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Industrial resilience to climate disasters: Evidence from Ecuador

Evidence from Ecuador suggests that natural disasters have important but short-lived impacts on production and market conditions in developing countries that vary depending on firm differences in efficiency. From a development perspective, frequent s...

Energy & Environment

Maria Bas

Published

26.03.25

mother and child, depicting child-rearing

The challenges of improving parenting practices at scale

Home visitation and group meeting parenting programmes have improved child development in low- and middle-income countries, but are too expensive to be delivered at large scale. Evidence from India shows that a programme using automated phone calls w...

Education

Irma Arteaga Andreas de Barros Alejandro J. Ganimian

Published

25.03.25

Valuation changes, exchange rates & risk sharing in emerging market economies

Valuation changes are crucial for understanding countries’ external positions. We analyse whether emerging market economies benefit from risk-sharing in the international monetary system through the valuation channel.

Macroeconomics & Growth

José De Gregorio Benjamín Peña

Published

24.03.25

The paradox of anticorruption messaging: Evidence from a tax reform in Honduras

How should governments communicate reforms to fight corruption without reinforcing citizens’ negative perceptions? A carefully designed information intervention in Honduras provides a promising approach to update citizen beliefs about corruption in t...

Institutions & Political Economy

Nicolas Ajzenman Martin Ardanaz Guillermo Cruces German Feierherd Ignacio Lunghi

Published

21.03.25

How will AI impact jobs in emerging and developing economies?

Artificial Intelligence, particularly Generative AI, is rapidly transforming labour markets worldwide. While its adoption has sparked optimism about its potential to spur productivity gains, it also raises concerns of widespread job displacement. The...

Labour Markets

Marina M. Tavares Augustus J. Panton Carlo Pizzinelli Mauro Cazzaniga Longji Li

Published

20.03.25

High-speed rail and China's electric vehicle adoption miracle

Improved transport infrastructure can accelerate the transition to electric cars by alleviating range anxiety. Evidence from China suggests that the expansion of high-speed rail connectivity accounted for up to one-third of the increase in electric v...

Infrastructure

Hanming Fang Ming Li Long Wang Zoe Yang

Published

20.03.25

Low-cost housing for Africa’s cities

Evidence from a large-scale housing lottery programme in Ethiopia shows that government housing that people want, and thrive in, can work in settings with highly constrained housing supply and when programmes are designed well.

Migration & Urbanisation

Simon Franklin

Published

19.03.25

How agricultural innovation affected female labour force participation in Brazil

New technologies in Brazil increased agricultural productivity, but also reduced economic opportunities for women and increased fertility rates.

Agriculture

Vivek Moorthy

Published

18.03.25

US-China trade war: Who pays the price?

Although US tariffs on Chinese exports were intended to support domestic industries, evidence suggests that the tariff burden may have fallen largely on US consumers, as opposed to Chinese exporters. Chinese exporters also experienced a decline in de...

Macroeconomics & Growth

Yang Jiao Zhikuo Liu Zhiwei Tian Xiaxin Wang

Published

18.03.25