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Economy Highlights

Economy Highlights summarize the key findings from the World Bank Enterprise Survey. These descriptive findings provide a quick glance at a subset of performance and business environment indicators. The accompanying figures include comparisons such as: changes over time, indicator differences with the economy's geographic region and to other economies with similar income levels, and differences between an economy’s subnational locations. 


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What’s holding back the private sector in MENA?

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.

 

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Sweden's Business Climate: A Microeconomic Assessment Report

This report is a comprehensive analysis of firm-level data from the 2014 Enterprise Survey in Sweden. The in-depth report on the country’s business environment investigates topics on gender, labor, skills, taxes, innovation, as well as access to finance, relating each to firm performance. The sample of the survey is representative by firm size, region, and sector of activity.

 

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