Young Scholars Conference 2020 - Call for Papers - CLOSED
The PEDL programme will be hosting a two-day virtual conference focused on PhD candidates and young scholars. The conference is open to any paper on firms in lower-income countries. Find more information here.
This study investigates the role of trade networks in the dissemination and amplification of economic shocks using the 2020 Ethiopian civil war as a quasi-natural experiment.
The first paper 'SME Promotion for Jobs and Growth' is a conceptual analysis that reviews research on interventions that support SMEs with the aim of identifying best practices for generating and measuring impacts of SME support programmes.
Developmental approaches over time have been largely economistic and overlooked local sustainability preconditions. They were greatly influenced by a host of doctrines, theories, and strategies argued through macro-level, macro-scale policies.
Social norms that shape expectations of women’s roles within groups can cause gender inequality in employment to persist, even in high information environments. We test this hypothesis using new data from the largest online job platform in Nigeria.