World development report 2005: a better investment climate for everyone

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What Have We Learned from a Decade of Manufacturing Enterprise Surveys in Africa? (2005, unknown): “Improving the investment climate is seen as a policy priority for the continent (World Bank 2004, 2005).(5) Batra, Kaufmann, and Stone (2003) analyze the obstacles to business based on the WBES data.”
Infrastructure Public–Private Partnerships in the Developing World: Lessons from Recent Experience (2015, methodology): “…a major concern and cost driver in sub-Saharan Africa (World Bank, 2013a), apparent in the finding that inadequate infrastructure represents 10 per cent of the cost of sales in Tanzania (World Bank, 2004) or the impact of weak transportation networks in Kenya on costs in land-locked Uganda.”
Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya (2009, background): “Hundreds of millions of people in developing countries earn their living through small-scale businesses (World Bank, 2004; de Soto, 1989).”
Entrepreneurship and public policy (2009, unknown): “44 See, e.g., World Bank (2005a, 2005b).”