Author: OECD
Publisher: Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789264304154
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The report looks at key SME and entrepreneurship policy reforms over the past years since the publication of the SME Policy Index for the MENA region in 2014. It notes the continued efforts by MED economies to develop SMEs and start-ups as means to reduce unemployment, promote economic ...
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2018-09-15
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9264304169
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The report looks at key SME and entrepreneurship policy reforms over the past years since the publication of the SME Policy Index for the MENA region in 2014. It notes the continued efforts by MED economies to develop SMEs and start-ups as means to reduce unemployment, promote economic ...
Author: Anthony Gorman
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2017-11-22
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1474430635
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first book to look critically at digital technologies and the role they play within queer lives in contemporary India
Author: David Ramin Jalilvand
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-22
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1351783483
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are in disarray, and shifts in the field of energy have the potential to drastically affect the course of political and economic developments in the region. Declining oil prices, skyrocketing domestic demand, the rise of unconventional oil and natural gas production in North America, as well as shifting patterns of global energy trade all put severe pressures on both producing and importing countries in the MENA region. Policy-makers are facing fundamental challenges in light of the duality of grand transformations in (geo)politics and energy. Changes in the field of energy require substantial political and economic reforms, affecting the very fabric of sociopolitical arrangements. At the same time, the MENA region’s geopolitical volatility makes any such reforms extremely risky. Including contributions by academics and analysts from both inside and outside the MENA region, this volume explores the changes in global and regional energy, the impact of changing international energy dynamics on politics and economies in the MENA region, and the challenges that will result. This is essential reading for researchers, postgraduates, and professionals in Middle Eastern and North African politics, global energy governance and regionalism.
Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9789264306653
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This report provides an in-depth analysis of major reforms undertaken between 2014 and 2018 to promote micro, small and medium-sized enterprise development in Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority and Tunisia. The report focuses on five strategic areas for SME policy making: SME definitions, statistics and institutions; improving business environments for SMEs and entrepreneurs; fostering access to finance; nurturing start-ups and SME growth; and the development of entrepreneurial human capital. The report aims to showcase good practices and to point to areas where more efforts are needed. It provides valuable guidance for governments, private sector organisations, multilateral bodies and other stakeholders to intensify their efforts to support SMEs as essential vehicles for jobs and competitiveness. This is particularly relevant in a region striving to boost economic diversification, employment creation and the inclusion of youth and women in the economy. The report is the result of a process of close collaboration among governments, the OECD, the European Training Foundation and the European Commission.
Author: Adel Abdel Ghafar
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2019-04-23
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 0815736967
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How Europe can hit the “reset” button after years of failed responses to North African turmoil The ongoing upheaval in North Africa has presented many challenges to Europe, which previously had been comfortable with the status quo of authoritarian leadership in much of the region. Now in its ninth year, the turmoil has forced European leaders to rethink their approaches to the region, based on the now-obvious reality that the brief hopes of early 2011 for the spread of democracy and economic progress will not be fulfilled anytime soon. In this book, experts from Europe, the United States, and the Middle East discuss what has happened since the so-called “Arab Spring” emerged and how those often-bewildering events have affected both North Africa and the European states across the Mediterranean. The book is based on papers presented at a March 2018 conference sponsored by the South Mediterranean Regional Program of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung. Chapters focus on events in Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia—and offer ideas for how the European Union can adopt fresh approaches to the region, moving beyond its frequently uncertain and shifting responses of recent years.
Author: Aybars Görgülü
Publisher: Global Politics and Security
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783034338172
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The findings and policy recommendations presented in the book aim to contribute to making EU policies more responsive to major challenges in the region, more flexible on the multilateral and the bilateral level and more inclusive of key stakeholders.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2021-03-30
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9264473041
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Middle East and North Africa Investment Policy Perspectives highlights the considerable progress in investment policies made by the region’s governments over the past decade. Yet, the reform momentum needs to be sustained and deepened for the benefits of investment to be shared with society at large and for growth to be sustainable, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting global economic upheaval.