Region
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Across the region, minorities are feeling more empowered and citizens are making ever-stronger demands for better government.
A new mentality in GCC governance could result in the creation of mechanisms of constructive engagement in the region, while maintaining cooperation with international actors.
In a
region
that has struggled to find its economic footing since the Arab Spring, the entrepreneurial ideas being refined at incubators like these hold the keys to the region’s future.
In the MENA region, several successful startups are already doing this, and more.
Souq led a revolution in e-commerce in the
region
that has powered cross-border trade and improved consumer choice.
The
region
needs more of these private entrepreneurs.
The
region
has 23 million small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), accounting for roughly 90% of the private sector, but SMEs receive just 8% of total bank lending.
And capital-starved entrepreneurs have few other options; despite a growing number of accelerators and seed funds in the region, the venture capital market remains undeveloped.
But much can be done to ensure that more startups in the
region
are able to make the leap from good idea to business success.
An important part of these reforms is to abolish jail time for non-fraudulent bankruptcies, which remains a real threat for owners of small businesses throughout the
region.
Doing so would encourage more investment to flow into the
region.
Nearly one in three young people in the
region
are unemployed, and those who do have jobs often work in the public sector, which is the largest employer throughout the Arab world.
In time, it is companies like these that will deliver sustainable economic growth to the region, and create employment opportunities for millions of people.
China and India have a responsibility to work with other Asian powers, including the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Japan, Russia, and the US, to ensure peace, prosperity, and stability in the
region.
Despite lack of any visible progress toward ridding the Middle East of weapons of mass destruction, the signs are encouraging that Egypt and others in the
region
want to keep trying, and will not use the issue of a WMD-free zone to blow up the review conference, as had been feared.
Their new-found power in this volatile
region
therefore represents a major challenge to both the old Sunni ruling establishments - outside Iran - and to the United States.
Although they constitute only 20% of the total Saudi population, they form a majority -75% - of the population in the oil-rich
region.
But Assad’s coalition is broader than that, which helps to explain how he has been able to hold on to power while other regimes in the
region
have not.
In the past, characterizing as a civil war a conflict in a complex
region
was a tacit warning that others should stay out.
The best education target would be to triple the number of children attending pre-school in sub-Saharan Africa, the world’s most deprived
region.
But Boko Haram is only part of a profound crisis gripping Nigeria’s vast northern
region.
In addition, the EU also should help create special economic zones with preferred trade status in the region, including in Tunisia and Morocco, to attract investment and generate jobs for both locals and refugees.
The next logical step is to extend safe avenues to the frontline region, thereby reducing the number of migrants who make the dangerous Mediterranean crossing.
The EU could act as a magnet to bring the
region
closer together by bringing the
region
as a whole closer to Europe.
This idea has great appeal to people in the region, but only the EU can make it happen.
But from the start, the EU should give a signal by unilaterally opening its border to imports from the
region.
They should be unified throughout the
region.
The Deutsche Mark, already widely used in the region, now functions as the de facto common currency.
UGHE has already generated jobs, by hiring local laborers, and has increased access to the region, by creating new roads.
Even if it does, a nuclear Iran may trigger an arms race in the
region
and embolden an Iranian government that already supports extremist movements throughout the Middle East.
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