Zambia’s private sector must deliver quality jobs at scale to keep up with its expanding working age population, contribute to economic transformation, and reduce poverty. This entails both the creation...
Tourism has been, and continues to be, one of the most affected sectors by the pandemic, resulting in negative socio-economic consequences for host communities in destinations as well as for underlying...
This note complements prior World Bank work analyzing the technical drivers of supply chain disruptions from 2021 onwards. The focus of this note is to shed light on the role of market structure and dynamics...
To date, the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on market power and consumer welfare in developing countries has been relatively understudied. Utilizing a firm survey dataset from Vietnam, the authors...
To date, the impact of foreign direct investment on market power and consumer welfare in developing countries has been relatively understudied. Utilizing a firm survey dataset from Vietnam, this paper...
As the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic enters its second year, foreign investors can see light at the end of the tunnel as economic conditions improve. Results from the latest round (Q1 2021) of World...
For more than a year, the world has been grappling with the unprecedented global health, social, and economic crisis caused by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Consumer demand, supply chains, workplaces...
A fourth round of the quarterly pulse survey, reflecting the last quarter of 2020, was administered in February 2021. This round of the survey included new questions reflecting on 2020, and the impacts...
The FDI Watch presents the latest data on foreign direct investment (FDI) flows and intentions, investor perceptions, and policy developments. It also highlights recent FDI publications by the World Bank...
The FDI Watch presents the latest data on foreign direct investment (FDI) flows and intentions, investor perceptions, and policy developments. It also highlights recent FDI publications by the World Bank...
As the COVID-19 crisis extends into the second half of 2020, the outlook for both the pandemic and the associated economic crisis remains highly uncertain. In this environment, multinational enterprises...
This paper provides insights to inform government efforts to attract and retain foreign direct investment, by analyzing the results of a survey of more than 2,400 affiliates of multinational enterprises...
Removing regulatory barriers in services is key to unlocking productivity in Croatia. Croatia has more restrictive regulations than most other EU member states, and prior World Bank research shows that...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the global economy, triggering the deepest global recession of the past eight decades. Together, the crisis and public health response have caused both...
Removing regulatory barriers in services is key to unlocking productivity in Croatia. Croatia has more restrictive regulations than most other EU member states, and prior World Bank research shows that...
To assess the impact of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic on multinational enterprises affiliates in developing countries, the World Bank Group conducted a foreign investor pulse survey in March 2020...
To assess the impact of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic on multinational enterprises affiliates in developing countries, the World Bank Group conducted a foreign investor pulse survey in March 2020...
Removing regulatory barriers in services is key to unlocking productivity in Croatia. Croatia has more restrictive regulations than most other EU member states, and prior World Bank research shows that...
This Investment Climate Reform Action Plan summarizes the economic context of Senegal as well as the main constraints private sector faces in the country, and provides a number of recommendations on which...
The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the productivity of domestic firms is significant, but the economic gains from FDI are not guaranteed to be large or positive for individual firms. The...