World Bank

• Investment Climate Assessment (ICS)
• Investment Policy Reviews help countries improve policies and institutions that deal with FDI and increase their capacity to attract and benefit from it.


• Investment Climate Assessment (ICA)
• Investment Climate Assessments build on the findings of an ICS; they are also run by the Investment Climate Department of the Private Sector Development Vice-Presidency Unit in response to requests from the field structures. An ICA will draw on a wider body of information than the ICS.


• Foreign investment diagnostic instruments
• Conducted by the Foreign Investment Advisory Service of the Private Sector Development Vice-Presidency Unit these instruments are used for a deeper (narrative) assessment of investment constraints.


• Doing Business Surveys
• Part of the Private Sector Development Vice-Presidency Unit, these are expert surveys used to collect data for country comparisons and to alert governments of regulatory concerns.


• SME Country Mapping
• Conducted by the SME Department in the Private Sector Development Vice-Presidency Unit. It involves an analysis of the key factors and constraints affecting the small enterprise sector in a particular country.


• Rural Investment Climate Survey (RICS)
• Conducted by the Agriculture and Rural Development Department of the World Bank, the RICS has been developed in collaboration with the Investment Climate Department and focuses on the investment climate for rural, non-agricultural micro enterprises. Thus, between an ICS and an RICS both urban and rural business environments are assessed.

UNCTAD

• Investment Policy Reviews
• Investment Policy Reviews help countries improve policies and institutions that deal with FDI and increase their capacity to attract and benefit from it.


• Investment Compass
• This is a new web-based benchmarking tool, which reveals the competitiveness of each country's taxations system for FDI.

USAID

• Investor Roadmap
• The main emphasis of the Investor Roadmap assessment is on FDI. Little attention is paid to small, domestic enterprises. However, the issues faced by foreign investors are used to reflect the domestic business environment.

Commonwealth Business Council

• Business Environment Survey
• A survey of private sector views on the environment for business and investment in 31 countries against 16 key indicators.

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

• Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey
• The BEEPS is a large dataset providing indicators about the business environment and the performance of enterprises. The business environment is multi-dimensional and includes key aspects of governance provided by the state, such as: business regulation, taxation, law and order, the judiciary, infrastructure, and financial services.


• Legal Indicator Survey
• A perceptions-based tool used to measure and analyse countries' legal systems. It takes a snapshot of legal reform as perceived by local lawyers. It assesses the extent to which key commercial and financial laws reach international standards, are implemented and are enforced.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

• Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
• Endeavours to understand the impact of entrepreneurship on national economic growth. The notion of an entrepreneurial society is used to reflect many of the elements that reflect an enabling business environment.

Inter-American Development Bank

• Small Business Policy Assessment Guide
• A tool to help consultants review and assess policies affecting small businesses.

International Labour Organization

• Guide for assessing the influence of the business environment on small enterprise development
• Prepared for national consultants and ILO Constituents to assess the influence of policies, laws and regulations on small enterprise employment.


• Survey kit: micro and small enterprises
• A generic questionnaire and guide for national consultants and ILO Constituents to assess the influence of policies, laws and regulations on the employment decisions of small enterprise owner-managers.


• Business Climate Assessments
• Based on a survey instrument developed by the Swedish Employers Organization, this tool has been tested by the ILO in two provinces of Viet Nam. Identifies constraints for small enterprise growth and ways to make local business climates more enabling for small-scale enterprises.