Firms & Trade
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Search and information frictions on global e-commerce platforms: Evidence from AliExpress
Policies to reduce information frictions as well as the number of firms on e-commerce platforms can raise allocative efficiency and consumer welfare
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Training entrepreneurs
This VoxDevLit reviews innovative research out there on training entrepreneurs
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Training Entrepreneurs
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What works in training entrepreneurs?
The first VoxDevLit highlights the role of research in generating innovation in approaches to training entrepreneurs
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Improving management through worker feedback: Auto-manufacturing in China
Letting workers provide feedback on their managers leads to significant reductions in worker turnover and increases in team productivity
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Technology rental and small firm productivity in urban Uganda
Rental markets for large machines between small firms allow them to achieve economies of scale, increasing mechanisation and aggregate productivity
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Data revolution: Transforming Sierra Leone
How a collaboration between the IGC and policymakers in Sierra Leone reduced barriers to trade and helped local businesses export their goods
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Learning management through matching: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia
Evidence from Ethiopia shows that interning in a management role for a month leads to higher wage earnings and can help some people run profitable...
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International friends and enemies
As countries become greater economic friends in terms of the welfare effects of their productivity growth, they become greater political friends in...