topcs for microfinance

Proposed Topics: Microfinance

1) Information networks and credit access as an intrument for development

·         Vaessen Jos (2001), "Accessibility of Rural Credit in Northern Nicaragua: the Importance of Networks of Information and Recommendation", Savings and Development No. 1. XXV

·         Van Bastelaer Thierry (2000), Imperfect Information, Social Capital and the Poor's Access to Credit: A Review of the Literature. Mimeo.   

·         Murdoch Jonathan (2000), "Networks - a new paradigm of rural development", Journal of Rural Studies, 16 (2000), 407-419, Cardiff, UK

·         Social Capital Interest Group (2000), "Short papers from the April, 1998 Social Capital Conference at Michigan State University", Journal of Socio-Economics, 29 (2000), 579-586, Michigan State University, USA

·         Paldam Martin and Gert Tinggaard S. (2000), "An essay on social capital: looking for the fire behind the smoke", European Journal of Political Economy, 16 (2000), 339-366.

·         North Lisa L. and John D. Cameron (2000), "Grassroots-based rural development strategies: Ecuador in Comparative Perspective", World Development, vol. 28, no. 10, 1751-1766  

2) Has microfinance a negative impact on households' saving rates ?

·         Rogg Christian S. (2000), "The Impact of Access to Credit on the Saving Behavior of Microentrepreneurs: Evidence from 3 Latin American Countries", BID. Mimeo.

·         Zeller Manfred (1999), "The Role of Micro-Finance for Income and Consumption Smoothing", Inter-American Development Bank, Conference paper, BID.

·         Kan Kamhon (2000), "Informal capital sources and household investment: Evidence from Taiwan", Journal of Development Economics, vol. 62 (2000), 209-232

·         Smith Douglas (2001), "International evidence on how income inequality and credit market imperfections affect private saving rates", Journal of Development Economics, vol. 64 (2001), 103-127

·         Koonce Lewis Joan (1996), "Effect of financial resources and credit on savings behavior of low-income families", Financial Counseling and Planning, vol. 7, 1996      

3) Impact of microcredit on households' standards of living

• Hulme David (2000), "Impact Assessment Methodologies for Microfinance: Theory, Experience and Better Practices", World Development, vol 28, no.1, pp. 79-98.

• Cohen Monique et Jennefer Sebstad (1999), "Microfinance Impact Evaluation: Going Down Market", Conference paper, World Bank.

• Evans T.G., Adams A.M., Mohammed R. (1999), "Demystifying Nonparticipation in Microcredit: A Population-Based Analysis", World Development, vol. 27, no. 2, 419-430.

• Mayoux Linda (2000), Micro-finance and the Empowerment of Women - A review of the key issues, research paper, ILO, Geneva

• Mosley Paul and David Hulme (1998), "Microenterprise Finance: Is there a conflict between growth and poverty alleviation?", World Development, vol. 26, no. 5, 783-790

• Kabeer Naila (2001), "Conflicts over credit: Re-evaluating the empowerment potential of loans to women in rural Bangladesh", World Development, vol. 29, no. 1, 63-84

• Haddad Lawrence (1999), "The income earned by women: Impacts on welfare outcomes", Agricultural Economics 20 (1999), 135-141

• Coleman Brett E. (1999), "The impact of group lending in Northeast Thailand", Jounal of Development Economics, vol. 60 (1999), 105-141  

4) What makes microfinance institutions successful ?

·         Woller Garry M., Dunford Christopher et Warner Woodworth (2000), "Where to Microfinance ?", mimeo

·         Ravicz Marisol R. (2000), "Searching for Sustainable Microfinance: A Review of Five Indonesian Initiatives", World Bank.

·         Morduch  Jonathan (2000), "The microfinance schism", World Development, vol. 28, no. 4, 617-629

·         Conning Jonathan (1999), "Outreach, sustainability and leverage in monitoring and peer-monitoring lending", Journal of Development Economics, vol. 60 (1999), 51-77

·         Jackson Annabel (2001), "An evaluation of evaluation: Problems with performance measurement in small business loan and grant schemes", Progress in Planning, vol. 55, issue 1, January 2001, 1-64

5) Child labor and credit access

·         Dehejia R.H., Gatti R. (2002), "Child Labor: The Role of Income Variability and Access to Credit in a Cross Section of Countries", World Bank Working Paper

·         Baland J.-M., Robinson J.A. (2000), "Is Child Labor Inefficient?", Journal of Political Economy, vol. 108, no. 4, 663-679

·         Ranjan P. (2001), "Credit constraints and the phenomenon of child labor", Journal of Development Economics, vol. 64, 81-102

 

International trade

1) Endogenous protectionism in developing countries

• Persson T. et G. Tabellini (2000), "Political Economics: Explaining Economic Policy", MIT Press, 171-175

• Grossman G. et E. Helpman (1994), "Protection for Sale", AER 84, 833-50.

• Blanche Boris et Trezzini Arnaud (2001), "Analyse Empirique de la Politique Endogène du Protectionnisme en Inde", Papier du séminaire d'économie du développement, Université de Lausanne.  Mimeo.

• Goldberg P. K. et G. Maggi (1999), "Protection for Sale: an Empirical Investigation", AER 89(5), 1135-1155

• Mitra D. (1999), "Endogenous Lobby Formation and Endogenous Protection: a Long-Run Model of Trade Policy Determination", AER 89(5), 1116-1134

• Krishna P. et D. Mitra (2000), "A Theory of Unilateralism and Reciprocity In Trade Policy", Mimeo, Brown University and Florida International University

• Ades A. et R. Di Tella (1999), "Rents, competition, and corruption", AER 89(4), 982-993

• Freund C. et S. Djankov (2000), "The politics of trade liberalization", mimeo, The World Bank

• Feenstra Robert C., Lipsey Robert E. et Harry P. Bowen (1997), "World Trade Flows, 1970-1992, with production and tariff data", NBER Working Paper 5910

2) Trade flows and development aid

·         Feenstra Robert C., Lipsey Robert E. et Harry P. Bowen (1997), "World Trade Flows, 1970-1992, with production and tariff data", NBER Working Paper 5910

·         Burnside Craig et David Dollar (2000), "Aid, Policies, and Growth", AER 90(4), 847-868

·         Sajal Lahirir and P. Raimondos-Moller (1997), "Competition for aid and trade policy", Journal of International Economics, 43, 369-385

·         Sajal Lahiri, P. Raimondos-Moller, K. Wong, A.D. Woodland (2002), "Optimal foreign aid and tarriffs", Journal of Development Economics, vol. 67, 79-99.

·         Krueger Anne O. (1990), "Perspectives on trade and development", University of Chicago Press

·         Curtis Jolly et Millie A. Gadbois (1989), "Foreign Aid as a Promotional Strategy", The Review of Black Political Economy, 59-74

·         O'Hanlon Michael et Carol Graham (1997), "A Half Penny on the Federal Dollar: The Future of Development Aid", Brookings Institution

·         Trade and Foreign Aid Web Page of the Heritage Foundation (republicans).

3) Fair trade

·         Bacon Christopher (2005), "Confronting the Coffee Crisis : Can Fair Trade, Organic, and Specialty Coffees Reduce Small-Scale Farmer Vulnerabilitz in Northern Nicaragua ?", World Development, Vol. 33, No.3, 497-511.

·         Maseland Robbert, Albert De Vaal (2002), "How Fair is Fair Trade ?", De Economist, Vol. 150, No.3, 251-272.

 

Foreign Direct Investments (FDI)

1) FDI: determinants

·         Bevan Alan A. et Saul Estrin (2000), "The determinants of FDI in Transition Economies", Discussion Paper 9, London Business School

·         Wilhelms Saskia (1998), "The determinants of FDI to Emerging Economies", PhD Thesis, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Harvard

·         Nakano Cristina (2000), "The determinants of FDI: Evidence From Cross-Country Data", MIM Master thesis, Ecole des HEC, Lausanne

·         De Oliveira Jorge Duarte (2000), "FDI and transparency in public policy and institutions: panel data evidences", MIM Master thesis, Ecole des HEC, Lausanne

·         Cheng Leonard K. et Yum K. Kwan (2000), "What are the determinants of the location of FDI? The Chinese experience", Journal of International Economics 51, 379-400

·         Mortimore Michael (2000), "Corporate Strategies for FDI in the Context of Latin America's New Economic Model", World Development, vol. 28, no. 9, 1611-1626.

·         Stevens Guy V.G. (2000), "Politics, economics and investment: Explaining plant and equipment spending by US direct investors in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico", Journal of International Money and Finance 19, 153-183.

·         Bende-Nabende A. and J.R.Slater, "European FDI determinants in the ASEAN manufacturing sectors: A comparative case study for Thailand, 1969-1997".

·         Bende-Nabende A., J.L.Ford, S.Sen and J.R.Slater (2000), "FDI locational determinants and linkage between other macroeconomic factors: Long-run dynamics in Pacific Asia".

2) FDI and international trade

• Shin-ya Nakamura and Tsuyoshi Oyama (1998), "The determinants of FDI from Japan and United States to East Asian Countries, and the Linkage between FDI and Trade", Working Papers 98-11, Bank of Japan.

3) Impact of FDI on host country

·         Borensztein E., De Gregorio J. et J-W Lee (1998), "How does FDI affect economic growth?", Journal of International Economics 45, 115-135.

·         Dutoit Laure (2001), "Impact des investissements directs étrangers sur l'économie du pays hôte", Papier du séminaire d'économie du développement, Université de Lausanne. Mimeo.

·         Gordon H. Hanson (2001), "Should Countries Promote Foreign Direct Investment?", G-24 Discussion Paper Series No.9, February 2001.

·         Robert Lensink and Oliver Morrissey , "Foreign Direct Investment: Flows , Volatilaty and Growth in Developing Countries"

·         Magnus Blomstrom and Ari Kokko (1997), "How Foreign Direct Investment Affects Host Countries", The World Bank Policy Research Paper 1745.

·         Yaohui Zhao (2001), "FDI and Relative Wages: The case of China"

·         Fernandez-Arias, Ricardo Hausmann and Ernesto Stein (2001), "Courting FDI: Is Competition Bad?", Interamerican Development Bank. Draft.

4) FDI and employment

·         N.Gaston and D.Nelson (2001), "Integration, FDI and Labor Markets: Microeconomic Perspectives", GEP Conference Research Paper series 2001/31.

·         P.S. Andersen and P. Hainaut (1998), "Foreign Direct Investment and Employment in the Industrial Countries", BIS Working Papers, No.61.

5) FDI and environment

·         Beata K. Smarzynska and Shang-Jin Wei (2001), "Pollution Havens and Foreign Direct Investment: Dirty secret of Popular myth?", NBER Working Paper Series 8465.

·         Matthew A. Cole and Robert J.R. Elliott (2005), "FDI and the Capital Intensity of "Dirty" Sectors: A Missing Piece of the Pollution Haven Puzzle", Review of Development Economics, 9(4), 530-548.

6) FDI and corruption

• Zdenek Drabek and Warren Payne (Revised 2001), "The Impact of Transperancy on Foreign Direct Invetsment", WTO Staff Working Paper ERAD -99-02.
• Beata K.Smarzynska and Shang-Jin Wei (2001), "Corruption and Composition of Foreign Direct Invetment: Firm-level Evidence", CID Working Paper No. 60.

 

Growth

1) Growth and poverty alleviation

·         Ranis Gustav, Frances Stuart and Alejandro Ramirez (2000), "Economic Growth and Human Development", World Development, vol. 28, no. 2, 197-219

·         Dollar David and Aart Kraay (2000), "Growth IS Good for the Poor", Development Research Group, World Bank

·         Anand Sudhir and Amartya Sen (2000), "Human Development and Economic Sustainability", World Development, vol. 28, no. 12, 2029-2049

·         Warr Peter G. (2000), "Poverty incidence and economic growth in Southeast Asia", Journal of Asian Economics 11 (2000), 431-441

·         Srinivasan T.N. (2001). Growth and Poverty Alleviation: Lessons from Development Experience. ADB Institute. Working papers series. No17. April.

·         Kakwani Nanak, S Kandkher and H, Son. (2003). Poverty Equivalent Growth Rate with applications to Korea and Thailand. World Bank.

·         Srinivasan T.N. (2000), "Poverty and undernutrition in South Asia", Food Policy, 25 (2000), 269-282

·         McCulloch N. et B. Baulch, "Distinguishing the Chronically from the Transitorily Poor: Evidence from rural Pakistan", IDS Working Paper 97, University of Sussex.

·         World Bank (2001) . "World Development Report 2000-01: Attacking Poverty". Chapter 3. World Bank. pp 45-69 .

·         Hossain N. (1999),"How do Bangladeshi Elites Understand Poverty?", IDS Working Paper 83, University of Sussex.

2) Growth and trade

·         Baldwin Richard E. et Federica Sbergami (2000), "Non-Linearity in Openness and Growth Links: Theory and Evidence", ETSG 2000 Conference Draft, IUHEI, Genève.

·         Angeles Luis ... (forthcoming)

3) Growth and international aid

·         Burnside Craig, David Dollar (2000), "Aid, Policies, and Growth", The American Economic Review, Vol.90, No.4, 847-868.

·         Alesina Alberto, David Dollar (2000),  "Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why ?", Journal of Economic Growth, 5, 33-63.  

 

Political economy and development

1) Growth and political stability

·         Alesina A., Oezler S., Roubini N. et P. Swagel (1992), "Political Instability and Economic Growth", NBER Working Paper 4173

2) Governments' behavior vis-à-vis voters

·         Besley T. et Robin Burgess (2001), "The Political Economy of Government Responsiveness: theory and evidence from India", NBER Working Paper 2721.

 

Health and poverty/inequality

1) General health: health and health systems in the world

·         Banque Mondiale (1993). "Rapport sur le Développement dans le Monde (1993)". Investir dans la Santé. Oxford University Press. Banque Mondiale.

·         World Health Organisation (2000). "How well do Health System Perform". Chapter2 in the World Health Report. pp 21-46.

·         Hurst J. (1991)." Reforming health care in Seven European Nations". Health Affairs. Fall pp7-21

·         Schieber George, Jean Pierre Poullier and Leslie Greenwald (1991). "Health care systems in twenty four countries". Health Affairs 22-38.

·         Folland, Goodman, Stano (1993) Basic Tools. Chapter 1 in The Economics of Health and Health Care. 3ed Prentice Hall, pp.

·         Folland, Goodman, Stano  (1993 ). Equity, Efficiency and Need. Chapter 19 in The Economics of Health and Health Care. 3ed Prentice Hall, pp.

·         Feldstein Martin and Liebman. (1992 ) Social Security. Chapter 32. Handbook of Public Economics Volume 4.

2) Health and poverty

·         World Bank (2001) . "World Development Report 2000-01: Attacking Poverty". Chapter 3. World Bank. pp 45-69

·         Lipton M and M Ravallion. (1995) Poverty and Policy. Handbook of Development Economics in Chapter 41. Volume 3B. Elsevier.

·         Angus D (1997). Welfare Poverty and Distribution in chapter 3. The analysis of Households Surveys : a Microeconometric approach to developmental policy. The John Hopkins University Press. Pp 131-203

·         Chao S and K Kostermans.( 2002.) Improving Health for the Poor in Mozambique: The Fight Continues. HNP Publications. Discussion Paper Series.

·         Castro-Leal Florencia, Julia Daytong, Lionel Demery and Kalpana Mehra.(2000) " Public Spending on Health Care in Africa: Do the Poor Benefit?. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, vol 78, no1 (January) pp 66-74.

·         Filmer D, J Hammer, and L Printch (1997). Health Policy in Poor Countries: Weak links in the Chain. World Bank.

·         Wagstaff A and Nguyet N, Nga. (2002). Poverty and Survival prospects of Vietnamese Children. Paper for the World Research Project on Vietman. pp35.

·         Wagstaff  A (2002). Poverty and health sector inequalities. Bulletin of World Health Organization, 80:2: pp97-105

3) Health expenditures and health care

·         Ulf-G Gerdtham and Bengt Jönsson (2000). International Comparisons of Health Expenditures in Handbook of Health Economics. Volume 1A.

·         DiMateo Livio and Rosana Di Mateo (1998). Evidence on the determinants of Canadian provincial government health expenditures 1965-1991. Journal of Health Economics 17 211-228.

·         Mcoskey Suzanne K, Thomas Selden (1998). Health expenditures and GDP: panel data unit root test. Journal of Health Economics (17) 369-376.

·         Anne Case, Darren Lubotsky, Christina Paxson (2001). Estimating the Effects of Covariates on Health Expenditures. NBER Working Paper No. w8344. June

·         Naylor C. David, Prabhat Jha, John Woods and Abusaleh Shariff (1999). A fine Balance. Some options for private and Public Health care in urban India. Human Development. World Bank.

·         Lieberman, SL and P Marzoeki.(2002). Health Strategy in a Post-Crisis, Decentralizing Indonesia. Discussion Paper Series World Bank. December

·         Lavy Victor, John Strauss, Duncan Thomas, Phillipe de Vreyer (1996). Quality of health care, survival, health outcomes in Ghana. Journal of Health Economics, 15, 333-357.

·         Van der Sanrde, Marinne, Gijes.(2001). Family History and opportunity for early interventions and improved control of hypertension, diagetes and obesity. Bulletin of Word Health Organization, 79;4 pp 321-328

4) Health and nutrition (HNP)

·         Angus D. Nutrition children and intrahousehold allocation in chapter 4. The analysis of Households Surveys : a Microeconometric approach to developmental policy. The John Hopkins University Press. pp 204-270

·         Bidani, Benu and Martin Ravallion. Decomposing Social Indicators Using Distributional Data. Journal of Econometrics, vol77 (1997), pp 125-39 (Also available as Policy Research Working Paper 1487, Policy Research Department, the Workd Bank, July 1995.

·         Behrmand J and Deolalikar (1988). Health and Nutrition. In chapter 14. Handbook of Development Economics. Volume 1. Elsevier

·         Wagstaff, Adam and Naoko Watanabe.(2000) Socioeconomic Inequalities in Child Malnutrition in the Developing World. 2000. Policy research working paper 2434. Washington D.C: The World Bank.

5) Public health and socio-economic inequalitites

·         Gwatkin, Davidson R and Garima Deveshwar-Bahl. (2001). Inequalities in knowledge of HIV/AIDS Prevention: An Overview of Socioeconomic and Gender Differentials in Developing Countries. Washington DC. The World Bank.

·         Riti Shimkhada and Jonhn W Peabody.  (2000)Tobacco control in India Bulletin of the World Health Organization 81 (1) 48-52.

·         Cutler David, Jonathan Gruber, Raymond S. Hartman, M.B. Landrum, J. Newhouse, Meredith B. Rosenthal (2000). The Economic Impacts of the Tobacco Settlement. NBER Working Paper No. w7760 Issued in June

·         Chaloupka Frank J. , Rosalie Liccardo Pacula (1998). An Examination of Gender and Race Differences in Youth Smoking Responsiveness to Price and Tobacco Control Policies.NBER Working Paper No. w6541

·         Frank J. Chaloupka, Kenneth E. Warner (1999) . Economics of smoking. NBER Working Paper No. w7047

6) Population-specific health

·         Currie Janet. (2000 ) Child Health in Developed Countries in Chapter 19. Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 1B.

·         Richard G. Frank, Thomas G. McGuire (1999) Economics and Mental Health NBER Working Paper No. w7052. Issued in March

·         WHO international consortium in Psychiatric Epidemiology (2000). Cross National comparisons of the prevalence and correlates of mental disorders. Bulletin of World Health Organization, 78, 4.

·         Claeson M, E Bos and I Pathmanathan. (1999). Reducing Child Mortality in India , Keep up the Pace. Discussion Paper Series. World Bank

·         Victora C, J. P Vaughan, F Barros, A Silva, and E Tomasi Explaining.(2000) Trends in Inequities: Evidence from Brazilian Child Health Studies September 23, 2000. World Health Organization Bulletin

·         Wagstaff A. (2000). Socioeconomic Inequalities in child mortality: comparisons across nine developing countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 78 (1). 19-29

·         Norton C, Edward.(2000 ) Long-term Care in Chapter 18 . Handbook of Health Economics. Volume 1B.

7) Health, inequalities and growth

·         Lam D. ( 1992 )Demographic Variables and Income Inequality, in Handbook of Population and Family Economics. Volume 1B, chap18.

·         World Bank. ( 2000 )Socioeconomic Differences in Health, Nutrirtion and Population in Mali. World Bank (methodological ,other countries).

·         David E. Bloom, David Canning, Jaypee Sevilla (2001). The Effect of Health on Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence. NBER Working Paper No. w8587 Issued in November 2001.

·         David E. Bloom, Ajay S. Mahal (1997). "Does the Aid epidemic threaten economic growth ?", Journal of Econometrics, Vol.77, 105-124.

·         Dixon S., S. McDonald, J. Roberts (2001). "HIV/AIDS and Development in Africa", Journal of International Development, Vol.13, 381-389.

·         Stillwaggon Eileen (2002). "HIV/AIDS in Africa : Fertile Terrain", The Journal of Development Studies, Vol.38, No.6, 1-22.

8) Health economics and econometrics

·         Deaton, Angus (1997) The analysis of Households Surveys : a Microeconometric approach to developmental policy. The John Hopkins University Press. Chapitre 1 and 2.

·         Andrew M Jones (2000). Health Econometrics in Handbook of Health Economics. Volume 1A.

 

Education

·         Shultz, Paul.(1988). Education Investment and Returns. Handbook of Development Economics. Volume1 Chapter 13.

·         Eric A. Hanushek (2002) . Publicly Provided Education. NBER W8799.

·         Brown, P.H. Park, A., (2002). Education and poverty in rural China. Economics of Education Review, Dec 2002

·         Anders Björklund and Christian Kjellström ( 2002).Estimating the return to investments in education: how useful is the standard Mincer equation? Economics of Education Review Volume 21, Issue 3,, pp 195-210

·         Kerwin Kofi Charles, Ming-Ching Luoh. (2002) Gender Differences in Completed Schooling. NBER Working Paper No. w9028, June.

Inequalities and income: labor, income inequalities and child labor

·         Admchik Vera A, Arjun S Bedi (2000). Wage differentials between the public and the private sectors. Evidence from an economy in transition. Labour Economics 7, 203-224.

·         Thomas DeLeire, Helen Levy. (2001) Gender, Occupation Choice and the Risk of Death at Work. NBER Working Paper No. w8574. November

·         Card David, Thomas Lemieux, Craig Ridell (2003). Unionization and wage inequalities: a comparative study of US, the UK and Canada.

·         Amanda Gosling, Thomas Lemieux (2001). Labour Market Reforms and Changes in Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States. NBER Working Paper No. w8413 Issued in August 2001

·         Strauss J and Thomas (1995). Human Resources: Empirical Modeling of Household and Family decisions. Handbook of Development Economics, 3A. Chapter 34.

·         Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn. (2000) Gender Differences in Pay. NBER W7732 Issued in June.

·         International labor Organization. (2002)A Future without child labour. Global Report, under the follow-up to the ILO declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at work.

·         Stephenson S (2002). Child labour in the Russian Federation. Working paper No7. ILO

·         Cigno Alessandro, Furio C. Rosati (2002),  "Does Globalization Increase Child Labor ?", World Development, Vol.30, No.9, 1579-1589.  

·         Neumayer Eric, Indra De Soya (2005),  "Trade Openness, Foreign Direct Investment and Child Labor ?", World Development, Vol.33, No.1, 43-63.  

·         Bourguignon François, Francisco H.G. Ferreira, Phillippe G. Leite (2002),  "Conditional Cash Transfers, Schooling and Child Labor : Micro-Simulating Bolsa Escola".

·         Cardoso Eliana, André P. Souza (2004),  "The Impact of Cash Transfers on Child Labor and School Attendance in Brazil", Working Paper No. 04-W07, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University of Nashville.