Morocco and Tunisia in Global Value Chains: focus on business services as innovation drivers
Morocco, Tunisia, Global

In this report, we argue that, to better understand how business services can contribute to...

Value chains
Industry
SMEs
SMEs key to sustainable growth
Egypt, Global

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the engines of global economic growth and employment...

Employment
Growth
Industry
SMEs
Inclusion in entrepreneurship, especially of women, youth and unemployed: status and an agenda for research in Middle East and North Africa
Regional

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has a desire to include more people in entrepreneurship...

Public policies
SMEs
Unemployment
Women
Youth
PME Tunisiennes : Comment saisir les opportunités des Chaînes de Valeur Mondiales
Tunisia

This economic policy note proposes to take stock of Tunisia's integration into GVCs, to identify the...

SMEs
Value chains
New Mindset, Increased Profits: Lessons from an Innovative Entrepreneurial Training in Togo
Regional

Research has shown that traditional business training does not often increase profits of small...

Entrepreneurs
Innovation
Skills
SMEs
Youth
Egypt’s National Strategy for the Development of Organic Clusters: 2019-30
Egypt

The importance of clusters to the economic and social development of countries around the world has...

MSMEs
Public policies
SMEs
Support
Value chains
Do entrepreneurship policies work? Evidence from 460 start-up program competitions across the globe
Global

Many organizations around the world implement programs designed to encourage entrepreneurship...

Entrepreneurs
Impact evaluations
SMEs
Startups
Youth
Industrial Policy, Structural Change and Global Value Chains Participation: Case study of Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt
Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt

Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt (such as many other developing countries) have always considered pro...

Industry
Public policies
Value chains
Supporting Self-Employment and Small-Scale Entrepreneurship : Potential Programs to Improve Livelihoods for Vulnerable Workers
Global

Worldwide, around 55 percent of workers are self-employed, and about three-quarters of these are...

Earnings
Employment
Entrepreneurs
Impact evaluations
Value chains
National survey on the informal sector 2013-2014
Morocco

The National Survey on the Informal Sector (undeclared non-agricultural production units) covered a...

Informal sector
Labour
MSMEs
Private sector
SMEs