| Overview 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: See also: |
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