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A consistency framework for macroeconomic analysis 0 0 0 481 0 6 22 1,448
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 0 3 3 14 45 4,709
Africa's growth tragedy: a retrospective, 1960-89 0 0 0 1,253 1 9 20 2,945
African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 135 0 4 18 383
Artificial States 0 0 6 202 4 23 64 795
Artificial States 0 0 2 223 0 3 18 631
Artificial States 1 2 4 164 2 9 24 722
Can institutions resolve ethnic conflict ? 0 0 1 810 1 5 20 2,503
Can the West Save Africa? 0 0 1 457 1 7 25 1,347
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War 1 1 1 85 2 9 26 481
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 0 0 0 135 1 6 23 186
Development, Democracy and Mass Killings 0 0 0 104 1 7 13 319
Development, Democracy, and Mass Killings 0 1 1 220 0 7 23 591
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 0 125 0 0 10 973
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 69 1 7 15 272
Explaining miracles: growth regressions meet the Gang of Four 0 0 1 180 1 8 15 952
Financial sector policy in Thailand: a macroeconomic perspective 0 0 0 121 0 3 10 988
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia, 1992-93 0 0 0 205 0 6 15 1,062
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 0 1 14 2,013 3 30 130 5,344
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 2 3 6 5,748 8 21 36 17,487
Fiscal adjustment and deficit financing during the debt crisis 0 0 0 202 5 13 32 580
Fractionalization 0 0 0 0 4 5 13 166
Fractionalization 0 0 0 222 1 14 26 880
Fractionalization 0 1 4 102 0 14 30 441
Fractionalization 0 0 0 271 1 9 31 981
Fractionalization 3 4 6 1,036 4 29 82 3,255
Good Policy or Good Luck? Country Growth Performance and Temporary Shocks 0 0 2 1,612 1 9 22 4,049
Growth implosions, debt explosions, and my Aunt Marilyn: do growth slowdowns cause public debt crises? 0 0 0 456 0 4 15 1,288
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 0 473 0 12 25 1,253
How Did Latin America’s Infrastructure Fare in the era of Macroeconomic Crises? 1 1 1 312 1 4 13 695
How Do National Policies Affect Long-Run Growth? A Research Agenda 0 0 0 1 1 3 7 672
How did highly indebted poor countries become highly indebted?: reviewing two decades of debt relief 0 0 3 1,290 3 6 32 4,228
How do national policies affect long-run growth?: a research agenda 0 0 1 255 1 3 9 790
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 0 758 0 2 12 1,875
How much fiscal adjustment is enough? The case of Colombia 0 0 0 22 0 3 9 94
In Search of Reforms for Growth: New Stylized Facts on Policy and Growth Outcomes 0 0 5 87 1 5 27 222
Inflation Crises and Long-Run Growth 0 1 4 1,053 5 26 63 3,036
Inflation and the poor 0 5 12 1,342 4 23 58 3,211
Inflation crises and long-run growth 0 0 0 963 0 12 29 2,809
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises that Beget Reforms 0 0 0 100 0 2 14 763
Infrastructure Compression and Public Sector Solvency in Latin America 0 0 0 333 1 4 18 864
Institutions: top down or bottom up? 0 0 2 162 0 1 14 402
Is investment in Africa too low or too high: macro and micro evidence 0 0 1 596 1 2 19 1,959
It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 0 4 2,017 2 13 71 5,063
Leader Value Added: Assessing the Growth Contribution of Individual National Leaders 0 0 1 37 0 5 26 115
Life during growth: international evidence on quality of life and per capita income 0 0 0 547 0 5 18 2,869
Low Investment is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 0 341 0 3 14 816
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 0 0 577 1 5 19 2,874
Modeling the macroeconomic requirements of policy reforms 0 0 0 73 0 2 14 365
Money demand and seignorage - maximizing inflation 0 0 3 442 4 17 42 2,512
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 0 0 2 546 0 6 18 1,117
New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting "Aid, Policies, and Growth" 0 0 2 1,036 0 4 22 2,264
New Data, New doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar's "Aid, Policies, and Growth" (2000) 0 0 0 1,186 0 6 59 3,088
On"good"politicians and"bad"policies - social cohesion, institutions, and growth 0 0 1 632 0 4 18 1,958
Policy Distortions, Size of Government, and Growth 0 0 0 141 0 7 16 605
Policy determinants of growth: survey of theory and evidence 0 0 0 199 1 3 9 438
Policy distortions, size of government, and growth 0 1 1 106 1 5 24 444
Policy, Technology Adoption and Growth 0 0 0 332 1 2 15 1,164
Policy, Technology Adoption, and Growth 0 0 0 557 2 7 20 1,385
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 1 1 1 58 1 8 19 403
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 1 512 97 110 125 2,255
Public goods and ethnic divisions 0 0 0 986 3 20 46 3,979
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 216 0 6 11 962
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 18 1 3 19 148
Reliving the '50s: The Big Push, Poverty Traps, and Takeoffs in Economic Development 0 1 4 620 1 11 32 2,079
Rhetoric versus reality: the best and worst of aid agency practices 0 0 2 250 1 3 17 850
Service as a major source of growth in Russia and other former Soviet states 0 0 0 46 0 2 10 300
Small states, small problems? 0 2 4 580 1 24 60 2,757
Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth 0 0 4 921 0 2 40 2,015
Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry 0 0 0 91 1 13 30 410
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 0 1 113 0 5 19 259
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 0 1 133 2 5 20 300
The European Origins of Economic Development 0 2 4 520 0 12 32 1,429
The European origins of economic development 0 0 2 141 0 5 22 374
The Lamentable Return of the Big Push in Economic Development 0 1 1 287 0 4 7 519
The Soviet Economic Decline: Historical and Republican Data 0 0 2 502 2 12 29 1,320
The Soviet economic decline: historical and republican data 0 0 3 419 4 19 47 1,513
The Surprising Instability of Export Specializations 0 0 0 50 0 2 13 152
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 0 0 2 14 671
The effect of International Monetary Fund and World Bank programs on poverty 0 1 4 719 6 35 73 3,173
The ghost of financing gap: how the Harrod-Domar growth model still haunts development economics 0 2 12 2,293 5 25 87 8,987
The macroeconomics of public sector deficits: a synthesis 1 1 1 351 1 4 20 1,605
The macroeconomics of the public sector deficit: the case of Colombia 0 0 0 77 0 1 12 614
The power of exports 0 0 1 239 0 1 7 415
The search for the key: aid, investment, and policies in Africa 0 0 0 731 0 1 14 1,961
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 1 6 1,535 3 18 47 4,235
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 0 341 2 11 25 1,277
Walking up the down escalator: public investment and fiscal stability 0 1 1 256 2 8 29 854
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 0 0 393 2 10 26 1,182
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 1 1 258 3 17 28 525
What did Structural Adjustment Adjust? The Association of Policies and Growth with Repeated IMF and World Bank Adjustment Loans 0 0 1 509 1 11 31 2,132
When is fiscal adjustment an illusion? 0 0 0 715 0 3 10 2,070
the middle class consensus and economic development 0 0 3 893 0 5 30 4,557
Total Working Papers 10 35 152 48,923 214 901 2,628 162,010


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ARTIFICIAL STATES 0 0 7 132 3 10 46 573
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 1 5 216 4 19 75 5,778
Aid, Policies, and Growth: Comment 2 4 4 857 3 10 19 1,858
An identity crisis? Examining IMF financial programming 0 0 0 268 0 2 8 556
Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth? 0 0 2 741 5 21 58 2,288
Can Institutions Resolve Ethnic Conflict? 0 0 1 34 1 2 14 898
Can the West Save Africa? 0 0 1 174 0 8 23 797
Comment on: "Latin America in the rear view mirror" 0 0 0 35 1 3 10 179
Comment évaluer les besoins d'aide ? Réponse: ne posez pas la question 0 0 0 13 1 1 4 65
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 0 0 1 146 0 5 32 1,000
Development, democracy, and mass killings 0 0 0 91 0 2 11 329
Do Crises Induce Reform? Simple Empirical Tests of Conventional Wisdom 0 0 1 145 1 2 8 680
Do superpower interventions have short and long term consequences for democracy? 0 0 2 64 1 5 32 289
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 0 4 15 289
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 50 1 10 22 290
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia 0 0 0 4 0 4 15 54
Fiscal Deficits and Macroeconomic Performance in Developing Countries 0 0 0 1 1 1 10 682
Fiscal policy and economic growth: An empirical investigation 0 4 22 2,074 6 32 155 6,174
Fractionalization 0 6 15 2,311 6 36 132 7,576
Globalization, Inequality, and Development: The Big Picture 0 0 0 161 0 6 28 850
Good policy or good luck?: Country growth performance and temporary shocks 0 0 2 1,047 2 12 42 3,076
Growth Implosions and Debt Explosions: Do Growth Slowdowns Cause Public Debt Crises? 0 0 0 253 0 6 13 673
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 1 210 3 15 43 620
How Did Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Become Heavily Indebted? Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief 1 1 6 585 3 4 26 1,386
How Much does Policy Affect Growth? 0 0 0 49 0 0 8 115
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 0 325 0 4 16 772
How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa 0 0 0 391 0 2 16 1,248
In Search of the Holy Grail 0 0 0 86 0 2 6 281
Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument 0 1 14 1,434 2 8 57 3,544
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 0 2 249 1 14 36 761
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 1 4 26 1 5 17 113
Inflation and the Poor 0 0 0 0 3 27 78 3,243
Inflation crises and long-run growth 0 2 7 631 3 19 61 2,115
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises That Beget Reforms 0 0 0 50 0 1 13 476
Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up? 0 0 0 256 0 3 17 762
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 1 98 0 9 20 529
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 0 53 0 1 6 591
Life during Growth 0 0 0 229 0 2 10 700
Low Investment Is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 0 6 0 5 16 351
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 0 3 370 1 4 17 1,092
Money Demand and Seigniorage-Maximizing Inflation 0 0 0 294 0 0 21 1,148
NAFTA and Convergence in North America: High Expectations, Big Events, Little Time 0 0 2 47 0 2 22 248
Planners versus Searchers in Foreign Aid 0 0 0 0 3 18 52 867
Planners vs. Searchers in African Agricultural Aid 0 0 0 48 0 1 8 230
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 1 3 8 1,142 7 19 66 4,359
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 1 129 1 5 25 584
Reliving the 1950s: the big push, poverty traps, and takeoffs in economic development 0 1 5 517 5 24 71 2,938
Response to reviewers on “The Tyranny of Experts” 0 0 0 23 0 3 9 72
Rhetoric versus Reality: The Best and Worst of Aid Agency Practices 0 0 1 186 3 8 28 632
SESSION 2A: VALUES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 22 0 3 3 92
SOCIAL COHESION, INSTITUTIONS, AND GROWTH 0 0 7 297 3 9 49 772
Small States, Small Problems? Income, Growth, and Volatility in Small States 1 2 2 338 11 17 38 970
The Economic of the Government Budget Constraint 0 0 0 6 3 10 28 1,835
The European origins of economic development 0 3 11 312 3 26 67 1,070
The Impact of Globalization on Rural Poverty 0 0 0 175 0 0 9 653
The Lost Decades: Developing Countries' Stagnation in Spite of Policy Reform 1980-1998 0 0 6 466 1 11 41 1,141
The Middle Class Consensus and Economic Development 0 0 2 660 1 5 39 2,413
The Search for the Key: Aid, Investment and Policies in Africa 0 0 0 0 0 3 20 675
The Soviet Economic Decline 0 0 0 2 3 21 46 1,260
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 2 2 6 559 7 18 56 2,296
The ghost of financing gap: testing the growth model used in the international financial institutions 0 1 1 529 0 7 20 1,229
Tropics, germs, and crops: how endowments influence economic development 0 0 13 1,542 10 34 103 4,885
Troubles with the Neighbours: Africa's Problem, Africa's Opportunity 0 0 0 0 0 2 9 1,185
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 7 0 2 3 63
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 6 0 2 9 80
Walking up the Down Escalator: Public Investment and Fiscal Stability 0 0 1 61 0 3 19 257
Was Development Assistance a Mistake? 1 1 1 368 2 6 15 1,195
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 BC? 0 0 3 313 3 19 108 1,353
What did structural adjustment adjust?: The association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans 0 3 7 452 2 17 55 1,362
Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid 0 0 2 63 1 16 36 690
Total Journal Articles 8 36 180 22,706 122 637 2,324 90,906
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Development Economics through the Decades 0 0 1 81 3 7 17 236
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics 0 0 0 0 7 21 68 1,546
The Limits of Stabilization: Infrastructure, Public Deficits, and Growth in Latin America 0 0 0 40 1 3 16 182
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 28 75 205 1,184
Total Books 0 0 1 121 39 106 306 3,148


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African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 34 1 2 18 176
Explaining Miracles: Growth Regressions Meet the Gang of Four 0 1 1 62 1 15 27 340
Fiscal Policy, Debt Crises, and Economic Growth 0 0 0 17 0 0 7 66
Globalization, Poverty, and All That: Factor Endowment versus Productivity Views 0 0 1 151 1 3 10 418
IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty 0 1 1 139 2 9 17 516
It´s Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 0 0 156 0 1 11 536
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 1 2 5 918 1 10 28 2,848
The Role of Growth Slowdowns and Forecast Errors in Public Debt Crises 0 0 0 54 0 1 10 142
Total Chapters 1 4 8 1,531 6 41 128 5,042


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