Increased uncertainty in India around US immigration policies led to firms relocating jobs from the US to India. Increasing rhetoric around restrictive immigration policy may increase offshoring, rather than promote domestic employment.
There are significant disparities across countries in the gender division of work even at similar income levels. Social, institutional, and policy choices play a pivotal role in the variation in gendered labour patterns across countries.
National air and water quality benefit from strong financial, judicial, and labour market institutions, through comparative advantage. Improving national institutions attracts clean industries but reshuffles dirty production to other countries.
Managers in Indian garment factories use informal worker exchanges to mitigate absenteeism. Expanding these collaborations could unlock significant productivity gains.
A documentary film, shown to a majority group, portraying the daily lives, cultural practices, and socioeconomic struggles of a minority group in Bangladesh, increased prosociality and reduced complaints against the minority.
Access to 3G broadband internet in Indonesia reduced COVID-19 cases by approximately 45%, a relatively large impact compared to the effectiveness of other non-pharmaceutical interventions. Areas with higher literacy rates and a greater ability to tel...
New evidence from Morocco reveals that conditional cash transfers can constrain learning when no accompanying measures are taken by governments to account for increased enrolment.
Africa has the highest price of cement of any continent, but both its price and markup have fallen dramatically since 2011. Evidence suggests market size may explain this phenomenon.
