Trade-induced competition on final goods drove firms in the Peruvian apparel industry to upgrade the quality of their products and export more

Selectively supporting transformative firms is a viable strategy to promote growth where there is less creative destruction

Opening to trade can substantially increase local labour market concentration, but whether local firms exploit this to underpay workers depends on...

The nonrandom assignment of import declarations to inspectors is associated with corruption and lost tax revenues, but interventions to combat this...

In theory, responsible sourcing has ambiguous effects on workers; empirically, exposed workers benefit but with adverse knock-on effects

Poorer business owners settle for lower prices when bargaining with buyers

Upgrading within firms in developing countries is driven by increased know-how and certain buyer types