07/01/2025
Last month Enterprise Surveys hosted a ๐ฆ๐๐บ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ถ๐๐บ ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐น๐ผ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ ๐๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ป๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฑ๐๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐๐.
The symposium brought together leading economists, policymakers, and practitioners to explore one of the most important questions in development:
๐๐ผ๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ ๐๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ผ๐ผ๐๐ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฟ๐บ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฑ๐๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ฑ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ, ๐ถ๐ป๐ฐ๐น๐๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ด๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐๐ต?
One clear takeaway: ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฎ ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐.
Middle-income countries now account for 75% of the worldโs population, and for these economies, raising productivity isnโt about working harder itโs about working smarter. That transformation starts with high-quality, firm-level data.
๐ Enterprise Surveys are a critical public good empowering economies to:
- Understand firm performance
- Identify barriers to growth
- Design smarter, evidence-based policies
As Roberta Gatti and Indermit Gill noted:
โProductivity is the name of the game"
Thank you to Indermit Gill, Makhtar Diop, Roberta Gatti, Susan Lund, Norman Loayza, Jan De Loecker, Diego Restuccia, and Jorge Rodriguez-Meza, for your remarks!
๐บ ๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐? ๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ฐ๐ต ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ณ๐๐น๐น ๐๐๐บ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ถ๐๐บ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ: https://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2025/06/05/WBES-Symposium2025
Download Jorge Rodriguez Mezaโs presentation and replication package here:
https://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2025/06/05/WBES-Symposium2025 #2
