Data Updates

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  The Enterprise Surveys team has released two new surveys, Mali and Swaziland. In addition to the core topics covered in our surveys, Mali 2016 has additional questions on competition, mobile money, microfinance, and labor. Swaziland 2016 explores topics on internet, trade, land title, financial services, and dispute resolution. Panel data from Lesotho covering 2009 and 2016 surveys have also been added to the portal.

  Please note that both real annual sales growth and annual labor productivity growth indicators are now computed using each country’s GDP deflators, rather than converting sales values to USD and then deflating.

  All raw survey data sets are available in the data portal. The status of several Enterprise Surveys can be found on the current projects page.

What’s Holding Back the Private Sector in MENA? Lessons from the Enterprise Survey

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  This report presents the findings of Enterprise Surveys conducted in eight economies in the region in 2013 and 2014: Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, the West Bank and Gaza, and Yemen. By analyzing detailed information on more than 6,000 private firms in the manufacturing and services sectors, the report provides fine-grained insights into the key drivers of firms’ performance and the major challenges of the business environment in which they operate.

  View main findings and download the report
  Infographic (PDF)

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LAC Notes

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  These Notes focus on what businesses experience in the Latin America and Caribbean Region (LAC). The nine notes build upon the Enterprise Survey roll-out in 2010 which included 31 countries in the region, 15 of which had previously been surveyed in 2006. These notes provide a comprehensive analysis of several important aspects of the business environment and how these conditions associate with business outcomes in the region.

  
  

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Latest Research Using Enterprise Surveys

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  Enterprise Notes

  - Informal Firms in Myanmar

  - Legal Institiutions and Women's Employment

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  Research Papers

  - Does Mobile Money Use Increase Firms Investment?

  -The Governance Environment and Innovative SME's

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