Do robots threaten North-South trade and welfare? Robotisation can catalyse trade and improve welfare, but policies are required to ensure automation-induced growth is inclusive Technology & Innovation Erhan Artuc Paulo Bastos Bob Rijkers Published 26.04.19
How to cut corruption in India in one simple move A local government information technology reform, designed to monitor and disperse money to beneficiaries, managed to indirectly reduce corruption Technology & Innovation Clément Imbert Published 02.12.18
The many dimensions of mobile money: Evidence from Bangladesh Mobile money makes transfers easier, increases rural consumption and reduces poverty, but places pressure on migrant workers to increase remittances Technology & Innovation Jean Lee Jonathan Morduch Saravana Ravindran Abu S. Shonchoy Hassan Zaman Published 21.09.18
Paving a path to financial well-being Tavneet Suri talks about financial well-being as a catalyst for development in sub-Saharan Africa Technology & Innovation Tavneet Suri Published 22.08.18
Evidence to practice: Responding to crises Arif Husain, Chief Economist at World Food Programme, on using the best and latest technology to gather evidence to respond to humanitarian crises.* Technology & Innovation Arif Husain Published 03.06.18
Evidence to practice: Meet our new audio section Voxdev has grown! Please meet our new collection of audio content Technology & Innovation Published 25.06.18
E-commerce integration and economic development: Evidence from China A programme introducing e-commerce into Chinese villages led to sizable gains among certain, but not all, rural households Technology & Innovation Victor Couture Benjamin Faber Yizhen Gu Lizhi Liu Published 04.06.18
New technology and job destruction: When does social unrest become inevitable? If technology-induced job losses are rapid, and affect a large part of the workforce, the risk of unrest can quickly become serious Technology & Innovation Bruno Caprettini Hans-Joachim Voth Published 18.05.18
Incentivising technology adoption in Pakistani firms For technology adoption to be successful, employees need to expect to share in the gains Technology & Innovation David Atkin Azam Chaudhry Amit Khandelwal Eric Verhoogen Published 06.11.17