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Publication - Project Report
Government demand and domestic firm growth: Evidence from Uganda
Using detailed administrative data, this paper analyses the relationship between participation in public procurement (selling to government entities) and firm performance in Uganda. We find positive associations with total sales, gross profits, total compensation of employees, number of workers and sales per employee. Overall sales growth associated with selling to...
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Workshop: Leveraging exports for growth in Uganda
Engaging in international trade enables firms to grow faster, by facilitating improved supply of inputs, increasing competition in final goods markets, and expanding market access. Even though Uganda exports less than average for other countries at its per capita income, export growth over the last 20 years has been relatively rapid and with considerable diversification....
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IGC-Stanford conference on firms, trade and development
The International Growth Centre (IGC), the Stanford King Center on Global Development, and Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries (PEDL) are hosting a two-day conference on November 3-4, 2022 on the theme of “Firms, Trade and Development.” This event is hosted by David Atkin (MIT), Matilde Bombardini (Berkeley), Dave Donaldson (MIT), Cecile Gaubert...
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Publication - Policy Brief
Non-tariff barriers and regional integration in the East African Community
We conducted surveys with a representative sample of over 1,500 traders in markets near the Kenya-Uganda border, as well as a census of border clearing agents, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Larger traders are more likely to engage in cross-border trade, likely because the fixed costs of trade barriers mean that per-unit costs fall heaviest on smaller...
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Misallocation or mismeasurement? Collecting new panel data to improve production function estimation
SMEs tend to show substantial differences in productivity even within narrow industries and geographical regions. In order to design effective industrial policies, it is important to quantify such differences in the productivity of SMEs, identify what constraints drive these differences, and to understand what are the benefits of reducing them through external policy...
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Publication - Policy Brief
Using network theory to promote adoption of new agricultural technologies in Sierra Leone
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) in Sierra Leone has identified livestock production as the second most important activity in their 5-year strategic plan and recognizes the central importance of maize as a feed crop for livestock. This policy brief suggests that to reap the desired benefits from any policy intervention, a value chain approach to...
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The impact of early-stage resource acquisition: a randomised field experiment in Morocco
In many places, entrepreneurship is a vital process for job creation, economic growth, and the development of novel solutions to pressing social and environmental problems. Most of the research into entrepreneurship has examined the United States and European settings, along with select Asian countries (China and India). We understand very little about entrepreneurship in...
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Publication - Policy Brief
Rwandan coffee exports during COVID-19: Challenges and opportunities for increased resilience
The decade before the COVID-19 pandemic was characterised by significant improvement in the quality of Rwandan coffee and increased export revenues. To understand the implications of the COVID-19 crisis for the Rwandan coffee sector, the IGC (in collaboration with NAEB and CEPAR) conducted a survey of exporters between June and December 2020. The findings suggest...
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Publication - Project Report
Rwandan coffee exports during COVID-19: Challenges and opportunities for increased resilience
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Project
Scoping study: Using network theory to promote adoption of new agricultural technologies in Sierra Leone
Despite substantial improvements in agricultural productivity across the world since the 1980s, productivity levels in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have not experienced similar increases. Such agricultural stagnation has significant implications for the majority of the sub-continent’s population who are engaged in smallholder farming, as agricultural development is integral...