Enhancing the competitiveness of the Arab SMEs
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Keywords
competitiveness ; Arab small and medium enterprises;JEL classification:
- D2 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations
- E19 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Other
- E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ARA-2011-04-16 (MENA - Middle East and North Africa)
- NEP-CSE-2011-04-16 (Economics of Strategic Management)
- NEP-CWA-2011-04-16 (Central and Western Asia)
- NEP-ENT-2011-04-16 (Entrepreneurship)
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