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Expanding credit access for women entrepreneurs

Interventions that reduce bias in loan approvals, promote asset-based financing and enhance women's control over income and assets can effectively expand credit access for women.

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Daniela Graney Lauren Perlik

Published

22.11.24

Unlocking the economic potential of female entrepreneurship

Closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship is not just a social equity issue—it is a powerful lever for economic growth. Evidence from India shows that women hire more women, and so efforts to boost female entrepreneurship will increase female labour...

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Gaurav Chiplunkar Pinelopi Goldberg

Published

21.11.24

How managers in Indian factories mitigate the impacts of absenteeism

Managers in Indian garment factories use informal worker exchanges to mitigate absenteeism. Expanding these collaborations could unlock significant productivity gains.

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Achyuta Adhvaryu Sofía Calderón Anant Nyshadham Jean-François Gauthier Jorge Tamayo

Published

12.11.24

The impacts of noisy workplaces on productivity

Loud workplaces can cause hearing loss, but can they also hurt workers’ productivity and performance?

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Joshua T. Dean

Published

17.10.24

How connecting firms to markets can promote economic development

Market access can improve firms’ performance. More research is needed to understand which type of market access programmes are the best at generating firm growth.

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David Atkin

Published

09.10.24

Road infrastructure boosts competition which affects formal and informal sector firms differently

Greater competition from improved roads that connected markets in Ethiopia increased the divide between firms in the formal and informal sectors.

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Elena Perra Marco Sanfilippo Asha Sundaram

Published

04.10.24

Small plant with shadow of a big tree, representing the article topic of industrial policy for small business

Industrial policy for micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises

To promote economic growth and inclusion, the tools of industrial policy must be oriented towards micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises by targeting firms with high-productivity potential and addressing their growth constraints.

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Dani Rodrik Rohan Sandhu

Published

02.08.24

Implementing industrial policy effectively: Lessons from shipbuilding in China

Industrial policy in China aimed to make the country’s shipbuilding industry a world leader. Comprehensive data on shipyards worldwide reveals the huge scale of this policy, which boosted China's domestic investment, entry, and world market share dra...

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Panle Jia Barwick Myrto Kalouptsidi Nahim Bin Zahur

Published

28.05.24

Comparing approaches to breaking the poverty trap by promoting entrepreneurship

Cash grants and a multifaceted entrepreneurship programme both had temporary impacts on young women’s income in Nairobi, Kenya, but only the more holistic approach led to long-term improvements in wellbeing

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Andrew Brudevold-Newman Maddalena Honorati Gerald Ipapa Pamela Jakiela Owen Ozier

Published

09.05.24