Acknowledgements

This paper was finished, with great difficulty, after I joined the World Bank as Chief Economist in the summer 2003. I am grateful to Philippe Aghion for useful comments. I thank for their patient and efficient help Jean-Jacques Dethier and Victoria Levin.

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