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By: Shiryn Ghermezian - November 23, 2020
Israel is the best country for women entrepreneurs, according to a new ranking.
The Jewish state was ranked first in the 2020 Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs (MIWE), a rise from fourth place the previous year.
The US came in second this year, followed by Switzerland, New Zealand, Poland, the UK, Canada, Sweden, Australia and Spain.
Israel’s first-place ranking was “largely driven by a focused institutional support” for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), according to the MIWE report.
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