Publications

Books

Taxation in a Low-Income Economy: the Case of Mozambique. London and New York: 2009 Routledge. Editor with C. Arndt.

From Monobank to Commercial Banking: Financial Sector Reforms in Vietnam. NIAS Press, 2005, 170 pages. With J. Kovsted and J. Rand.
A New Social Accounting Matrix for the Year 2000. Hanoi: Science and Technics Publishing House, 2004, 71 pages. With H.T. Jensen et. al.
Debt Relief for Poor Countries. Studies in Development Economics and Policy. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 318 pages. Editor with T. Addison and H. Hansen.
Facing the Development Challenge in Mozambique: An Economy-wide Perspective. IFPRI Research Report No. 126, Washington,D.C. 2002, 189 pages. With C. Arndt, H. T. Jensen, S. Robinson, and R. Heltberg.
1999 Social Accounting Matrix for Vietnam. Hanoi: The Gioi Publishers, 2001, 81 pages. With D. Roland-Holst, J. Rand, Pham Lan Huong and Vo Tri Thanh.
Foreign Aid and Development: Lessons Learnt and Directions for the Future. London and New York: Routledge, 2000, 512 pages. Editor assisted by Peter Hjertholm.
The South African Economy: Macroeconomic Prospects for the Medium Term. London and New York: Routledge, 1996, 219 pages. With P. Brixen.
South Africa: Background and Possibilities for Danish Transitional Assistance. Copenhagen: Danida, February 1993, 143 pages. 
Stabilization and Structural Adjustment: Macroeconomic Frameworks for Analysing the Crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. London and New York: Routledge, 1993, 212 pages.

Journal articles
  ‘Aid and Growth: What Meta-Analysis Reveals’. Forthcoming Journal of Development Studies. With Tseday Jemaneh Mekasha.
‘Explaining Poverty Evolution: The Case of Mozambique’. Forthcoming American Journal of Agricultural Economics. With C. Arndt, M. Azhar Husain, S. Jones, V. Nhate, and J. Thurlow.
‘Poverty Reduction and Economic Structure: Comparative Path Analysis for Mozambique and Vietnam’. Forthcoming, Review of Income and Wealth. With C. Arndt, A. F. Garcia, and J. Thurlow.
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‘Firm Level Corruption in Vietnam’. Economic Development and Cultural Change. Vol. 60(3), 2012, pp. 571.595. With J. Rand.

‘Globalization Crises, Trade and Development in Vietnam’. Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy. Vol. 3(1), 2012, pp. 1240006-1-1240006-23. With P. Abbott.

‘The Finance-Growth Thesis: A Sceptical Assessment’. Journal of African Economies. Vol. 21, AERC Supplement 1, 2012, pp. i57–i88. With T.B. Andersen and S. Jones.

‘Finance and Economic Development in Africa: Introduction and Overview’. Journal of African Economies. Vol. 21, AERC Supplement 1, 2012, pp. i3–i9. With O. Ajakaiye.

‘The Triple Crisis and the Global Aid Architecture’. African Development Review. Vol. 23, No. 4, 2011, pp. 461-478. With C. Arndt and T. Addison.
‘The Impact of the Global Commodity and Financial Crises on Poverty in Vietnam’. Journal of Globalization and Development. Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2011. With J. Thurlow, S. McCoy, N. M. Hai, C. Breisinger and C. Arndt.
WORLD DEVELOPMNET The Forgotten Property Rights: Evidence on Land Use Rights in Vietnam’. World Development. Vol. 39(5), 2011, pp. 839-850. With T. Markussen and Katleen Van den Broeck.

‘Adapting to Climate Change: An Integrated Biophysical and Economic Assessment for Mozambique’. Sustainability Science. Vol. 6(1), 2011, pp. 7-20. With C. Arndt, K. Strzepeck, J. Thurlow, C. Fant, and L. Wright

‘Does Gender Influence Fringe Benefits Provision? Evidence from Vietnamese SMEs’. Feminist Economics. Vol. 17(1), 2011, pp. 59-87. With J. Rand.
‘Aid, Growth, and Development: Have We Come Full Circle? Journal of Globalization and Development. Vol. 1, Issue 2, Article 5 (27 pages), 2010. With C. Arndt and S. Jones.

General Equilibrium Measures of Agricultural Bias in Fifteen Developing Countries’. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Vol. 92(4), 2010, pp. 1136-1148. With H. T. Jensen and S. Robinson.

Environment and Development Economics

‘Biofuels, Poverty, and Growth:   A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of Mozambique’. Environment and Development Economics. Vol. 15(1), 2010, pp. 81-105. With C. Arndt, J. Thurlow and R. Uaiene.

‘IMF and Economic Reform in Developing Countries’. Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance. Vol. 50, 2010, pp. 17-26. With P. Abbott and T. Barnebeck Andersen.

‘Credit Demand in Mozambican Manufacturing’. Journal of International Development. Vol. 22(1), 2010, pp. 37-55. With B. Byiers, J. Rand and J. Bentzen.

‘Impact of an Aquaculture Extension Project in Bangladesh’. Journal of Development Effectiveness.Vol. 1(2), 2009, pp. 130-146. With J. Rand.

‘Enterprise Growth and Survival in Vietnam: Does Government Support Matter?’. Journal of Development Studies. Vol. 45(7), 2009, pp. 1048-1069. With H. Hansen and J. Rand.

‘Trade and Development: Lessons from Vietnam’s Past Trade Agreements’. World Development. Vol. 37(2), 2009, pp. 341-353. With P. Abbott and J. Bentzen.

'Trade Policy Reform and the Missing Revenue'. Journal of African Economies. Vol. 17(1), 2008, pp. 131-160. With C. Arndt.
'Formal and Informal Credit in Four Provinces of Vietnam'. Journal of Development Studies. Vol. 44(4), 2008, pp. 485-503. With M. Barslund.

‘SME Access to Credit’. Vietnam Economic Management Review. Vol. 3(2), 2008, pp. 49-55. With J. Rand, Tran Tien Cuong and Nguyen Thanh Tam.

‘Land Use Rights and Productivity: Insights from a 2006 Rural Household Survey’. Vietnam Economic Management Review. Vol. 3(2), 2008, pp. 66-71. With K. Van den Broeck, C. Newman, Chu Tien Quang and Luu Duc Khai.
'Household Savings in Vietnam: Insights from a 2006 Rural Household Survey'. Vietnam Economic Management Review. Vol. 3(1), 2008, pp. 34-40. With C. Newman, K. van den Broeck, Chu Tien Quang and Luu Duc Khai.

‘SME Fringe Benefits Provision’. Vietnam Economic Management Review. Vol. 3(1), 2008, pp. 53-60. With J. Rand, Tran Tien Cuong and Nguyen Thanh Tam.

'Understanding Victimization: The case of Mozambique'. World Development. Vol. 35(7), 2007, pp. 1237-1258. With M. Barslund, J. Rand and J. Chiconela.
'Aid and Development'. Swedish Economic Policy Review. Vol. 13(2), 2006, pp. 9-61.
'Trade Reform and Gender in Mozambique' . Nordic Journal of Political Economy. Vol. 32(1), 2006, pp. 73-90. With C. Arndt and S. Robinson.
'On US Politics and IMF Lending'. European Economic Review. Vol. 50(7), 2006, pp. 1843-1862. With T. Barnebeck Andersen and T. Harr.
Link to Journal of Policy Modeling 'A Standard Bank-Fund Projection Framework with CGE Features'. Journal of Policy Modeling. Vol. 28(2), 2006, pp. 103-132. With H.T. Jensen.
'Trade Liberalisation and Spatial Inequality: A Methodological Innovation in Vietnamese Perspective'. Review of Development Economics. Vol. 9(1), 2005, pp. 69-86. With H. T. Jensen.
'On the Choice of Appropriate Development Strategy: Insights from CGE Modelling of the Mozambican Economy'. Journal of African Economies. Vol. 13(3), 2004, pp. 446-478. With H.T. Jensen.
'On the Empirics of Foreign Aid and Growth'. Economic Journal. Vol. 114(496), 2004, pp. F191-FF216. With C.-J. Dalgaard and H. Hansen.
'Foreign Aid in Perspective'. Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift. Vol. 141(2), 2003, pp. 164-186.
'Financial Liberalization, Financial Development, and Economic Growth in LDCs'. Journal of International Development. Vol. 15(2), 2003, pp. 189-208. With T. B. Andersen.
'Economic Structure and Development in An Emergent Asian Economy: Evidence from a Social Accounting Matrix of Vietnam'. Journal of Asian Economics. Vol. 13(6), 2003, pp. 847-871. With D. Roland-Holst and J. Rand.
'Child Health, and Mortality in Guinea-Bissau: Does Health Knowledge Matter?' Journal of African Economies, Vol. 11(4), 2002, pp. 542-560. With J. Kovsted and C. Pörtner.
'The Robustness of Poverty Lines Reconsidered'. Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 51(1), 2002, pp. 77-108. With K. Simler, C. Matusse, R. Heltberg, and G. Dava.
'Business Cycles in Developing Countries: Are They Different?' World Development, Vol. 30(12), 2002, pp. 2071-2088. With J. Rand.
'CGE Modelling and Trade Policy: Reassessing the Agricultural Bias'. Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 53(2), 2002, pp. 383-405. With H. T. Jensen.
'Trade and Income Growth in Vietnam: Estimates from a New Social Accounting Matrix'. Economic Systems Research, Vol. 14(2), 2002, pp. 157-184.With D. Roland-Holst and J. Rand.
'Agricultural Supply Response and Poverty in Mozambique'. Food Policy, Vol. 27(2), 2002, pp. 103-124. With R. Heltberg.
'Parameter Estimation for a Computable General Equilibrium Model: A Maximum Entropy Approach'. Economic Modelling, Vol. 19 (3), 2002, pp. 375-398. With C. Arndt and S. Robinson.
'Grain Transport and Rural Credit in Mozambique: Solving The Space-time Problem'. Agricultural Economics, Vol. 25(1), 2001, pp. 59-70. With C. Arndt and R. Schiller.
'Who Gets the Goods: A General Equilibrium Perspective on Food Aid in Mozambique'. Food Policy, Vol. 26(2), 2001, pp. 107-119. With C. Arndt.
'Aid and Growth Regressions'. Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 64(2), 2001, pp. 547-570. With H. Hansen.
'Policy Bias and Agriculture: Partial and General Equilibrium Measures'. Review of Development Economics, Vol. 5(1), 2001, pp. 89-104. With R. M. Bautista, S. Robinson, and P. Wobst.
'Marketing Margins and Agricultural Technology in Mozambique'. Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 37(1), 2000, pp. 121-137. With C. Arndt, H. T. Jensen, and S. Robinson.
'Structural Characteristics of the Mozambican Economy: A SAM-Based Analysis.' Review of Development Economics, Vol. 4(3), 2000, pp. 292-306. With C. Arndt and H. T. Jensen.
'Agricultural Technology, Risk, and Gender: A CGE Analysis of Mozambique.' World Development, Vol. 28(7), 2000, pp. 1307-1326. With C. Arndt.
'Aid Effectiveness Disputed'. Journal of International Development, Vol. 12(3), 2000, pp. 375-98. With H. Hansen.
'Stabilization and Structural Adjustment in Mozambique: An Appraisal'. Journal of International Development, Vol. 12(3), 2000, pp. 299-323. With C. Arndt and H. T. Jensen.
'Danish Balance of Payments Support'. IDS Bulletin, Vol. 27(4), 1996, pp. 49-58. With M. Vázcy Kragh.
'South Africa: Macroeconomic Perspectives for the Medium-Term'. World Development, Vol. 24 (6), 1996, pp. 989-1001.With P. Brixen.
'Project Analysis in Development Assistance'. Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift, Vol. 130(2), 1992, pp. 255-63.
'Prices in Mozambican Agriculture'. Journal of International Development, Vol.2(2), 1990, pp. 172-208.
'Agrarian Transformation in Mozambique'. Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives, No. 1/2, 1984, pp. 1-28.
'Growth and Income Distribution in Developing Countries'. Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift, Vol. 119(1), 1981, pp. 32-46.

Book chapters
 

‘The Political Economy of Green Growth: Food, Fuel and Electricity in Southern Africa.’ Forthcoming in Puppim de Oliveira, J.A. (ed) Green Economy and Good Governance for Sustainable Development: Views from Different Angles. Tokyo, Japan: United Nations University Press. With D. Resnick and J. Thurlow.

  Aid Effectiveness. Forthcoming in M. Ndulu (ed) ‘Problems, Promises, and Paradoxes of Aid: Africa’s Experience.’ University of Cape Town Press. With C. Arndt and S. Jones.
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Foreign Aid and Development’. In Bertrand Badie, Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Leonardo Morlino (eds.) Encyclopedia of Political Science. SAGE, 2011.

‘Aid, Growth, and Development’. Chapter 2 (pp. 20-53) in G. Mavrotas (ed.) Foreign Aid for Development: Issues, Challenges and the New Agenda. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

‘VAT and Economy-wide Modelling’. Chapter 17 (pp. 328-340) in C. Arndt and F. Tarp (eds) Taxation in a Low-Income Economy: the Case of Mozambique. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. With C. Arndt, B. Byiers and S. Robinson.

‘Trade Policy Reform and the Missing Revenue’. Chapter 13 (pp. 251-270 in C. Arndt and F. Tarp (eds) Taxation in a Low-Income Economy: the Case of Mozambique. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. With C. Arndt.

‘Introduction and Overview’. Chapter 1 (pp. 1-10) in C. Arndt and F. Tarp (eds) Taxation in a Low-Income Economy: the Case of Mozambique. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. With C. Arndt, S. Jones and J. van Dunem.

‘Foreign Aid’. 2008 in Larry Blume and Steven Durlauf (eds.) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, Palgrave Macmillan.

‘Trade Liberalization and Spatial Inequality: A Methodological Innovation in Vietnamese Perspective’. Chapter 20 (pp. 514-531) in L. Alan Winters (ed.) The WTO and Poverty and Inequality, Vol. 1. Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, USA, Elgar, 2007. With H.T. Jensen.

Aid and Development: The Mozambican Case. Chapter 14 (pp. 235-288) in Sajal Lahiri (ed) Frontiers of Economics and Globalization: Theory and Practice of Foreign Aid, Elsevier, 2007. With C. Arndt and S. Jones.

‘Trade Liberalization and Spatial Inequality: A Methodological Innovation in Vietnamese Perspective’. Chapter 4 (pp. 64-86) in Ravi Kanbur, Anthony J. Venables, and Guanghua Wan (eds.) Spatial Disparities in Human Development. Tokyo, New York, Paris: United Nations University Press, 2006. With H.T. Jensen.

'Globalization, Economic Reform, and Structural Price Transmission: SAM Decomposition Techniques with an Empirical Application to Vietnam'. Chapter 14 (pp. 287-307) in A. de Janvry and R. Kanbur (eds.) Poverty, Inequality and Development: Essays in Honor of Erik Thorbecke, Norwell, Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2006. With D. Roland-Holst.
'New Perspectives on Aid Effectiveness'. In Part I (pp. 43-62) in B. Tungodden, N. Stern and I. Kolstad (eds.) Toward Pro-Poor Policies - Aid, Institutions and Globalization. Washington and New York: World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2004. With D. Roland-Holst. Also available in French from http://ideas.repec.org/a/cai/edddbu/edd_172_0151.html
'Public Spending and Poverty in Mozambique'. Chapter 10 (pp. 209-240) in T. Addison, H. Hansen and F. Tarp (eds.) Debt Relief for Poor Countries. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. With R. Heltberg and K. Simler.
'Evaluating Debt Relief: Introduction'. Chapter 1 (pp. 3-23) in T. Addison, H. Hansen and F. Tarp (eds.) Debt Relief for Poor Countries. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. With T. Addison and H. Hansen.
'Reconstruction, Reform and State Capacity in Guinea-Bissau'. Chapter 13 (pp. 206-227) in T. Addison (ed.) From Conflict to Recovery in Africa, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. With J. Kovsted.
'Aid Effectiveness Disputed'. Chapter 4 (pp. 103-128) in F. Tarp (ed.) Foreign aid and Development: Lessons Learnt for the Future.  London and New York: Routledge, 2000. With H. Hansen.
'Foreign Aid and Development: Summary and Synthesis' (pp. 1-14) in F. Tarp (ed.) Foreign aid and Development: Lessons Learnt for the Future.  London and New York: Routledge, 2000. With S. Robinson.
'Structural Adjustment and After: Which Way Forward?', Chapter 18 (pp. 344-65) in E. Aryeetey, J. Harrigan and M. Nissanke (eds.) Economic Reforms in Ghana: The Miracle & the Mirage. London: James Currey, 2000. With E. Aryeetey.
'Danish Aid Policy: Theory and Empirical Evidence'. Chapter 9 (pp. 149-69) in Kanhaya Gupta (ed.) Foreign Aid: New Perspectives. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999. With C. F. Bach, H. Hansen and S. Baunsgaard.
'Mozambique: Macroeconomic Performance and Critical Development Issues', Chapter 14 (pp. 288-310) in L. Petersson (ed.) Post-Apartheid Southern Africa: Economic Challenges and Policies for the Future. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. With M. Igel Lau.

Other journal articles and book chapters

‘The ‘Triple Crisis’’. Development Today, Vol. XX, no. 3, p. 11, March 2010.

adobe icon ‘Foreign Aid and the Bottom Billion’. IDS In Focus 3, art. 12, 4 pages, March 2008. With S. Jones.
‘Aid Does Work, But Beware of Great Expectations’. Poverty in Focus, October 2007, pp. 10-11.

‘Aid and Development’. Vision. Det frie forum for debat. Copenhagen, 2006.

‘Commentaires sur l’intervention de Jean-Philippe Platteau’. Afrique Contemporaine, Vol. 211, 2004, pp. 215-232. With T. B. Andersen. Also in English as ‘Comment’ [on: Platteau, J.P. (2003), 'Decentralized Development as a Strategy to Reduce Poverty?’], in: Poverty, Inequality and Growth: Proceedings of the AFD-EUDN Conference, 2003, 331-354. Agence Francaise de Développement. Magellan & Cie, Paris 2004.

'The Situation of the Developing Countries and Their Future', pages 37-64 in N. Kærgård and D. Errebo Pedersen (eds.) Agriculture and the economy. Copenhagen: Jordbrugsforlaget, 1996.
'Structural Adjustment in Africa: Background and Economic Results'. Samfundsøkonomen, No. 4, 1995, pp. 5-12.
'Macroeconomic Reforms in Theoretical Context', Chapter 5 (pp. 87-130) in K. E. Svendsen (ed.) The Debt Crisis of Developing Countries: Economic Analyses and Strategies. Copenhagen: Handelshøjskolens Forlag, 1994.
'The Debt Crisis: Background', Chapter 2 (pp. 19-46) in K. E. Svendsen (ed.) The Debt Crisis of developing Countries: Economic Analyses and Strategies. Copenhagen: Handelshøjskolens Forlag, 1994.
'The Heavy Burden of Apartheid', Udvikling, Vol. 7, 1992, pp. 14-17.
'The Economic Legacy of Apartheid', Den Ny Verden, Vol. 25(3), 1992, pp. 111-123.
'The Need for Food Aid in the 1990s'. Den Ny Verden, Vol.24(3), 1991, pp. 124-36.
'Stabilization, Structural Adjustment and Agricultural Prices'. Tidsskrift for U-landbrug, Vol. 2 (1), 1990, pp. 5-7.

Academic book reviews
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‘Tournament Approaches to Policy Reform: Making Development Assistance More Effective’. (review of Brookings volume by Clifford F. Zinnes, Washington, D.C.). Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. XLVIII, pp. 462-64.

'Economic Growth, Poverty, and Household Welfare in Vietnam' (review of World Bank volume by P. Glewwe, N. Agrawal and D. Dollar, eds.). Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 54(4), 2006, pp. 995-997.
'Aid and Reform in Africa' (review of World Bank volume by S. Devarajan, D. R. Dollar and T. Holmgren). Journal of African Economies, Vol. 10, 2001, pp. 341-53.
'The Conditions of Agricultural Growth: The Economics of Agrarian Change under Population Change' (review of George Allen & Unwin Press volume by E. Boserup). Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift,Vol. 138 , 2000, pp. 150-52.
'The Economic Development of Greenland' (review of Aarhus University Press book volume by M. Paldam). Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift, Vol. 133, No. 3, 1995, pp. 327-330.
Link to The Economic Journal'From Adjustment to Development in Africa: Conflict, Controversy, Convergence, Consensus ?' (review of St. Martin's Press book volume by G. A. Cornia and G. K. Helleiner). Economic Journal, Vol. 105, No. 433, November 1995, pp. 1659-61.
'Environment and Development: An Economic Approach' (review of Kluwer Academic Publishers book volume by J. Bojö, K.-G. Mäler and L. Unemo). Nordic Journal of Environmental Economics, Vol. 4, November 1993, pp. 44-45.
'On Soft Terms: the World Bank, the IMF and Developing Countries' (review of Danish UN Association book volume by Kristof K. Kristiansen and Ole Olsen). Den Ny Verden, Vol. 23 (4), 1990, pp. 134-139.