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In modern economies, production is organized in large-scale complex networks of firms trading intermediate inputs with each other. Larger Indian firms selling inputs to other firms tend to have more customers, tend to be used more intensively by their custom

This project highlights how improving managerial practices may foster the development of the private sector and how the economic environment may create incentives for better management among small and medium-sized enterprises in low-income countries.

Moser and Engbom (2021) show that a rise in the minimum wage accounts for a large decline in earnings inequality in Brazil since 1994. To this end, they combine rich administrative and survey data with an equilibrium model of the Brazilian labour market.

In this pilot project, we demonstrate the exciting potential of online freelancing for improving the incomes of poor youth in rural Bangladesh.