The European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and the World Bank are working together to implement Enterprise Surveys in 42 countries in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
An Enterprise Survey is a firm-level survey of a representative sample of an economy’s private sector. Enterprise Surveys cover a broad range of business environment topics including access to finance, corruption, infrastructure, crime, competition and firm performance. The results help policy makers better understand how firms experience the business environment. This, in turn, can contribute to reforms that facilitate the development of the private sector.
Data for all countries is expected to be available by summer 2020. Individual country datasets are published at enterprisesurveys.org as soon as they become available. The website also presents survey results in the form of standardised indicators. Researchers can register to obtain access to the microdata. The EIB, the EBRD and the World Bank will once again conduct joint analytical work based on the surveys.
This initiative follows up on an earlier data collection effort. In 2013 and 2014, the EIB, the EBRD and the World Bank fielded Enterprise Surveys in eight countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
The results are available: