Jitendra Bajpai of Columbia University outlines the three major accessibility problems facing cities in developing countries and policy ideas for how to overcome them.

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

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

Lorenzo Casaburi on how timing is crucial for increasing crop insurance adoption among smallholder farmers. Pay-at-harvest premiums could be a solution.

Informal taxation is common in developing countries. Ben Olken presents facts on this new system based on 10 surveys around the world.

Sebastian Galiani on the impact Argentina’s land title policy had on credit access, housing quality, family welfare and economic ideology.

Summary video of Ben Olken discussing the effectiveness of and trade-offs between different methods of targeting development assistance.

How does the entry of foreign retailers into domestic markets affect welfare? Dave Atkin discusses evidence from Mexico.