Ecuador

In Ecuador, royalties from oil extraction have increased average educational attainment and generated good jobs in the formal sector, despite reducing incentives to pursue tertiary education.

Newborns with high exposure to pesticides during gestation have lower birth weights and a higher probability of low birth weight and preterm birth

New measures of export and import exposure at the individual level show that international trade increases earnings inequality in Ecuador

Ghost firms help real firms evade significant sums in tax, but the tax authority developed an innovative way to recover the revenue from cheating firms

Value-added tax (VAT) can facilitate tax enforcement by generating paper trails on transactions between firms

Ecuador's efforts to increase corporate tax audits led to a welcome surprise: banks stepped up their lending efforts as confidence in firms rose

Cash transfers are a promising tool to reduce intimate partner violence, but can they be effective across diverse contexts and programme design?

Tax evasion leads to large losses in government revenue. A recent study explores the limitations of a potential solution, third-party reporting