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Enhancing the benefits of formalisation under a new status in Benin

Providing information and assistance to informal firms increases formalisation, but the cost of the intervention is likely prohibitively high

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Najy Benhassine David McKenzie Victor Pouliquen Massimiliano Santini

Published

12.09.17

Generating SMEs through a business plan competition in Nigeria

An experiment in Nigeria suggests that business plan competitions can effectively identify entrepreneurs capable of utilising capital to spur growth

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David McKenzie

Published

07.08.17

Interfirm relationships and business performance in China

Regular meetings between the managers of young firms in Nanchang, China increased revenue and improved a broad range of performance measures

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Jing Cai Adam Szeidl

Published

02.08.17

The economic and the social: Anatomy of a contract change in India

Productivity rose among tea pluckers when their base wages increased, despite a fall in monetary incentives, but this response vanishes within months

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Rajshri Jayaraman Debraj Ray

Published

26.07.17

Middleman margins and market structure in West Bengal potato supply chains

Powerful middlemen in India enjoy large margins, but price gains do not pass through to farmers

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Sandip Mitra Dilip Mookherjee Máximo Torero Sujata Visaria

Published

21.08.17

Post-Brexit trade and development policy

Regardless of what one may think of the decision, the British people have voted to leave the EU – a result that throws up historic challenges as well as historic opportunities. This column introduces CEPR's latest Policy Insight, which suggests that ...

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Richard Baldwin Paul Collier Anthony Venables

Published

29.03.17

Bad practices hold back small firms in developing countries

Survey of more than 20,000 small firms suggests better business practices are correlated with higher productivity, firm profits, and rates of survival

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David McKenzie Christopher Woodruff

Published

21.06.17

The rise of China and the future of US manufacturing

Analysis suggests the impact of China’s rise on US manufacturing has been strong, and employment in the sector is unlikely to recover

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Daron Acemoğlu David Autor David Dorn Gordon Hanson Brendan Price

Published

28.09.14

Economic consequences of Brexit

The economic consequences of leaving the EU are at the heart of the Brexit debate. This column studies how changes in trade and fiscal transfers to the EU following Brexit would affect living standards in the UK. Across a range of scenarios, Brexit l...

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Swati Dhingra Hanwei Huang Gianmarco Ottaviano Thomas Sampson John Van Reenen

Published

24.05.17