Enhancing the Competitiveness of The Arab SMEs

Hussein Elasrag , Munich Personal RePEc Archive (MPRA) , 2011
Enhancing the Competitiveness of The Arab SMEs

Due to their increasing importance to production growth and vital relation with various productive sectors in society, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have become one of the key instruments to face economic and social problems and achieve development objectives in most industrial and developing countries.SME contributions to employment creation, productivity improvement, and income generation are underutilized in the Arab countries at a time when economic transformation is shifting the onus for productivity from the public sector to the private sector.

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