World Business Environment Survey (WBES) 2000

The WBES, administered to enterprises in 80 countries and one territory, utilizes a standard core enterprise and fairly uniform survey methodology to generate indicators that allow comparisons across countries and over time.

View the WBES website

View the interactive WBES website

Publications utilizing the WBES:

• Pathways Out of Poverty: Private Firms and Economic Mobility in Developing Countries (September 2003, Edited by G. Fields and G. Pfeffermann) 
  
  
• Investment Climate Around the World: Voices of the Firms from the World Business Environment Survey (May 2003, G. Batra, D. Kaufmann and A. Stone)