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Online Appendices for Essentials of Development Economics, Chapter Six by J. Edward Taylor with Travis Lybbert

The Center for Global Development (CGD): The Center for Global Development works to reduce global poverty and inequality through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community. It is an example of an independent think tank devoted to the study of poverty and inequality.

World Bank Country Database

Angelina Jolie travels with Dr. Jeffrey Sachs to visit Sauri, Kenya, a Millennium Village: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUHf_kOUM74&feature;=plcp&list;=PL8F80967936AA19E5

William Easterly on Aid to Africa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzy8dafM89E&feature;=related

A different view: Edward Miguel on “Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations:” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTIRtv4s_8I

Marcelo Mello, “Decomposing the International Variation in Capital Per Worker,” Economics Letters 113(2011), pp. 189-191; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2011.07.002

Life Expectancy: Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics; National Vital Statistics Reports, vol 54., no. 19, June 28, 2006; http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/american_studies/america_in_1900.php

Richard H. Steckel, Ohio State University, A History of the Standard of Living in the United States. US GDP in 1900 (2002 dollars); http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/steckel.standard.living.us

Angus Maddison, The World Economy: Historical Statistics. Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD). June 12, 2001.

Edward Miguel and Gérard Roland, “The Long-Run Impact of Bombing Vietnam,” Journal of Development Economics Volume 96, Issue 1, September 2011, Pages 1–15; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2010.07.004

Xavier Sala-i-Martin, “I Just Ran Two Million Regressions,” The American Economic Review, Vol. 87, No. 2, May 1997; http://www.jstor.org/stable/2950909

Paul M. Romer, “The Origins of Endogenous Growth.” The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Winter 1994), 3-22; http://www.jstor.org/stable/2138148

Peter Howitt, “Innovation, Competition and Growth: A Schumpeterian Perspective on Canada’s Economy.” C.D. Howe Institute Commentary No. 246 (April 2007), Conclusion; http://www.cdhowe.org/pdf/commentary_246.pdf

William Easterly, The Elusive Quest for Growth, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002.

Jeffrey Gettleman, “Shower of Aid Brings Flood of Progress,” New York Times, March 8, 2010; http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/world/africa/09kenya.html#h[TiaPwh]