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Where research meets practice; a platform for development enthusiasts to discuss key policy issues. Powered by CEPR, IGC & PEDL.
Board: Martina Björkman-Nyqvist, Michael Callen, Cesi Cruz, David Lagakos, Joana Naritomi, Oliver Hanney & Emaan Siddique
Board: Martina Björkman-Nyqvist, Michael Callen, Cesi Cruz, David Lagakos, Joana Naritomi, Oliver Hanney & Emaan Siddique
When female labour reforms fail to align with employer incentives, they can deepen rather than reduce gender disparities in the labour market, as shown by Iran’s 2016 reform.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
When female labour reforms fail to align with employer incentives, they can deepen rather than reduce gender disparities in the labour market, as shown by Iran’s 2016 reform.
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What are academic incentives and how do they relate to policy and practice? Can incentives be aligned?
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November 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
What are academic incentives and how do they relate to policy and practice? Can incentives be aligned?
Check out today's article to learn about the different incentives in academia vs policy ⤵️
Check out today's article to learn about the different incentives in academia vs policy ⤵️
Embrapa – a large public R&D effort to create agricultural innovation suited to Brazil’s ecology – shifted research toward local needs and raised agricultural productivity by 110%, far outweighing its costs.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Embrapa – a large public R&D effort to create agricultural innovation suited to Brazil’s ecology – shifted research toward local needs and raised agricultural productivity by 110%, far outweighing its costs.
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Brazil’s R&D subsidy programme spurred long-term growth by helping financially constrained companies adopt foreign technologies and expand into high-tariff markets through import substitution.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Brazil’s R&D subsidy programme spurred long-term growth by helping financially constrained companies adopt foreign technologies and expand into high-tariff markets through import substitution.
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🆕 Rethinking trade and development 📢
Today on VoxDevTalks, Pinelopi Goldberg (@yaleegc.bsky.social) & Michele Ruta (International Monetary Fund) discuss international trade and development: voxdev.org/topic/trade/...
Today on VoxDevTalks, Pinelopi Goldberg (@yaleegc.bsky.social) & Michele Ruta (International Monetary Fund) discuss international trade and development: voxdev.org/topic/trade/...
November 12, 2025 at 9:36 AM
🆕 Rethinking trade and development 📢
Today on VoxDevTalks, Pinelopi Goldberg (@yaleegc.bsky.social) & Michele Ruta (International Monetary Fund) discuss international trade and development: voxdev.org/topic/trade/...
Today on VoxDevTalks, Pinelopi Goldberg (@yaleegc.bsky.social) & Michele Ruta (International Monetary Fund) discuss international trade and development: voxdev.org/topic/trade/...
Merit-based recruitment and higher pay in Chile’s public hospitals attracted better-trained managers – leading to lower mortality rates and improved healthcare performance.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Merit-based recruitment and higher pay in Chile’s public hospitals attracted better-trained managers – leading to lower mortality rates and improved healthcare performance.
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Evidence from Afghanistan suggests that development initiatives aimed at building state legitimacy can reduce violence when insurgencies are locally driven but may misallocate resources and even fuel conflict when insurgents are not reliant on local populations for support.
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Evidence from Afghanistan suggests that development initiatives aimed at building state legitimacy can reduce violence when insurgencies are locally driven but may misallocate resources and even fuel conflict when insurgents are not reliant on local populations for support.
When people in developing countries believe their tax systems are fair and progressive, they are more willing to pay taxes.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
When people in developing countries believe their tax systems are fair and progressive, they are more willing to pay taxes.
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Short-term foreign currency borrowing is largely used for carry trade-like activities rather than financing productive investment, underscoring the need to focus on debt maturity and firm heterogeneity when designing policies to manage financial risk.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Short-term foreign currency borrowing is largely used for carry trade-like activities rather than financing productive investment, underscoring the need to focus on debt maturity and firm heterogeneity when designing policies to manage financial risk.
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In India, expanding deposit insurance coverage improved depositor welfare by reducing risk and encouraging a shift towards safer assets.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In India, expanding deposit insurance coverage improved depositor welfare by reducing risk and encouraging a shift towards safer assets.
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What have we learned about training entrepreneurs?
Issue 4 of our VoxDevLit on Training Entrepreneurs by @dmckenzie.bsky.social, Christopher Woodruff & Co-Editors is out now!➡️ voxdev.org/voxdevlit/tr...
Today's podcast covers the update➡️ voxdev.org/topic/firms/...
Issue 4 of our VoxDevLit on Training Entrepreneurs by @dmckenzie.bsky.social, Christopher Woodruff & Co-Editors is out now!➡️ voxdev.org/voxdevlit/tr...
Today's podcast covers the update➡️ voxdev.org/topic/firms/...
November 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
What have we learned about training entrepreneurs?
Issue 4 of our VoxDevLit on Training Entrepreneurs by @dmckenzie.bsky.social, Christopher Woodruff & Co-Editors is out now!➡️ voxdev.org/voxdevlit/tr...
Today's podcast covers the update➡️ voxdev.org/topic/firms/...
Issue 4 of our VoxDevLit on Training Entrepreneurs by @dmckenzie.bsky.social, Christopher Woodruff & Co-Editors is out now!➡️ voxdev.org/voxdevlit/tr...
Today's podcast covers the update➡️ voxdev.org/topic/firms/...
Workers at exporting firms experience more rapid skill and productivity growth, especially when firms export to high-income destinations, thereby amplifying the overall gains from trade.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Workers at exporting firms experience more rapid skill and productivity growth, especially when firms export to high-income destinations, thereby amplifying the overall gains from trade.
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Evidence from Brazil suggests that the crop-specific knowledge of domestic migrant farmers, during a period of large-scale migration, was a key driver of the recent transformation of the country’s export patterns.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Evidence from Brazil suggests that the crop-specific knowledge of domestic migrant farmers, during a period of large-scale migration, was a key driver of the recent transformation of the country’s export patterns.
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A national extension programme in Uganda raised farmers’ expectations and adoption of oilseed crops – revealing how beliefs, not just knowledge, drive agricultural transformation.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
A national extension programme in Uganda raised farmers’ expectations and adoption of oilseed crops – revealing how beliefs, not just knowledge, drive agricultural transformation.
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Over a thousand years, China’s political hierarchy reshaped regional prosperity – provincial capitals flourished through bureaucracy and market access, but these benefits faded once they lost administrative status.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Over a thousand years, China’s political hierarchy reshaped regional prosperity – provincial capitals flourished through bureaucracy and market access, but these benefits faded once they lost administrative status.
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In Ghana, a simple, low-cost intervention – helping informal workers set daily goals – significantly improved workers’ and firms’ performance, suggesting that non-binding incentives may be an effective means to foster the growth of small firms in developing contexts.
October 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
In Ghana, a simple, low-cost intervention – helping informal workers set daily goals – significantly improved workers’ and firms’ performance, suggesting that non-binding incentives may be an effective means to foster the growth of small firms in developing contexts.
The land prices of the former outcaste neighbourhoods in Japan remain substantially lower, suggesting persistent stigma despite the legal abolition of discrimination more than a century ago.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The land prices of the former outcaste neighbourhoods in Japan remain substantially lower, suggesting persistent stigma despite the legal abolition of discrimination more than a century ago.
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🆕 How religion shapes economic development 📢
Today on VoxDevTalks, @saralowes.bsky.social (UC San Diego), @eduardomontero.bsky.social (Harris School of Public Policy) & Benjamin Marx (Boston University) discuss how religion and economic development interact: voxdev.org/topic/instit...
Today on VoxDevTalks, @saralowes.bsky.social (UC San Diego), @eduardomontero.bsky.social (Harris School of Public Policy) & Benjamin Marx (Boston University) discuss how religion and economic development interact: voxdev.org/topic/instit...
October 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
🆕 How religion shapes economic development 📢
Today on VoxDevTalks, @saralowes.bsky.social (UC San Diego), @eduardomontero.bsky.social (Harris School of Public Policy) & Benjamin Marx (Boston University) discuss how religion and economic development interact: voxdev.org/topic/instit...
Today on VoxDevTalks, @saralowes.bsky.social (UC San Diego), @eduardomontero.bsky.social (Harris School of Public Policy) & Benjamin Marx (Boston University) discuss how religion and economic development interact: voxdev.org/topic/instit...
Group coaching in multi-faceted poverty alleviation programmes delivers the same results as individual coaching – at much lower cost.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Group coaching in multi-faceted poverty alleviation programmes delivers the same results as individual coaching – at much lower cost.
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Industrial clusters can fuel economic booms today, but can also trap cities into tomorrow's decline. Evidence from two centuries of British cities reveals the lasting costs of specialisation.
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October 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Industrial clusters can fuel economic booms today, but can also trap cities into tomorrow's decline. Evidence from two centuries of British cities reveals the lasting costs of specialisation.
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📢 Our new VoxDevLit on Political Polarisation is out now!
Senior Editors Cesi Cruz (University of Michigan) & Horacio Larreguy (ITAM) review research on the causes and consequences of polarisation.
Read & download here: https://voxdev.org/voxdevlit/political-polarisation
Senior Editors Cesi Cruz (University of Michigan) & Horacio Larreguy (ITAM) review research on the causes and consequences of polarisation.
Read & download here: https://voxdev.org/voxdevlit/political-polarisation
October 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM
📢 Our new VoxDevLit on Political Polarisation is out now!
Senior Editors Cesi Cruz (University of Michigan) & Horacio Larreguy (ITAM) review research on the causes and consequences of polarisation.
Read & download here: https://voxdev.org/voxdevlit/political-polarisation
Senior Editors Cesi Cruz (University of Michigan) & Horacio Larreguy (ITAM) review research on the causes and consequences of polarisation.
Read & download here: https://voxdev.org/voxdevlit/political-polarisation
China’s 2014 business registration reform spurred greater market dynamism by lowering entry barriers, which increased firm turnover and allowed smaller yet more productive entrepreneurs to establish new businesses, boosting overall productivity and growth.
October 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
China’s 2014 business registration reform spurred greater market dynamism by lowering entry barriers, which increased firm turnover and allowed smaller yet more productive entrepreneurs to establish new businesses, boosting overall productivity and growth.
Political polarisation has been rising sharply in both advanced and developing democracies.
At our VoxDevLit launch event on October 27, Cesi Cruz and
@hlarreguy.bsky.social will summarise research on the causes and consequences of polarisation.
Register➡️ cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
At our VoxDevLit launch event on October 27, Cesi Cruz and
@hlarreguy.bsky.social will summarise research on the causes and consequences of polarisation.
Register➡️ cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Political polarisation has been rising sharply in both advanced and developing democracies.
At our VoxDevLit launch event on October 27, Cesi Cruz and
@hlarreguy.bsky.social will summarise research on the causes and consequences of polarisation.
Register➡️ cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
At our VoxDevLit launch event on October 27, Cesi Cruz and
@hlarreguy.bsky.social will summarise research on the causes and consequences of polarisation.
Register➡️ cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Expanding irrigation infrastructure in Senegal led to significant and sustained increases in cultivation rates and reduced sensitivity to temperature shocks.
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October 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Expanding irrigation infrastructure in Senegal led to significant and sustained increases in cultivation rates and reduced sensitivity to temperature shocks.
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When delivered by a single donor, development aid appears to curtail corruption. However, under donor fragmentation, these benefits are significantly diminished.
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October 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
When delivered by a single donor, development aid appears to curtail corruption. However, under donor fragmentation, these benefits are significantly diminished.
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