The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:05:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png The Second Corporate Governance Wave in the Middle East and North Africa – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 The Second Corporate Governance Wave in the Middle East and North Africa https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2011/02/21/the-second-corporate-governance-wave-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-second-corporate-governance-wave-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2011/02/21/the-second-corporate-governance-wave-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/#comments Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:12:58 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=15775?d=20150106100851EST Posted by R. Christopher Small, Co-editor, HLS Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, on Monday, February 21, 2011
Editor's Note:

The following post comes to us from Alissa Koldertsova, Policy Analyst in the OECD’s Corporate Affairs Division, where she is primarily responsible for managing the Organization’s work on corporate governance in the Middle East and North Africa region.

In the paper, The Second Corporate Governance Wave in the Middle East and North Africa, forthcoming in the OECD Financial Market Trends, I chart the evolution of corporate governance across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Less than a decade ago, the understanding of corporate governance as a concept was nascent in the Middle East and North Africa. There was no Arabic term for corporate governance, which led to the confusion between corporate governance and corporate social responsibility.

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