Management matters. But only when the market rewards it.
In Mexico, better management improves firm efficiency, but a range of factors limit well-managed firms from expanding and gaining market share – reducing firms’ incentives to upgrade their practices.
How to solve the global reading crisis
Millions of children in low- and middle-income countries attend school without learning to read, with ineffective teaching methods driving a global learning crisis. New global evidence demonstrates that structured, low-cost, and evidence-based readin...
Ideas in Development: VoxDev’s New Podcast
VoxDev is launching a second podcast. Here's why, and what we have planned.
Should roads and electricity infrastructure be built together?
In rural India, roads and electricity complement each other, with their joint provision delivering far greater gains in dry-season agricultural productivity, assets, and consumption than either investment alone.