The “Arab Spring” drew attention worldwide to the dire socio-economic conditions in many Arab countries. Efforts to explain, address and resolve these challenges led to a surge in both academic research as well as a plethora of policy recommendations from very different perspectives. By focusing on a crucial area for employment and growth in the Arab region — economic governance and entrepreneurship — the present paper consolidates the vast research and policy recommendations available based on a ‘best evidence’ approach and identifies three priority policy challenges to facilitate entrepreneurship: competition policy, access to finance and entrepreneurial education. We argue that improvement of economic governance tailored to improve these policy areas is a crucial lever for promoting entrepreneurship and creating employment in Arab countries. Highlighting interdependences between these areas, we derive a set of recommendations for each of the identified policy challenges.

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阿拉伯地区的企业家精神和治理——回顾近期文献以优先考虑政策挑战

“阿拉伯之春”引起了全世界对许多阿拉伯国家严峻的社会经济状况的关注。解释、解决和解决这些挑战的努力导致了学术研究的激增以及来自不同角度的大量政策建议。通过关注阿拉伯地区就业和增长的一个关键领域——经济治理和企业家精神——本文整合了基于“最佳证据”方法的大量研究和政策建议，并确定了促进企业家精神的三个优先政策挑战：竞争政策、融资渠道和创业教育。我们认为，为改善这些政策领域而改进经济治理是促进阿拉伯国家创业和创造就业的关键杠杆。