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Working Papers

Brookings Institution

Title: The Decline of the White Working Class and the Rise of a Mass Upper Middle Class
Author: Alan Abramowitz, Ruy Teixeira
Date: April 2008

Title: Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid
Author: William Easterly, Tobias Pfutze
Date: June 2008

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Title: Party for Justice and Development in Morocco: Participation and Its Discontents
Author: Amr Hamzawy
Date: July 2008

Title: The Middle East: Evolution of a Broken Regional Order
Author: Paul Salem
Date: July 2008

Title: The New Arab Diplomacy: Not With the U.S. and Not Against the U.S.
Author: Mohammed Herzallah, Marina Ottaway
Date: July 2008

The Cato Institute

Title: The Fiscal Impact of a Large-Scale Education Tax Credit Program
Author: Andrew J. Coulson
Date: July 2008

The Center for International Security and Cooperation

Title: The End of Easy Oil: Estimating Average Production Costs for Oil Fields around the World
Author: Christine Jojarth
Date: March 2008

Center for the Advanced Study of India

Title: Beyond the ABCs: Higher Education and Developing Countries
Author: Megan Crowley, Devesh Kapur
Date: February 2008

Title: Markets and Manu: Economic Reforms and Its Impact on Caste in India
Author: Chandra Bhan Prasad
Date: January 2008

Title: The Internationalization of Indian Companies: The Case of Tata
Author: Andrea Goldstein
Date: January 2008

Council on Foreign Relations

Title: Food Failures and Futures
Author: Laurie Garrett
Date: May 2008

Title: Food Price Inflation: Explanation and Policy Implications
Author: Karen H. Johnson
Date: July 2008

Title: Securing Pakistan’s Tribal Belt
Author: Daniel Markey
Date: July 2008

German Institute of Global and Area Studies

Title: EU-African Economic Relations: Continuing Dominance, Traded for Aid?
Author: Dirk Kohnert
Date: July 2008

Title: Not Always in the People’s Interest: Power-sharing Arrangements in African Peace Agreements
Author: Andreas Mehler
Date: July 2008

Human Rights & Human Welfare (University of Denver)

Title: Accommodating Indigenous Peoples within the Human Rights Regime:The Case of Awas Tingni v. Nicaragua
Author: Amy E. Eckert
Date: June 2007

Title: Can Historical Institutionalism Resolve the Limits of the “Many Hands” Dilemma?: Institutional Accountability through the EU’s and the IMF’s Codes of Conduct
Author: Sarah Bania-Dobyns
Date: August 2008

Title: Human Rights Education: The Third Leg of Post-Conflict/Transitional Justice
Author: David E. Guinn
Date: March 2007

Title: Law in Times of War: the Case of Chechnya
Author: Federico Sperotto
Date: August 2007

Title: The International Security Presence in Kosovo and the Protection of Human Rights
Author: Federico Sperotto
Date: June 2008

Title: US Policy on Small Arms Transfers: A Human Rights Perspective
Author: Susan Waltz
Date: October 2007

Title: Violations of Human Rights during Military Operations in Chechnya
Author: Federico Sperotto
Date: February 2007

Title: Who Intervenes and Why it Matters: The Problem of Agency in Humanitarian Intervention
Author: Eric A. Heinze
Date: August 2007

International Crisis Group

Title: Failed Responsibility: Iraqi Refugees in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon
Date: July 2008

Title: Indonesia: Implications of the Ahmadiyah Decree
Date: July 2008

Title: Nepal: The Uncertain Future of the New Republic
Date: July 2008

Title: Nepal’s New Political Landscape
Date: July 2008

Title: Reforming Pakistan's Police
Date: July 2008

Title: Ruling Palestine II: The West Bank Model?
Date: July 2008

Title: Sierra Leone: A New Era of Reform?
Date: July 2008

Title: Taliban Propaganda: Winning the War of Words?
Date: July 2008

Title: The New Lebanese Equation: The Christians’ Central Role
Date: July 2008

Title: Venezuela: Political Reform or Regime Demise?
Date: July 2008

The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

Title: Uncertainty and the Market for Patents
Author: Irene Troy, Raymund Werle
Date: July 2008

Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies

Title: "French Suburbs" : A New Problem or a New Approach to Social Exclusion?
Author: Sylvie Tissot
Date: January 2008

Title: “Transnations” Among “Transnations”? The Debate on Transnational History in the United States and Germany
Author: Kiran Klaus Patel
Date: January 2008

Title: Bridging Boundaries: The Equalization Strategies of Stigmatized Ethno-racial Groups Compared
Author: Christopher Bail, Michèle Lamont
Date: January 2007

Title: Bringing the State Back Into the Varieties of Capitalism And Discourse Back Into the Explanation of Change
Author: Vivien A. Schmidt
Date: January 2007

Title: Changing Views of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Democratic Spain (1978-2006)
Author: Carmen López Alonso
Date: January 2007

Title: Criminal Justice and Democratic Systems: Inclusionary and Exclusionary Dynamics in the Institutional Structure of Late Modern Societies
Author: Nicola Lacey
Date: January 2007

Title: Europeanization and the Retreat of the State
Author: Frank M. Häge, Volker Schneider
Date: January 2007

Title: Finance and the Macro-economy: The Politics of Regulatory Reform in Europe
Author: Sofía Perez, Jonathan Westrup
Date: January 2008

Title: Mobility of Labor and Services across the Baltic Sea after EU Enlargement: Trends and Consequences
Author: Jon Erik Dølvik
Date: January 2008

Title: Non-Working Time, Income Inequality and Quality of Life Comparisons: The Case of the U.S. vs. the Netherlands
Author: Thomas A. DiPrete, Ellen Verbake
Date: June 2007

Title: Political Elites in Federalized Countries: The Case of Spain (1980-2005)
Author: Xavier Coller, Helder Ferreira do Vale, Chris Meissner
Date: January 2007

Title: Recalcitrance, Inefficiency, and Support for European Integration: Why Member States Do (Not) Comply with European Law
Author: Tanja A. Börzel, Meike Dudziak, Tobias Hofmann, Diana Panke, Carina Sprungk
Date: January 2007

Title: Ripples in a Rising Tide: Why Some EU Regions Receive More Structural Funds Than Others Do
Author: Thilo Bodenstein, Achim Kemmerling
Date: January 2008

Title: Socializing Capital, Capitalizing the Social: Contemporary Social Democracy and the Knowledge Economy
Author: Jenny Andersson
Date: January 2007

Title: The 1998 and 2007 Referenda on Abortion in Portugal: Roman Catholicism, Secularization and the Recovery of Traditional Communal Values
Author: Paul Christopher Manuel, Maurya N. Tollefsen
Date: January 2007

Title: The Negotiated Nordic Labor Markets: From Bust to Boom
Author: Jon Erik Dølvik
Date: January 2008

Title: Uneven Power and the Pursuit of Peace: How Regional Power Transitions Motivate Integration
Author: Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni
Date: January 2007

Title: Venetian Colonialism in the Aegean: Sifnos in the Thirteenth Century
Author: Eleni Mahaira-Odoni
Date: January 2007

Title: Who Are the Catalans? Language, Identity and Assimilation in Contemporary Catalonia
Author: Thomas Jeffrey Miley
Date: January 2008

Title: Why the Devil Wears Prada: The Fashion Formation Process in a Simultaneous Disclosure Game Between Designers and Media
Author: Wolfgang Gick, Evelyn Gick
Date: January 2007

Peterson Institute for International Economics

Title: Estimating Consistent Fundamental Equilibrium Exchange Rates
Author: William R. Cline
Date: July 2008

SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research

Title: New Action Plan for Southeastern Turkey
Author: Taha Ozhan
Date: July 2008

U.S. Government

Title: Cross-border Bank Acquisitions: Is there a Performance Effect?
Author: Ricardo Correa
Date: March 2008

Title: Cross-Border Returns Differentials
Author: Stephanie E. Curcuru, Tomas Dvorak, Francis E. Warnock
Date: February 2008

Title: On the Application of Automatic Differentiation to the Likelihood Function for Dynamic General Equilibrium Models
Author: Houtan Bastani, Luca Guerrieri
Date: February 2008

Title: Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Customer Markets
Author: David M. Arseneau, Sanjay K. Chugh
Date: January 2008

Title: Political Disagreement, Lack of Commitment and the Level of Debt
Author: Davide Debortoli, Ricardo Nunes
Date: July 2008

United Nations University

Title: A Tale of Two Countries: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Rice Productivity in China and Brazil
Author: Liangzhi You
Date: March 2008

Title: Aid and Growth in Fragile States
Author: Simon Feeny, Mark McGillivray
Date: January 2008

Title: Analysing the Impact of Natural Hazards in Small Economies: The Caribbean Case
Author: Martin Heger, Alex Julca, Oliver Paddison
Date: March 2008

Title: Approaching a Triumphal Span: How Far Is China Towards its Lewisian Turning Point?
Author: Fang Cai
Date: February 2008

Title: Assessing Vulnerability Before, During and After a Natural Disaster in Fragile Regions: Case Study of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami in Sri Lanka and Indonesia
Author: Jörn Birkmann
Date: May 2008

Title: Asset-Based Poverty in Rural Tajikistan: Who Climbs out and Who Falls in?
Author: Oleksiy Ivaschenko, Cem Mete
Date: March 2008

Title: Beyond Industrialization: New Approaches to Development Strategy Based on the Service Sector
Author: Peter Sheehan
Date: May 2008

Title: China and the Future of the Developing World: The Coming Global-Asian Era and its Consequences
Author: Jeffrey Henderson
Date: May 2008

Title: China in the World Economy: Dynamic Correlation Analysis of Business Cycles
Author: Ivana Bátorová, Jarko Fidrmuc
Date: January 2008

Title: China’s Development Strategy and Energy Security: Growth, Distribution and Regional Cooperation
Author: Haider A. Khan
Date: May 2008

Title: China’s Economic Growth: Trajectories and Evolving Institutions
Author: Jun Zhang
Date: April 2008

Title: China’s Exports in ICT and its Impact on Asian Countries
Author: Yuqing Xing
Date: April 2008

Title: Comparing Regional Development in China and India
Author: Yanrui Wu
Date: February 2008

Title: Determinants of State Fragility and Implications for Aid Allocation: An Assessment Based on the Country Indicators for Foreign Policy Project
Author: David Carment, Stewart Prest, Yiagadeesen Samy
Date: April 2008

Title: Development Path of China and India and the Challenges for their Sustainable Growth
Author: Yuefen Li, Bin Zhang
Date: April 2008

Title: Earnings Mobility in Times of Growth and Decline: Argentina from 1996 to 2003
Author: Gary S. Fields, María Laura Sánchez Puerta
Date: January 2008

Title: Economic Vulnerability and Resilience: Concepts and Measurements
Author: Lino Briguglio, Gordon Cordina, Nadia Farrugia, Stephanie Vella
Date: May 2008

Title: Empowering Women Through Livelihoods Orientated Agricultural Service Provision: A Consideration of Evidence from Southern Africa
Author: A. J. E. Charman
Date: January 2008

Title: Enforcing Peace Agreements through Commitment Technologies
Author: S. Mansoob Murshed, Philip Verwimp
Date: April 2008

Title: Enhancing Effective Utilization of Aid in Fragile States
Author: Sanjeev Gupta
Date: February 2008

Title: Entrepreneurship and Structural Economic Transformation
Author: Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé
Date: June 2008

Title: Entrepreneurship in Economic Development
Author: Wim Naudé
Date: March 2008

Title: Export Productivity and Specialization in China, Brazil, India and South Africa
Author: Amelia U. Santos-Paulino
Date: March 2008

Title: Export Productivity, Finance, and Economic Growth: Are the Southern Engines of Growth Different?
Author: Alessandra Guariglia, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino
Date: March 2008

Title: Foreign Aid as Prize: Incentives for a Pro-Poor Policy
Author: Sajal Lahiri, Tejashree Sayanak
Date: June 2008

Title: Foreign Aid, Infrastructure Development, and Welfare: An Intertemporal Analysis
Author: Slobodan Djajić
Date: June 2008

Title: Foreign Direct Investment from China, India and South Africa in Sub-Saharan Africa: A New or Old Phenomenon?
Author: John Henley, Mithat Külür, Stefan Kratzsch, Tamer Tandogan
Date: March 2008

Title: Foreign Direct Investment, Domestic Investment, and Economic Growth in China: A Time Series Analysis
Author: E. A. Selvanathan, S. Selvanathan, Sumei Tang
Date: February 2008

Title: Gender and Ethnicity in Post-Conflict Kosovo
Author: Sumon Kumar Bhaumik, Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun
Date: April 2008

Title: Gender and Informal Sector Analysis in India: Economy Wide Approaches
Author: Haider Khan, Anushree Sinha
Date: June 2008

Title: Global Growth and Distribution: Are China and India Reshaping the World?
Author: Maurizio Bussolo, Rafael E. De Hoyos, Denis Medvedev, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe
Date: March 2008

Title: Globalization and Formal Sector Migration in Brazil
Author: Ernesto Aguayo-Tellez, Marc-Andreas Muendler, Jennifer Pamela Poole
Date: March 2008

Title: Globalization and Smallholders: The Adoption, Diffusion, and Welfare Impact of Non-traditional Export Crops in Guatemala
Author: Calogero Carletto, Benjamin Davis, Angeli Kirk, Paul Winters
Date: February 2008

Title: Globalization, Literacy Levels, and Economic Development
Author: Alok Bhargava
Date: January 2008

Title: Growth Oriented Macroeconomic Policies for Small Islands Economies: Lessons from Singapore
Author: Anis Chowdhury
Date: April 2008

Title: How Macroeconomic Instability Lowers Child Survival
Author: Patrick Guillaumont, Catherine Korachais, Julie Subervie
Date: May 2008

Title: Identification of Regional Fundamental Economic Structure (FES) of India: An Input-Output and Field of Influence Approach
Author: Sudhir K. Thakur
Date: May 2008

Title: Individual and Collective Resources and Health in Morocco
Author: Marie-Claude Martin
Date: March 2008

Title: Inflation and Financial Development: Evidence from Brazil
Author: Manoel Bittencourt
Date: February 2008

Title: Innovation Capacity and Economic Development: China and India
Author: Peilei Fan
Date: March 2008

Title: International Integration and Regional Development in China
Author: Thomas Gries, Margarete Redlin
Date: July 2008

Title: Intra-Household Arrangements and Health Satisfaction: Evidence from Mexico
Author: Mariano Rojas
Date: May 2008

Title: Livelihood Risk from HIV in Semi-Arid Tropics of Rural Andhra Pradesh
Author: M. Cynthia Serquiña Bantilan, B. Valentine Joseph Gandhi, Devanathan Parthasarathy
Date: April 2008

Title: Measuring the Competitive Threat from China
Author: Rhys Jenkins
Date: February 2008

Title: Measuring the Vulnerability of Subnational Regions
Author: Mark McGillivray, Wim Naudé, Stephanié Rossouw
Date: May 2008

Title: Measuring Vulnerability and Poverty: Estimates for Rural India
Author: Raghav Gaiha, Katsushi Imai
Date: April 2008

Title: Minimum Wages, Globalization, and Poverty in Honduras
Author: T.H. Gindling, Katherine Terrell
Date: March 2008

Title: Natural Disasters and Remittances: Exploring the Linkages between Poverty, Gender, and Disaster Vulnerability in Caribbean SIDS
Author: Marlene Attzs
Date: June 2008

Title: Ownership Reform, Foreign Competition, and Efficiency of Chinese Commercial Banks: A Non-Parametric Approach
Author: Genfu Feng, Zhongwei Han, Shujie Yao
Date: April 2008

Title: Reducing People’s Vulnerability to Natural Hazards: Communities and Resilience
Author: Terry Cannon
Date: April 2008

Title: Remittances and Vulnerability to Poverty in Rural Mexico
Author: Alejandro de la Fuente
Date: February 2008

Title: Resources and the Political Economy of State Fragility in Conflict States: Iraq and Somalia
Author: Ghassan Dibeh
Date: April 2008

Title: Seasonal Migration and Early Childhood Development
Author: Karen Macours, Renos Vakis
Date: April 2008

Title: State Fragility: Concept and Measurement
Author: Mina Baliamoune-Lutz, Mark McGillivray
Date: April 2008

Title: The Determinants of Child Weight and Height in Sri Lanka: A Quantile Regression Approach
Author: Harsha Aturupane, Anil B. Deolalikar, Dileni Gunewardena
Date: May 2008

Title: The Impact of Higher Standards in Patent Protection for Pharmaceutical Industries under the TRIPS Agreement: A Comparative Study of China and India
Author: Xuan Li
Date: April 2008

Title: The Impact of Reform on Economic Growth in China: A Principal Component Analysis
Author: Yu Sheng, Ligang Song
Date: February 2008

Title: The Optimal Distance to Port for Exporting Firms
Author: Thomas Gries, Marianne Matthee, Wim Naudé
Date: April 2008

Title: The Rise of the Southern Economies: Implications for the WTO-Multilateral Trading System
Author: Silvia Nenci
Date: February 2008

Title: The Role of Women’s Empowerment and Domestic Violence in Child Growth and Undernutrition in a Tribal and Rural Community in South India
Author: Kavita Sethuraman
Date: February 2008

Title: Trade Expansion of China and India: Threat or Opportunity
Author: Mahvash Saeed Qureshi, Guanghua Wan
Date: February 2008

Title: Trade Liberalization and the Self-employed in Mexico
Author: Gurleen K. Popli
Date: January 2008

Title: Ungrouping Income Distributions: Synthesising Samples for Inequality and Poverty Analysis
Author: Anthony Shorrocks, Guanghua Wan
Date: February 2008

Title: Vulnerability to Hunger: Improving Food Crisis Responses in Fragile States
Author: Colin Andrews, Margarita Flores
Date: April 2008

Title: Vulnerability, Poverty and Coping in Zimbabwe
Author: Kate Bird, Martin Prowse
Date: April 2008

Title: Vulnerability, Trust and Microcredit: The Case of China’s Rural Poor
Author: Rong Kong, Calum G. Turvey
Date: May 2008

Books

Columbia University Press

Title: The Shape of the World to Come
Author: Laurent Cohen-Tanugi
Date: August 2008

Policy Briefs

Chechnya Weekly (The Jamestown Foundation)

Title: North Caucasus Weekly: Volume 9, Issue 27 (July 11, 2008)
Date: July 2008

Title: North Caucasus Weekly: Volume 9, Issue 28 (July 17, 2008)
Date: July 2008

Title: North Caucasus Weekly: Volume 9, Issue 29 (July 24, 2008)
Date: July 2008

Title: North Caucasus Weekly: Volume 9, Issue 30 (August 1, 2008)
Date: August 2008

Council on Foreign Relations

Title: Avoiding Transfers to Torture
Author: Ashley Deeks
Date: June 2008

Title: Dealing with Damascus: Seeking a Greater Return on U.S.-Syria Relations
Author: Scott Lasensky, Mona Yacoubian
Date: June 2008

Title: Global FDI Policy: Correcting a Protectionist Drift
Author: David M. Marchick, Matthew J. Slaughter
Date: June 2008

EastWest Institute

Title: A Day in the Future - Accelerating Solutions to Security Threats
Author: Greg Austin, Leland Russell
Date: February 2008

Title: Countering Violent Extremism: Beyond Words
Author: Amy Zalman
Date: May 2008

Title: Metal Fingerprint: Countering Illicit Trade in Precious Metals and Gemstones
Author: Vladimir Ivanov, Alexander Perelygin, Albert Selin
Date: May 2008

Title: Narcoterrorism
Author: Jonas Hartelius
Date: March 2008

Title: The Security of Pakistan's Nuclear Facilities
Author: Ken Berry
Date: February 2008

Peterson Institute for International Economics

Title: New Estimates of Fundamental Equilibrium Exchange Rates
Author: William R. Cline, John Williamson
Date: July 2008

United Nations University

Title: Legality and Legitimacy in International Order
Author: Vesselin Popovski, Nicholas Turner
Date: May 2008

Title: Poverty Reduction in China: Is High Growth Enough?
Author: Guanghua Wan
Date: April 2008

Journals

al Nakhlah

Volume: 2007, Issue: 9 (Fall 2007)

Connections

Volume: 7, Issue: 1 (Spring 2008)

Critical Review

Volume: 19, Issue: 2 (2007; Volume 19, Issue 2-3)

French Politics, Culture & Society

Volume: 25, Issue: 1 (Spring 2007)

Volume: 24, Issue: 3 (Winter 2006)

Volume: 24, Issue: 2 (Summer 2006)

Volume: 24, Issue: 1 (Spring 2006)

Volume: 23, Issue: 3 (Winter 2005)

Volume: 23, Issue: 2 (Summer 2005)

Volume: 23, Issue: 1 (Spring 2005)

Volume: 22, Issue: 3 (Fall 2004)

Volume: 22, Issue: 2 (Summer 2004)

Volume: 22, Issue: 1 (Spring 2004)

Volume: 21, Issue: 3 (Fall 2003)

Volume: 21, Issue: 2 (Summer 2003)

Volume: 21, Issue: 1 (Spring 2003)

Volume: 20, Issue: 3 (Fall 2002)

Volume: 20, Issue: 2 (Summer 2002)

Volume: 20, Issue: 1 (Spring 2002)

Volume: 19, Issue: 3 (Summer 2001)

Volume: 19, Issue: 2 (Summer 2001)

Volume: 19, Issue: 1 (Spring 2001)

Volume: 18, Issue: 3 (Fall 2000)

Volume: 18, Issue: 2 (Summer 2000)

Volume: 18, Issue: 1 (Spring 2000)

The Cato Journal

Volume: 28, Issue: 1 (Winter 2008)

Volume: 27, Issue: 3 (Fall 2008)

 

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