Chris Woodruff explains why improving management practices is critical for the growth of the private sector in developing countries.

E-commerce disproportionately benefits consumers in small and remote places, helping to reduce disparities in living standards across locations

Lack of demand for goods produced by female-owned firms, and not differences in prices or input costs, causes the gender profit gap.

Fair Trade coffee produced in Costa Rica benefits the producers and skilled workers, but not the unskilled workers

Pay inequality affects attendance, productivity and the social fabric of manufacturing workers in India, thus revealing impacts on firm productivity.

Success when exporting to richer countries requires upgrading the quality of products, but also of inputs

Emanuele Colonnelli investigates how randomised audits on government procurement contracts in Brazil affect the real economy and firm behaviour.

Tourism leads to long-run economic gains locally and in the aggregate. The local gains are in part driven by positive spillovers on manufacturing.

A 15-year survey of 12,000 firms across 34 countries shows that management practices explain a large share of productivity gaps