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Mincon Conference on Investment and Finance of the ICT Sector in the Arab Region May 9, 2013, enclosing SME landscape in MENA (definition, geographic distribution, solving unemployment through SMEs, access challenges facing SMEs, and opportunities to invest in SMEs)...Read More

This research aims to study enhancing the competitiveness of small and medium business enterprises in the Arab Countries under the knowledge economy in the light of the growing interest in it, through identification of the concept and importance of small business...Read More

FIAS (The Facility for Investment Climate Advisory Services) 2011 Annual Review reports FIAS-supported results for fiscal year 2011 and highlights cumulative results for the 2008–11 FIAS strategy cycle. Read More

Presented at the Arab-EU Event, 3 March 2013, Doha enclosing the importance of SMEs, the contribution of SMEs, are SMEs given full attention, definitions of SMEs, promotion of SMEs in the Gulf, sectorial structure of SMEs in the Gulf, promotion of foreign direct...Read More

• SMEs are becoming increasingly important to the Middle East economies. • They are playing an important role in diversifying economies and creating jobs. • Policy action is necessary to support the sector. Read More

The draft paper in particular highlights the potential of women‟s entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa as a means to enhance enterprise development and employment in the region. The paper is based on research by the Women‟s Business Forum and the MENA-...Read More

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have become one of the key instruments to face economic and social problems and achieve development objectives in most industrial and developing countries. SME contributions to employment creation, productivity improvement, and...Read More

This report on the implementation of the Euro-Mediterranean Charter for Enterprise (MED Charter) provides a comprehensive picture of the devel- opment of policies that support and promote entrepreneurship and enterprise development conducted by the governments of the...Read More

Doing Business in the Arab World 2012 is a region- al report drawing on the global Doing Business project and its database as well as the findings of Doing Business 2012, the ninth in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business...Read More

Doing Business 2014 is the 11th in a series of annual reports investigating the reg- ulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that...Read More