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The Retail Merchant Cross-sectional Surveys are structured quantitative surveys on retail merchants across countries and periods. The database hosts a pool of data sets containing detailed information on the socioeconomic and behavioral profiles and business practices of merchants of various sizes specializing in the trade of Fast Moving Consumer Goods and Digital Financial Services.
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Micro-merchants Landscape Assessment in Bangladesh
: Dhaka, Bangladesh: United Nations Capital Development Fund, 2018.
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