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Research Topics

  1. Ethnic Divisions
  2. Finance and Development
  3. Foreign Aid
  4. General Growth Empirics
  5. Geography
  6. Growth Accounting
  7. Human Capital and Development
  8. Inequality and Poverty
  9. Law and Institutions
  10. Macro Growth Theory
  11. Markets and Networks
  12. Micro Development Theory
  13. Micro Literature on Health, Nutrition, Education
  14. National Policies
  15. Political Economy
  16. Regional: Africa, Latin America, East Asia
  17. Social Capital

1. Ethnic Divisions

"Development, Democracy, and Mass Killings" William Easterly, Roberta Gatti and Sergio Kurlat, DRI Working Paper No. 10, 2004, this version December 2005

Fractionalization by Alberto Alesina, Arnaud Devleeschauwer, William Easterly, Sergio Kurlat and Romain Wacziarg , Journal of Economic Growth, 2003
Abstract / Fractionalization Data

Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: An Instrumental Variables Approach by Edward Miguel, Shanker Satyanath, and Ernest Sergenti, 2003

Tribe or Nation? Nation-Building and Public Goods in Kenya versus Tanzania
by Edward Miguel, 2003

Eyewitness to a Genocide: the United Nations and Rwanda, Michael Barnett, Cornell University Press, 2002.

Ethnic Diversity, Social Sanctions, and Public Goods in Kenya
by Edward Miguel and Mary Kay Gugerty, 2002

"Can Institutions Resolve Ethnic Conflict?" By William Easterly. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2001

"Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions" By A. Alesina, W. Easterly and R. BaqirQuarterly Journal of Economics, November 1999,Volume CXIV, Issue 4, pp. 1243-1284.

"Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions," By William Easterly and Ross Levine, November 1997, Quarterly Journal of Economics. CXII (4), 1203-1250.
Supporting Data Set

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2. Finance and Development

“Finance and Growth: Theory and Evidence,” Ross Levine, Chapter for Handbook of Economic Growth, September 2004

Legal Institutions and Financial Development, by Ross Levine and Thorsten Beck, July 2003 Forthcoming: Handbook of New Institutional Economics

International Financial Integratoin and Growth Ross Levine,Hali Edison, Luca Ricci, and Thorsten Sloek, Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol 21,6, November 2002

Financial Development and Economic Growth: The Role of Stock Markets Philip Arestis; Panicos O. Demetriades; Kul B. Luintel Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol. 33, No. 1. (Feb., 2001), pp. 16-41.

 "Financial Intermediary Development and Growth: Causes and Causality" Ross Levine, Thorsten Beck and Norman Loayza, Journal of Monetary Economics, 2000, 46(1): 31-77.

"Finance and the Sources of Growth", Ross Levine, Thorsten Beck and Norman Loayza
Published: Journal of Financial Economics, 2000, 58: 261-300.

Law and Finance Rafael La Porta; Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes; Andrei Shleifer; Robert W. Vishny , The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 106, No. 6. (Dec., 1998), pp. 1113-1155.

Finance and Growth: Schumpeter Might be Right Robert G. King; Ross Levine , The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 108, No. 3. (Aug., 1993), pp. 717-737.

Financial Development, Growth, and the Distribution of Income”, Jeremy Greenwood and  Boyan Jovanovic, The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 98, No. 5, Part 1. (Oct., 1990), pp. 1076-1107.

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3. Foreign Aid

Aid and Growth: What Does the Cross-Country Evidence Really Show? Raghuram G. Rajan and Arvind Subramanian, IMF Working Paper, June 2005

What did structural adjustment adjust? The association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans, William Easterly, Journal of Development Economics Vol 76, February 2005

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, Jeffrey D. Sachs, The Penguin Press: New York, 2005

"New Data, New Doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar's "Aid, Policies, and Growth" William Easterly, Ross Levine, and David Roodman, American Economic Review, June 2004, Dataset , New Data

Why Conditional Aid Doesn’t Work and What Can Be Done About It?"Jakob Svensson, Journal of Development Economics , 2003, vol. 70 (2): 381-402

The Illusion of Sustainability Michael Kremer, Ted Miguel, July 2003

Scaling Up and Evaluation E. Duflo, May 2003

Solutions when the Solution is the Problem:Arraying the Disarray in Development” Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock

“Donor Fragmentation and Bureaucratic Quality in Aid Recipients” Steven Knack

“Aid, Policies, and Growth,” Burnside, Craig and David Dollar,American Economic Review 90(4) (September 2000): pp. 847–68.

Do Corrupt Governments Receive Less Foreign Aid? Alberto Alesina and Beatrice Weder,Revised: May, 2000

"Foreign Aid and Rent-Seeking",Jakob Svensson, Journal of International Economics, 2000, Vol. 51 (2): 437-461.

Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa,Alex de Waal, Indiana University Press, 1997.

“Politics and the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid.” Peter Boone,European Economic Review , 1996, 40(2), pp. 289–329.

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4. General growth empirics

"Determinants of Long-Term Growth: A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach" Gernot Doppelhofer, Ronald Miller, Xavier Sala-i-Martin American Economic Review, September 2004

"Economic Growth and Investment in the Arab World" by Xavier Sala-i-Martin and Elsa V. Artadi), forthcoming in the Arab Competitiveness Report of the World Economic Forum, September 2002.

"15 Years of Growth Economics: What Have we Learnt?", The Challenges of Economic Growth, Ed. Norman Loaiza, Central Bank of Chile, 2002. by Xavier Sala-i-Martin

"The Local Solow Growth Model",Durlauf,-Steven-N; Kourtellos,-Andros; Minkin,-Arthur, European-Economic-Review. May 2001; 45(4-6): 928-40.

Growth Empirics and Reality, by William A. Brock and Steven N. Durlauf SSRI Working Paper #2024R (current revision: April 2, 2001)

"Growth Economics and Reality" Brock, William A. and Durlauf, Steven N., NBER Working Paper No. W8041,December 2000

"Growth Economics and Reality: Comment" (March 2001), discussion of Brock and Durlauff paper with the same title. World Bank Economic Review, 2001. by Xavier Sala-i-Martin

"Growth and Investment Across Countries: Are Primitives All That Matter?" Jess Benhabib and Mark Spiegel

"The New Empirics of Economic Growth:", Taylor,-John-B.; Woodford,-Michael, eds. Handbook of macroeconomics. Volume 1A. Handbooks in Economics, vol. 15. Amsterdam; New York and Oxford: Elsevier Science, North-Holland, 1999; 235-308

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5. Geography

"Geography, Economic Policy, and Regional Development in China," Jeff Sachs, Sylvie Demurger, Wing Thye Woo, Shuming Bao, Gene Chang, and Andrew Mellinger, Asian Economic Papers, Vol. 1 No. 1, Winter 2002, pp. 146-197. (formerly CID Working Paper no. 77, October 2001).

The curse of natural resources , Sachs, Warner, European Economic Review. Vol. 45. May 2001

Institutions and Geography: Comment on Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson," Jeff Sachs and John W. McArthur. NBER Working Paper 8114. February 2001

Geography and Economic Development by John Luke Gallup and Jeffrey D. Sachs, with Andrew D. Mellinger. CID Working Paper No. 1, March 1999, data

Geography, Demography, and Economic Growth in Africa David E. Bloom; Jeffrey D. Sachs; Paul Collier; Christopher Udry, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Vol. 1998, No. 2. (1998), pp. 207-295.

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6. Growth Accounting

"The Missing Input: Accounting for Cross-Country Income
Differences
", Francesco Caselli ,forthcoming chapter in the Handbook of Economic Growth, November 2003

"What Explains the Industrial Revolution in East Asia?" Evidence from the Factor Markets." Chang Tai Hsieh, American Economic Review, June 2002

“International Productivity Comparisons Built from the Firm Level” Baily, M.N., and R.M. Solow (2001), Journal of Economic Perspectives 15(3):151-17

"It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models" Ross Levine and William Easterly,World Bank Economic Review, 2000

The Neoclassical Revival in Economic Growth: has it gone too far? Klenow and Rodriguez-Clare, NBER MAcro Annual 1997

"The Tyranny of Numbers: Confronting the Statistical Realities of the East Asian Growth Experience" , Alwyn Young, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 110, No. 3. (Aug., 1995), pp. 641-680.

"A Tale of Two Cities: Factor Accumulation and Technical Change in Hong Kong and Singapore." Young, Alwyn. NBER macroeconomics annual Cambridge: MIT Press (1992): 13-54

“Externalities and Growth Accounting”, Jess Benhabib and Boyan Jovanovic, The American Economic Review, Vol. 81, No. 1. (Mar., 1991), pp. 82-113.

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7. Human Capital and Development

"Technology Diffusion and Human Capital", Jess Benhabib, and Mark Spiegel ,Development Research Institute Working Paper No.3, 2003.

"Education for Growth: Why and For Whom?" Krueger, Alan B. and Mikael Lindahl. Journal of Economic Literature Vol. 39, No. 4, December 2001

"Where has all Education gone?",Lant Pritchett, The World Bank Economic Review, Vol 15 No3, 2001

“Does Schooling Cause Growth?,” Bils, Mark and P. Klenow American Economic
Review, December 2000, 90(5), pp. 1160-1183.

"International Data on Educational Attainment Updates and Implications", Robert.J Barro and Jong Wha Lee , August 2000.  Dataset 

Learning by Doing and the Choice of Technology “, Boyan Jovanovic and Yaw Nyarko, Econometrica, Vol. 64, No. 6. (Nov., 1996), pp. 1299-1310.

"On the Mechanics of Economic Development." Lucas, Robert E. Journal of Monetary Economics, 22:3-42, 1988

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8. Inequality and Poverty


Poverty Traps?, Costas Azariadis and John Stachurski, Prepared for the Handbook of
Economic Growth, 2004

Inequality, Technology, and the Social Contract, Roland Bénabou, December 2003,
chapter for Handbook of Economic Growth

Inequality and Growth: What Can the Data Say? Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, June
2003, Revised

Persistent Inequality" (Debraj Ray and D. Mookherjee), revised October 2002, forthcoming, Review of Economic Studies.

Is Equality Stable? Dilip Mookherjee and Debraj Ray, American Economic Review 92, 253--259 (2002)

"From Physical to Human Capital Accumulation: Inequality and the Process of Development",Galor Oded and Omer Moav, Last updated: February, 2002

Factor Endowments,Inequality, and Paths of Development among New World Economies, STANLEY L. ENGERMAN and KENNETH L. SOKOLOFF, Economia, Fall 2002

"Conceptual Challenges in Poverty and Inequality: One Development Economist's Perspective", Ravi Kanbur, April 2002.

"Groups, Social Influences and Inequality: A Memberships Theory Perspective on Poverty Traps" Steven N Durlauf , August 2002

“Promise and Pitfalls in the Use of "Secondary" Data-Sets: Income Inequality in OECD Countries,” A B Atkinson and A Brandolini, Journal of Economic Literature 2001

Inequality, Control Rights and Efficiency: A Study of Sugar Cooperatives in Western Maharashtra (with A. Banerjee, D. Mookherjee and K. Munshi), Journal of Political Economy 109, 138--190 (2001).

"The Membership Theory of Poverty: The role of Group Affiliations in Determining Socioeconomics Outcomes" Steven N Durlauf , August 2000

"A reassessment of the relationship between inequality and growth," Forbes, Kristin J.American Economic Review 90(4), 869-887, 2000

Falling Labor Income Inequality in Korea's Economic Growth: Patterns and Underlying Causes Review of Income and Wealth. (June 2000) (Gary S. Fields and Gyeongjoon Yoo) .

The Dynamics of Poverty, Inequality and Economic Well-Being: African Economic Growth in Comparative Perspective, Journal of African Economies (supplement). (June 2000) . Gary S. Fields

"When Economic Reform is Faster than Statistical Reform: Measuring and Explaining Inequality in Rural China" Shaohua Chen and MartinRavallion, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 1902 and Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 61, No. 1, February 1999, pp. 33-56.

"A Theory of Persistent Income Inequality" Steven N Durlauf Journal of Economic Growth, 1: 75-93, 1996.

"Inequality and Growth" Roland, J.M. Benabou ,NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 1996, B. Bernanke and J. Rotemberg, eds., 11-74

Heterogeneity, Stratification, and Growth: Macroeconomic Implications of Community Structure and School Finance “, Roland Benabou, The American Economic Review, Vol. 86, No. 3. (Jun., 1996), pp. 584-609.

Income Distribution and Growth: The Kuznets Hypothesis Revisited”,Oded Galor; and Daniel Tsiddon, Economica, New Series, Vol. 63, No. 250, Supplement: Economic Policy and Income Distribution. (1996), pp. S103-S117

“Distributive politics and economic growth,” Alesina, Alberto and Dani Rodrik,Quarterly Journal of Economics 108: 465-90, 1994

Is Inequality Harmful for Growth? Torsten Persson; Guido Tabellini, The American Economic Review, Vol. 84, No. 3. (Jun., 1994), pp. 600-621.

Income Distribution and Macroeconomics”, Oded Galor and Joseph Zeira,The Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 60, No. 1. (Jan., 1993), pp. 35-52.

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9. Law and Institutions

Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson, Handbook chapter, 2004

From Education to Democracy? Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson, Dec. 2004

Do Institutions Cause Growth?
with Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silane, Andrei Shleifer: NBER w10568 June 2004

Lawlessness and Economics: Alternative Modes of Governance, Avinash K. Dixit, Princeton University Press: Princeton NJ, 2004

Unbundling Institutions
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson
July 2003

The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation
Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson and Simon Johnson
December 2001, American Economic Review, volume 91, pp. 1369-1401.

The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development:A Reexamination Based on Improved Settler Mortality Data, David Albouy,September 27, 2004, University of California – Berkeley

The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson
November 2000

Why Did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality, and Growth in Historical Perspective “, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson , Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2000, vol 115, 1167-1199.

Democratization or Repression? “,Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
European Economics Review, Papers and Proceedings, April 2000, vol 44, 683-693.

Daron Acemoglu,Simon Johnson and James Robinson "Reversal of Fortune:Geography and Institutions in the Making of theModern World Income Distribution"

Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James Robinsonand Yunyong Thaicharoen
forthcoming Journal of Monetary Economics, Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series

Legal Origins (revised, 2001) Edward L. Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer

"THE QUALITY OF GOVERNMENT", Rafael La Porta; Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes; Andrei Shleifer; Robert W. Vishny

Private Enforcement of Public Laws: A Theory of Legal Reform” (in Government in Transition) , Jonathan R. Hay; Andrei Shleifer,The American Economic Review, Vol. 88, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the Hundred and Tenth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association. (May, 1998), pp. 398-403.

Crime and Social Interactions “, Edward L. Glaeser; Bruce Sacerdote; Jose A. Scheinkman, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 111, No. 2. (May, 1996), pp. 507-548

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10 . Macro growth theory

Growth and Ideas”, Jones, Chad, chapter for Handbook of Economic Growth, 2004

“Distance to Frontier, Selection, and Economic Growth”, Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion and Fabrizio Zilibotti, June 2002

Growth: With or without Scale Effects?” ,Charles I. Jones, The American Economic Review, Vol. 89, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the One Hundred Eleventh Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association. (May, 1999), pp. 139-144.

“R&D-Based Models of Economic Growth,” Jones, Chad. Journal of Political Economy, August 1995, 103, pp. 759-84.

The Growth of Nations N. Gregory Mankiw; Edmund S. Phelps; Paul M. Romer Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Vol. 1995, No. 1, 25th Anniversary Issue. (1995), pp. 275-326

A Model of Growth Through Creative Destruction” Philippe Aghion; Peter Howitt ,Econometrica, Vol. 60, No. 2. (Mar., 1992), pp. 323-351

Endogenous Technological Change Paul M. Romer The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 98, No. 5, Part 2: The Problem of Development: A Conference of the Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise Systems. (Oct., 1990), pp. S71-S102.

The Growth and Diffusion of Knowledge”, Boyan Jovanovic and Rafael Rob, The Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 56, No. 4. (Oct., 1989), pp. 569-582.

A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth Robert M. Solow, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 70, No. 1. (Feb., 1956), pp. 65-94.

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11. Markets and Networks

Learning About a New Technology: Pineapple in Ghana, Conley, Timothy and Chris Udry Economic Growth Center Working Paper 817, May 2004

Social Networks in Ghana,Conley, Timothy and Chris Udry, Economic Growth Center Working Paper no. 888, May 2004

Group Formation in Risk-Sharing Arrangements," Debraj Ray and G. Genicot, Review of Economic Studies 70, 87--113 (2003). For a conjecture related to the paper click here. For robustness checks of Example 2 click here.

Risk Sharing Networks in Rural Philippines", Marcel Fafchamps and Susan Lund, Journal of Development Economics, 2002

"Returns to Social Network Capital Among Traders", in collaboration Marcel Fafchamps and Bart Minten, Oxford Economic Papers, 54: 173-206, April 2002

"Business and Social Networks in International Trade," James E Rauch, Journal of Economic Literature 39 (December 2001):1177-1203.

"Networks, Communities, and Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for Firm Growth and Investment", Journal of African Economies, (forthcoming) Marcel Fafchamps, 1999

"Networks Versus Markets in International Trade," James E Rauch, Journal of International Economics 48 (June 1999): 7-35.

"Contract Enforceability and Economic Institutions in Early Trade: The
Maghribi Traders' Coalition,"Greif, Avner (1993) American Economic Review, 83(3), pp.525-548.

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12. Micro development theory

The Economics of Microfinance, Beatriz Armendariz de Aghion and Jonathan Morduch, MIT Press: Cambridge MA, 2005.

Group Formation in Risk-Sharing Arrangements," Debraj Ray and G. Genicot, Review of Economic Studies 70, 87--113 (2003). For a conjecture related to the paper click here. For robustness checks of Example 2 click here.

Persistent Inequality" (Debraj Ray and D. Mookherjee), revised October 2002, forthcoming, Review of Economic Studies.

13. Micro literature on health, nutrition, education

"Health Care Delivery in Rural Rajasthan" Abhijit Banerjee, Angus Deaton and Esther Duflo
Economic and Political Weekly, v. 39, iss. 9, pp. 944-949, February 28, 2004

"Wealth, Health, and Health Services in Rural Rajasthan" Abhijit Banerjee, Angus Deaton and Esther Duflo forthcoming American Economic Review, May 2004

Medical Compliance and Income Health Gradients A. Case, I. LeRoux, and A. Menendez, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2004, v. 94, iss. 2, pp. 331-335

"Schooling and Parental Death" Paul Gertler David Levine and Minnie Ames, Center for International and Development Economics Research. Paper C03-128, February 4, 2003

Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India
A. Banerjee, S. Cole, E. Duflo and L. Linden, September 2003

"Randomized Evaluations of Educational Programs in Developing Countries: Some Lessons," Michael Kremer, forthcoming in American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings

The Revenue Consequences of Vaccines Versus Drug Treatments," Michael Kremer and Christopher Snyder, 2003.

"The Education of African Orphans", A. Case, C. Paxson, and J. Ableidinger, NBER working paper 9213, April 2003

"Economic Status and Health in Childhood: the Origins of the Gradient",  A. Case, D. Lubotsky, and C. Paxson, American Economic Review 92(5), pp 1308-1334,December 2002

"Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities," Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel, forthcoming in Econometrica. NBER Working Paper 8481, 2001

The Medium Run Effects of Educational Expansion: Evidence from a Large School Construction Program in Indonesia, Esther Duflo, October 2000

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14. National Policies

National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal " W. Easterly, Development
Research Institute (DRI) Working Paper No. 1, New York University, paper for the
Handbook of Economic Growth, February, 2004

Growth Strategies, Dani Rodrik, a paper for the Handbook of Economic Growth,August 2004

"Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions," By William Easterly and Ross Levine, November 1997, Quarterly Journal of Economics. CXII (4), 1203-1250.
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15. Political Economy

The Political Economy of Hatred (October 2004) Edward L. Glaeser, forthcoming Quarterly Journal of Economics

“Bad Politicians” Francesco Caselli, and Massimo Morelli, Journal of Public Economics, Forthcoming, 2002

"Conditionality and Ownership in IMF Lending: A Political Economy Approach," Drazen, Allan, CEPR Discussion Papers 3562, C.E.P.R. 2002

"Do Crises Induce Reform? Simple Empirical Tests of Conventional Wisdom," Allan Drazen & William Easterly,Economics and Politics, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 13(2), pages 129-157, 2001.

The Political Economy of Fiscal Adjustments”, Alberto Alesina and Roberto Perotti; Jose Tavares, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Vol. 1998, No. 1. (1998), pp. 197-248.

"Why Are Stabilizations Delayed?," Alesina, Alberto & Drazen, Allan, 1991. American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 81(5), pages 1170-88, December 1991

Political Parties and the Business Cycle in the United States, 1948-1984”, Alberto Alesina and  Jeffrey Sachs, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol. 20, No. 1. (Feb., 1988), pp. 63-82.

Credibility and Policy Convergence in a Two-Party System with Rational Voters ,Alberto Alesina,The American Economic Review, Vol. 78, No. 4. (Sep., 1988), pp. 796-805.

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16. Regional: Africa, Latin America, East Asia

Africans: The History of A Continent, John Iliffe, Cambridge
University Press, 1995

Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise
History of Latin America. Chasteen, John Charles, WW Norton New York 2000

17.Social Capital

Social Capital, Steven Durlauf, Marcel Fafchamps, NBER working paper 10485, May 2004

The Economic Approach to Social Capital ,Edward L. Glaeser, David Laibson, and Bruce Sacerdote, NBER Working Paper No. w7728 and Economic Journal 112 (2002): 437-458

The Social Multiplier, Edward L. Glaeser, Bruce I. Sacerdote and Jose A. Scheinkman, HIER Discussion paper 1968 (June 2002) European Economic Review, forthcoming.

"Returns to Social Network Capital Among Traders", in collaboration Marcel Fafchamps and Bart Minten, Oxford Economic Papers, 54: 173-206, April 2002

“The Place of Social Capital in Understanding Social and Economic Outcomes", Michael Woolcock, Canadian Journal of Policy Research 2(1): 11-17 (February 2001)

"Microenterprise and Social Capital: A Framework for Theory, Research, and Policy" Journal of Socio-Economics 30: 193-198 (March 2001) Michael Woolcock

"Social Capital: Implications for Development Theory, Research, and Policy" (Michael Woolcock and Deepa Narayan) World Bank Research Observer 15(2): 225-249 (August 2000)

"What is Social Capital? The Determinants of Trust and Trustworthiness", Edward L. Glaeser, David Laibson, Jose A. Scheinkman, Christine L. Soutter, NBER Working Paper No. w7216,1999

Cents and Sociability: Household Income and Social Capitalin Rural Tanzania ,Deepa Narayan, and Lant Pritchett,Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1999, vol. 47(4)

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