When people in developing countries believe their tax systems are fair and progressive, they are more willing to pay taxes. Read today's article to learn more:

🆕 Understanding mobile phone and internet use across the world In this VoxDev blog, Seth Garz (Gates Foundation) & Leora Klapper (World Bank) discuss rapidly expanding mobile phone and internet access in developing economies: https://ow.ly/9aGg50XohzJ

🆕 How progressive taxation affects tax compliance in developing countries Today on VoxDev, Christopher Hoy (University of Melbourne) explains how when people believe their tax systems are fair and progressive, they are more willing to pay taxes: https://ow.ly/X8Ss50XoeFT

This week we featured research on taxes, workers, migration, entrepreneurs and more! Read a summary of this work here: https://voxdev.org/topic/week-development-economics-voxdev-07112025

🆕 Understanding mobile phone and internet use across the world In this VoxDev blog, Seth Garz (Gates Foundation) & Leora Klapper (World Bank) discuss rapidly expanding mobile phone and internet access in developing economies: https://ow.ly/9aGg50XohzJ

🆕 How progressive taxation affects tax compliance in developing countries Today on VoxDev, Christopher Hoy (University of Melbourne) explains how when people believe their tax systems are fair and progressive, they are more willing to pay taxes: https://ow.ly/X8Ss50XoeFT

Short-term foreign currency borrowing is largely used for carry trade-like activities rather than financing productive investment, underscoring the need to focus on debt maturity and firm heterogeneity when designing policies to manage financial risk. Read today's article to learn more:

In India, expanding deposit insurance coverage improved depositor welfare by reducing risk and encouraging a shift towards safer assets. Read today's article to learn more:

🆕 When firms act like banks: Carry trades and currency risk management in emerging markets Today on VoxDev w/ Annie Soyean Lee (@johnshopkinssais.bsky.social) & Steve Pak Yeung Wu (@ucsandiego.bsky.social): voxdev.org/topic/financ...

🆕 How expanding deposit insurance changed investor behaviour in India Today on VoxDev w/ Pulak Ghosh (Indian Institute of Management), Nicola Limodio (Bocconi University) & Nishant Vats (Washington University): https://ow.ly/vxWl50XnCcz

🆕 When firms act like banks: Carry trades and currency risk management in emerging markets Today on VoxDev w/ Annie Soyean Lee (@johnshopkinssais.bsky.social) & Steve Pak Yeung Wu (@ucsandiego.bsky.social): voxdev.org/topic/financ...

🆕 How expanding deposit insurance changed investor behaviour in India Today on VoxDev w/ Pulak Ghosh (Indian Institute of Management), Nicola Limodio (Bocconi University) & Nishant Vats (Washington University): https://ow.ly/vxWl50XnCcz

What have we learned about training entrepreneurs? Issue 4 of our VoxDevLit on Training Entrepreneurs by @dmckenzie.bsky.social, Christopher Woodruff & Co-Editors is out now!➡️ voxdev.org/voxdevlit/tr... Today's podcast covers the update➡️ voxdev.org/topic/firms/...

Issue 4 (4!) of our VoxDevLit on Training Entrepreneurs is out now. This update includes interesting new evidence on longer-term impacts and the use of generative AI in training. Everything you need to know on this topic will always be at this link and up to date ⤵️

What have we learned about training entrepreneurs? Issue 4 of our VoxDevLit on Training Entrepreneurs by @dmckenzie.bsky.social, Christopher Woodruff & Co-Editors is out now!➡️ voxdev.org/voxdevlit/tr... Today's podcast covers the update➡️ voxdev.org/topic/firms/...

Workers at exporting firms experience more rapid skill and productivity growth, especially when firms export to high-income destinations, thereby amplifying the overall gains from trade. Read today's article to learn more:

Evidence from Brazil suggests that the crop-specific knowledge of domestic migrant farmers, during a period of large-scale migration, was a key driver of the recent transformation of the country’s export patterns. Read today's article to learn more:

🆕 Migration, knowledge, and comparative advantage: How Brazil’s March to the West transformed long-term trade patterns Today on VoxDev w/ Heitor Pellegrina (Notre Dame Economics) & Sebastian Sotelo (University of Michigan): https://ow.ly/71hf50Xmlun

🆕 Why workers at exporting firms learn and earn more Today on VoxDev, Xiao Ma (Peking University), Marc Muendler (UC San Diego) & Alejandro Nakab (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) outline research on Brazil: https://voxdev.org/topic/trade/why-workers-exporting-firms-learn-and-earn-more

New @voxdev.bsky.social article from our colleague Heitor Pellegrina (along with Sebastian Sotelo). “Migration, knowledge, and comparative advantage: How Brazil’s March to the West Transformed Long-Term Trade Patterns.” Check it out: voxdev.org/topic/migrat...

India’s economic development since independence 📢 In a recent episode of VoxDevTalks, Devesh Kapur (Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies) & Arvind Subramanian (Peterson Institute for International Economics) discussed India’s 75 years of development: https://ow.ly/jA3950XkNCn

🆕 Migration, knowledge, and comparative advantage: How Brazil’s March to the West transformed long-term trade patterns Today on VoxDev w/ Heitor Pellegrina (Notre Dame Economics) & Sebastian Sotelo (University of Michigan): https://ow.ly/71hf50Xmlun

🆕 Why workers at exporting firms learn and earn more Today on VoxDev, Xiao Ma (Peking University), Marc Muendler (UC San Diego) & Alejandro Nakab (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) outline research on Brazil: https://voxdev.org/topic/trade/why-workers-exporting-firms-learn-and-earn-more

A national extension programme in Uganda raised farmers’ expectations and adoption of oilseed crops – revealing how beliefs, not just knowledge, drive agricultural transformation. Read today's article to learn more:

🆕 How information shapes farmers’ expectations and adoption in Uganda Today on VoxDev, Jacopo Bonan (Milan), Harounan Kazianga (Oklahoma State) & Mariapia Mendola (Milano-Bicocca) discuss a national extension programme in Uganda: https://ow.ly/9ZwG50XlBQg

🆕 How information shapes farmers’ expectations and adoption in Uganda Today on VoxDev, Jacopo Bonan (Milan), Harounan Kazianga (Oklahoma State) & Mariapia Mendola (Milano-Bicocca) discuss a national extension programme in Uganda: https://ow.ly/9ZwG50XlBQg

In Burkina Faso, input diversion from cotton to maize is widespread but ultimately lowers maize productivity, highlighting the need for broader input credit access and better resource allocation policies. Read today's article to learn more:

This week we featured research on poverty, discrimination, industrial cities and more! Read a summary of this work here: https://voxdev.org/topic/week-development-economics-voxdev-31102025

🆕 Why diverting cotton inputs hurts maize productivity in Burkina Faso Today on VoxDev, Salimata Traoré (Université Thomas Sankara) addresses the need for better input access and resource allocation: https://ow.ly/wnOf50XkN6z

🆕 Why diverting cotton inputs hurts maize productivity in Burkina Faso Today on VoxDev, Salimata Traoré (Université Thomas Sankara) addresses the need for better input access and resource allocation: https://ow.ly/wnOf50XkN6z

Over a thousand years, China’s political hierarchy reshaped regional prosperity – provincial capitals flourished through bureaucracy and market access, but these benefits faded once they lost administrative status. Read today's article to learn more:

In Ghana, a simple, low-cost intervention – helping informal workers set daily goals – significantly improved workers’ and firms’ performance, suggesting that non-binding incentives may be an effective means to foster the growth of small firms in developing contexts.

🆕 How political hierarchy shaped a millennium of development in China Today on VoxDev, Ying Bai (CUHK) & Ruixue Jia (UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy) discuss how political hierarchy reshaped regional prosperity in China: https://ow.ly/5pS950XkfAa

🆕 How goal setting improves worker performance in small firms: Evidence from cassava processors in Ghana Today on VoxDev w/ Elena Cettolin (Tilburg University), Kym Cole (BRAC Institute of Governance and Development - BIGD) & Patricio Dalton (Tilburg University): https://ow.ly/2rCy50XkcJU

Always fun to work with Cesi Cruz and @drernestocast.bsky.social!

🆕 How political hierarchy shaped a millennium of development in China Today on VoxDev, Ying Bai (CUHK) & Ruixue Jia (UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy) discuss how political hierarchy reshaped regional prosperity in China: https://ow.ly/5pS950XkfAa

🆕 How goal setting improves worker performance in small firms: Evidence from cassava processors in Ghana Today on VoxDev w/ Elena Cettolin (Tilburg University), Kym Cole (BRAC Institute of Governance and Development - BIGD) & Patricio Dalton (Tilburg University): https://ow.ly/2rCy50XkcJU

Group coaching in multi-faceted poverty alleviation programmes delivers the same results as individual coaching – at much lower cost. Article by the CSAE's @gamblingondev.bsky.social, @roccozizzamia.bsky.social & Ashley Pople @odid-qeh.bsky.social (@ebeam.bsky.social @christopher-udry.bsky.social)

The land prices of the former outcaste neighbourhoods in Japan remain substantially lower, suggesting persistent stigma despite the legal abolition of discrimination more than a century ago. Read today's article to learn more:

🆕 The hidden cost of discrimination: Why land in Japan’s former outcaste neighbourhoods still costs less 150 years later Today on VoxDev w/ Atsushi Yamagishi (Hitotsubashi University) & Yasuhiro Sato (University of Tokyo): https://ow.ly/mRr450XjBln

🆕 How religion shapes economic development 📢 Today on VoxDevTalks, @saralowes.bsky.social (UC San Diego), @eduardomontero.bsky.social (Harris School of Public Policy) & Benjamin Marx (Boston University) discuss how religion and economic development interact: voxdev.org/topic/instit...

🆕 The hidden cost of discrimination: Why land in Japan’s former outcaste neighbourhoods still costs less 150 years later Today on VoxDev w/ Atsushi Yamagishi (Hitotsubashi University) & Yasuhiro Sato (University of Tokyo): https://ow.ly/mRr450XjBln

Perfect timing! Our VoxDevTalk on religion and economic development with @saralowes.bsky.social, @eduardomontero.bsky.social & Benjamin Marx also came out TODAY! www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Oy...

🆕 How religion shapes economic development 📢 Today on VoxDevTalks, @saralowes.bsky.social (UC San Diego), @eduardomontero.bsky.social (Harris School of Public Policy) & Benjamin Marx (Boston University) discuss how religion and economic development interact: voxdev.org/topic/instit...

Thanks for highlighting our work on the promise of group coaching programs! Lower cost + similar effects = easier scaling! www.nber.org/papers/w34309 @roccozizzamia.bsky.social @deankarlan.bsky.social @lassebrune.bsky.social

Group coaching in multi-faceted poverty alleviation programmes delivers the same results as individual coaching – at much lower cost. Read today's article to learn more:

👀 Out now in @voxdev.bsky.social! VoxDev senior eds. Cesi Cruz, @hlarreguy.bsky.social and @ernestotiburcio.bsky.social share a lit review on the causes and consequences of polarization. Read & download here: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/po...

Industrial clusters can fuel economic booms today, but can also trap cities into tomorrow's decline. Evidence from two centuries of British cities reveals the lasting costs of specialisation. Read today's article to learn more:

📢 Our new VoxDevLit on Political Polarisation is out now! Senior Editors Cesi Cruz (University of Michigan) & Horacio Larreguy (ITAM) review research on the causes and consequences of polarisation. Read & download here: https://voxdev.org/voxdevlit/political-polarisation

🆕 How group coaching makes graduation programmes more cost-effective Emily Beam, Lasse Brune, Stefan Dercon, Dean Karlan, Ashley Pople, Christopher Udry & Rocco Zizzamia https://voxdev.org/topic/social-protection/scaling-poverty-alleviation-how-group-coaching-makes-graduation-programmes