VoxDev 239d ago

How can intermediaries improve consumer welfare in developing countries? In this episode of VoxDevTalks, Tim Phillips speaks with Meredith Startz about the complex role of intermediaries—wholesalers, traders, and importers—in moving goods from producers to consumers, especially in low and middle-income countries. Drawing on her research in Nigeria and Uganda, Startz challenges the common policy view that cutting out the ‘middleman’ automatically improves consumer welfare. Read the full show notes here: https://voxdev.org/topic/trade/development-bogeyman-understanding-true-role-middlemen