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Economic Growth

Are the Cheetahs Tracking the Tigers? Probing High Growth Rates in Africa
Degol Hailu. One Pager # 70. November 2008.


Growth, Poverty and Employment in Brazil, Chile and Mexico
Eduardo Zepeda, Diana Alarcón, Fabio Veras Soares and Rafael Guerreiro Osorio. Working Paper # 42. December 2007.


Policymakers Beware: The Use and Misuse of Regressions in Explaining Economic Growth
Francisco Rodríguez. Policy Research Brief # 5. November 2007.


Moldova’s Middle-Income ‘Mistaken Identity’: The Severe Income and Human Development Costs
John Weeks. Country Study # 11. October 2007.


Analysing and Achieving Pro-Poor Growth
Dag Ehrenpreis. Poverty In Focus # 10. March 2007.


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Education

Covariates of efficiency in education production among developing pacific-basin and Latin American countries
Sergei Suarez Dillon Soares and Emanuela di Gropello . Working Paper # 14. April 2006.


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Employment Policies

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs – The Policy Challenge
Dag Ehrenpreis. Poverty In Focus # 16. November 2008.


Where Are the Jobs that Take People Out of Poverty in Brazil?
Ana Flávia Machado and Rafael Perez Ribas. One Pager # 61. July 2008.


Do Changes in the Labour Market Take Families out of Poverty? Determinants of Exiting Poverty in Brazilian Metropolitan Regions
Ana Flávia Machado and Rafael Perez Ribas. Working Paper # 44. February 2008.


Wage Cutting in Kenya Will Expand Poverty, Not Decent Jobs
Robert Pollin, Mwangi we Githinji and James Heintz. One Pager # 46. December 2007.
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A Proposed Strategy for Growth, Employment and Poverty Reduction in Uzbekistan
Terry McKinley and John Weeks. Country Study # 12. October 2007.


Addressing the Employment-Poverty Nexus in Kenya: Comparing Cash-Transfer and Job-Creation Programmes
Eduardo Zepeda. Working Paper # 40. October 2007.


Expanding Decent Employment in Kenya: The Role of Monetary Policy, Inflation Control, and the Exchange Rate
Robert Pollin and James Heintz. Country Study # 6. March 2007.


Strengthening the Employment Impact of an MDG-Based Development Strategy for Yemen
Terry McKinley and Farhad Mehran. Country Study # 4. September 2006.


A note on measuring unemployment
Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H. Son. Working Paper # 28. September 2006.


An Employment-targeted Economic Programme for South Africa
Robert Pollin, Gerald Epstein, James Heintz and Léonce Ndikumana. Country Study # 1. June 2006.


A Capability centred approach to environmental sustainability: Is productive employment the missing link between micro-and macro polices?
Enrique Delamonica and Santosh Mehrotra. Working Paper # 13. April 2006.


India needs an Employment Guarantee Scheme
Santosh Mehrotra. One Pager # 16. August 2005.


The impact of trade liberalisation on the informal sector in Brazil
Fabio Veras Soares. Working Paper # 7. June 2005.


Vietnam: Jobs, Growth & Poverty
Hyun H. Son. One Pager # 14. May 2005.


Reorienting development: towards an engendered employment strategy
Selim Jahan. Working Paper # 5. February 2005.


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Financial Policies

Banking the Un-Banked: Improving Access to Financial Services
Asad Kamran Ghalib and Degol Hailu. Policy Research Brief # 9. October 2008.


Equitable Access to Financial Services: Is Microfinancing Sufficient?
Degol Hailu. One Pager # 59. July 2008.
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Financial Liberalization and Domestic Resource Mobilization in Africa: an Assessment
John Serieux . Working Paper # 45. April 2008.


The Urgent Need for Financial Reform to Mobilise Savings in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sedat Aybar and Costas Lapavitsas. One Pager # 50. March 2008.


Is Financial Liberalization a Flop? An Africa Assessment
John Serieux and Terry McKinley. One Pager # 48. February 2008.


Financial Policy
Gerald Epstein and Ilene Grabel. Training Module # 3. July 2007.


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Gender Equality

Eliminating Gender Inequalities Reduces Poverty. How?
Joana Costa and Elydia Silva. One Pager # 73. November 2008.


What Do We Mean by “Feminization of Poverty”?
Marcelo Medeiros and Joana Costa. One Pager # 58. July 2008.
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Latin America’s Progress on Gender Equality: Poor Women Workers Are Still Left Behind
Eduardo Zepeda. One Pager # 49. February 2008.


Gender Equality
Dag Ehrenpreis. Poverty In Focus # 13. December 2007.


Gender Inequalities in Allocating Time to Paid and Unpaid Work: Evidence from Bolivia
Marcelo Medeiros, Rafael Guerreiro Osorio and Joana Costa. Working Paper # 34. April 2007.


The Gender Pay Gap over Women's Working Lifetime
Hyun H. Son and Nanak Kakwani. One Pager # 20. June 2006.
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Poverty among women in Latin America: Feminization or over-representation?
Marcelo Medeiros and Joana Costa. Working Paper # 20. May 2006.


Women's earning power and wellbeing
Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H. Son. One Pager # 19. April 2006.


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Global Economic Trends

The Global Benefits and Losses from The U.S. Recession and Recovery Package
Francis Cripps and Terry McKinley. One Pager # 62. July 2008.


A Global Realignment by 2020: U.S. Decline, Emerging Economies Rise
Francis Cripps and Terry McKinley. One Pager # 63. July 2008.


Should Khat Be Banned? The Development Impact
Degol Hailu. One Pager # 40. July 2007.
French

Correcting Global Imbalances with Exchange Rate Realignment? No thanks!
Francis Cripps, Alex Izurieta and Terry McKinley. One Pager # 38. June 2007.


Developing a Global Model for Trade, Finance and Income Distribution
Francis Cripps, Alex Izurieta and Terry McKinley. Technical Paper # 1. February 2007.


The Gross Inequities of Global Imbalances
Terry McKinley and Alex Izurieta. One Pager # 30. February 2007.
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Addressing Global Imbalances: A Development-Oriented Policy Agenda
Alex Izurieta and Terry McKinley. Working Paper # 23. July 2006.


The monopoly of global capital flows: Who needs structural adjustment now?
Terry McKinley. Working Paper # 12. March 2006.


Relative prices and investment: an essay on resource allocation
Keith Griffin. Working Paper # 4. January 2005.


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HIV/AIDS Financing

Scaling-up HIV/AIDS Financing and the Role of Macroeconomic Policies in Kenya
Degol Hailu. Conference Paper # 4. June 2007.


The Fiscal Implications of Scaling up ODA to Deal with the HIV/AIDS Pandemic
Bernard Walters. Conference Paper # 3. May 2007.


Monetary Policies for an MDG-Related Scaling up of ODA to Combat HIV/AIDS:Avoiding Dutch Disease Versus Supporting Fiscal Expansion
Matías Vernengo. Conference Paper # 2. March 2007.


Managing the Exchange Rate Consequences of an MDG-Related Scale-up in HIV/AIDS Financing
John Serieux . Conference Paper # 1. March 2007.


Why Not ‘Front-load’ ODA for HIV/Aids?
John Serieux and Terry McKinley. One Pager # 29. February 2007.


The Macroeconomic Debate on Scaling up HIV/AIDS Financing
Terry McKinley and Degol Hailu. Policy Research Brief # 1. September 2006.


Gearing macroeconomic polices to manage large inflows of ODA: The implications for HIV/AIDS programmes
Anis Chowdhury and Terry McKinley. Working Paper # 17. May 2006.


AIDS
Alejandro Grinspun. Poverty In Focus # 5. February 2005.


Generic or brand drugs for HIV-AIDS? Southern Africa examples
Francisco Rossi. One Pager # 5. November 2004.


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Land Reform

The Unresolved Land Reform Debate: Beyond State-Led or Market-Led Models
Saturnino M. Borras and Terry McKinley. Policy Research Brief # 2. November 2006.


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Macroeconomic Policies

The Macroeconomics of Scaling-Up Aid: What We Know in Kenya, Malawi and Zambia
Degol Hailu. One Pager # 67. September 2008.


The Effectiveness of Monetary Policy Reconsidered
John Weeks. Technical Paper # 3. June 2008.


Inflation-Targeting in Sub-Saharan Africa: Why Now? Why at All?
Terry McKinley. One Pager # 51. April 2008.


The Reduction of Fiscal Space in Zambia—Dutch Disease and Tight-Money Conditionalities
John Weeks. Country Study # 14. January 2008.


Pro-Growth Alternatives for Monetary and Financial Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa
Robert Pollin, Gerald Epstein and James Heintz. Policy Research Brief # 6. January 2008.


Monetary Policy
Alfredo Saad Filho. Training Module # 2. July 2007.


Raising Domestic Revenue for the MDGs: Why Wait until 2015?
Terry McKinley. One Pager # 39. July 2007.


Fiscal Policy
John Weeks and Shruti Patel. Training Module # 1. July 2007.


Does Debt Relief Increase Fiscal Space in Zambia? The MDG Implications
John Weeks and Terry McKinley. Country Study # 5. September 2006.


Gearing Public Finance to Growth, Employment and Poverty Reduction in Moldova
Terry McKinley. Country Study # 3. July 2006.


Monetary Policy and Financial Sector Reform for Employment Creation and Poverty Reduction in Ghana
Gerald Epstein and James Heintz. Country Study # 2. June 2006.


Why is ‘The Dutch disease’ always a disease? the macroeconomic consequences of scaling up ODA
Terry McKinley. Working Paper # 10. November 2005.


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MDGs

Free Access to Primary Data Should Be a Right
Rafael Guerreiro Osorio. One Pager # 72. November 2008.


Are the MDGs Priority in Development Strategies and Aid Programmes? Only few are!
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr. Working Paper # 48. October 2008.


Can we Accurately Project MDG Indicators?
Rafael Guerreiro Osorio. One Pager # 68. October 2008.


Alternatives for Projecting MDG Indicators
Rafael Guerreiro Osorio. Technical Paper # 2. April 2008.


The Macroeconomic Implications of MDG-Based Strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa
John Weeks and Terry McKinley. Policy Research Brief # 4. October 2007.


Does Aid Work?-for the MDGs
Dag Ehrenpreis. Poverty In Focus # 12. October 2007.


Why Have Tax Reforms Hampered MDG Financing?
Terry McKinley. One Pager # 42. September 2007.


MDG Targets: Misunderstood or Misconceived?
Hamid Tabatabai. One Pager # 33. April 2007.
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MDGs: Misunderstood Targets?
Jan Vandemoortele. One Pager # 28. January 2007.
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How costly is it to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty between 1990 and 2015?
Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H. Son. Working Paper # 19. May 2006.


The MDGs and pro-poor polices: related but not synonymous
Jan Vandemoortele. Working Paper # 3. November 2004.


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ODA

The Impact of Foreign Aid on Government Spending, Revenue and Domestic Borrowing in Ethiopia
Pedro M. G. Martins. Working Paper # 41. November 2007.


The Fiscal Impact of Aid Flows: Evidence from Ethiopia
Pedro M. G. Martins. One Pager # 43. September 2007.


The IMF and Constraints on Spending Aid
David Goldsbrough. One Pager # 35. May 2007.


Why Is Africa Constrained from Spending ODA?
Terry McKinley. One Pager # 34. May 2007.
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Poverty and Inequality

Where the Line is Drawn. A Rejoinder to Ravallion
Thomas Pogge. One Pager # 69. October 2008.


Global Poverty Reassessed: A Reply to Reddy
Martin Ravallion. One Pager # 66. September 2008.


The New Global Poverty Estimates – Digging Deeper into a Hole
Sanjay G. Reddy. One Pager # 65. September 2008.


An Empirical Test of the Poverty Traps Hypothesis
Francisco Rodríguez. Technical Paper # 4. August 2008.


Towards an Employment-centred Development Strategy for Poverty Reduction in The Gambia: Macroeconomic and Labour Market Aspects
James Heintz, Carlos Oya and Eduardo Zepeda. Country Study # 16. July 2008.


A Consistent Measure of Real Poverty: A Reply to Ravallion
Thomas Pogge. One Pager # 54. May 2008.
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Which Poverty Line? A Response to Reddy
Martin Ravallion. One Pager # 53. May 2008.
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The Vast Majority Income (VMI): A New Measure of Global Inequality
Anwar Shaikh and Amr Ragab. Policy Research Brief # 7. May 2008.


Are Estimates of Poverty in Latin America Reliable?
Sanjay G. Reddy. One Pager # 52. May 2008.
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PSIA – Gauging Poverty Impacts
Dag Ehrenpreis. Poverty In Focus # 14. April 2008.


Is all Socioeconomic Inequality among Racial Groups in Brazil Caused by Racial Discrimination?
Rafael Guerreiro Osorio. Working Paper # 43. February 2008.


Poverty, Growth and Income Distribution in Lebanon
Heba El Laithy, Khalid Abu-Ismail and Kamal Hamdan. Country Study # 13. January 2008.


The challenge of Inequality
Dag Ehrenpreis. Poverty In Focus # 11. June 2007.


The Impact of Growth and Redistribution on Poverty and Inequality in South Africa
Kalie Pauw and Liberty Mncube. Country Study # 7. June 2007.


Using ODA to Accumulate Foreign Reserves in Sub-Saharan Africa
Costas Lapavitsas. One Pager # 37. June 2007.


The Impact of Relative Prices on Welfare and Inequality in Brazil, 1995-2005
Sergei Suarez Dillon Soares and Rafael Guerreiro Osorio. Working Paper # 37. May 2007.


Distinguishing Chronic Poverty from Transient Poverty in Brazil: Developing a Model for Pseudo-Panel Data
Rafael Perez Ribas and Ana Flávia Machado . Working Paper # 36. April 2007.


What is poverty? Good Question
Terry McKinley. One Pager # 26. December 2006.