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.
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: 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
This project studies whether aspirational and soft touch job search skills interventions can contribute towards bridging the supply and demand side in promoting female employment in Pakistan.
Grants Round: Special ERG - LIC #3
Country: Pakistan
PEDL themes: Market frictions, management and organizations
Cross-cutting themes: Gender
This project seeks to provide stylised facts on the relationship between job reallocation, employment and productivity growth in the Zimbabwean manufacturing sector.
Grants Round: Special ERG - LIC #3
Country: Zimbabwe
Cross-cutting themes: Unlocking data for understanding markets and firms
This study analyses the relationship between management practices and SMEs performances and the effect of the level of market competitiveness on upgrading management practices.
Grants Round: Special ERG - LIC #3
Country: Burkina Faso
Cross-cutting themes: Unlocking data for understanding markets and firms
By exploring the microstructure, this study seeks to address the frictions, inefficiencies and lack of competition of corporate bond markets in Africa.
Grants Round: Special ERG - LIC #3
Country: Multiple Countries
PEDL themes: Market frictions, management and organizations
Cross-cutting themes: Unlocking data for understanding markets and firms; Fragile and conflict-affected states
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