New evidence from Chile finds that in-situ slum upgrading – combining physical infrastructure improvements with the formalisation of land tenure within the slum – delivers larger gains in local economic development, both within treated slums and in s...

Discrimination in consumer lending seems to come largely from biased male officers; combatting it may require cultural changes at the institutional level

Evidence from Latin America suggests that solely encouraging unattainable aspirations among poor households does not improve their welfare