The Impact of COVID-19 on Foreign Investors : Early Evidence from a Global Pulse Survey

To assess the impact of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic on multinational enterprises affiliates in developing countries, the World Bank Group conducted a foreign investor pulse survey in March 2020. The survey covered three components: the actu...

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Main Authors: Saurav, Abhishek, Kusek, Peter, Kuo, Ryan
Format: Survey
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/861571589873927189/The-Impact-of-COVID-19-on-Foreign-Investors-Early-Evidence-from-a-Global-Pulse-Survey
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33774
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Summary:To assess the impact of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic on multinational enterprises affiliates in developing countries, the World Bank Group conducted a foreign investor pulse survey in March 2020. The survey covered three components: the actual effect of the pandemic on businesses in the past three months (January - March 2020), the likely effect of the pandemic in the next three months (forward-looking for April - June 2020), and areas for policy support measures. This analytical note reports the results of the survey.