PEDL | Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries

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PEDL is a joint research initiative of CEPR and FCDO

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PEDL offers a competitive research grants scheme for projects related to the behaviour of firms in low-income countries that aim to better understand what determines the strength of market forces driving efficiency in these countries. Since the launch of the initiative in 2011, PEDL has awarded 225 Exploratory Grants and 43 Major Grants. PEDL-funded projects have produced 72 refereed journal publications, including 15 in the top five journals in economics. We expect the flow of publications to increase as more of the 106 working papers from existing projects make their way through the publication process.

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New VoxDevLit from PEDL's Scientific Coordinator

We are delighted to announce the release of a new VoxDevLit from PEDL Scientific Coordinator, Chris Woodruff, alongside David McKenzie at the World Bank.

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26 Jan 2021

PEDL Newsletter - November 2020

Catch up on the latest PEDL news!

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30 Nov 2020

PEDL 2020 Conference on Firms in Low-income Countries

The PEDL programme is hosting a two-day virtual conference with presentations by rising young scholars on 10-11 December. Register here!

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27 Nov 2020

1st CDC MRG Call on Development Finance, Deadline: 21 December 2020 - CLOSED

The 1st CDC MRG Call on Development Finance under the PEDL initiative is now closed. Proposals submitted by 23:59 GMT on 21 December 2020 will be considered for funding.

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23 Oct 2020

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Latest Research Projects

Effects of Referring Business Partners on Firm Networks and Performance

This project employs a field experiment with 800 firms in China to evaluate the impact of referring business partners on firms in the industry producing the Chinese writing brush.

Research Project

1 Feb 2021

How Do Managers’ Beliefs about New Technologies Evolve? Informational Interventions and the Adoption of Energy-Efficient Stitching Motors in Bangladesh

This project will examine how managers respond to information about new technologies and how successful they are in updating their beliefs.

Research Project

1 Feb 2021

Microfinance, Microentrepreneurship and Misallocation

This project evaluates to what extent heterogeneity in the take-up of microfinance and heterogeneity in its impacts on entrepreneurs explain the impact of microfinance on allocative inefficiency within occupational choice and investments.

Research Project

1 Jan 2021

Market Concentration, Rent Extraction and Minimum Wage in Senegal

This project will build a unique panel dataset of the universe of formal Senegalese firms from 2007 to 2020 before evaluating the impact of the recent increase in the national minimum wage.

Research Project

1 Jan 2021

Terrorism Financing, Recruitment and Attacks: Evidence from Pakistan

This study examines how the timing and location of terrorism financing relates to terrorist attacks and whether there is a link between financing and recruitment in generating attacks.

Research Note

8 Apr 2021

The Short-term Impact of the COVID-19 Shock on Employment in Formal Firms in Kenya

C-19 Note

3 Mar 2021

Development through Integration

What would happen if a poor country were to be integrated with a richer neighbor? Our analysis of the reunification of South and North Korea shows convergence of income between countries but divergence within.

Research Note

2 Mar 2021