Grant recipients
The fund has supported 19 full-fledged research projects to date in 13 countries across sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. See below for short descriptions of current and past researcher-practitioner pairs.
Projects
Subjective Beliefs, Collaboration, and Innovation among Women Microentrepreneurs: Survey and Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Project
The impact of psychotherapy on business performance of female-led firms
Project
Digital market linkages: Going global with home-based work
Project
Measuring and transferring retail productivity: Evidence from a structural model and a mentorship intervention in Zambia
Project
Can light-touch accelerator programmes foster business performance? Evidence from ICT enterprises in Bangladesh
Project
Corporate transparency and investment readiness
Project
Measuring and managing impact: A field experiment
Project
What do high-growth entrepreneurs in Africa want?
Project
Targeting consulting services to high-growth entrepreneurs
Project
Accelerating investment into women-led start-ups
Project
Hiring frictions and growth among small firms: Evidence from an internet platform-based experiment
Project
Gender discrimination in access to capital: Experimental evidence from Ethiopian SGBs
Project
Impulso Chileno impact evaluation
Project
Matching digital service export jobs in Kenya
Project
Data-driven learning and firm performance: Experimental evidence from SMEs in Kenya
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Enabling entrepreneurs: An impact evaluation of a training and mentoring programme in Uganda
Project
The impact of early-stage resource acquisition: a randomised field experiment in Morocco
Project
Inclusive international trade: Assisting female-led firms in export development
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