This project addresses three key constraints that are particularly relevant to small firms in capital-intensive industries: knowledge constraints, market failures and lack of economies of scale.
Major Research Grant Projects
At least five Major Research Grant projects are awarded each year, funding outstanding scientific work based in low-income countries.
Grants Round: 5th MRG Round
Country: Uganda
Cross-cutting themes: Unlocking data for understanding markets and firms
This project will study one potential explanation behind female owned enterprises showing lower returns than their male counterparts: lack of access to childcare services.
Grants Round: 5th MRG Round
Country: Uganda
PEDL themes: Market frictions, management and organizations
Cross-cutting themes: Gender
This project aims to run a pilot study in Bangladesh measuring differences in frictions that firms encounter in hiring and retaining workers of various skills.
Grants Round: 5th MRG Round
Country: Bangladesh
PEDL themes: Market frictions, management and organizations
Cross-cutting themes: Unlocking data for understanding markets and firms; Gender
This project aims to understand the impacts of a light touch management training on small firms in Kenya.
Grants Round: 5th MRG Round
Country: Kenya
Cross-cutting themes: Unlocking data for understanding markets and firms
This project aims to provide some evidence on management in Ethiopia.
Grants Round: 5th MRG Round
Country: Ethiopia
Cross-cutting themes: Gender
This project will analyse the impact of an innovative, targeted and collateralized credit programme that seeks to make motorcycle taxi drivers the owners of their vehicles.
Grants Round: 4th MRG Round
Country: Uganda
This project seeks to understand how alleviating financial and technological constraints in the input market can impact firm growth and innovation, through private schools in Pakistan.
Grants Round: 4th MRG Round
Country: Pakistan
PEDL themes: Modelling market frictions in LICs using newly available data; Understanding how constraints interact using micro-founded macro models; The dynamics of SMEs: Informality and entrepreneurship
Cross-cutting themes: Fragile and conflict-affected states; Gender
This project aims to study the role of information frictions in imports of manufactured consumer goods in Lagos, Nigeria.
Grants Round: 4th MRG Round
Country: Nigeria
PEDL themes: Modelling market frictions in LICs using newly available data; Understanding how constraints interact using micro-founded macro models; The dynamics of SMEs: Informality and entrepreneurship
Cross-cutting themes: Fragile and conflict-affected states
This project seeks to provide experimental evidence on the relationship between electricity supply and small business creation and growth.
Grants Round: 4th MRG Round
Country: India
Cross-cutting themes: Climate, environment and social compliance
This project aims to quantify the competitiveness of rural agricultural markets, and to test whether the entry of new intermediaries into markets can enhance competition and increase consumer welfare.
Grants Round: 4th MRG Round
Country: Kenya
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