Costa Rica has become a world leader in attracting FDI. We talked with the former Minister of Foreign Trade to find out how.

Economic growth is vital, but how does it actually happen? In this episode, we discuss the importance of growth, get into the nitty gritty of growth policy, and preview our series on growth policy.

This week we featured research on trapped workers, better managers, building roads and more!

VoxDev is launching a second podcast. Here's why, and what we have planned.

What important questions need more economic research? Our library of 20 VoxDevLits, alongside summarising the evidence we do have, identifies important policy-relevant questions for which more evidence is needed.

The VoxDev team reflects on 2025 at VoxDev, and previews our plans for 2026.

This week we featured research on Indian farms, Chinese universities, Brazilian inequality and more!

This week we featured research on climate-conflict poverty traps, transport infrastructure and more!

Research on VoxDev in 2025 has shed light on getting stuff done, paying for it, the changing development landscape, and a whole lot more.