8th Regular MRG Call, Deadline: 15 November 2020 - CLOSED
The 8th Regular MRG call under the PEDL initiative is now closed.
Proposals submitted by 23:59 GMT on 15 November 2020 will be considered for funding. Proposals submitted after this time will be not considered for funding.
The first paper 'SME Promotion for Jobs and Growth' is a conceptual analysis that reviews research on interventions that support SMEs with the aim of identifying best practices for generating and measuring impacts of SME support programmes.
Developmental approaches over time have been largely economistic and overlooked local sustainability preconditions. They were greatly influenced by a host of doctrines, theories, and strategies argued through macro-level, macro-scale policies.
Social norms that shape expectations of women’s roles within groups can cause gender inequality in employment to persist, even in high information environments. We test this hypothesis using new data from the largest online job platform in Nigeria.