iiG Research Phase 2: Growth, Firms and Markets in Africa

This Research Phase is an extension to iiG Phase 1, Theme 2 - 'Firm development and exports'. Phase 2 studies how private sector activity and markets can assist growth and development in Africa, and the institutional constraints limiting the impact of the private sector on growth.

The research uses quantitative methods combining both survey and experimental data and focuses on three closely-related questions, the answers to which are central to understanding the potential for market-led development in Africa. These are:

Firm Growth

What are the constraints to firm expansion in Africa? Does firm size matter for firm performance, and how can small firms grow large?

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iiG Research Phase 2: Growth, Firms and Markets in Africa

Firm Growth

Firm Growth and Performance Over Time

Innovation, social contacts and business acumen: a field experiment in Ghana

Savings, Lending and Default in Community-based Microfinance Groups: Evidence from Rural Malawi

Using Rotating Savings Committees to Improve Microfinance Product Design: A Framed Field Experiment

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Can ‘Seed Funding’ Help African Ideas Grow? The Value of Start-up Investment for Young Entrepreneurs in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia

Explaining Insurance Demand: Lessons from Experiments in Ethiopia

Innovation, social contacts and business acumen: a field experiment in Ghana

Making Markets Work

'Re-ravelling' the credit market in urban Tanzania: are property rights the answer to credit market failure?

Land Transactions When Markets are Repressed: Evidence from Ethiopia

Private Insurance and Social Protection: Lessons from Experiments in India, Ethiopia, Bangladesh and Kenya

Using Social Economics to Design Peer-to-Peer Farmer Extension Programmes

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