Governments can outsource public services and achieve lower prices, without sacrificing quality, if they can ensure that there is enough competition

Vertically integrating suppliers is a strategy firms use to improve product quality by ensuring higher-quality inputs

While the state benefits more from industrial than artisanal mining, only artisanal mines increase the consumption of local populations

Rising local protectionism reduces interprovincial trade and manufacturing exports, and increases ’inward-looking’ sourcing by local intermediaries

Policymakers in developing countries often clash over the impact of foreign direct investment, but what does the existing literature tell us?

Policy interventions in non-agricultural small-scale enterprises shed light on what matters for firm growth and profitability

Taxes affect which domestic suppliers firms choose to trade with in India, leading to less within-country trade and firm growth

How much do international buyers in the garment industry use their market power to squeeze the mark-ups of Bangladeshi garment suppliers?

Tax policies that reduce firm inaction are more effective at stimulating investment than policies that simply lower the cost of investment