What’s the big idea?
“Divergence, Big Time.” Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 11 no.3, Summer 1997.
“Growth Accelerations.” Journal of Economic Growth, vol. 10, no. 4, 2005. (also NBER Working Paper 10566). (with Ricardo Hausmann and Dani Rodrik).
“The Varieties of Rentier Experience: How Natural Resource Endowments Affect the Political Economy of Resource Growth.” World Bank Economic Review 11(2),2005. (with Jon Isham and Michael Woolcock).
Economic Growth in the 1990s: Learning from a Decade of Reform. (chapter 2 “Grist and Mill for the Lessons of the 1990s” and chapter 8 “The Impact of Policy Reforms on Performance and Growth: What Have We Learned from the 1990s). World Bank, 2004.
“A Toy Collection, a Socialist Star and a Democratic Dud: Growth Theory, Vietnam, and the Philippines.” in In Search of Prosperity: Analytical Narratives on Economic Growth, Dani Rodrik (ed.), Princeton University Press, 2003.
“A Conclusion to Cross National Growth Research: Foreword ‘To the Countries Themselves.’” in Explaining Growth: A Global Research Project. Gary McMahon and Lyn Squire eds., 2003.
“The Structural Adjustment Debate.” American Economic Review, vol. 83 no.2, May 1993. (with Lawrence Summers).
“The Tyranny of Concepts: CUDIE (Cumulated, Depreciated, Investment Effort) is Not Capital.” Journal of Economic Growth, December 2000.