the oecd report women in business policies to support womens entrepreneurship development in the mena region was the first comparative assessment of policy measures to promote women s entrepreneurship and covered mena economies oecd a the study underlined that while bds services are known to be relatively weak in mena economies the extent to which women entrepreneurs are being served by those services seems even more limited despite the increasing number of women starting up businesses considering that experience from nonmena countries suggests that women s enterprise centres are successful at helping women entrepreneurs especially in the early stages of business ventures the study concluded that there was a need to collect data on and carry out an assessment of bds services in the mena region and to outline the current good practices in the mena region