investment

Short-term foreign currency borrowing is largely used for carry trade-like activities rather than financing productive investment, underscoring the need to focus on debt maturity and firm heterogeneity when designing policies to manage financial risk...

Cross-country measures of investment networks reveal how the structure of capital flows across sectors shifts systematically with development. This accounts for around one-third of global income disparities, with the payoff of policies shifting secto...

Industrial policy in China aimed to make the country’s shipbuilding industry a world leader. Comprehensive data on shipyards worldwide reveals the huge scale of this policy, which boosted China's domestic investment, entry, and world market share dra...

High-speed internet connectivity in Africa increased FDI into the services sector with the technology, finance, retail and health service subsectors the main beneficiaries

Grants and finance can alleviate poverty traps associated with lumpy investments, but the impact on development depends on the supply of investment goods

Improving access to saving tools helps urban Malawian microentrepreneurs save and adjust labour supply decisions

The introduction of mobile money promoted migration out of rural areas by easing long-distance transfers and increasing resilience

Corporate taxation is at the heart of economic development, and cardiac failure looms if international tax reform is not made globally inclusive

Tax policies that reduce firm inaction are more effective at stimulating investment than policies that simply lower the cost of investment