This project aims to develop a research programme that investigates the role of innovation in micro-enterprises’ marketing practices in driving performance.
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: Special ERG - Scale-up
Country: Egypt
This project based in Brazil aims to uncover novel facts about the nexus between politics and economics.
Grants Round: Special ERG - PhD #3
Country: Brazil
PEDL themes: Modelling market frictions in LICs using newly available data; Understanding how constraints interact using micro-founded macro models
Cross-cutting themes: Gender; Fragile and conflict-affected states
This project provides original evidence on the market forces that shape businesses in low-income countries; arguing that social and kinship ties influence competition and productivity because of their influence on business’ access to customers.
Grants Round: Special ERG - PhD #3
Country: India
This study conducts a unique experimental evaluation of an intervention that focuses on technical training and the creation of economies of scale among small enterprises to increase access to markets.
Grants Round: Special ERG - PhD #3
Country: Uganda
PEDL themes: The dynamics of SMEs: Informality and entrepreneurship; The role of export-oriented industries in driving growth
Cross-cutting themes: Gender; Fragile and conflict-affected states
This project evaluates the impact of mobility restrictions imposed by military occupation on the development of the IT sector in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Grants Round: Special ERG - PhD #3
Country: Occupied Palestinian Territories
PEDL themes: The role of export-oriented industries in driving growth; Understanding how constraints interact using micro-founded macro models
Cross-cutting themes: Fragile and conflict-affected states
By collecting new firm-level data from nine countries across Africa and Asia, this project evaluates the impact of the ownership and control structures of firms on their management practices and performance.
Grants Round: Special ERG - PhD #3
Country: Multiple Countries
This experiment in a Bangladeshi sweater factory seeks to determine whether providing workers with information on their relative performance can increase their motivation and productivity.
Grants Round: 20th Round
Country: Bangladesh
This project aims to collect and analyse the productivity data of female artisans working in a large not-for-profit and semi-formal social business in Bangladesh, thus shedding light on a sector that has been previously underexplored
Grants Round: 20th Round
Country: Bangladesh
Cross-cutting themes: Gender
This exploratory research aims to investigate and identify outcomes and growth of incubators in Botswana, Namibia, Kenya and Uganda.
Grants Round: 20th Round
Country: Multiple Countries
Cross-cutting themes: Gender; Climate, environment and social compliance
Building on a large randomized controlled trial in Kenya, this project evaluates the impact of providing solar lamps on women’s time use and economic activities.
Grants Round: 19th Round
Country: Kenya
Cross-cutting themes: Gender
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