Enterprise Surveys : Niger Country Profile 2017

Enterprise Surveys : Niger Country Profile 2017

The Enterprise Surveys (ES) focus on many aspects of the business environment. These factors can be accommodating or constraining for firms and play an important role in whether an economy’s private sector will thrive or not. An accommodating busin...

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Main Author: World Bank
Format: Technical Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:
WORKFORCE
FIRM PERFORMANCE
INFRASTRUCTURE
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
ACCESS TO FINANCE
CRIME
INFORMAL SECTOR
REGULATION
TAXATION
CORRUPTION
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/723731505130172231/Enterprise-surveys-Niger-country-profile-2017
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spelling okr-10986-284772021-05-25T09:53:41Z Enterprise Surveys : Niger Country Profile 2017 World Bank WORKFORCE FIRM PERFORMANCE INFRASTRUCTURE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL TRADE ACCESS TO FINANCE CRIME INFORMAL SECTOR REGULATION TAXATION CORRUPTION The Enterprise Surveys (ES) focus on many aspects of the business environment. These factors can be accommodating or constraining for firms and play an important role in whether an economy’s private sector will thrive or not. An accommodating business environment is one that encourages firms to operate efficiently. Such conditions strengthen incentives for firms to innovate and to increase productivity — key factors for sustainable development. A more productive private sector, in turn, expands employment and contributes taxes necessary for public investment in health, education, and other services. The topics include infrastructure, trade, finance, regulations, taxes and business licensing, corruption, crime and informality, access to finance, innovation, labor, and perceptions about obstacles to doing business.The surveys are administered to a representative sample of firms in the non-agricultural, formal, private economy. The ES are repeated approximately every four years for a particular economy (or region). By tracking changes in the business environment, policymakers and researchers can look at the effects of policy and regulatory reforms on firm performance.Repeated surveys aid in studying the evolution of the business environment and how it affects the dynamics of the private sector.This document summarizes the results of the Enterprise Survey for Niger. Business owners and top managers in 151 firms were interviewed between April and June 2017. 2017-10-06T20:20:15Z 2017-10-06T20:20:15Z 2017-04-01 Technical Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/723731505130172231/Enterprise-surveys-Niger-country-profile-2017 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28477 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper Africa Niger
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en_US
topic WORKFORCE
FIRM PERFORMANCE
INFRASTRUCTURE
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
ACCESS TO FINANCE
CRIME
INFORMAL SECTOR
REGULATION
TAXATION
CORRUPTION
spellingShingle WORKFORCE
FIRM PERFORMANCE
INFRASTRUCTURE
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
ACCESS TO FINANCE
CRIME
INFORMAL SECTOR
REGULATION
TAXATION
CORRUPTION
World Bank
Enterprise Surveys : Niger Country Profile 2017
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description The Enterprise Surveys (ES) focus on many aspects of the business environment. These factors can be accommodating or constraining for firms and play an important role in whether an economy’s private sector will thrive or not. An accommodating business environment is one that encourages firms to operate efficiently. Such conditions strengthen incentives for firms to innovate and to increase productivity — key factors for sustainable development. A more productive private sector, in turn, expands employment and contributes taxes necessary for public investment in health, education, and other services. The topics include infrastructure, trade, finance, regulations, taxes and business licensing, corruption, crime and informality, access to finance, innovation, labor, and perceptions about obstacles to doing business.The surveys are administered to a representative sample of firms in the non-agricultural, formal, private economy. The ES are repeated approximately every four years for a particular economy (or region). By tracking changes in the business environment, policymakers and researchers can look at the effects of policy and regulatory reforms on firm performance.Repeated surveys aid in studying the evolution of the business environment and how it affects the dynamics of the private sector.This document summarizes the results of the Enterprise Survey for Niger. Business owners and top managers in 151 firms were interviewed between April and June 2017.
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author World Bank
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title Enterprise Surveys : Niger Country Profile 2017
title_short Enterprise Surveys : Niger Country Profile 2017
title_full Enterprise Surveys : Niger Country Profile 2017
title_fullStr Enterprise Surveys : Niger Country Profile 2017
title_full_unstemmed Enterprise Surveys : Niger Country Profile 2017
title_sort enterprise surveys : niger country profile 2017
publisher Washington, DC
publishDate 2017
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/723731505130172231/Enterprise-surveys-Niger-country-profile-2017
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28477
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