How do Special Economic Zones (SEZs) impact domestic firms' outcomes in low-income countries? This project aims to answer this question looking at the case of Ethiopia, Tanzania and Vietnam.
Exploratory Research Grant Projects
Exploratory Research Grants are awarded to successful applicants every two months. Projects are chosen based on scientific merit, methodological rigour and policy relevance.
Grants Round: 25th Round
Country: Multiple
Cross-cutting themes: Gender
This project takes aggregate models in which economic development is linked to knowledge diffusion, and proves theoretically that critical diffusion parameters can be identified with a properly designed RCT.
Grants Round: 25th Round
Country:
PEDL themes: High growth entrepreneurship; Market frictions, management and organizations; Trade and macro models - agglomeration and spatial location of firms
Cross-cutting themes: Gender
Can local firms boost their productivity by supplying to multinational firms? This project tries to answer this question using a novel, administrative dataset from Costa Rica.
Grants Round: 25th Round
Country: Costa Rica
This project aims to bring a firm-level dataset collected by the Central Statistical Office (CSO) in Swaziland to the broader research domain, to standardize the data series over time and provide documentation to allow for the use of this data by a larger community of researchers.
Grants Round: 25th Round
Country:
PEDL themes: Market frictions, management and organizations
Cross-cutting themes: Unlocking data for understanding markets and firms
This project looks, on the one hand, at the effect of charity donations to terrorist organizations on attacks, and on the other at how firms adjust their lending and investment decisions in presence of increased uncertainty.
Grants Round: 25th Round
Country: Pakistan
PEDL themes: Market frictions, management and organizations
Cross-cutting themes: Fragile and conflict-affected states
This project attempts to provide rigorous evidence on what governments can do to facilitate the transition from low-value added to high-value added exports (product diversification) or entry into new export markets (market diversification).
Grants Round: 24th Round
Country: Tunisia
PEDL themes: High growth entrepreneurship; Trade and macro models - agglomeration and spatial location of firms
Cross-cutting themes: Unlocking data for understanding markets and firms
This project examines the importance of upstream and downstream market access for firm selection and growth in Pakistan’s manufacturing sector.
Grants Round: 24th Round
Country: Pakistan
This project investigates the effects of subsidised or free disposable menstrual pads on worker’s well-being, health, and productivity.
Grants Round: 24th Round
Country: Bangladesh
Cross-cutting themes: Gender
This project studies which are the effects of private actors enforcing labour standards in Bangladesh on local firms and workers.
Grants Round: 24th Round
Country: Bangladesh
Cross-cutting themes: Gender; Unlocking data for understanding markets and firms
This project uses a unique firm level dataset to investigate the effects of movements in the exchange rates and changes in tariff on the responsiveness of exports and imports.
Grants Round: Special ERG - LIC #3
Country: Zambia
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