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🇪🇭 Western Sahara

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Available on custom request. The ecosystem is mapped at baseline level on Expert — live figures below.

6
Total actors
150
OSE quality score
0 %
with funding
0 %
with hosting
Live data · Western Sahara
6
OSE actors mapped
#56 in Africa by actors · #57 by quality (of 57)
Top hub cities
  1. 1.Bir Lehlu3
  2. 2.Tifariti2
  3. 3.Laayoune1
Bir Lehlu + Tifariti = 83 % of actors
150
OSE quality score
world average 210
0 % with funding · 0 % with hosting
L1 · Technical
0
L2 · Cognitive
500
L3 · Relational
0
L4 · Symbolic
250
L5 · Psychological
0

The urban modules matter more than the national envelope: 68.4 % of composition variance sits within countries (COTEE, H4). Live from Expert · pipeline 30 Oct 2026.

The science in the report

How Western Sahara is read — COTEE, meta-organization, gender, AEEI

A country report does not add up a score. It reads the ecosystem as a cultivated order: the soil (rule enforcement) conditions what the seed (actors present) and the gardener (built support) can produce — then measures the meta-organization, gender inclusion and the AEEI pillars on the same grid.

COTEE profile

Soil · seed · gardener

Enforcement 0.00 (enforcement regime n/a); built support 50 %, base endowment 50 %; 50 % of actors created by the State or donors; 0 urban modules on 6 actors. Expected creation 0.0 → 0.0 new firms per 1,000 adults if rules were enforced: the soil, not the seed, is the binding constraint.

Meta-organization

Architecture × substance

Coverage CI 14 % (world 100 %); functional differentiation FDI 0.92 (world 0.88); service redundancy SRI 0.67 (world 2.00); VRIO coverage 0.15 (world 0.21); effectiveness EES 0.54 (world 0.72); network density —. The report then applies the readings — resilience-adjusted redundancy, governance vs endowment, form vs substance, three-mechanism index — to Western Sahara.

Gender

Aligned Gender Index × supply

AGI on three dimensions (economic, social, representation; 0–100), rank among the 53 African countries scored (176 globally), and the share of women-focused structures in the registry (‰ of actors). Continental reference: mean 49, East Africa best region (57), Maghreb lagging (40).

AEEI × Stam's elements

Composite, pillars, COTEE re-reading

The AEEI covers 54 African countries (30 ranked); where a country is outside its scope, the report documents the ten elements of Stam & van de Ven from the OSE base and open statistics instead.

The cultivation plane — predicted venture creation by regimeFour quadrants crossing rule enforcement and support apparatus. Predicted new firms per 1,000 working-age adults: apparatus builders 1.3 under weak rules and 6.4 under enforced rules; endowment-based ecosystems 1.5 and 4.0.Overlay riskApparatus builder · Rules weak1.3new firms / 1,000 adultsCultivated orderApparatus builder · Rules enforced6.4new firms / 1,000 adultsDormant endowmentEndowment-based · Rules weak1.5new firms / 1,000 adultsEndowed orderEndowment-based · Rules enforced4.0new firms / 1,000 adultsGardener · support apparatusbuilderendowmentSoil · rule enforcement (WGI 2023)weak →→ enforced
Predicted creation per 1,000 working-age adults. The apparatus only pays where rules bind: 1.3 → 6.4 for apparatus builders, 1.5 → 4.0 for endowment-based ecosystems. Source: COTEE, replicated on the OSE base (111 countries, WGI 2023 + World Bank outcomes).
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Western Sahara report — available on demand

No published Western Sahara report yet, but its ecosystem is mapped at baseline level. Tell us what you need — full diagnostic, module deep-dive, comparative study — and we scope it together.

What's inside

What a Western Sahara report would contain

The same twelve sections for every country, computed on the latest requalified data.

Executive summary
Key findings and five strategic recommendations
COTEE profile
Western Sahara: enforcement regime, built support vs endowment, urban modules, predicted creation
Meta-organization measures
CI, FDI, turnover, density, VRIO, SRI, EES and the Architecture × Substance readings
Gender
Aligned Gender Index (economic, social, representation) × women-focused supply
AEEI × Stam's elements
Composite, rank, 7 pillars vs Africa average, re-read through COTEE
Network analysis
Communities, centralities, co-occurrence, robustness
Ecosystem map
All actors plotted with sub-roles and connections
Layers & boosts
Profile on 5 layers and 14 boosts — never summed
Comparative benchmark
vs continent and income tier
Longitudinal trends
10+ years of evolution by layer
Gap analysis
Critical gaps with priority levels
Methodology annex
Peer-reviewed framework, sources, data quality

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