Firms & Trade
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Lowering barriers to trade: Impact on Vietnam
Cuts in tariffs on Vietnamese imports led to a reallocation of workers from the informal to the formal sector and increased labour productivity
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The changing economy: Going factory-free
The developed world is deindustrialising. What does this mean and how has globalisation impacted this process?
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What is holding firms back?
Chris Woodruff explains why improving management practices is critical for the growth of the private sector in developing countries.
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The Alibaba effect: Spatial inequality and the welfare gains from e-commerce
E-commerce disproportionately benefits consumers in small and remote places, helping to reduce disparities in living standards across locations
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If she builds it, they won’t come: The gender profit gap
Lack of demand for goods produced by female-owned firms, and not differences in prices or input costs, causes the gender profit gap.
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Does Fair Trade work?
Fair Trade coffee produced in Costa Rica benefits the producers and skilled workers, but not the unskilled workers
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The effects of pay inequality
Pay inequality affects attendance, productivity and the social fabric of manufacturing workers in India, thus revealing impacts on firm productivity.
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Upgrading outputs means upgrading inputs
Success when exporting to richer countries requires upgrading the quality of products, but also of inputs
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Grease in the Wheel: Corruption and firms
Emanuele Colonnelli investigates how randomised audits on government procurement contracts in Brazil affect the real economy and firm behaviour.