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New data are available for Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, as well as Trinidad and Tobago. Additional updates have been made to datasets from Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

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Latest Enterprise Note

  • Business environment perceptions in Afghanistan and Pakistan

    This note compares business environment perceptions using a unique panel data set of Afghani and Pakistani firms interviewed between 2007 and 2010. Survey results show that firm perceptions of the severity and priority of certain business environment elementshave changed over time.

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Latest Research Paper

  • Trade policies, investment climate and exporters

    Trade liberalization policies undertaken between 1950 and 2006 led to an almost 30 fold growth in the volume of international trade. However this increase has not been homogeneous across countries.

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We are currently gathering data in 8 countries around the world.
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Enterprise Surveys Partners

The Enterprise Surveys implemented in Eastern Europe and Central Asian countries are also known as Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys (BEEPS) and are jointly conducted by the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Enterprise Surveys in Latin America are jointly funded with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and surveys in the Caribbean are jointly funded with IDB and COMPETE Caribbean. Enterprise Surveys in South Asia and upcoming African countries are jointly funded with the UK's Department for International Development (DFID).