, and Economic Growth 0 0 0 17 5 6 9 66
Globalization, Poverty, and All That: Factor Endowment versus Productivity Views 1 1 1 151 4 6 8 414
IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty 0 0 0 138 3 4 7 504
It´s Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 0 1 156 4 7 14 534
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 0 1 6 916 4 15 24 2,838
The Role of Growth Slowdowns and Forecast Errors in Public Debt Crises 0 0 0 54 5 7 10 141
Total Chapters 1 2 8 1,527 40 67 100 4,995


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