MENA Centre for Investment

For the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), private investment, both domestic and foreign, is needed to provide new engines of growth and dynamism.

Upcoming Events

15JUL

Launching of World Investment Report 2012

The MENA Centre for Investment & UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) will hold an event to launch the World Investment Report 2012.

20APR

MENA100 Business Plan Competition 2012

The primary objective of the MENA100 business plan competition is to encourage existing and inspire potential entrepreneurs and connect the 100 best of them in the Middle East and North Africa region with potential sources of finance to generate business transactions.

12FEB

Launching of Going for Growth in Bahrain Report

The aim of this report is to use the OECD Going for Growth framework, as well as other available evidence linking policies to economic performance, to identify key structural policy challenges in Bahrain for the years ahead.

Contact Details

The MENA Centre for Investment
Office No.81, Euro Building,
Al Seef District, Kingdom of Bahrain

Tel : +973 17382122 / 17589996
Fax : +973 17382174
Email : support@menacentre.org

MENA Centre for Investment

For the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), private investment, both domestic and foreign, is needed to provide new engines of growth and dynamism. The biggest challenge for MENA countries lies in strengthening the process of change, maintaining, supporting and tracking the progress of policy implementation as well as providing capacity-building assistance.

The MENA Centre for Investment in Manama was launched in 2006 to offer a forum for resultsoriented policy dialogue among MENA and OECD practitioners. This innovative partnership will serve to share know-how on best practices and lessons learned in implementing investment reforms. The purpose and organisational structure of the centre is governed by Articles of Association of the NGO established under Bahraini law.

The MENA Centre for Investment aims at supporting the work of the MENA-OECD Investment Programme in developing frameworks and analytical tools to evaluate existing and proposed reforms and improve policy making regarding investment practices.

World Investment Report 2011

The MENA Centre for Investment & UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) held an event to launch the World Investment Report 2011 at the Regency Intercontinental Hotel on Tuesday 26-07-2011.

Aquaculture, Preserving fish stocks and Job Creation for Bahrain

This meeting looked into the possibility that the primary sector and World of Aquaculture could play a major role in economic and social development in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Moreover, the primary sector may be a viable and good platform as a job creator.

Increasing access to credit in MENA through effective financial Infrastructure

The one-day Conference was part of the Arab Secured Transactions Initiative (ASTI), launched recently by the Arab Monetary Fund and International Finance Corporation, with the aim of raising awareness and promoting best practices in the area of secured lending, harmonizing secured lending systems in the MENA region and encouraging the use of the movable collateral to secure financing for the benefit of the Micro, Small and Medium sized Enterprises (MSMEs), mitigate the risk and limit the credit concentration.

SMEs Role in Job Creation in the MENA Region

This seminar was used to highlight the new attention being paid to the developmental impact of Small and Medium size Enterprises around the world and especially in the MENA Region. It brought into focus how SMEs have emerged as a powerful engine of growth in developing and developed economies by offering sources of employment, being seedbeds of innovation and promoting regional dispersal of skilled people, resources and other factors of production.

Job Creation and Development For the MENA Region

Today we observe that the MENA model of development is still based on large Government that is the main employer of choice for citizens of the said Countries. Employment is dependent on this sector rather than on a flourishing and innovative private sector. It is at this pivotal time that tremendous opportunities at present should not be squandered and that solutions be made evident in regards Job creation and Development for the MENA Region.

VAT as a Possible Revenue Source in MENA Countries

The MENA Centre for Investment and the MENA-OECD Investment Programme in association with the OECD held a special workshop/dialogue on the implementation of tax policies supportive of economic development and growth for the MENA Region.

MENA100 Business Plan Competition

The MENA100 is in the tradition of the Enterprise and Industry European Enterprise Awards of the European Union that recognized the need to encourage the expansion of the private sector and economic growth through an awards programme and also further the creation of SME\'s through the SME European week.