Global Indicators and Analysis

The World Bank and IFC's Global Indicators and Analysis unit manages five major web products:

  • Doing Business, World Bank Group

    Doing Business

    Doing Business provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 183 economies. The Doing Business Project, launched in 2002, looks at domestic small and medium-size companies and measures the regulations applying to them through their life cycle. Visit Doing Business on Facebook.

  • Enterprise Surveys, World Bank Group

    Enterprise Surveys

    Enterprise Surveys provide the world's most comprehensive company-level data in emerging markets and developing economies. Data are available on 130,000+ firms in 125 countries. Data are used to create indicators that benchmark the quality of the business and investment climate across countries.

  • Investing Across Borders, World Bank Group

    Investing Across Borders

    Investing Across Borders is a World Bank Group initiative comparing regulation of foreign direct investment around the world. It presents quantitative indicators on economies' laws, regulations, and practices affecting how foreign companies invest across sectors, start businesses, access industrial land, and arbitrate commercial disputes.

  • Subnational Doing Business, World Bank Group

    Subnational Doing Business

    Subnational and regional Doing Business capture differences in business regulations and their enforcement across locations in a single country or region. They provide data on the ease of doing business, rank each location, and recommend reforms to improve performance in each of the indicator areas.

  • Women, Business and the Law, World Bank Group

    Women, Business and the Law

    Women, Business and the Law presents indicators based on laws and regulations affecting women's prospects as entrepreneurs and employees, in part drawing on laws contained in the Gender Law Library. Both resources can inform research and policy discussions on how to improve women's economic opportunities and outcomes. Visit Women, Business and the Law on Facebook.