New Survey Results for Côte d'Ivoire, Madagascar and Mauritius

Enterprise Surveys has published new data on Côte d'Ivoire, Madagascar and Mauritius. The Enterprise Surveys database now includes over 90,000 observations of more than 100 business environment indicators measured in 111 countries around the world. They also include details on how local firms perceive the economic and regulatory climate in each country.

For the first time, 526 firms in Côte d'Ivoire were surveyed. Asked to identify their single greatest obstacle to business investment, 45% answered “access to finance.” (“Political instability” was a distant but solid second with 28%.) In Côte d'Ivoire, only about 11% of firms had lines of credit or loans from financial institutions—far below the regional (22%) and global* (31%) database averages.

In Madagascar, 445 firms were surveyed this year to update 2005 data. “Infrastructure” topped the list of business concerns. Madagascar’s firms reported longer delays to obtain crucial utilities, more power outages and more incidents of water insufficiency than regional or database averages for key infrastructure indicators.

As in Côte d'Ivoire, Mauritius’ firms identified “access to finance” as a top obstacle to business investment, and yet, more firms had lines of credit or loans from financial institutions (47%) than regional or worldwide database averages. Furthermore, collateral requirements for loans were substantially lower (at 60% of the loan amount) than the global average (132%).

 

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* The "global" database average covers the 111 economies currently covered by enterprise surveys.