This paper shows that firms in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) provide training to their workers less frequently than firms in other regions and yet seem to be more in need of it. Utilizing firm level data from the Enterprise Surveys for over 100 countries, it attempts to explain that...

For years, countries in the MENA region have been trying to increase entrepreneurship rates; however, faced with high unemployment, commodity-dependent economies, and low economic growth, it was not until 2016 that the region finally witnessed the introduction of a modern bankruptcy statute....

The Curious Case of the Green Transition: Managing a Historic Shift in Oil Exporting CountriesWhile the Middle East and North African (MENA) region is home to only 6% of the world’s population, it controls 60% of the world’s known oil resources and almost half of the world’s natural gas...

During the last few years and because of the low oil prices in particular, the increasing awareness of the unsustainability of subsidized systems led several MENA countries to take steps to lower subsidies, which have been part of the social contract for decades, especially as far as the energy...