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A half-day career guidance workshop, built around a personalised app, raised high school enrolment and completion in rural Cambodia. Gains lasted more than three years after the intervention.

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This week we featured research on supply chains, economic inclusion, manufacturing and more!

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In Uganda, a disability-inclusive anti-poverty programme helped people with disabilities move from insecure casual work into farming, but it did not reduce prejudice against them, and on one measure prejudice rose.

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Many of today’s fastest-growing developing economies, from India to Kenya, have bypassed industrialisation, with workers moving straight from farms into non-tradable consumer services. New structural estimates suggest that productivity growth in these services has genuinely driven rising incomes, but because the services are local and consumed mostly by the rich, the benefits go...

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Supply chains built on complex inputs and large, well-connected suppliers held up through India's 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns. Firms buying easily replaced inputs were far quicker to cut supplier links.

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