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World Business Environment Survey (WBES) 2000 Webtool Interactive

How can the environment for doing business and climate for investment be assessed in countries around the world? The World Business Environment Survey (WBES 2000), administered to enterprises in 80 countries in late 1999 and early 2000, utilized a standard core enterprise questionnaire methodology. This comprehensive survey of over 10,000 firms covers enterprise responses to multiple questions on the investment climate and business environment as shaped by domestic economic policy; governance; regulatory, infrastructural and financial impediments, as well as assessments of public service quality. To provide the most transparent, flexible and user-friendly approach to access the data and prepare charts and tables, an interactive webtool has been developed to work with the WBES. Working with the WBES and its associated reports and data requires particular care in use and interpretation of data and results (for details, please read user agreement below).

• Access to WBES Interactive

• Access to WBES 2000 website

• Purchase the book, Investment Climate Around the World: Voices of the Firms from the World Business Environment Survey, by Geeta Batra, Daniel Kaufmann and Andrew H.W. Stone.

• Access to BEEPS Interactive (transition economy component of BEEPS)

• Access to GRICS Interactive (updated aggregate governance indicators)

Access to WBES Interactive Dataset

To access the fully interactive website of the worldwide survey, please click here, or continue reading through this steps below for conventional downloading of the full WBES data set. Please, also review the data user's responsibilities below.

The user understands that no claims, implicit or explicit, are made for the attached database and that any conclusions or inferences drawn from the data are wholly the responsibility of the user. No conclusions or inferences drawn from the data or accompanying materials should be attributed to the World Bank Group, its Board of Directors, its management, or any of its member countries without their express, written consent.

The user agrees to protect the confidentiality of firms participating in the survey. The user understands that the data collected from this survey reflects the responses of firms for a particular point in time, and further, as with any such type of survey, is subject to measurement and reporting errors. Therefore caution in interpretation of specific results for a country, or in making precise comparisons across countries is warranted, and precise country rankings ought to be avoided for any variable.

The user agrees to reference the source of data as "The World Business Environment Survey (WBES) 2000, The World Bank Group. The user agrees to share of research or publications utilizing this data with the World Bank Group. Copies may be sent to: astone@worldbank.org and copied to governancewbi@worldbank.org. For feedback and suggestions, click here.

If you have read this agreement and concur, please click here for downloading the dataset in zip file, or click here for access to the WBES interactive website