Welcome to WikiProject Entrepreneurship policies in the Arab world. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of entrepreneurship policies in the Arab world, and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

• This project addresses existing policies and research on entrepreneurship in the Middle East, North Africa, and Arab world. It will include country-specific pages on the best practices and the challenges that have been identified in the establishment of an entrepreneurial climate in this region.

• This project covers entrepreneurship policy in all 22 countries in the Arab League and some neighboring countries. Its focus is on policy, research, and major initiatives.
• The focus is on multi-year, ongoing initiatives, in order to avoid an unmanageable list of one-off, one-time events or small projects that have not yet proven themselves.

On this Project:

• To ensure comparability, all countries covered will use the same basic template for categorizing policies. Once this template has been stabilized, modifying it will mean modifying all 22+ countries that use it, for which considerable discussion in the Template talk page is suggested to reach consensus in advance.
• The same format is followed within each country: for each policy category, a very brief synopsis may be offered if helpful, followed by a short list of the most important 'best practices' that have been identified by leading scholars, followed by a short list of the 'needed reforms' that leading scholarly research has identified as being most important for the emergence of successful entrepreneurship in that particular country.
• In order to avoid an overly-long "laundry list" and/or pet-peeves of particular interested parties, judgment and discretion is required to keep these lists succinct and limited to the top priorities for the country and region as a whole.
• If possible, the specific law, regulation or policy should be identified, and linked to (if available).

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• Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines is the main stop for policies and guidelines.
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• Wikipedia:WikiProject sets out boilerplates for certain areas of knowledge.

• We are still conceptualizing our organization, templates, format. Stay tuned!

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

1. You! Anyone in the world is welcome to edit this WikiProject, so long as they follow Wikipedia rules (respect others, etc.).
2. {BEM etc.}
3. QalasQalas (talk) 13:54, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
4. Dale145 (talk · contribs) working on the entire project!
5. DaleMurphy (talk · contribs) I am interested in helping others learn how to edit and make use of this WikiProject on entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North African regions.

Please feel free to list here your new articles on entrepreneurship policies in the Arab world-related articles (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

• Please put your newest articles here, on top! :-)
• Entrepreneurship Policies in Syria
• Entrepreneurship Policies in Saudi Arabia
• Entrepreneurship Policies in Egypt
• Entrepreneurship Policies in United Arab Emirates
• Entrepreneurship policies in Erewhon : demo example applying a template categorizing policies to the made-up 'country' of Erewhon.
• Arab entrepreneurship initiatives

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• Category:Entrepreneurship policies in the Arab world

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	Entrepreneurship policies in the Arab world (inactive)
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• Legatum Institute[1]
• Wolfensohn Center for Development at the Brookings Institution
• Middle East Youth Initiative (MEYI)
• Silatech
• Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation
• StartupArabia
• Dubai School of Government
• World Economic Forum[2]