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.
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: 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
This project aims to better understand the capacity of informal SMEs to be a dynamic driver of private sector growth, specifically when granted unconditional government cash transfers.
Grants Round: 4th MRG Round
Country: Kenya
The goal of this project is to gain further insight into the low productivity of firms in developing countries, and why competitive forces have not led to stronger selective pressures.
Grants Round: 4th MRG Round
Country: India
PEDL themes: Modelling market frictions in LICs using newly available data; The dynamics of SMEs: Informality and entrepreneurship
Cross-cutting themes: Climate, environment and social compliance
This project will provide monitoring technology to SMEs in a randomized controlled trial to improve their ability to write effective contracts with their employees.
Grants Round: 4th MRG Round
Country: Kenya
PEDL themes: Modelling market frictions in LICs using newly available data; The dynamics of SMEs: Informality and entrepreneurship
Cross-cutting themes: Fragile and conflict-affected states; Climate, environment and social compliance
This project seeks to understand if constraints on firm productivity in low-income countries are due to the interactions among firms and sectors in a developing economy.
Grants Round: 4th MRG Round
Country: Ecuador
This project seeks to understand the impacts of tenure, assessing impacts on both worker welfare and workplace productivity.
Grants Round: 4th MRG Round
Country: India
Cross-cutting themes: Gender
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