• Mapping exercises quantify the economy sector by sector and industry by industry, and identify how these contribute to development indicators over time.  Note that not all the questions set out in the steps and the analytical tools can be immediately answered from information in these mappings; some of the information will have to be obtained through more detailed country-level data gathering, including through interviews or surveys (including those conducted by government and other agencies)

• Overview mappings:
• Formal sector mappings can be obtained from USAID, national government surveys, or the ILO (particularly as “Key Indicators of the Labor Market”, KILM) (http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/strat/kilm/)
• Informal sector mappings are usually based on indirect methods such as household or enterprise surveys; see World Bank webpage “Measuring the Size of the Informal Sector” for guidelines and resources, http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/eca/eca.nsf/Sectors/ECSPE/0E1CFCAE7D9EFA4185256A940073F4E5?OpenDocument

• General economic information: The World Bank web site offers Country Data Profiles which contain key economic information, and links to a number of other sites with country information, at http://www.worldbank.org/data/countrydata/countrydata.html. Check Donor Supported Tools for related resources

• Information on the private sector:
• The IFC has a summary dataset of information on micro-enterprises and SMEs at http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/sme.nsf/Content/Resources  
• The World Bank’s World Business Environment Survey (WBES) (http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wbes) is a very useful source of data 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

• Governance:
• Transparency International carries out a number of surveys on corruption, both at a global and national level, accessible from its homepage, at http://www.transparency.org/  
• The Governance Research Indicator Country Snapshot (GRICS) provides aggregated data for six dimensions of governance:  Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption, for 209 countries, at http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/govdata2002/
• The World Bank also has links to a wealth of data on governance at http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/govdatasets/index.html

• Refer to Donor Supported Tools for additional sources

Source: Unleashing Entrepreneurship: A Guide to Country Implementation, BRSP; websites