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A consistency framework for macroeconomic analysis 0 0 2 481 0 10 18 1,442
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 0 3 7 18 40 4,702
Africa's growth tragedy: a retrospective, 1960-89 0 0 0 1,253 6 12 17 2,942
African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 135 0 7 14 379
Artificial States 1 1 4 163 3 7 21 716
Artificial States 0 1 2 223 1 5 18 629
Artificial States 0 3 7 202 7 21 53 779
Can institutions resolve ethnic conflict ? 0 0 1 810 1 7 17 2,499
Can the West Save Africa? 0 0 1 457 1 10 19 1,341
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War 0 0 0 84 2 11 22 474
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 0 0 0 135 3 6 23 183
Development, Democracy and Mass Killings 0 0 1 104 0 4 7 312
Development, Democracy, and Mass Killings 0 0 1 219 2 14 21 586
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 0 125 0 4 10 973
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 69 4 6 12 269
Explaining miracles: growth regressions meet the Gang of Four 0 0 1 180 2 4 9 946
Financial sector policy in Thailand: a macroeconomic perspective 0 0 0 121 0 4 8 985
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia, 1992-93 0 0 0 205 1 6 10 1,057
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 0 1 20 2,012 8 18 126 5,322
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation 1 2 6 5,746 3 5 23 17,469
Fiscal adjustment and deficit financing during the debt crisis 0 0 0 202 2 19 21 569
Fractionalization 0 0 3 1,032 7 32 63 3,233
Fractionalization 0 0 1 271 1 6 25 973
Fractionalization 0 0 1 222 5 11 21 871
Fractionalization 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 161
Fractionalization 0 0 4 101 0 3 18 427
Good Policy or Good Luck? Country Growth Performance and Temporary Shocks 0 2 4 1,612 0 8 19 4,040
Growth implosions, debt explosions, and my Aunt Marilyn: do growth slowdowns cause public debt crises? 0 0 0 456 1 7 12 1,285
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 0 0 473 2 12 15 1,243
How Did Latin America’s Infrastructure Fare in the era of Macroeconomic Crises? 0 0 0 311 0 5 10 691
How Do National Policies Affect Long-Run Growth? A Research Agenda 0 0 0 1 0 1 6 669
How did highly indebted poor countries become highly indebted?: reviewing two decades of debt relief 0 0 4 1,290 2 13 30 4,224
How do national policies affect long-run growth?: a research agenda 0 0 1 255 0 1 6 787
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 0 758 0 4 11 1,873
How much fiscal adjustment is enough? The case of Colombia 0 0 0 22 0 0 6 91
In Search of Reforms for Growth: New Stylized Facts on Policy and Growth Outcomes 0 2 5 87 2 14 26 219
Inflation Crises and Long-Run Growth 0 0 4 1,052 7 21 50 3,017
Inflation and the poor 1 5 10 1,338 5 26 42 3,193
Inflation crises and long-run growth 0 0 1 963 2 10 22 2,799
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises that Beget Reforms 0 0 0 100 0 7 12 761
Infrastructure Compression and Public Sector Solvency in Latin America 0 0 0 333 0 9 14 860
Institutions: top down or bottom up? 0 0 3 162 0 6 15 401
Is investment in Africa too low or too high: macro and micro evidence 0 0 1 596 0 6 17 1,957
It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 0 6 2,017 8 28 76 5,058
Leader Value Added: Assessing the Growth Contribution of Individual National Leaders 0 1 1 37 3 12 24 113
Life during growth: international evidence on quality of life and per capita income 0 0 0 547 1 7 14 2,865
Low Investment is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 1 341 1 7 13 814
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 0 0 577 1 4 15 2,870
Modeling the macroeconomic requirements of policy reforms 0 0 0 73 0 10 12 363
Money demand and seignorage - maximizing inflation 0 1 4 442 8 21 36 2,503
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 0 1 2 546 3 7 15 1,114
New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting "Aid, Policies, and Growth" 0 0 3 1,036 1 8 20 2,261
New Data, New doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar's "Aid, Policies, and Growth" (2000) 0 0 2 1,186 1 32 60 3,083
On"good"politicians and"bad"policies - social cohesion, institutions, and growth 0 0 1 632 1 4 15 1,955
Policy Distortions, Size of Government, and Growth 0 0 0 141 0 6 9 598
Policy determinants of growth: survey of theory and evidence 0 0 1 199 0 3 8 435
Policy distortions, size of government, and growth 1 1 1 106 1 4 21 440
Policy, Technology Adoption and Growth 0 0 0 332 0 6 13 1,162
Policy, Technology Adoption, and Growth 0 0 0 557 1 5 14 1,379
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 1 512 0 4 15 2,145
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 0 0 1 57 3 7 16 398
Public goods and ethnic divisions 0 0 2 986 4 13 33 3,963
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 216 2 5 7 958
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 0 18 1 10 17 146
Reliving the '50s: The Big Push, Poverty Traps, and Takeoffs in Economic Development 1 1 4 620 3 9 28 2,071
Rhetoric versus reality: the best and worst of aid agency practices 0 0 2 250 0 8 15 847
Service as a major source of growth in Russia and other former Soviet states 0 0 0 46 0 4 8 298
Small states, small problems? 2 2 4 580 19 47 59 2,752
Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth 0 1 4 921 0 12 39 2,013
Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry 0 0 0 91 5 17 22 402
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 0 1 133 0 4 15 295
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programmes on Poverty 0 0 1 113 2 5 16 256
The European Origins of Economic Development 2 3 4 520 3 9 25 1,420
The European origins of economic development 0 1 2 141 1 8 19 370
The Lamentable Return of the Big Push in Economic Development 0 0 0 286 1 3 4 516
The Soviet Economic Decline: Historical and Republican Data 0 0 4 502 6 14 26 1,314
The Soviet economic decline: historical and republican data 0 0 3 419 8 17 42 1,502
The Surprising Instability of Export Specializations 0 0 1 50 0 5 12 150
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 0 0 9 12 669
The effect of International Monetary Fund and World Bank programs on poverty 1 1 4 719 14 38 55 3,152
The ghost of financing gap: how the Harrod-Domar growth model still haunts development economics 0 3 10 2,291 9 40 72 8,971
The macroeconomics of public sector deficits: a synthesis 0 0 0 350 2 10 20 1,603
The macroeconomics of the public sector deficit: the case of Colombia 0 0 0 77 0 5 13 613
The power of exports 0 0 1 239 0 3 6 414
The search for the key: aid, investment, and policies in Africa 0 0 0 731 1 5 14 1,961
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 0 0 0 341 0 10 14 1,266
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development 1 6 6 1,535 5 21 34 4,222
Walking up the down escalator: public investment and fiscal stability 0 0 0 255 0 10 22 846
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 0 0 0 393 3 16 21 1,175
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? 1 1 2 258 3 10 15 511
What did Structural Adjustment Adjust? The Association of Policies and Growth with Repeated IMF and World Bank Adjustment Loans 0 1 1 509 7 18 27 2,128
When is fiscal adjustment an illusion? 0 0 0 715 0 4 7 2,067
the middle class consensus and economic development 0 1 3 893 2 13 28 4,554
Total Working Papers 12 42 171 48,900 221 978 2,100 161,330


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ARTIFICIAL STATES 0 1 8 132 1 15 41 564
Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions 1 3 5 216 8 29 71 5,767
Aid, Policies, and Growth: Comment 0 0 0 853 3 5 13 1,851
An identity crisis? Examining IMF financial programming 0 0 0 268 0 5 6 554
Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth? 0 0 6 741 6 18 52 2,273
Can Institutions Resolve Ethnic Conflict? 0 0 1 34 0 6 12 896
Can the West Save Africa? 0 0 3 174 1 9 20 790
Comment on: "Latin America in the rear view mirror" 0 0 0 35 0 4 7 176
Comment évaluer les besoins d'aide ? Réponse: ne posez pas la question 0 0 0 13 0 2 3 64
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War 0 1 3 146 3 10 36 998
Development, democracy, and mass killings 0 0 0 91 0 4 10 327
Do Crises Induce Reform? Simple Empirical Tests of Conventional Wisdom 0 0 1 145 1 3 7 679
Do superpower interventions have short and long term consequences for democracy? 0 2 2 64 2 22 29 286
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 146 0 6 7 378
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds 0 0 0 87 1 8 12 286
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point 0 0 0 50 2 11 16 282
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia 0 0 0 4 1 9 12 51
Fiscal Deficits and Macroeconomic Performance in Developing Countries 0 0 0 1 0 6 9 681
Fiscal policy and economic growth: An empirical investigation 4 4 32 2,074 9 47 160 6,151
Fractionalization 5 7 17 2,310 15 38 128 7,555
Globalization, Inequality, and Development: The Big Picture 0 0 0 161 3 24 25 847
Good policy or good luck?: Country growth performance and temporary shocks 0 1 2 1,047 3 17 41 3,067
Growth Implosions and Debt Explosions: Do Growth Slowdowns Cause Public Debt Crises? 0 0 0 253 3 5 10 670
Has Latin America's post-reform growth been disappointing? 0 1 1 210 7 30 35 612
How Did Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Become Heavily Indebted? Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief 0 1 8 584 1 13 31 1,383
How Much does Policy Affect Growth? 0 0 0 49 0 3 8 115
How much do distortions affect growth? 0 0 0 325 0 10 13 768
How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa 0 0 0 391 1 8 15 1,247
In Search of the Holy Grail 0 0 0 86 0 2 4 279
Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument 1 6 15 1,434 5 28 61 3,541
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 0 3 25 1 4 15 109
Inflation and growth: in search of a stable relationship 0 0 3 249 8 20 33 755
Inflation and the Poor 0 0 0 0 14 35 74 3,230
Inflation crises and long-run growth 1 2 6 630 4 16 55 2,100
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises That Beget Reforms 0 0 0 50 1 3 13 476
Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up? 0 0 0 256 0 8 14 759
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 1 98 3 11 17 523
La macroeconomía del déficit del sector público: el caso de Colombia 0 0 0 53 0 2 5 590
Life during Growth 0 0 0 229 2 5 11 700
Low Investment Is Not the Constraint on African Development 0 0 1 6 1 5 15 347
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries 0 0 3 370 0 6 13 1,088
Money Demand and Seigniorage-Maximizing Inflation 0 0 0 294 0 11 21 1,148
NAFTA and Convergence in North America: High Expectations, Big Events, Little Time 0 0 2 47 1 13 22 247
Planners versus Searchers in Foreign Aid 0 0 0 0 5 17 43 854
Planners vs. Searchers in African Agricultural Aid 0 0 0 48 0 4 7 229
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions 1 2 9 1,140 7 20 80 4,347
Redistributive Public Employment 0 0 1 129 0 11 21 579
Reliving the 1950s: the big push, poverty traps, and takeoffs in economic development 0 0 6 516 5 25 58 2,919
Response to reviewers on “The Tyranny of Experts” 0 0 0 23 0 3 6 69
Rhetoric versus Reality: The Best and Worst of Aid Agency Practices 0 0 1 186 3 14 25 627
SESSION 2A: VALUES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 22 1 1 1 90
SOCIAL COHESION, INSTITUTIONS, AND GROWTH 0 2 9 297 3 15 49 766
Small States, Small Problems? Income, Growth, and Volatility in Small States 1 1 1 337 3 8 25 956
The Economic of the Government Budget Constraint 0 0 0 6 3 10 26 1,828
The European origins of economic development 2 2 11 311 12 21 61 1,056
The Impact of Globalization on Rural Poverty 0 0 0 175 0 9 9 653
The Lost Decades: Developing Countries' Stagnation in Spite of Policy Reform 1980-1998 0 2 6 466 7 20 37 1,137
The Middle Class Consensus and Economic Development 0 1 3 660 3 23 42 2,411
The Search for the Key: Aid, Investment and Policies in Africa 0 0 0 0 2 14 20 674
The Soviet Economic Decline 0 0 0 2 15 24 43 1,254
The Wild Ride of the Ruble 0 0 0 44 0 4 7 321
The cartel of good intentions: The problem of bureaucracy in foreign aid 0 0 8 557 3 7 50 2,281
The ghost of financing gap: testing the growth model used in the international financial institutions 1 1 1 529 3 8 17 1,225
Tropics, germs, and crops: how endowments influence economic development 0 3 18 1,542 7 26 94 4,858
Troubles with the Neighbours: Africa's Problem, Africa's Opportunity 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 1,183
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 61
Un modelo sobre requisitos macroeconómicos para adelantar reformas de política 0 0 0 6 1 7 8 79
Walking up the Down Escalator: Public Investment and Fiscal Stability 0 0 2 61 3 12 20 257
Was Development Assistance a Mistake? 0 0 0 367 2 4 11 1,191
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 BC? 0 3 4 313 9 59 100 1,343
What did structural adjustment adjust?: The association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans 1 3 7 450 4 20 47 1,349
Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid 0 0 2 63 4 12 26 678
Total Journal Articles 18 49 212 22,688 216 936 2,143 90,485
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Development Economics through the Decades 0 0 1 81 1 5 11 230
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics 0 0 0 0 4 15 58 1,529
The Limits of Stabilization: Infrastructure, Public Deficits, and Growth in Latin America 0 0 0 40 0 2 13 179
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 66 160 1,126
Total Books 0 0 1 121 22 88 242 3,064


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African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations 0 0 0 34 0 8 16 174
Explaining Miracles: Growth Regressions Meet the Gang of Four 1 1 1 62 4 12 16 329
Fiscal Policy, Debt Crises, and Economic Growth 0 0 0 17 0 5 8 66
Globalization, Poverty, and All That: Factor Endowment versus Productivity Views 0 1 1 151 1 6 9 416
IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty 1 1 1 139 4 10 14 511
It´s Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models 0 0 1 156 0 5 12 535
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal 0 0 5 916 3 7 24 2,841
The Role of Growth Slowdowns and Forecast Errors in Public Debt Crises 0 0 0 54 1 6 10 142
Total Chapters 2 3 9 1,529 13 59 109 5,014


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