Dr. Kertous Mourad is an Associate Professor of Economics at Brest University in France. He holds a PhD Thesis from Rouen University in France and a Master’s degree in Marine Resource Economics and Coastal Environment from Brest University. He is the Director of the AES department at Brest University and a member of the AMURE (Management of Resource Uses and Marine and Coastal Areas) laboratory. His research areas include Environment economics, Development economics, Microfinance and sustainable development, and Econometrics. He published several articles in indexed journals in English and French.
Entrepreneurship has come to be considered one key to countries’ economic development. This column assesses the connection between entrepreneurship and the economic development of nine economies in the Middle East and North Africa over the period from 2006 to 2018.