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Global Investment Competitiveness Survey 2017

World, 2017
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Peter Kusek, Andrea Silva
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Identification

IDNO
WLD_2017_GICS_v01_M
Title
Global Investment Competitiveness Survey 2017
Countries
Name Code
World WLD
Study notes
The Global Investment Competitiveness Survey (GIC Survey) offers practical evidence to help policy makers design policies and prioritize reforms that investors value. It captures perceptions of international business executives on the role of investment climate factors in their FDI decisions.

The survey was designed to provide a broad understanding of corporate perspectives and investor behavior and was not intended as a benchmarking tool to compare countries. Results are not representative at a country level.
Kind of data
Sample survey data [ssd]

Version

Version
- v0.1

Coverage

Geographic coverage
The survey was designed to provide a broad understanding of corporate perspectives and investor behavior and was not intended as a benchmarking tool to compare countries. Results are not representative at a country level.
Unit of analysis
The Survey describes:

- Companies

Producers and sponsors

Authoring entity
Name Affiliation
Peter Kusek IFC- World Bank
Andrea Silva IFC- World Bank
Funding agencies
Name
Prosperity Fund of the United Kingdom

Sampling

Sampling procedure
The sample frame consisted of nearly 8,000 eligible companies in the commercially available Dunn and Bradstreet database. The 754 respondents were investors with existing affiliates in at least one developing country. The interviews consisted of a screener phase, to ensure the eligibility of respondents. Respondents were a combination of executives at the global headquarters and executives at a foreign affiliate.

Data Collection

Dates of collection
Start End
2017-02 2017-06
Mode of data collection
Computer Assisted Telephone Interview [cati]
Questionnaires
Questionnaire available for download from the Related Materials section.

Data access

Citation requirements
The use of the datasets must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the identification of the Primary Investigator (including country name);
- the full title of the survey and its acronym (when available), and the year(s) of implementation;
- the survey reference number;
- the source and date of download (for datasets disseminated online).

Example:

Peter Kusek, Andrea Silva (IFC-World Bank). Global Investment Competitiveness Survey (GICS) 2017. Ref. WLD_2017_GICS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [URL] on [date].

Contacts

Contact(s)
Name Email
Peter Kusek pkusek@ifc.org
Andrea Silva asilva5@ifc.org

Metadata production

IDNo
DDI_WLD_2017_GICS_v01_M_WB
Producers
Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
Development Data Group DECDG World Bank Study documentation
East Asia- IFC GMTIP World Bank Study documentation
Production date
2018-03-29
Version
Version 01 (March 2018).