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Training Entrepreneurs

Aid agencies and governments spend more than a billion US$ on entrepreneurship training annually. What have we learned about the effectiveness of training? We review research on entrepreneurship training.

VoxDevLit
26 Sep 2023

Climate Adaptation

This review summarises economic research on weather and climate adaptation in developing countries. First, it documents the effects of climate change and extreme events on economic outcomes.

VoxDevLit
28 Jun 2023

Microfinance

Microfinance has become a widely used tool to provide credit to areas and populations that traditionally lack access to conventional banking services.

VoxDevLit
2 Mar 2023

Mobile Money

With increasing access to mobile phones across the world, mobile money services have been growing in popularity, enabling users to deposit, transfer, and withdraw funds from a digital account without owning a bank account.

VoxDevLit
9 Feb 2023

Informality

Most low- and middle-income countries are characterised by a large informal sector, which implies that a substantial fraction of economic activity in these countries is completely unregulated.

VoxDevLit
11 Jan 2023

International Trade

Over the last four decades, many developing countries initiated reforms that have lowered barriers to trade.

VoxDevLit
27 Oct 2022

The Economic Impact of Internet Connectivity in Developing Countries

Firms, workers, and consumers in developing countries are increasingly connected to each other and the rest of the world through the internet. Can this connectivity transform poor economies, as techno-optimists hope, or are there more deeply rooted barriers to economic development?

Synthesis Paper
19 Aug 2021

Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries

In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be adopted, a process often referred to as industrial upgrading.

Synthesis Paper
10 Mar 2020

Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries

This paper reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship (“microentrepreneurship”) in low-income countries.

Synthesis Paper
11 Feb 2020

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