rural development

The economic benefits of expanding electricity access likely do not outweigh the costs in small rural villages, but likely do in larger communities.

Agricultural markets in developing countries might be insufficiently competitive. A case study of cigarette manufacturer reforms in China casts new light on the adverse consequences of imperfect competition on rural poverty and economic growth.

Despite evidence of increasing household wages, anti-poverty schemes in India can have an adverse effect by lowering human capital investment

A programme introducing e-commerce into Chinese villages led to sizable gains among certain, but not all, rural households