Following four years of coordinated donor technical assistance, the government of Tunisia recently announced the implementation of a new legal framework for investment. The implementation of several key changes will improve efficiency and productivity through the development of investments in innovative and high value-added sectors that will improve the competitiveness of the national economy and ...
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By The U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) | 9 July, 2018 | Topics: Economic Issues, Featured Event, News, Success Stories, U.S. & MEPI | Tags: CLDP, MENA, MEPI, Tunisia
The Department of Commerce’s Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP), which provides direct government-to-government technical assistance worked with legislative drafters, judges, and private sector stakeholders to deliver updated insolvency laws that will reduce the rate of business failure in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. The passage of the laws earlier this year is a major achievement for ...
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By The U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) | 25 June, 2018 | Topics: Featured Event, News, Success Stories, U.S. & MEPI | Tags: Bahrain, CLDP, MEPI, Saudi Arabia, Success Stories
One of the principal insolvency law drafters at Bahrain’s Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism (MOICT) and a member of the Bahraini Parliament’s Finance Committee, discussed Bahrain’s draft law with CLDP. The officials confirmed that the draft insolvency law, which was recently approved by the Bahraini Cabinet, introduces a reorganization process for failing businesses and ...
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By The U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) | 23 March, 2018 | Topics: News, Success Stories, U.S. & MEPI | Tags: Bahrain, CLDP, MEPI, Success Stories
JERUSALEM – October 25th marked the successful completion of a U.S. Consulate General-sponsored workshop to build a better ecosystem for innovation in the West Bank. Co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce, the workshop convened American experts and Palestinian entrepreneurs, academics, business leaders, and government stakeholders to identify policy and regulatory reforms that will help ...
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By The U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) | 26 October, 2017 | Topics: Events, Featured Event, Near East & North Africa, News, Success Stories, U.S. & MEPI | Tags: CLDP, MENA, MEPI, Success Stories
In Bahrain, CLDP has worked closely with government officials and stakeholders to promote commercial legal reforms and address key areas of economic development through public and private sector input. Following a CLDP-sponsored program in Singapore on March 14-17, 2017, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MOIC) presented a framework of the Bahraini draft insolvency law ...
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By The U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) | 11 April, 2017 | Topics: Featured Event, U.S. & MEPI | Tags: Bahrain, CLDP, MEPI, Success Stories
Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) – Expanding Franchising Opportunities in Tunisia ($2,400,000): MEPI continues to partner with CLDP as it engages government, public sector and private sector stakeholders in Tunisia to encourage legal and regulatory reforms and market connections to facilitate the growth of franchises in Tunisia. This program provides aspiring entrepreneurs with a ready-made ...
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By The U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) | 28 March, 2017 | Topics: Featured Event | Tags: CLDP, Success Stories
