The GEDI Methodology and its Application to Countries of North Africa

GEDI (Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index) offers a measure of the quality and scale of the firm formation process in the most important countries in the world. It combines both individual and country level data to offer policy-makers a tool to understand the entrepreneurial strengths and weaknesses of their economies and to implement policies to support productive entrepreneurship. GEDI is a three-component index that takes into account the different aspects of entrepreneurship. All the three components, called “sub-indexes”, are complex measures themselves that include various characteristics of entrepreneurial attitudes, entrepreneurial actions and entrepreneurial aspirations.