Fragile and conflict-affected states

This project investigates the challenges that Ethiopian MSMEs face in adopting digital payment technologies.

The researchers study the uptake and livelihood impact of Electric Pressure Cookers (EPCs) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

This project aims to quantify the extent of conflict-induced propagations and its effect in the manufacturing establishments in Ethiopia.

This project evaluates the impact of a new agricultural development model based around solar mini-grids on resilience and sustainability.

In this project, Walelign, Edjigu, and Ayele explore the effects of the extreme drought produced by El Niño on small-scale food and beverage manufacturing firms in Ethiopia.

 This project aims to be the first large-scale comprehensive study of management practices of DFIs and Private Equity and Venture Capital fund managers in LICs.

This project will exploit a unique natural experiment, the introduction of high-speed internet in Africa, to shed light on the effects of fast internet on banking.

This project will assess whether mobile money adoption can induce informal firms to formalise in Burkina Faso.

Through experiments with a freelancing platform in South Asia, this project will investigate whether introducing small application costs that vary in size and content attracts workers with better “job fit” and improves productivity.

This project asks whether political affiliations enable local firms to outperform multinationals in corrupt natural resource sectors.