women in business policies to support women s entrepreneurship in the middle east and north africa oecd b highlights existing efforts by governments and other stakeholders to improve support for women entrepreneurs and identifies avenues for future action to accelerate the development of women s entrepreneurship better quality data about informal enterprises too would support the development of more effective policies for promoting entrepreneurship in the mena region and better entrepreneurship policies would have longterm positive effects on employment opportunities for the entire population so helping to offer a response to citizens calls for greater prosperity which have been at the core of the recent political and social movements taking place across the mena region