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Global Small Firm Diaries

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Understanding small firms is key to designing policies, financial services, and tools that help these businesses, and their workers, thrive. From 2021 to 2023, the Small Firm Diaries team collected high frequency, qualitative and quantitative data from firm owners and workers in Colombia, Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Fiji.

See our publications page for papers and reports published to date.

Learn more about the project team behind the Global Small Firm Diaries.

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Current Status

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In 2026, our research teams in Kenya and Colombia continue to collect data from a subset of the original sample population. This new data allows deeper analysis of areas of interest that benefit from a longer time horizon, especially related to jobs and employment as well as firm owners’ desire for stability and growth, as compared to actual growth trajectories which can be measured over a 3-year period.

FUNDING PARTNERS

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FSD Kenya logo
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