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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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  • What have we learned from the Enterprise Surveys regarding access to finance by SMEs?
    Product:
    Research Papers
    Author(s):
    Veselin Kuntchev, Rita Ramalho, Jorge Rodríguez-Meza, Judy Yang
    Year:
    2012
    File Size:
    365.0 KB

    This paper uses a new measure to explore the availability of credit to SMEs in the developing world. SMEs are found to be more credit constrained and more likely to finance their working capital and investments through trade credit and informal sources of finance. Besides size, other firm characteristics are examined.

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  • Total factor productivity across the developing world
    Product:
    Enterprise Notes
    Author(s):
    Federica Saliola, Murat Şeker
    Year:
    2012
    File Size:
    1,006 KB

    Total factor productivity (TFP) is a crucial measure of efficiency and thus an important indicator for policymakers. Using micro level data from manufacturing industries in 80 developing countries, this note analyzes TFP performance at the firm-level. This note also estimates TFP values obtained at the industry level.

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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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