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The Enterprise Analysis Unit's research aims at understanding how the business environment affects firm performance in developing countries. Data from the Enterprise Surveys serves as the primary input, complemented with similar firm-level surveys and other relevant data sources.

Two types of research products are featured below:

  1. Enterprise Notes are research briefings with concise empirical findings and policy implications.
  2. Research Papers are journal articles or academic working papers.
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  • Business environment perceptions in Afghanistan and Pakistan
    Product:
    Enterprise Notes
    Author(s):
    Judy Yang
    Year:
    2011
    File Size:
    329.0 KB

    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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  • Gender and informality in Latin America
    Product:
    Enterprise Notes
    Author(s):
    Mohammad Amin
    Year:
    2011
    File Size:
    305.0 KB

    Recently collected data on informal or unregistered firms in Argentina and Peru show significant differences between male- and female-owned firms.

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  • Trade policies, investment climate and exporters
    Product:
    Research Papers
    Author(s):
    Murat Şeker
    Year:
    2011
    File Size:
    281.0 KB

    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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