Firms & Trade | VoxDev

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

Published 19.02.20

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

Published 17.02.20

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

Published 06.02.20

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

Published 31.01.20

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

Published 15.01.20

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

Published 13.01.20

In the absence of the threat of state interference, leaders of private trader associations may extort from their own traders

Published 06.01.20

The aggregate annual loss to US consumers from higher import prices as a result of the trade war with China could be as much as $68.8 billion

Published 02.12.19

Evidence from South Africa shows that both marketing and financial entrepreneurship training can help small businesses boost profits

Published 28.10.19