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Much has been written about the political, economic and social dimensions
and challenges of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) (see
Noland and Pack 2007; World Bank 2007b; AfDB and OECD 2008;
Muasher 2008; Richards and Waterbury 2008; World Bank 2008d; IMF
2009b). These works cover the situation in different combinations of
countries in the region depending on how they chose to define it and their
particular perspectives and geopolitical interests.
This book is concerned with the context for private sector development
(PSD) including micro, small and medium enterprises (SMEs1), the PSD
challenges and the relevant policy, institutional and research capacity,
responses and needs in 12 MENA countries: Algeria (AG), Egypt (EG),
Iraq (IQ), Jordan (JO), Lebanon (LE), Morocco (MA), Sudan (SD), Syria
(SY), Tunisia (TN), Turkey (TR), the West Bank & Gaza (WB&G) and
Yemen (YE), hereafter referred to as the MENA-12.
The rationale for this
particular selection of MENA countries is that they all fall within the geographic
domain of the Middle East/North Africa Regional Office (MERO)
of Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
The results shared in the book are based on a scoping study carried out
by the IRDC from 2007 to 2009. Building on IDRC’s growing interest in
the topic of PSD over the past few years and an expanding literature on
PSD strategies as a vehicle for economic growth in developing countries,
the book presents a diagnostic of the PSD challenges in the MENA-12
countries, offers conceptual frameworks for PSD, SME and entrepreneurship
development, and shares country-level
approaches to enhancing
growth of the private sec
Lois Stevenson and Edward Elgar - Personal Name
1st Edition
978 1 55250 474 1
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Private Sector and Enterprise Development
Management
English
International Development Research Centre
2010
United Kingdom
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