The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) business pulse survey (BPS) is a rapid survey designed to measure the various channels of impact of COVID-19 on firms, firm adjustment strategies, and public policy...
The Lao PDR Economic Monitor provides updates on macroeconomic developments and sectoral issues in the country. The economic recovery in 2021 is likely to be slower than anticipated, mainly owing to containment...
The re-imposition of the Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) during mid-October 2020 and the upgrade to a stricter lockdown to Movement Control Order in January 2021 (MCO 2.0) has substantially weakened...
The Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Assessment aims to generate new metrics of entrepreneurship to guide policy action as well as monitoring the implementation of such policies. It does so by (a) providing...
This report seeks to deepen policy makers’ understanding of the critical role for innovation in the future growth and development of developing East Asia. To achieve this, the report examines the region’s...
Firms in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region have been hit hard by the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, with dramatic and widespread falls in sales and employment. Firm sales in some EAP countries were...
This report seeks to deepen policy makers’ understanding of the critical role for innovation in the future growth and development of developing East Asia. To achieve this, the report examines the region’s...
The COVID-19 Business Pulse Survey (BPS) is a rapid survey designed to measure the various channels of impact of COVID-19 on firms, firm adjustment strategies, and public policy responses. The World Bank...
The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has abruptly interrupted Cambodia’s celebrated growth story. The pandemic has effectively stalled the construction and real estate boom that relied heavily on...
The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has abruptly interrupted Cambodia’s celebrated growth story. The pandemic has effectively stalled the construction and real estate boom that relied heavily on...
This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the short-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on businesses worldwide with a focus on developing countries. The results are based on a novel data set...
COVID-19 has delivered a triple shock to the developing East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region: the pandemic itself, the economic impact of containment measures, and reverberations from the global recession...
Economic and social progress requires a diverse ecosystem of firms that play complementary roles. Making It Big: Why Developing Countries Need More Large Firms constitutes one of the most up-to-date assessments...
This note is organized as follows. The first part describes the methodology behind the functional analysis. The second part presents the aggregate results of the analysis based on data from 2 national...
Large firms pay higher wages. In developing economies, the large-firm wage premium is comparable to the average gap between male and female wages, or two-thirds of the gap between urban and rural wages...
Around the world, women face persistent barriers in seeking to enter the labor force, attain leadership positions, and launch businesses. Gender inequality not only prevents women from achieving their...
This paper examines the level of investment protection for selected countries along the Belt &Road Initiative (BRI), based on coding the textual content of 17 investment laws and 648international investment...
This paper studies the effects of a reform in Serbia that transferred business registration from regional courts to a centralized agency. Using administrative data, the analysis employs a difference-in-difference...
The 2017 Investment Climate Assessment of Bhutan provides a detailed assessment of firm performance and constraints as they enter, operate, and exit domestic and international markets. The report provides...
Governance quality plays a key role in private sector development: competent bureaucrats not only create good policies and regulations, but also effectively implement them to shape the business environment...