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This report explores a range of factors that underpin the digital gender divide, bolsters the evidence base for policy making and provides policy directions for consideration by all G20 governments. It has been prepared by the OECD at the request of the Australian Government to support advancement of the 2017 G20 Roadmap for Digitalisation: Policies for a Digital Future, in particular its aim to support the equitable participation of women in the digital economy. It complements the initiative of the 2018 Argentinian G20 Presidency to share policies, actions and national practices that have had a significant and measurable impact in bridging the digital gender divide, while supporting Argentina’s mainstreaming of gender across the G20 agenda

This document is a concept note on the forthcoming OECD flagship publication on recent legal reforms in support of women’s economic empowerment in the Middle East and North Africa. Given the great and unexploited potential that women represent, their economic empowerment needs to be supported and enhanced in order to boost growth and competitiveness in the region. Women’s economic empowerment and their active participation in public life is critical for the future of the MENA region. This note provides a background on women’s economic empowerment in the MENA region, and details the rationale and main objectives of this publication as well as the research methodology. This forthcoming publication is developed by the OECD, in partnership with CAWTAR and possibly other regional and international organisations.

The publication is produced by the OECD-Eurostat Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme based on official statistics. The 2017 edition features a new trends chapter, which also introduces recent developments related to the emergence of the "gig economy" and the use of digital tools by micro-enterprises.

The OECD participates in the design of the survey, which constitutes an innovative experiment of public-private partnership in data development and collection that contributes to deliver new insights on businesses in the digital economy. The survey currently covers 42 countries in developed and emerging economies, where the reference population are enterprises having a Facebook account.

The Future of Business survey is a collaboration between Facebook, the OECD and the World Bank to provide monthly data to policymakers on the perceptions and challenges of online small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the world. Launched in February 2016, the monthly survey provides a pulse on the economic environment in which businesses operate