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Conflict and Private Enterprise Activity in Low-Income Countries

Violent conflict has numerous negative effects on private entrepreneurial activity and, as a consequence, on economic development.

Research Note

10 Jul 2015

Tariff Reform and Product Market Integration in Developing Countries: The Case of Zambia

This project investigates the extent and determinants of intra-national product market integration using a price approach in the context of Zambia, a low-income and landlocked country in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Research Note

8 Jul 2015

Business as Unusual. An Explanation of the Increase of Private Economic Activity in High-Conflict Areas in Afghanistan

In this paper, Ciarli, Kofol, and Menon (2015) use a unique dataset that combines spatial detailed information on conflict events and on households' activity, to show a positive and significant correlation between violent conflict and entrepreneurship in Afghanistan.

Working Paper

25 Jun 2015

Direct and Indirect Impacts of Credit for SMEs

This randomized controlled trial in partnership with a development bank in the Philippines employs credit scoring for small and medium enterprise (SME) lending and measures the impact of credit on SME growth - both directly for firms receiving loans and indirectly for their competitors.

Research Note

19 Jun 2015

Piloting an Internship Program for Young Ethiopian Entrepreneurs

Can internship programmes provide young entrepreneurs with valuable experiential learning on successful management practices?

Research Note

15 Jun 2015

Turnover Taxes and Productivity: Evidence from a Brazilian Tax Reform

This study uses a Brazilian tax reform to analyse the production loss caused by turnover taxes, a type of tax common in developing countries that distorts transactions between firms.

Research Note

2 Jun 2015

Price Setting Behaviour in Lesotho: Stylised Facts from Consumer Retail Prices

This paper by Edwards and Nchake (2015), published in the South African Journal of Economics, documents some of the main features of price-setting behaviour by retail outlets in Lesotho over the period March 2002 to December 2009.

Journal Article

1 Jun 2015

The Life Cycle of South African Manufacturing Firms

In this paper Andrew Kerr (2015) uses a new source of firm level panel data to describe and better understand the life cycle of South African manufacturing firms.

Working Paper

1 Jun 2015

An Introduction to the Manpower Survey Data

In this report Andrew Kerr (2015) describes the Manpower Surveys (MS).

Working Paper

1 Jun 2015

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Conflict and Private Enterprise Activity in Low-Income Countries

Tariff Reform and Product Market Integration in Developing Countries: The Case of Zambia

Business as Unusual. An Explanation of the Increase of Private Economic Activity in High-Conflict Areas in Afghanistan

Direct and Indirect Impacts of Credit for SMEs

Piloting an Internship Program for Young Ethiopian Entrepreneurs

Turnover Taxes and Productivity: Evidence from a Brazilian Tax Reform

Price Setting Behaviour in Lesotho: Stylised Facts from Consumer Retail Prices

The Life Cycle of South African Manufacturing Firms

An Introduction to the Manpower Survey Data

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