Entrepreneurial ecosystem in Mozambique (2019)

In 2020 and early 2021, working with IMC Worldwide, David was team leader for a project in Mozambique intended to assist the Wolrd Bank to understand the small business ecosystem and the availability of support for small and growing businesses, as they explored the scope for implementing a business plan competition in partnership with the Government of Mozambique intended to help firms to grow and, in particular, to create new jobs. This research was severely interrupted by the covid19 health crisis and the team was diverted to undertake a different survey to assess the impact of covid on businesses in Mozambique.

Thank you for the good work, I am glad that we managed to get a nice and useful final report.

Federica Ricaldi, Economist, World Bank Group, Maputo

Entrepreneurial ecosystem in Nepal (2019)

In 2019, working with IMC Worldwide and two consultancies in Nepal, David was team leader for a project intended to assist the World Bank to understand the small business ecosystem and the availability of support for small and growing businesses, as they aimed to put together a programme with the Government of Nepal intended to help firms to grow and, in particular, to create new jobs. The report is available on the World Bank website.

Many thanks to you all for a tremendous effort that has yielded very interesting and well-documented findings [...] I am confident that at a minimum it will inform better project design and more effective engagement with Government.

Elizabeth Ruppert Bulmer, Lead Economist, Jobs Group, Social Protection & Jobs, World Bank Group

Constraints facing women cross-border traders

In 2017, working with Saana, David prepared a survey for use by the World Bank intended to survey women traders in some 40 countries to identify the constraints and barriers that they face. The survey was prepared, and then tested thruogh focus groups in Malawi and Zambia, and then tested further through undertaking a pilot survey in Kenya.

Public private dialogue around Nigeria (2008)

Public private dialogue is a pre-requisite for effective private sector advocacy. Regular dialogue between appropriate partners from private and public sectors can help to break down mutual suspicion and replace it with mutual confidence. It also provides ready made channels of communication both for public sector consultation and for private sector advocacy

The World Bank's Investment Climate Programme commissioned Irwin Grayson Associates to undertake a review of public private dialogue (PPD) and private sector advocacy in four states: Cross Rivers, Kaduna, Kano and Lagos. The broad objectives of the review were:

To identify business membership organisations (BMO) at the federal level and in the four lead states that are already engaging in private public dialogue;
To identify existing public sector mechanisms, if any, which make it easier for the private sector to engage in dialogue and to advocate for reforms;
To assess the effectiveness of existing public private dialogue.
To make recommendations for improving the effectiveness of public private dialogue at both state and federal level.

The ultimate objective was to make recommendations for the development of a structured public private dialogue framework at the sub-national level, which would build advocacy capacity within the private sector and stimulate dialogue leading to improvements in the investment climate.

This assignment was undertaken in partnership with Brian Shaad Associates

World Development Report 2005: background paper (2004)

A number of background papers were commissioned for the World Bank's World Development Report 2005: A Better Investment Climate for Everyone. I was commissioned by DFID (now FCDO) to write one of those background papers - Creating FDI Friendly Environments in South Asia - reviewing and synthesising papers presented at a couple of round tables looking at how to create a better investment climate in order to attract more foreign direct investment.

Entrepreneurial ecosystem in Mozambique (2019)

Entrepreneurial ecosystem in Nepal (2019)

Constraints facing women cross-border traders

Public private dialogue around Nigeria (2008)

World Development Report 2005: background paper (2004)

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