Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth in North Africa

Posted by Jose W. Fernandez / February 11, 2012

Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Jose Fernadez addresses the second U.S.-Maghreb Entrepreneurship Conference, the annual regional partnership event for the U.S.-North Africa Partnership for Economic Opportunity (NAPEO), in Marrakech, Morocco, in January 2012.

Just as my Department of State colleagues witnessed the entrepreneurial spirit of the Arab Spring with Jordanian entrepreneurs in Washington, D.C., I experienced that same spirit energizing the halls of the Ryad Mogador Agdal in Marrakech, Morocco.

I recently participated in the second U.S.-Maghreb Entrepreneurship Conference, initially launched one year ago in Algeria just weeks before the uprisings in Tunisia that sparked the… more »

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