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Breaking the silence: How can social networks become better safety nets?

Correcting inaccurate beliefs about peers can strengthen social networks, encourage people to talk about their financial and mental health concerns, and improve socioeconomic outcomes in settings where individuals lack support from formal institution...

Social Protection

Ronak Jain Vatsal Khandelwal

Published

30.05.24

Implementing industrial policy effectively: Lessons from shipbuilding in China

Industrial policy in China aimed to make the country’s shipbuilding industry a world leader. Comprehensive data on shipyards worldwide reveals the huge scale of this policy, which boosted China's domestic investment, entry, and world market share dra...

Firms

Panle Jia Barwick Myrto Kalouptsidi Nahim Bin Zahur

Published

28.05.24

Determinants and impact of cross-border patents: Evidence from a new dataset

Lower-income countries have benefitted more from the increase in technology transfers due to globalisation

Technology & Innovation

Jesse LaBelle Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso Ana Santacreu Yoto Yotov

Published

20.05.24

Tertiarisation like China

China is currently undergoing a rapid process of tertiarisation. This structural change since 2005 has seen productivity increase faster in services than in the manufacturing sector, with both consumer and producer services exhibiting high productivi...

Macroeconomics & Growth

Fabrizio Zilibotti Pei Guangyu Zheng (Michael) Song Xilu Chen

Published

12.04.24

Improving land security enabled structural transformation in China

Insecure land property rights are an important constraint on migration, structural transformation, and productivity growth, as much as all other labour mobility barriers in China

Migration & Urbanisation

Tasso Adamopoulos Loren Brandt Chaoran Chen Diego Restuccia Xiaoyun Wei

Published

21.03.24

How are manufacturing firms organised in Uganda?

Even large manufacturing firms in Uganda resemble groups of self-employed workers, which limits the gains to scaling these firms

Firms

Vittorio Bassi Jung Hyuk Lee Alessandra Peter Tommaso Porzio Ritwika Sen Esau Tugume

Published

19.03.24

The reversal of the gender education gap with economic development: A cross-country analysis

There is a strong negative relationship between income and gender education gaps, a phenomenon that persists despite widely varying gender norms across countries

Education

Ying Feng Jie Ren Michelle Rendall

Published

01.03.24

Fighting urban poverty: Public works increase the welfare of the poor in Addis Ababa by 20%

A public works programme in Ethiopia improves welfare for the urban poor both directly for participants and indirectly through increasing private sector wages and improving amenities

Social Protection

Simon Franklin Clément Imbert Girum Abebe Carolina Mejia-Mantilla

Published

16.01.24

How the wage-setting power of firms shapes Peru’s economy

Labour market power hinders development by suppressing wage employment and also fostering a dependence on self-employment that undermines the effectiveness of policies aiming to boost wages and wage employment

Firms

Francesco Amodio Pamela Medina Monica Morlacco

Published

02.01.24