Data Updates

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  The Enterprise Surveys team has released firm-level estimates of productivity based on face-to-face interviews with top managers and business owners in over 76,000 companies in 114 economies. Three-wave panel data from Lao PDR covering 2009, 2012, and 2016, and from Vietnam covering 2005, 2009 and 2015 have also been added to the website’s data portal. In addition, two research papers on Kenya have been posted. The Enterprise Surveys team has released panel data from Cambodia covering 2013 and 2016 surveys, and from Timor-Leste covering 2009 and 2015 surveys.

  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
  - The critical importance of data collection in developing countries: The case of gender

  - Use of foreign intermediate inputs in developing countries: Determinants and effects

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  Research Papers
  - Measuring firm-level innovation using short questionnaires

  - Catching up to the technological frontier? Understanding firm-level innovation and productivity in Kenya

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