BEEPS At-A-Glance 2008 Cross Country Report
The Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS), a joint initiative of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank, now in its 4th iteration, is a means for collecting firm-level data on broad range of...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2010/01/20300327/beeps-at-a-glance-2008-cross-country-report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20469 |
| Summary: | The Business Environment and Enterprise
Performance Survey (BEEPS), a joint initiative of the
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the
World Bank, now in its 4th iteration, is a means for
collecting firm-level data on broad range of issues about
the business environment and performance of firms, including
business-government relations, firm financing, labor,
infrastructure, informal payments and corruption, and other
topics such as training and innovation. The BEEPS
at-a-Glance cross country report provides an at-a-glance
view of all country and sub-regional values for selected
indicators. Similar to the country profiles, the report
highlights changes in indicator values over time. In
addition, this report provides an expanded analysis of
Problems Doing Business indicators, including ranks over
time and differences across time. As the report shows, there
is much variation across countries and sub-regions for
specific indicators, and in some cases, certain countries
stand out as leaders and laggards. The BEEPS has been
carried out in four rounds: in 1999, 2002, 2005, and 2008
and covers virtually all of the countries of Central and
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, as well as
Turkey. This note focuses exclusively on the Main BEEPS
questionnaires for 2005 and 2008 and presents simple
averages over all firms with non-missing data. Many apparent
changes over time may not be statistically significant. The
Annex provides descriptions and definitions of the regional
and sub-regional comparators. |
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