A New CEPR / DFID Research Initiative
1st Call for Major Grants Now Closed (Closed: 16 April 2012, 17.00 BST)
3rd Call for Exploratory Grants Now Open (Closes: 31st May 2012, 17.00 BST)
Understanding the conditions that drive enterprise, efficiency and growth
in low-income countries
Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries (PEDL) is a joint research initiative of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the Department For International Development (DFID). It aims to develop a research programme focusing on private-sector development in low-income countries.
The initiative will extend over five years and is motivated by the need to better understand what determines the strength of market forces driving efficiency in low-income countries.
PEDL offers a competitive research grants scheme: a mixture of major research grants and smaller, exploratory grants. Grants will be awarded on a competitive basis, with applications solicited from researchers and institutions throughout the world.
The initiative will pursue a range of approaches that promise to produce credible research results that will be useful for policy-making, supporting research related to private enterprises of all sizes. It will initially focus on four themes:
- Modelling market frictions in LICs using newly available data
- Understanding how constraints interact using micro-founded macro models
- The dynamics of SMEs: Informality and entrepreneurship
- The role of export-oriented industries in driving growth
PEDL will give particular encouragement to proposals that address cross-cutting issues such as:
Starting in 2012 PEDL will undertake a range of other activities aimed at building a research community in private enterprise development in low-income countries, such as research workshops, training workshops, open events, a working paper series and a dedicated policy website.
Read the PEDL Project Overview document [PDF 124kb]