The UAE ranked first globally for the fourth consecutive year in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Report 2024/2025.
The report ranked the UAE as the best place for entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) among the 56 economies covered this year. It ranked first (among the high-income countries) in 11 of the 13 key indicators, based on expert assessments of the institutional frameworks that support the entrepreneurship environment. The frameworks in which the UAE excelled globally included: financing entrepreneurial projects, ease of access to financing, government policies that support entrepreneurship, government policies related to taxes and bureaucracy, government entrepreneurship programs, the integration of entrepreneurship into school and post-school education, the transfer of research and development results, commercial and professional infrastructure, ease of market entry in terms of burdens and regulations, and social and cultural standards for entrepreneurship.
Source (Al-Khaleej Emirati Newspaper, Edited)
