21 new research project teams - from 17 different countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America - were selected in the context of the 3rd call for proposals of the PAGE initiative.
The new grantees (total of 84 local researchers) were selected out of those shortlisted teams invited to present and discuss their project proposals with PEP-affiliated international experts during the 2015 PEP Annual Conference held in Kenya, in May 2015 (see left photo).
In September 2012, PEP launched a first call for proposals to be granted support under its new program initiative called PAGE, “Policy Analysis on Growth and Employment”. Following several rounds of evaluation, a total of 25 research projects/teams were selected for support under the 1st round of PAGE funding.
A second call was launched in October 2013, out of which 20 project teams were selected for support under the 2nd PAGE funding round.
The PAGE initiative is co-funded by the UK Department for International Development of the United Kingdom (DFID or UK Aid) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada. The core objectives are to:
Build and promote research capacities in developing countries, with priority given to low-income countries (LICs), fragile and/or conflict states – see the list of targeted countries
Support a series of locally-led research projects for the analysis of country-relevant policy issues, under the broad theme of inclusive growth and employment – see the different lists of priority issues identified for PAGE round 1, round 2 and round 3
Enable selected developing country researchers to inform policymaking with reliable evidence in favour of inclusive growth and women’s economic empowerment
Selection of the new PEP-granted research teams
As the first and second ones, the 3rd PAGE call for proposals (launched in 2014) generated quite an encouraging response from 113 applicant teams based in 45 developing countries, including 35 LFCs.
After the two first rounds of evaluation, PEP’s review and selection process - which includes the provision of detailed comments and suggestions from PEP evaluators (PEP-affiliated international experts) to help all long-listed applicants revise and improve their proposals – resulted in the shortlisting of 22 project teams, who were invited to present their proposals during the 2015 PEP Annual Conference, held in Nairobi, Kenya, in May 2015.
A total of 59 applicant researchers – including 29 (50%) women, and 18 (30%) from LFCs – attended the meeting, where they not only benefited from a unique peer-review and international networking experience, but also from intensive training workshops, provided by world-leading experts, in the different analytical approaches, techniques and tools they intend to use in their respective projects.
Following presentation and discussion of these 22 proposals with an audience of peers and international experts during the PEP meeting, 21 research project teams have been selected, to date, to receive PEP support under this third round of PAGE funding.
See below for the list of the selected projects - and click on the related links to find out more about each project.
The selected research teams involve a total of 84 developing country researchers – including 43 (54%) female and 29 (36%) from LICs – all of whom will now benefit from the unique career-promoting opportunity that is the PEP “grant plus” support mechanism. The latter comprises not only financial support, but also training, mentoring, technical support, access to resources (software tools and licenses, databases, etc.), international networking (with peers, donors and world-leading experts), professional development and dissemination grants, etc. Find out more about PEP's manifold research support program here: http://www.pep-net.org/about/activities/
Third group of projects selected for support under the PAGE initiative - Round 3
In the table below, the projects are grouped according to the methodological approach (such as fostered through the PEP toolbox) to be applied for the intended analysis. Click on the related link to find out more about each method.
PAGE Round 3 projects
Project code (link)
Project title
Country
Macro-micro policy simulations – info
MPIA-12799
Expansion du secteur minier et le développement économique au Burkina Faso : une analyse en EGC dynamique
Burkina Faso
MPIA-12804
Impact of public education spending on labour market and households’ welfares in Cambodia: A CGE approach
Cambodia
MPIA-12805
Développement extractif et politiques de dépenses publiques au Niger : une approche en EGC dynamique
Niger
MPIA-12823
Macro- economic impact of MGNREGA in India: An analysis in CGE modeling framework
India
MPIA-12838
The effects of minimum wages on the labour market and income distribution in Kenya: A CGE analysis
Kenya
MPIA-12849
The major bottlenecks of micro and small scale enterprises’ growth and alternative strategies in Ethiopia: Econometric and CGE analysis
Ethiopia
MPIA-12867
Impacts of agricultural incentive policies on socioeconomic and environmental variables in Guatemala
Guatemala
MPIA-12868
L’impact des réformes commerciales sur la croissance économique, l’emploi et la pauvreté dans les pays de la CEDEAO : le cas du Sénégal
Senegal
Microeconomic measurement and analysis – info + non-experimental impact evaluations – info
PMMA-12769
The impact of child and youth labor on his/her performance in school
Brazil
PMMA-12783
How does the exploitation of natural resources affect income disparities across population groups?
Benin
PMMA-12791
Revisiting the unfinished agenda: Multiple-source borrowings, farm production and the use of fertilizer in rural cambodia
Cambodia
PMMA-12800
Wage ‘scarring’ when youth unemployment is extremely high: evidence from Macedonia
Macedonia
PMMA-12808
Minimum wage policies: Wage, employment, and distributional impacts in Ecuador
Ecuador
PMMA-12814
Non-wage benefits, union ‘facilitation effect’ and labour market outcomes in Ghana
Ghana
PMMA-12830
Reduction of child poverty in Serbia: Balancing between improved cash-transfers and policies that pro
Serbia
PMMA-12869
Measuring the effects of minimum wage in Bolivia’s dual economy
Bolivia
PMMA-12880
Poverty, inequality and oil exploitation in Chad
Chad
PIERI-12792
The relationship between intra-household bargaining and program participation in rural India
India
PIERI-12883
Barriers limiting access to financial services for micro and small entrepreneurs in Bolivia: A randomized field experiment on institutional ethnic discriminatory practices
Bolivia
Community-based monitoring systems – info
CBMS-12901
Towards CBMS in Bolivia ("communidad-i")
Bolivia
CBMS-12897
Enhancing the implementation of the community information system to inform youth employment strategy
Uganda