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Postal address:	School of Business and Economics Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam De Boelelaan 1105 1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands
Workplace:	Afdeling Ontwikkelings Economie (Department of Development Economics), School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU University Amsterdam), (more information at EDIRC) Tinbergen Instituut (Tinbergen Institute), (more information at EDIRC)

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Working Papers

2020

1. Foreign aid and governance. A survey
   PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint), HAL View citations (2)
   Also in Post-Print, HAL (2020) View citations (2)

2019

2. The complementarity of community-based water and sanitation interventions: evidence from Mozambique
   Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute
3. The demand for insurance under limited trust: Evidence from a field experiment in Kenya
   CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford View citations (10)

2018

4. Fading Choice: Transport Costs and Variety in Consumer Goods
   CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford View citations (5)
   Also in CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford (2018) View citations (5)
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2018) View citations (5)
   See also Journal Article Fading choice: transport costs and variety in consumer goods, Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science (2024) (2024)

2014

5. Evaluation of Non-Governmental Development Organizations
   WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

2013

6. Evaluation of development programs: randomized controlled trials or regressions ?
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (10)
   See also Journal Article Evaluation of Development Programs: Randomized Controlled Trials or Regressions?, The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank (2014) View citations (3) (2014)

2012

7. Effectiveness of Large Scale Water and Sanitation Interventions: the One Million Initiative in Mozambique
   Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute View citations (1)
8. Evaluation of Development Programs: Using Regressions to assess the Impact of Complex Interventions
   Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute View citations (1)
9. How Can Development NGOs Be Evaluated ?
   Working Papers, FERDI View citations (2)
   Also in Working Papers, FERDI (2012) View citations (2)

2010

10. The millennium development goals: an assessment
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (12)
    Also in Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers), HAL (2010) View citations (14)
    PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint), HAL (2010) View citations (7)

2009

11. Evaluation of Development Policy: Treatment versus Program Effects
    Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute
12. Investment under Risk with Discrete and Continuous Assets
    Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute

2008

13. Aid Effectiveness: Can It Be Improved?
    Working Papers, FERDI View citations (5)
    Also in Working Papers, FERDI (2008) View citations (5)
14. Risk and Savings: a Taxonomy
    Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute
    See also Journal Article Risk and savings: A taxonomy, Economics Letters, Elsevier (2010) View citations (14) (2010)

2007

15. Assessing Budget Support with Statistical Impact Evaluation: a Methodological Proposal
    Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute View citations (3)
16. Do Tenure Differences Influence the Improvement of Quality of Rented Land? Empirical Evidence from Rural Ghana
    106th Seminar, October 25-27, 2007, Montpellier, France, European Association of Agricultural Economists
17. Insurance and Rural Welfare: What Can Panel Data Tell Us?
    CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford View citations (1)
    Also in Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute (2007) View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Insurance and rural welfare: what can panel data tell us?, Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals (2009) (2009)

2006

18. Growth and Risk: Methodology and Micro Evidence
    Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute
    Also in Development and Comp Systems, University Library of Munich, Germany (2004) View citations (17)
    See also Journal Article Growth and Risk: Methodology and Micro Evidence, The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank (2007) View citations (74) (2007)

2005

19. The Role of Social Capital in Early Childhood Development: Evidence from Rural India
    Others, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (3)

2004

20. Do African manufacturing firms learn from exporting?
    Development and Comp Systems, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (131)
    Also in CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford (2002) View citations (26)
    See also Journal Article Do African Manufacturing Firms Learn from Exporting?, Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals (2004) View citations (149) (2004)
21. Estimating Vulnerability
    Development and Comp Systems, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (3)
22. Growth Regressions and Economic Theory
    GE, Growth, Math methods, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (1)
    Also in Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute (2002) View citations (1)
23. Transitional Growth and Income Inequality: Anything Goes
    GE, Growth, Math methods, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (5)
24. Vulnerability in a Stochastic Dynamic Model
    Development and Comp Systems, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (2)
    Also in Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute (2003) View citations (20)

2003

25. Performance-Based Conditionality: A European Perspective
    Working Papers, CERDI View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article Performance-Based Conditionality: A European Perspective, World Development, Elsevier (2004) View citations (32) (2004)
26. Risk Sharing in Labour Markets
    Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Risk Sharing in Labor Markets, The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank (2003) View citations (13) (2003)

2002

27. Convergence, Shocks and Poverty
    Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers, Tinbergen Institute View citations (7)
28. La conditionnalité de performance: une expérience européenne
    Working Papers, CERDI

2000

29. Credit constraints in manufacturing enterprises in Africa
    CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford View citations (26)
    See also Journal Article Credit Constraints in Manufacturing Enterprises in Africa, Journal of African Economies, Centre for the Study of African Economies (2003) View citations (120) (2003)
30. Exports and firm-level efficiency in African manufacturing
    CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford View citations (34)

1999

31. Contract Flexibility and Dispute Resolution in African Manufacturing
    CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford View citations (16)
    See also Journal Article Contract flexibility and dispute resolution in African manufacturing, Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals (2000) View citations (59) (2000)
32. Inventories and risk in African manufacturing
    CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article Inventories and Risk in African Manufacturing, Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society (2000) View citations (11) (2000)
33. Revisiting forever gained: income dynamics in the resettlement areas of Zimbabwe
    CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford View citations (10)
34. The IMF's role in structural adjustment
    CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford View citations (36)
    See also Journal Article The IMF's Role in Structural Adjustment, Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society (1999) View citations (32) (1999)

1998

35. Contract flexibility and conflict resolution: Evidence from African manufacturing
    CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford View citations (10)
36. Rates of return on physical and human capital in Africa's manufacturing sector
    CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford View citations (27)
    See also Journal Article Rates of Return on Physical and Human Capital in Africa's Manufacturing Sector, Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press (2000) View citations (28) (2000)
37. Reforming the Stabex Scheme
    Working Papers, CERDI View citations (1)

1997

38. Explaining African economic performance
    CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford View citations (53)
    See also Journal Article Explaining African Economic Performance, Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association (1999) View citations (442) (1999)
39. Investment in Africa's manufacturing sector: A four country panel data analysis
    CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford View citations (16)
    See also Journal Article Investment in Africa's Manufacturing Sector: A Four Country Panel Data Analysis, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford (1999) View citations (23) (1999)
40. Rénover le Stabex
    Working Papers, CERDI View citations (2)

1996

41. Policy towards Commodity Shocks in Developing Countries
    IMF Working Papers, International Monetary Fund View citations (26)
42. Trade liberalisation and the composition of investment: theory and African application
    CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford View citations (3)

1995

43. Some economic consequences of the transition from civil war to peace
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (11)

1993

44. Social learning: an application to Kenyan agriculture
    CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford View citations (9)

1991

45. Gender issues in African agriculture: evidence from Kenya, Tanzania and Côte D'Ivoire
    Serie Research Memoranda, VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics View citations (1)

1990

46. PRICE CONTROLS AND THE TRANSITION TO MARKET CLEARING: THEORY AND AN APPLICATION TO TANZANIA
    Economics Series Working Papers, University of Oxford, Department of Economics View citations (1)
47. TEMPORARY TRADE SHOCKS AND DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT
    Economics Series Working Papers, University of Oxford, Department of Economics View citations (5)

1985

48. Supply response and money demand in a peasant economy with rationing and risk
    Serie Research Memoranda, VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics

1983

49. A general equilibrium model for the world economy: some preliminary results
    LIDAM Reprints CORE, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

Undated

50. Inventories, Liquidity, and Contractual Risk in African Manufacturing
    Working Papers, Stanford University, Department of Economics View citations (5)

Journal Articles

2024

1. Fading choice: transport costs and variety in consumer goods
   Economica, 2024, 91, (363), 1100-1123
   See also Working Paper Fading Choice: Transport Costs and Variety in Consumer Goods, CSAE Working Paper Series (2018) View citations (5) (2018)

2014

2. Evaluation of Development Programs: Randomized Controlled Trials or Regressions?
   The World Bank Economic Review, 2014, 28, (3), 432-445 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper Evaluation of development programs: randomized controlled trials or regressions ?, Policy Research Working Paper Series (2013) View citations (10) (2013)
3. Risk, Shocks and Development
   Revue d’économie du développement, 2014, 22, (HS01), 35-49

2013

4. Risque, chocs et développement
   Revue d’économie du développement, 2013, 21, (2), 37-54
5. Why Poverty Persists: Poverty Dynamics in Asia and Africa edited by Bob Baulch
   Agricultural Economics, 2013, 44, (2), 253-254

2010

6. Risk and savings: A taxonomy
   Economics Letters, 2010, 107, (1), 39-41 View citations (14)
   See also Working Paper Risk and Savings: a Taxonomy, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers (2008) (2008)

2009

7. Assessing Sector-wide Programs with Statistical Impact Evaluation: A Methodological Proposal
   World Development, 2009, 37, (2), 513-520 View citations (13)
8. Insurance and rural welfare: what can panel data tell us?
   Applied Economics, 2009, 41, (24), 3093-3101
   See also Working Paper Insurance and Rural Welfare: What Can Panel Data Tell Us?, CSAE Working Paper Series (2007) View citations (1) (2007)

2007

9. Growth and Risk: Methodology and Micro Evidence
   The World Bank Economic Review, 2007, 21, (1), 1-20 View citations (74)
   See also Working Paper Growth and Risk: Methodology and Micro Evidence, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers (2006) (2006)

2005

10. Adjustment Costs and Irreversibility as Determinants of Investment: Evidence from African Manufacturing
    The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2005, 4, (1), 1-27 View citations (21)
11. Asset Policies During an Oil Windfall: Some Simple Analytics
    The World Economy, 2005, 28, (10), 1401-1415 View citations (9)
12. Pourquoi donner de l'aide ?
    Revue d’économie du développement, 2005, 13, (2), 7-50

2004

13. Do African Manufacturing Firms Learn from Exporting?
    Journal of Development Studies, 2004, 40, (3), 115-141 View citations (149)
    See also Working Paper Do African manufacturing firms learn from exporting?, Development and Comp Systems (2004) View citations (131) (2004)
14. Performance-Based Conditionality: A European Perspective
    World Development, 2004, 32, (6), 1059-1070 View citations (32)
    See also Working Paper Performance-Based Conditionality: A European Perspective, Working Papers (2003) View citations (3) (2003)

2003

15. Credit Constraints in Manufacturing Enterprises in Africa
    Journal of African Economies, 2003, 12, (1), 104-125 View citations (120)
    See also Working Paper Credit constraints in manufacturing enterprises in Africa, CSAE Working Paper Series (2000) View citations (26) (2000)
16. Risk Sharing in Labor Markets
    The World Bank Economic Review, 2003, 17, (3), 349-366 View citations (13)
    See also Working Paper Risk Sharing in Labour Markets, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers (2003) View citations (2) (2003)

2002

17. Redesigning the Aid Contract: Donors' Use of Performance Indicators in Uganda
    World Development, 2002, 30, (12), 2045-2056 View citations (24)

2001

18. Determinants of African Manufacturing Investment: the Microeconomic Evidence
    Journal of African Economies, 2001, 10, (suppl_2), 48-80 View citations (35)
19. Trade Blocs: Relevant for Africa?
    Journal of African Economies, 2001, 10, (3), 311-335 View citations (9)

2000

20. Contract flexibility and dispute resolution in African manufacturing
    Journal of Development Studies, 2000, 36, (4), 1-37 View citations (59)
    See also Working Paper Contract Flexibility and Dispute Resolution in African Manufacturing, CSAE Working Paper Series (1999) View citations (16) (1999)
21. Inventories and Risk in African Manufacturing
    Economic Journal, 2000, 110, (466), 861-93 View citations (11)
    See also Working Paper Inventories and risk in African manufacturing, CSAE Working Paper Series (1999) View citations (3) (1999)
22. Rates of Return on Physical and Human Capital in Africa's Manufacturing Sector
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2000, 48, (4), 801-27 View citations (28)
    See also Working Paper Rates of return on physical and human capital in Africa's manufacturing sector, CSAE Working Paper Series (1998) View citations (27) (1998)
23. Revisiting forever gained: Income dynamics in the resettlement areas of Zimbabwe, 1983-96
    Journal of Development Studies, 2000, 36, (6), 131-154 View citations (34)

1999

24. Explaining African Economic Performance
    Journal of Economic Literature, 1999, 37, (1), 64-111 View citations (442)
    See also Working Paper Explaining African economic performance, CSAE Working Paper Series (1997) View citations (53) (1997)
25. Exports of African manufactures: macro policy and firm behaviour
    The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 1999, 8, (1), 53-71 View citations (19)
26. Investment in Africa's Manufacturing Sector: A Four Country Panel Data Analysis
    Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 1999, 61, (4), 489-512 View citations (23)
    See also Working Paper Investment in Africa's manufacturing sector: A four country panel data analysis, CSAE Working Paper Series (1997) View citations (16) (1997)
27. Reforming Stabex
    The World Economy, 1999, 22, (5), 669-682 View citations (6)
28. The IMF's Role in Structural Adjustment
    Economic Journal, 1999, 109, (459), F634-51 View citations (32)
    See also Working Paper The IMF's role in structural adjustment, CSAE Working Paper Series (1999) View citations (36) (1999)
29. Why Has Africa Grown Slowly?
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1999, 13, (3), 3-22 View citations (190)

1998

30. Comments on 'Africa and the Global Economy.'
    Journal of African Economies, 1998, 7, 162-65
31. Coping with drought in Zimbabwe: Survey evidence on responses of rural households to risk
    World Development, 1998, 26, (1), 89-110 View citations (102)

1997

32. Redesigning conditionality
    World Development, 1997, 25, (9), 1399-1407 View citations (81)
33. The Future of Lome: Europe’s Role in African Growth
    The World Economy, 1997, 20, (3), 285-305 View citations (2)

1996

34. The Trade Policy Review of Zimbabwe
    The World Economy, 1996, 19, (Supplement 1), 157-166

1995

35. Trade Policy and Regional Integration: Implications for the Relations between Europe and Africa
    The World Economy, 1995, 18, (3), 387-410 View citations (26)
36. War, peace and private portfolios
    World Development, 1995, 23, (2), 233-241 View citations (11)

1993

37. Controlled open economies: A neoclassical approach to structuralism: David Bevan, Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning, (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990) pp. 367
    Journal of Development Economics, 1993, 41, (1), 209-211
38. Socially relevant policy analysis. Structuralist computable general equilibrium models for the developing world: Lance Taylor, ed. (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, London, 1990) pp. x+379
    Journal of Development Economics, 1993, 41, (2), 408-412
39. Trade shocks in developing countries: Consequences and policy responses
    European Economic Review, 1993, 37, (2-3), 557-565 View citations (24)

1992

40. Aid and Exchange Rate Adjustment in African Trade Liberalisations
    Economic Journal, 1992, 102, (413), 925-39 View citations (12)
41. Anatomy of a Temporary Trade Shock: The Kenyan Coffee Boom of 1976-9
    Journal of African Economies, 1992, 1, (2), 271-305 View citations (5)

1991

42. Income and Substitution Effects in Models of Peasant Supply Response under Rationing
    Oxford Economic Papers, 1991, 43, (2), 340-43 View citations (1)
43. Money creation and financial liberalization in a socialist banking system: Tanzania 1983-88
    World Development, 1991, 19, (5), 533-538 View citations (5)
44. Oil windfalls: Blessing or curse?: Alan Gelb and associates, (Oxford University Press, for the World Bank, New York, etc.. 1988) pp. 357
    Journal of Development Economics, 1991, 35, (2), 407-411 View citations (1)

1989

45. Black markets: Illegality, information, and rents
    World Development, 1989, 17, (12), 1955-1963 View citations (5)
46. Fiscal Response to a Temporary Trade Shock: The Aftermath of the Kenyan Coffee Boom
    The World Bank Economic Review, 1989, 3, (3), 359-78 View citations (3)

1987

47. Consequences of a Commodity Boom in a Controlled Economy: Accumulation and Redistribution in Kenya 1975-83
    The World Bank Economic Review, 1987, 1, (3), 489-513 View citations (16)
48. Peasant supply response in rationed economies
    World Development, 1987, 15, (4), 431-439 View citations (4)

1984

49. Comparative statics, stability and optimal trade policy
    Journal of Development Economics, 1984, 15, (1-3), 169-172
50. Export-led growth with abundant labour: A Defense of Orthodoxy
    Journal of Development Economics, 1984, 15, (1-3), 97-103 View citations (1)

1983

51. Basic goods, the effects of commodity transfers and the international economic order: Comment
    Journal of Development Economics, 1983, 13, (1-2), 197-203
52. Rationing in an open economy: Fix-price equilibrium and two-gap models
    European Economic Review, 1983, 23, (1), 71-98 View citations (4)
53. The transfer problem: A rejoinder
    Journal of Development Economics, 1983, 13, (1-2), 249-250

1976

54. The price of energy and potential growth of developed countries: An attempt at quantification
    European Economic Review, 1976, 7, (1), 35-62 View citations (1)

Books

1999

1. The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity, and Growth: Nigeria and Indonesia
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (47)
2. Volume I: Africa
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (10)
3. Volume II: Asia and Latin America
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press

1990

4. Peasants and Governments: An Economic Analysis
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (17)

Edited books

2015

1. The Political Economy of Economic Growth in Africa, 1960–2000
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press

2008

2. Globalization and Poverty, vol Three volume set
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (4)

1994

3. Trade, Aid and Development
   Palgrave Macmillan Books, Palgrave Macmillan View citations (9)

Chapters

1995

1. Applied general equilibrium models for policy analysis
   Chapter 35 in Handbook of Development Economics, 1995, vol. 3, Part 1, pp 2025-2107 View citations (22)

1994

2. Trade Reform in Africa: The Role of Donors
   Palgrave Macmillan View citations (2)