ontents of RDE: Volume 10

Volume 10, Issue 1, February 2006

Contents

Outsourcing and Wage Inequality in a Dynamic Product Cycle Model
Selin Sayek and Fuat Sener

Trade, Skills and Adjustment Costs: A Study of Intra-Sectoral Labor Mobility
Robert J. R. Elliott and Joanne K. Lindley

The Development Problem under Embodiment
Raouf Boucekkine, Blanca Martínez and Cagri Saglam

What Contributes to Life Satisfaction in Transitional Romania?
Daniela Andrén and Peter Martinsson

The Division of Labor and the Formation of Industrial Clusters in Taiwan
Tetsushi Sonobe and Keijiro Otsuka

Modeling distribution services and assessing their welfare effects in a general equilibrium framework
Scott Bradford and Alexandre Gohin

Renewable Resource Management in Developing Countries: How Long Until Crisis?
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal and Hamid Beladi

Endogenous Growth: Fragile Foundation?
Yunfang Hu, Murray C. Kemp and Koji Shimomura

Human Capital, Productivity and Stratification in Rural Pakistan
Takashi Kurosaki

Relative Deprivation, Wage Differentials and Mexican Migration
Michael A. Quinn

Elections, Opportunism, Partisanship and Sovereign Ratings in Developing Countries
Paul M. Vaaler, Buckhard N. Schrage and Steven A. Block

International Trade and Strategic Privitization
Juan Carlos Bárcena-Ruiz and, María Begoña Garzón*

Forum
Status Aspirations, Wealth Inequality and Economic Growth
Oded Stark

Volume10, Issue 2, May 2006 special issue,
The Political Economy of Aid

Guest editors: Sajal Lahiri and Katharina Michaelowa

Contents

Editorial: The Political Economy of Aid
Sajal Lahiri and Katharina Michaelowa

Bilateral Donors’ Interest vs. Recipients’ Development Motives in Aid Allocation: Do All Donors Behave the Same?
Jean-Claude Berthélemy

The Political Economy of US Aid to Pakistan
Mumtaz Anwar and Katharina Michaelowa

How Do Political Changes Influence US Bilateral Aid Allocations? Evidence from Panel Data (DE/C03)
Robert K. Fleck and Christopher Kilby

World Bank Independence: A Model and Statistical Analysis of US Influence
Robert K. Fleck and Christopher Kilby

Project Aid or Budget Aid? The Interests of Governments and Financial Institutions
Carsten Hefeker

Development Policy Lending, conditionality and ownership: A dynamic agency model perspective
Alberto Paloni and Maurizio Zanardi

Buying Influence: Aid Fungibility in a Strategic Perspective
Rune Jansen Hagen

Contests, NGOs and Decentralizing Aid
Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang

Shortcuts and Signals: An Analysis of the Micro-level Determinants of Aid Allocation, with Case Study Evidence from Brazil
Gina Yannitell Reinhardt

Evaluation Bias and Incentive Structures in Bi- and Multilateral Aid Agencies
Katharina Michaelowa and Axel Borrmann

Aid and the Delegated Fight against Terrorism
Jean-Paul Azam and Alexandra Delacroix

Contents

Labor Market Information Acquisition and Downsizing
Doh-Shin Jeon and Jean-Jacques Laffont

Three Poverties in Urban China
John Knight and Li Shi

Business Cycles, the Exchange Rate, and Demand for Antidumping Protection in Mexico
Gunnar Niels and Joseph Francois

Relative Price Changes, Wages and Unemployment in a Specific Factors Model with Search Frictions
Klaus Wälde and Pia Weiss

Elasticity of Substitution and the Persistence of the Deviation of the Real Exchange Rates
A. K. M. Mahbub Morshed and Stephen J. Turnovsky

Aid Disaggregation and the Public Sector in Aid-Recipient Economies: Some Evidence from Cote D’Ivoire
George Mavrotas and Bazoumana Ouattara

The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Enterprises in Small Backward Economies: The Case of Chad and Gabon
Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Riccardo Faini and Bernard Gauthier

Guaranteed Manufactured without Child Labor
Arnab Basu, Nancy H. Chau and Ulrike Grote

Do Fiscal Deficits Influence Current Accounts?: A Case Study of India
Ashok Parikh and Bill Roa

The Determination of the Equilibrium Exchange Rate in a Simple General Equilibrium Model
Cuong Le Van, Cécile Couharde and Thai Bao Luong

Conditions for Sustainable Optimal Economic Development
Y. Hossein Farzin

Forum
Are Donor Countries Giving More or Less Aid?
Sanjeev Gupta, Catherine Pattilo and Smitta Wagh

Contents

The Manufacturing Wage Inequality in Latin America and East Asia: Openness, Technology Transfer and Labor Supply
Antonio Avalos and Andreas Savvides

Policy Design and Rent Seeking: Targeted versus Broad-Based Intervention
Kjetil Bjorvatn and Nicola D. Coniglio

Eastern and Southern Africa Monetary Integration: A Structural Vector Autoregression Analysis
Steven K. Buigut and Neven T. Valev

Mixed Ownership, Unemployment and Welfare for a Developing Economy
Chi-Chur Chao

The Phasing of Fiscal Adjustments: What Works in Emerging Market Economies?
Emanuele Baldacci, Benedict Clements, Sanjeev Gupta and Carlos Mulas-Granados

State Trading and Tariff Rate Quotas: The Case of Korea’s Rice Imports
Jana Hranaiova and Harry de Gorter

The Influence of Others on Migration Plans
Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang

Political Competition Between Countries and Economic Growth
Azam Chaudhry and Phillip Garner

The Balassa-Samuelson Effect in a Developing Country
Karine Gente

Intellectual Property Rights and Economic Growth
David Greenaway, Rod Falvey and Neil Foster

Book review

Helping Countries Develop: The Role of Fiscal Policy
Sumon Bhaumik