Africa Regional Program on Enterprise Development (RPED)

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The Africa RPED is an ongoing research project with the overall purpose of generating business knowledge and policy advise useful to private sector manufacturing development in Sub-Saharan Africa. The program does this through its long-standing (over 10 years) of experience in firm-level data collection and case study analysis to provide policy advice to the World Bank, donor agencies, client governments and other interested parties seeking to improve the business environment in these countries. RPED activities have been of key relevance in:

	Confirming or rejecting various research hypotheses
	Understanding the impact of policy
	Understanding the reasons for Africa’s lack of growth
	Gathering systematic evidence regarding firm dynamics and the private sector
	Monitoring productivity to understand impact of policy reforms

 

 

 

 

 

   
RPED pursues four key sets of activities:

	Investment Climate Assessments
	Cross-country sector work
	Regional surveys
	Advice to the World Bank’s private sector development projects and other operational activitiesÂ

 

 

 

 

See also:

	RPED Business Strategy
	RPED Contributions
	RPED Agenda