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 on Microfinance

VoxDev has released a new VoxDevLit on Microfinance from Jing Cai, Muhammad Meki and Simon Quinn.

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13 May 2021

New VoxDevLit on Training Entrepreneurs 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

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Latest Research Projects

Empowering the measurement of economic growth on the ground: Exploring energy use and enterprise behaviours in Dhaka

This project will construct a database of the energy use of manufacturing enterprises in Dhaka to identify firm growth and economic outcomes over time and space.

Research Project

29 Jun 2021

The Effect of Warehouse Receipt Finance on Terms of Trade for Farmers

This project will examine the effect of warehouse receipt financing on terms of trade for farmers in India.

Research Project

29 Jun 2021

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

The Economic Effects of COVID-19 on Ready-made Garment Factories in Bangladesh

C-19 Note

23 Jul 2021

How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Rwandan Businesses: Findings from Phone Surveys

C-19 Note

20 Jul 2021

TFP Estimation at the Firm Level: Do Fiscal Pressure, the Legal Form, and the Local Competition Matter for Firm Performance in Senegal

This paper reviews the state of the art in firm-level Total Factor Productivity (TFP) estimation by employing an unbalanced panel of 4,501 Senegalese firms in the Construction and Trade Services industries over the period 2008–2018.

Working Paper

7 Jul 2021

Dispute Resolution and Microenterprise Ownership in a 'Fragile' State: Evidence from Somalia

Can informal institutions facilitate enterprise growth through resolving business disputes in the contexts where formal mechanisms are near-complete failure?

Research Note

30 Jun 2021