Sub-Saharan Africa is the region where firms face the greatest hurdles when it comes to cross-border trading. This … paper examines how these firms, relative to their counterparts in the developing world, would respond to changes in the … infrastructure contributes to increasing the probability of firms' entry into exporting and importing, as well as to the extent of …

How can policymakers promote women-led exporting firms? In this paper, we study the role of online business platforms … important role in making trade more gender equal. To assess this hypothesis, we combine information on firms' participation in … women entrepreneurs than for men-managed firms in otherwise identical products and destinations. Given existing evidence on …