Small loans can help people establish and expand their small businesses. A field study in Ghana has now revealed that men ask for and receive more money from microcredit companies than women. However, if women are better informed, they are more likely to apply for higher amounts.

The Swiss Federal Council and Parliament want to fund aid to Ukraine directly from the development cooperation budget. This would have devastating consequences on the world's poorest countries, explains UBS Foundation Professor Dina Pomeranz in a NZZ guest commentary.

Lorenzo Casaburi is joining the UBS Center as UBS Foundation Associate Professor of Development Economics. Professor Casaburi studies economic development in sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on agricultural markets. His research combines extensive fieldwork, rigorous identification methods, and insights from behavioral economics, industrial organization, and contract theory. In this interview, he talks about his passion for his work and about the challenges and opportunities of conducting research in sub-Saharan Africa.