As the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic enters its second year, foreign investors can see light at the end of the tunnel as economic conditions improve. Results from the latest round (Q1 2021) of World Bank Group's quarterly pulse surveys of Multinational Enterprise (MNE) affiliates suggests that...

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...

As the COVID-19 crisis extends into the second half of 2020, the outlook for both the pandemic and the associated economic crisis remains highly uncertain. In this environment, multinational enterprises (MNEs) need to weather a prolonged economic downturn while also navigating government policy...

A fourth round of the quarterly pulse survey, reflecting the last quarter of 2020, was administered in February 2021. This round of the survey included new questions reflecting on 2020, and the impacts of the crisis on technology adoption and environmental sustainability trends. The report's...