...Ali Fakih; Jana El Chaar; Jad El Arissy; Sara Zaki Kassab Purpose This paper aims to investigate the impact of governance quality on total unemployment in general and female unemployment in particular in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, comparing the post-Arab Spring period...

... and their microenterprises on a sustainable basis. Design/methodology/approach The authors first present the main features of microfinance in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Second, based on a simple of 72 microfinance institutions issued from ten countries of the region, they develop a bootstrap–data...

... of institutions, governance, the country civil law origin and the economic growth. The MENA region has higher levels of FDI per capita than most other countries; the regional average for 2009 was US$637, exceeding the world’s amount of US$163 and the G20’s with an amount of US$149 and even the developed...