Finn Tarp

Peer-reviewed Books

• Stabilization and Structural Adjustment: Macroeconomic Frameworks for Analysing the Crisis in
  sub-Saharan Africa. London and New York: Routledge, 1993, 212 pages.
• South Africa: Background and Possibilities for Danish Transitional Assistance. Copenhagen:
  Danida, February 1993, 143 pages.
• The South African Economy: Macroeconomic Prospects the Medium Term. London and New
  York: Routledge, 1996, 219 pages. With P. Brixen.
• Foreign Aid and Development: Lessons Learnt and Directions for the Future. London and New
  York: Routledge, 2000, 512 pages. Editor, assisted by Peter Hjertholm.
• 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.
• 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.
• Debt Relief for Poor Countries. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 318 pages. Editor
  with Tony Addison and Henrik Hansen.
• A New Social Accounting Matrix for the Year 2000. Hanoi: Science and Technics Publishing
  House, 2004, 71 pages. With H.T. Jensen et. al.
• From Monobank to Commercial Banking: Financial Sector Reforms in Vietnam. NIAS Press.
  2005, 170 pages. With J. Kovsted and J. Rand.
• Taxation in a Low-Income Economy: the Case of Mozambique. London and New York:
  Routledge, 2009, 383 pages. Editor with C. Arndt.

Peer-reviewed Book Chapters

• ‘Mozambique: Macroeconomic Performance and Critical Development Issues’, Chapter 14 (pp.
  288-310) in Lennart Petersson (ed.) Post-Apartheid Southern Africa: Economic Challenges and
  Policies for the Future. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. With M. Igel Lau.
• ‘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.
• ‘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.
• ‘Foreign Aid and Development: Summary and Synthesis’ (pp. 1-14) in F. Tarp (ed.) Foreign Aid
  and Development: Lessons Learnt and Directions for the Future. London and New York:
  Routledge, 2000. With S. Robinson.
• ‘Aid Effectiveness Disputed’. Chapter 4 (pp. 103-128) in F. Tarp (ed.) Foreign Aid and
  Development: Lessons Learnt and Directions for the Future. London and New York: Routledge,
  2000, pp. 1-14. With 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.
• ‘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.
• ‘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.
• ‘New Perspectives on Aid Effectiveness’. Chapter 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/Oxford University Press, 2004. With D. Roland-
  Holst.
• ‘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, New York: Springer, 2006. With D. Roland-Holst.
• ‘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.
• ‘Aid and Development: The Mozambican Case’. Chapter 14 (pp. 235-288) in S. Lahiri (ed.)
  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 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.
  ‘Foreign Aid’ in Larry Blume and Steven Durlauf (eds.) The New Palgrave Dictionary of
  Economics, 2nd edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
• ‘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, E. S. Jones and J. van Dunem.
• ‘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.
• ‘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.
• ‘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.
• ‘Foreign Aid and Development’. Forthcoming, International Encyclopedia of Political
  Science, Bertrand Badie, Dirk Berg-Schlosser, and Leonardo Morlino (eds.), Sage.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

• Aid, Growth, and Development: Have We Come Full Circle? (Berkeley Electronic Press)
• ‘Growth and Income Distribution in Developing Countries’. Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift, Vol
  119(1), 1981, pp. 32-46.
• ‘Agrarian Transformation in Mozambique’. Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives,
  No. 1/2, 1984, pp. 1-28.
• ‘Prices in Mozambican Agriculture’. Journal of International Development, Vol.2(2), 1990, pp.
  172-208.
• ‘Project Analysis in Development Assistance’. Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift, Vol. 130(2), 1992,
  pp. 255-63.
• ‘South Africa: Macroeconomic Perspectives for the Medium-Term’. World Development, Vol.
  24 (6), 1996, pp. 989-1001.With P. Brixen.
• ‘Danish Balance of Payments Support’. IDS Bulletin, Vol. 27(4), 1996, pp. 49-58. With M.
  Vázcy Kragh.
• ‘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.
• ‘Aid Effectiveness Disputed’. Journal of International Development, Vol. 12(3), 2000, pp. 375-
  98. With H. Hansen.
• ‘Agricultural Technology, Risk, and Gender: A CGE Analysis of Mozambique’. World
  Development, Vol. 28(7), 2000, pp. 1307-1326. With C. Arndt.
• ‘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.
• ‘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.
• ‘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.
• ‘Aid and Growth Regressions’. Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 64(2), 2001, pp. 547-
  570. With H. Hansen.
• ‘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.
• ‘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.
• ‘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.
• ‘Agricultural Supply Response and Poverty in Mozambique’. Food Policy, Vol. 27(2), 2002, pp.
  103-124. With R. Heltberg.
• ‘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.
• ‘CGE Modelling and Trade Policy: Reassessing the Agricultural Bias’. Journal of Agricultural
  Economics. Vol. 53(2), 2002, pp. 383-405. With H. T. Jensen.
• ‘Business Cycles in Developing Countries: Are They Different?’ World Development. Vol.
  30(12), 2002, pp. 2071-2088. With J. Rand.
• ‘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.
• ‘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.
• ‘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.
• ‘Financial Liberalization, Financial Development, and Economic Growth in LDCs’. Journal of
  International Development. Vol. 15(2), 2003, pp. 189-208. With T. B. Andersen.
• ‘Foreign Aid in Perspective’. Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift. Vol. 141(2), 2003, pp. 164-186.
• ‘On the Empirics of Foreign Aid and Growth’. Economic Journal. Vol. 114(496), 2004, pp.
  F191-F216. With C.-J. Dalgaard and H. Hansen.
• ‘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.
• ‘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.
• ‘A Bank-Fund Projection Framework with CGE Features’. Journal of Policy Modeling. Vol.
  28(2), 2006, pp. 103-132. With H. T. Jensen.
• ‘On US Politics and IMF Lending’. European Economic Review. Vol. 50(7), 2006, pp. 1843-
  1862. With T. B. Andersen and T. Harr.
• ‘Trade Reform and Gender in Mozambique’. Nordic Journal of Political Economy. Vol. 32(1),
  2006, pp. 73-90. With C. Arndt and S. Robinson.
• ‘Aid and Development’. Swedish Economic Policy Review. Vol. 13(2), 2006, pp. 9-61
• ‘Understanding Victimization: The Case of Mozambique’. World Development. Vol. 35(7),
  2007, pp. 1237-1258. With M. Barslund, J. Rand and J. Chiconela.
• ‘Trade Policy Reform and the Missing Revenue’. Journal of African Economies. Vol. 17(1),
  2008, pp. 131-160. With C. Arndt.
• ‘Formal and Informal Rural Credit in Four Provinces of Vietnam’. Journal of Development
  Studies. Vol. 44(4), 2008, pp. 485-503. With M. Barslund.
• ‘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.
• ‘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.
• ‘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.
• ‘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.
• ‘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.
• ‘IMF and Economic Reform in Developing Countries’. The Quarterly Review of Economics
  and Finance. Vol. 50, 2010, pp. 17-26. With P. Abbott and T. B. 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.
• ‘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, R. Benfica, J. Thurlow and R. Uaiene.
• ‘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.
• ‘Aid, Growth, and Development: Have We Come Full Circle?’. Journal of Globalization and
  Development. Vol. 1(2), Article 5, 2010, 27 pages. With Channing Arndt and Sam Jones.
• ‘Does Gender Influence Fringe Benefits Provision? Evidence from Vietnamese SMEs’.
  Feminist Economics. Vol. 17(1), 2011, pp. 59-87. With John Rand.
• ‘Adapting to Climate Change: An Integrated Biophysical and Economic Assessment for
  Mozambique’., Sustainability Science. Vol. 6, no. 1, 2011, pp. 7-20. With Channing Arndt,
  Kenneth Strzepeck, James Thurlow, Chas Fant, and Len Wright.
• ‘The Forgotten Property Rights: Evidence on Land Use Rights in Vietnam’. Forthcoming,
  World Development. With Thomas Markussen and Katleen Van den Broeck.
• ‘Firm-Level Corruption in Vietnam’. Forthcoming, Economic Development and Cultural
  Change. With John Rand.
• Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; and Tarp, Finn (2010) “Aid, Growth, and Development: Have We Come Full Circle?,” Journal of Globalization and Development: Vol. 1 : Iss. 2, Article 5.

Technical Papers, Policy Briefs, etc

• Adapting to Climate Change: An Integrated Biophysical and Economic Assessment for Mozambique
• Agricultural Supply Response and Poverty in Mozambique
• Aid and Growth: Have We Come Full Circle?
• Aid, Growth, and Development: Have We Come Full Circle?
• Firm-Level Corruption in Vietnam
• Guinea-Bissau: War, Reconstruction and Reform
• On the Choice of Appropriate Development Strategy: Insights from CGE Modelling of the Mozambican Economy
• Poverty Reduction and Economic Structure: Comparative Path Analysis for Mozambique and Vietnam
• Public Spending and Poverty in Mozambique
• Trade Liberalization and Spatial Inequality: A Methodological Innovation in Vietnamese Perspective
• The Triple Crisis and the Global Aid Architecture
• Opinion – UNU-WIDER on the ‘triple crisis
• UNU-WIDER: More Needed Than Ever

Other Publications (Conference Proceedings, etc)

• Opinion – UNU-WIDER on the ‘triple crisis’, Published in Development Today, the independent journal on Nordic and multilateral aid, published fortnightly since 1991. Based in Norway.
• UNU-WIDER: More Needed Than Ever, WIDER Angle newsletter, September 2009
  ISSN 1238-9544

• Development under Climate Change
• Growth and Poverty Conference
• New Directions in Development Economics
• New Fiscal Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction
• Spatial Disparities in Human Development
• Underdevelopment, Transition & Reconstruction