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 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)