This Week in Development Economics at VoxDev: 17/07/2026
This VoxDev newsletter summarizes multiple research findings in development economics. Key highlights include: a study on worker productivity loss in a Bangladeshi garment factory during unrest, finding each lost friend reduces output by 2-3 days per month; research in Indonesia showing new village leaders reduce nepotism through bureaucratic reshuffling; evidence from Nepal that Maoist-era parallel governance institutions improved political participation for excluded groups; a review of climate change politics in developing countries; analysis of China's 150-year economic development; discussion of AI deployment constraints requiring an 'adaptation layer'; and examination of elite politics trapping Malawian farmers in poverty. The newsletter also covers colonial India's economic ideas and their long-term policy impact.
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