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A consistency framework for macroeconomic analysis 0 0 11 479 0 4 24 1,424
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 0 3 0 0 10 4,661
Africa's growth tragedy: a retrospective, 1960-89 0 0 0 1,253 0 1 3 2,925
African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 135 0 0 3 365
Artificial States 1 1 1 159 3 10 35 693
Artificial States 0 1 1 221 0 2 5 610
Artificial States 0 1 2 195 2 9 17 725
Can institutions resolve ethnic conflict ? 0 0 0 809 2 2 4 2,482
Can the West Save Africa? 0 1 1 456 1 4 10 1,322
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War 0 0 2 84 2 2 8 452
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 0 0 1 135 1 1 8 160
Development, Democracy and Mass Killings 0 0 0 103 2 2 5 305
Development, Democracy, and Mass Killings 0 0 1 218 1 2 7 564
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 1 125 0 0 4 963
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 1 2 937
Financial sector policy in Thailand: a macroeconomic perspective 0 0 0 121 0 0 0 977
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 2 8 5,740 2 8 26 17,444
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 1 3 27 1,990 7 23 105 5,186
Fiscal adjustment and deficit financing during the debt crisis 0 0 2 202 2 2 4 548
Fractionalization 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 153
Fractionalization 0 1 4 97 0 6 14 407
Fractionalization 0 1 2 270 0 2 6 948
Fractionalization 0 2 6 1,029 1 7 25 3,168
Fractionalization 0 1 4 221 1 3 11 850
Good Policy or Good Luck? Country Growth Performance and Temporary Shocks 0 0 1 1,608 1 2 13 4,021
Growth implosions, debt explosions, and my Aunt Marilyn: do growth slowdowns cause public debt crises? 0 0 1 456 0 1 6 1,273
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 0 473 0 0 1 1,227
How Did Latin America’s Infrastructure Fare in the era of Macroeconomic Crises? 0 0 1 311 0 0 1 681
How Do National Policies Affect Long-Run Growth? A Research Agenda 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 663
How did highly indebted poor countries become highly indebted?: reviewing two decades of debt relief 0 0 3 1,286 0 3 10 4,193
How do national policies affect long-run growth?: a research agenda 0 0 1 254 1 2 7 781
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 2 758 1 3 7 1,854
How much fiscal adjustment is enough? The case of Colombia 0 0 0 22 0 0 3 85
In Search of Reforms for Growth: New Stylized Facts on Policy and Growth Outcomes 1 1 7 80 2 4 18 188
Inflation Crises and Long-Run Growth 2 3 12 1,047 3 7 30 2,963
Inflation and the poor 0 2 6 1,328 1 3 14 3,151
Inflation crises and long-run growth 0 1 3 962 0 1 7 2,776
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises that Beget Reforms 0 0 0 100 0 0 2 749
Infrastructure Compression and Public Sector Solvency in Latin America 0 0 1 333 0 1 4 846
Institutions: top down or bottom up? 0 1 3 159 0 2 10 386
Is investment in Africa too low or too high: macro and micro evidence 0 0 1 595 0 0 2 1,940
It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 1 1 12 2,011 3 17 74 4,976
Leader Value Added: Assessing the Growth Contribution of Individual National Leaders 1 1 2 35 1 2 12 87
Life during growth: international evidence on quality of life and per capita income 0 0 3 547 0 2 8 2,851
Low Investment is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 0 340 0 1 2 801
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 0 1 577 0 1 7 2,855
Modeling the macroeconomic requirements of policy reforms 0 1 1 73 0 1 1 351
Money demand and seignorage - maximizing inflation 0 0 2 438 0 0 7 2,467
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 0 0 3 544 3 3 14 1,098
New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting "Aid, Policies, and Growth" 0 1 2 1,033 1 4 13 2,241
New Data, New doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar's "Aid, Policies, and Growth" (2000) 0 0 1 1,184 0 1 3 3,023
On"good"politicians and"bad"policies - social cohesion, institutions, and growth 0 0 2 631 0 0 8 1,940
Policy Distortions, Size of Government, and Growth 0 0 0 141 0 1 2 589
Policy determinants of growth: survey of theory and evidence 0 0 5 198 0 1 10 427
Policy distortions, size of government, and growth 0 0 0 104 3 6 30 415
Policy, Technology Adoption and Growth 0 0 1 332 1 2 4 1,149
Policy, Technology Adoption, and Growth 0 0 0 557 0 1 4 1,365
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 0 511 2 5 14 2,130
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 1 1 4 56 2 4 10 382
Public goods and ethnic divisions 0 0 2 984 1 12 20 3,930
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 18 1 3 4 129
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 216 0 1 3 951
Reliving the '50s: The Big Push, Poverty Traps, and Takeoffs in Economic Development 0 1 10 616 0 3 18 2,043
Rhetoric versus reality: the best and worst of aid agency practices 0 1 3 248 0 2 6 831
Service as a major source of growth in Russia and other former Soviet states 0 0 0 46 1 2 4 290
Small states, small problems? 0 0 2 576 2 2 7 2,692
Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth 0 1 5 917 1 4 12 1,972
Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry 0 0 0 91 0 1 8 380
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 1 1 112 0 2 3 240
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 1 1 2 132 1 3 6 280
The European Origins of Economic Development 0 0 3 516 1 5 20 1,395
The European origins of economic development 0 0 0 139 0 0 5 349
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 1 1 5 498 1 2 10 1,287
The Soviet economic decline: historical and republican data 1 1 7 415 1 4 30 1,457
The Surprising Instability of Export Specializations 1 1 3 49 2 3 9 138
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 0 2 715 2 4 16 3,095
The ghost of financing gap: how the Harrod-Domar growth model still haunts development economics 0 5 29 2,279 2 9 54 8,895
The macroeconomics of public sector deficits: a synthesis 0 1 2 350 1 3 14 1,581
The macroeconomics of the public sector deficit: the case of Colombia 0 0 0 77 2 2 3 600
The power of exports 0 0 0 238 0 2 2 408
The search for the key: aid, investment, and policies in Africa 0 0 0 731 0 0 1 1,947
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 0 341 2 2 4 1,252
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 0 1,529 0 0 2 4,188
Walking up the down escalator: public investment and fiscal stability 0 0 1 255 0 0 8 824
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 1 2 256 2 5 8 496
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 0 0 393 0 0 6 1,153
What did Structural Adjustment Adjust? The Association of Policies and Growth with Repeated IMF and World Bank Adjustment Loans 0 0 1 508 0 0 6 2,101
When is fiscal adjustment an illusion? 0 1 3 715 1 4 9 2,059
the middle class consensus and economic development 2 2 3 889 3 4 12 4,525
Total Working Papers 15 45 242 48,718 80 258 1,009 159,154


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ARTIFICIAL STATES 0 0 1 124 3 7 15 522
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 3 12 210 0 10 47 5,693
Aid, Policies, and Growth: Comment 0 0 1 853 1 3 8 1,838
An identity crisis? Examining IMF financial programming 0 0 2 268 1 1 3 548
Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth? 1 1 2 735 2 2 18 2,220
Can Institutions Resolve Ethnic Conflict? 0 0 1 33 1 2 8 884
Can the West Save Africa? 0 1 5 169 1 4 15 768
Comment on: "Latin America in the rear view mirror" 0 0 0 35 0 0 0 169
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 2 143 9 9 21 962
Development, democracy, and mass killings 0 0 0 91 1 1 2 317
Do Crises Induce Reform? Simple Empirical Tests of Conventional Wisdom 0 0 0 144 1 4 4 672
Do superpower interventions have short and long term consequences for democracy? 0 3 10 62 1 7 23 257
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 146 1 1 2 371
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 2 87 0 1 5 274
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 50 0 2 4 265
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia 0 0 0 4 0 1 2 39
Fiscal Deficits and Macroeconomic Performance in Developing Countries 0 0 0 1 2 2 7 672
Fiscal policy and economic growth: An empirical investigation 1 10 38 2,041 11 48 215 5,976
Fractionalization 1 5 16 2,293 9 27 79 7,426
Globalization, Inequality, and Development: The Big Picture 1 1 2 161 1 3 6 822
Good policy or good luck?: Country growth performance and temporary shocks 1 1 14 1,044 4 10 57 3,021
Growth Implosions and Debt Explosions: Do Growth Slowdowns Cause Public Debt Crises? 0 1 4 252 1 2 6 658
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 0 209 0 1 7 577
How Did Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Become Heavily Indebted? Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief 1 2 13 575 1 6 37 1,351
How Much does Policy Affect Growth? 0 0 0 49 0 0 1 107
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 1 325 3 6 13 755
How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa 0 0 2 391 1 1 8 1,232
In Search of the Holy Grail 0 0 1 86 0 0 3 275
Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument 1 3 13 1,417 3 11 42 3,477
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 1 5 246 1 13 22 722
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 1 2 22 1 3 5 94
Inflation and the Poor 0 0 0 0 2 11 51 3,154
Inflation crises and long-run growth 3 9 19 624 5 24 84 2,040
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises That Beget Reforms 0 0 0 50 1 1 1 463
Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up? 0 0 0 256 1 1 4 745
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 8 96 2 7 35 503
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 0 53 0 0 2 585
Life during Growth 0 1 4 229 0 2 8 689
Low Investment Is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 0 5 0 0 3 332
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 0 2 367 0 0 5 1,073
Money Demand and Seigniorage-Maximizing Inflation 0 0 1 294 1 2 8 1,127
NAFTA and Convergence in North America: High Expectations, Big Events, Little Time 0 0 0 45 0 3 4 225
Planners versus Searchers in Foreign Aid 0 0 0 0 2 6 25 810
Planners vs. Searchers in African Agricultural Aid 0 0 0 48 0 2 2 222
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 1 2 14 1,131 6 14 83 4,264
Redistributive Public Employment 0 1 3 128 0 1 4 558
Reliving the 1950s: the big push, poverty traps, and takeoffs in economic development 1 4 6 510 2 8 22 2,861
Reply to Brendan Beare 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 130
Response to reviewers on “The Tyranny of Experts” 0 0 2 23 0 0 3 63
Rhetoric versus Reality: The Best and Worst of Aid Agency Practices 0 3 11 184 2 7 34 600
SESSION 2A: VALUES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 89
SOCIAL COHESION, INSTITUTIONS, AND GROWTH 0 0 10 288 2 6 39 717
Small States, Small Problems? Income, Growth, and Volatility in Small States 0 0 1 336 1 2 6 931
The Economic of the Government Budget Constraint 0 0 0 6 1 2 14 1,802
The European origins of economic development 1 1 16 300 5 15 54 994
The Impact of Globalization on Rural Poverty 0 0 2 175 0 1 3 644
The Lost Decades: Developing Countries' Stagnation in Spite of Policy Reform 1980-1998 1 1 7 460 1 3 14 1,099
The Middle Class Consensus and Economic Development 0 2 13 657 3 14 60 2,367
The Search for the Key: Aid, Investment and Policies in Africa 0 0 0 0 1 3 6 654
The Soviet Economic Decline 0 0 0 2 4 8 19 1,210
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 2 2 11 547 4 7 50 2,226
The ghost of financing gap: testing the growth model used in the international financial institutions 1 1 7 528 2 5 18 1,208
Tropics, germs, and crops: how endowments influence economic development 2 4 18 1,523 8 26 92 4,753
Troubles with the Neighbours: Africa's Problem, Africa's Opportunity 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 1,176
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 60
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 71
Walking up the Down Escalator: Public Investment and Fiscal Stability 0 0 1 59 0 0 2 237
Was Development Assistance a Mistake? 0 1 5 367 0 2 13 1,180
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 BC? 1 2 4 308 3 6 21 1,241
What did structural adjustment adjust?: The association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans 2 3 13 443 2 8 45 1,300
Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid 0 0 4 61 0 3 18 652
Total Journal Articles 22 70 331 22,474 121 390 1,543 88,394


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Development Economics through the Decades 0 1 3 80 0 3 7 218
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics 0 0 0 0 2 16 91 1,467
The Limits of Stabilization: Infrastructure, Public Deficits, and Growth in Latin America 0 0 11 39 0 3 26 164
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 4 12 47 960
Total Books 0 1 14 119 6 34 171 2,809


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African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 1 34 0 0 4 157
Explaining Miracles: Growth Regressions Meet the Gang of Four 0 0 1 61 0 1 4 313
Fiscal Policy, Debt Crises, and Economic Growth 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 57
Globalization, Poverty, and All That: Factor Endowment versus Productivity Views 0 0 0 150 0 0 2 406
IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty 0 0 1 138 0 1 5 497
It´s Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 0 2 155 1 1 10 521
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 0 1 8 910 1 7 32 2,815
The Role of Growth Slowdowns and Forecast Errors in Public Debt Crises 0 0 0 54 1 2 2 132
Total Chapters 0 1 13 1,519 3 12 59 4,898


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