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  • PSD and COVID
    • Socioeconomic Impacts and National Responses
    • Adjusting PSD Interventions in the Short Term
    • Promoting Economic Recovery and Resilience
    • Agency Knowledge Portals, Statements and Funding Activities
  • PSD Knowledge Pages
    • Business Environment Reform
    • Digitalisation and PSD
    • Employment creation
    • Fragile and conflict-affected environments
    • Green Growth
    • Inclusive Business
    • Industrial Policy
    • LED, Cities and Clusters
    • Market systems and the poor
    • Private Sector Engagement
    • Refugees and PSD
    • Small Enterprise Development
    • Value chain development
    • Women’s economic empowerment
    • Youth employment
  • Evidence
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BER and COVID-19 Policy Brief 2

Lessons Learned on the Role of Business Regulation in Economic Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic, March 2021.

BER and COVID-19 Policy Brief 1

Using Business Regulation in Re-opening the Economy following the COVID-19 Pandemic, March 2021.

Emerging economic recovery and resilience strategies

Summary of emerging trends in the COVID-19 recovery and resilience strategies of DCED member agencies.

Private Sector Development and COVID-19

A knowledge portal with resources on the impact of the coronavirus and how PSD interventions can respond.

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  • Private Sector Development
    • Business Environment Reform
    • Digitalisation and PSD
    • Employment creation
    • Green Growth
    • Inclusive Business
    • Industrial Policy
    • LED, Cities and Clusters
    • Market systems and the poor
    • Private Sector Engagement
    • PSD in fragile and conflict-affected environments
    • Refugees and PSD
    • Small Enterprise Development
    • Value chain development
    • Women’s economic empowerment
    • Youth employment
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  • Evidence
    • Impact stories
    • Evaluations of agencies’ PSD work
    • Evidence framework
      • Business Environment Reform changes firms’ behaviour
      • Business Environment Reform leads to increased turnover or profits
      • Business Environment Reform leads to new firms being started or registered
      • Changes in firms’ behaviour and rates of investment lead to economic growth
      • Firm creation and registration lead to higher productivity/ revenues
      • Firms changing behaviour leads to higher productivity/ revenues
      • Firms change behaviour then increase productivity/ revenues
      • Firms change behaviour when market failures have been addressed
      • Firms start up when donors address market failures
      • Growth raises income for the poor
      • Higher firm productivity leads to higher profitability
      • Increased firm turnover and/or profits create economic growth
      • Increased productivity/ revenue leads to poverty reduction
      • Increased productivity creates economic growth
      • Increased productivity / revenues lead to increased employment
      • Job creation leads to poverty reduction
      • Link between economic growth and employment
      • Donor support to partner companies changes their behaviour
      • Behavioural changes or increased investment by donor-supported companies leads to new firms being started or registered
      • When new firms are created or registered, more people are employed
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  • Introduction to the DCED Standard
    • Introduction to the DCED Standard
    • Guidelines for implementing the Standard
    • Toolkit for implementing the Standard
    • Sample Size Calculator
    • Case Studies and Examples
    • Consultancy support
    • Auditing the results measurement system
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  • Vacancies, training courses & events in PSD
Also in this section
  • Introduction to the DCED
  • Annual meetings
  • Working Groups
  • DCED guidance
  • Agency PSD Strategies
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