Deadline: 15-Nov-22
The Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries (PEDL) is inviting applications for Exploratory Research Grants that aims to better understand what determines the strength of market forces driving efficiency in low-income countries (LICs).
Existing research suggests that the private sector in LICs faces a multitude of constraints that act upon each other. What is needed is research that allows us to understand how these constraints interact.
The objective of PEDL is to fund cutting-edge, policy-oriented research that could be published in leading academic journals and be relevant to the policy dialogue in LICs. It will promote research related to private enterprises of all sizes and invites applications in any aspect of private sector development, with a particular emphasis on PEDL’s four priority research areas:
- Market frictions, management and organisations
- Trade and macro models – agglomeration and spatial location of firms
- High growth entrepreneurship
- Social compliance and the environment
Themes
- They also particularly encourage proposals that address one or more of PEDL’s three cross-cutting themes:
- Fragile and conflict affected states
- Gender
- Unlocking data for understanding markets and firms
- More information on PEDL’s research and cross-cutting themes can be found in their Research Strategy.
- ERGs are designed to allow researchers to:
- Explore new approaches to the study of firms in LICs; and
- To develop new (or build on) existing sources of data on firms in LICs.
Funding Categories
- Data Acquisition/Field Work
- Travel
- Research Stipend
- Research Assistance.
Funding Information
- ERGs are grants of between £10,000 and £40,000.
- Duration: ERGs typically run for 12 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Only individuals can apply for an ERG. The grants will be issued through a contract between CEPR and the successful applicant directly. In exceptional circumstances, a contract with an institution can be issued, but the contract will be non-negotiable, and the institution cannot take any overheads. This also applies to doctoral students.
- PEDL invites applications from researchers located anywhere in the world.
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Note that they are currently unable to fund projects located in Myanmar and Palestine.
Ineligible
- The following costs cannot be reimbursed by PEDL:
- Administrative charges or institutional overheads.
- Any identifiable indirect taxes
- Interest owed
- Provisions for potential future losses
- Exchange losses
- Excessive expenditure
- Transaction fees
- Recruitment costs.
For more information, visit https://pedl.cepr.org/funding/exploratory-research-grants