List of Acronyms
African Development Bank
Algerian Agency for the Promotion of Foreign Trade
Agency for the Development of Investment and Exports (Morocco)
National Agency for Investment Development (Algeria)
National Agency for SME Development (Algeria)
National Microcredit Agency (Algeria)
National Agency for the Support of Youth Employment (Algeria)
Agency for the Promotion of Industry and Innovation (Tunisia)
Bank Al-Maghrib (the Moroccan Central Bank)
Business Development Centre (Jordan)
Central Bank of Lebanon
business development services
Tunisian SME Bank
Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Algeria)
Company of Export Guarantees (Algeria)
Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (Egypt)
Institute for Social Security for the Self-Employed and Independent Professionals (Algeria)
Centre of Arab Women for Training and Research
Central Bank of Egypt
Credit Guarantee Agency (Morocco)
Credit Guarantee Company (Egypt)
National Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises
Fund of Guarantees for Credit Investment (Algeria)
Capital Investment Programme (Lebanon)
National Social Security Institute (Algeria)
National Consultation Council for SME Development (Algeria)
National Centre of the Commercial Register (Algeria)
National Committee of the Business Climate (Morocco)
Online System for Enterprise Creation (Morocco)
General Directorate for Taxes (Morocco)
General Directorate for SMEs (Tunisia)
General Directorate for Reform and Administrative Outlook (Tunisia)
Department of Statistics (Jordan)
Executive Agency for Small & Medium Enterprises (EU)
Enhancement of the Business Environment in the Southern Mediterranean Project
Egyptian Banking Institute
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
European Enterprise Network
Economic Empowerment of Women Centre Israel
Egyptian Financial Supervisory Authority
European Investment Bank
Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme (OECD-Eurostat)
Euro-Lebanese Centre for Industrial Modernisation
European Entrepreneurship Key Competence Framework
European-Palestinian Credit Guarantee Fund
Egyptian Regulatory Reform and Development Activity
European Training Foundation
European Union
Algerian Credit Guarantee Fund for SMEs
Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce
Foreign Trade Administration (Israel)
General Authority for Investment and Free Zones (Egypt)
Governorate Development Fund (Jordan)
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
German development agency
General Procurement Authority (Israel)
National Statistics Office (Morocco)
Improving the Business Environment in Lebanon
single identification number (Morocco)
Concerted Initiative for Strengthening Moroccan Achievements (Initiative Concerée pour le renforcement des Acquis des Marocaines)
Industrial Development Authority (Egypt)
Investment Development Agency (Lebanon)
Israel Export and International Co-operation Institute
International Finance Corporation
International Labour Organization
Industrial Modernisation Centre (Egypt)
International Monetary Fund
International Organisation for Standards
Industrial Training Centre (Egypt chapter only)
International Trade Centre
Jordan Enterprise Development Corporation
Jordan Economic Growth Plan for 2018-2022
Jordan Loan Guarantee Corporation
Local Enterprise Support Project Jordan
Lebanese League for Women in Business
Small Business Development Centres (Israel)
Mediterranean Middle East and North Africa
micro, small and medium-sized enterprises
MSME Development Agency (Egypt)
monitoring and evaluation
National Business Agenda (Tunisia)
National Commission for Lebanese Women
not in education, employment or training
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
National Office for Intellectual and Commercial Property (Morocco)
Office of the Minister of State for Administrative Reform (Lebanon)
National Statistics Office (Algeria)
peer-to-peer (lending)
Project for the Support of SME Development (Algeria)
Palestinian Investment Promotion Agency
Palestinian Monetary Authority
public-private dialogue
Office of Promotion of Foreign Trade (Algeria)
regulatory impact analysis
Small Business Act for Europe
Social Fund for Development (Egypt)
Small and Medium Business Agency (Israel)
Small and Medium Business Fund (Israel)
micro, small and medium-sized enterprises
Technical Assistance and Information Exchange instrument (European Union)
technical and vocational education and training
General Union of Algerian Workers
United Nations Commission on International Trade Law
United Nations Industrial Development Organisation
United States Agency for International Development
Union of Industry, Commerce and Crafts (Tunisia)
venture capital
vocational education and training
World Bank
World Trade Organisation