Firms

Interventions that reduce bias in loan approvals, promote asset-based financing and enhance women's control over income and assets can effectively expand credit access for women.

Closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship is not just a social equity issue—it is a powerful lever for economic growth. Evidence from India shows that women hire more women, and so efforts to boost female entrepreneurship will increase female labour...

Managers in Indian garment factories use informal worker exchanges to mitigate absenteeism. Expanding these collaborations could unlock significant productivity gains.

Loud workplaces can cause hearing loss, but can they also hurt workers’ productivity and performance?

Market access can improve firms’ performance. More research is needed to understand which type of market access programmes are the best at generating firm growth.

Greater competition from improved roads that connected markets in Ethiopia increased the divide between firms in the formal and informal sectors.

To promote economic growth and inclusion, the tools of industrial policy must be oriented towards micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises by targeting firms with high-productivity potential and addressing their growth constraints.