In Search of Ethnic Entrepreneurship Opportunities in the City - A Comparative Policy Study
The rapidly rising inflow of foreign migrants confronts policy-makers with many socio-economic problems. The negative externalities of uncontrolled immigration are well known and often hard to cope with. In recent years we have seen many policy initiatives based on self-reliance principles for ethnic groups. Against this background ethnic entrepreneurship has become a popular strategy, as it stimulates and encourages migrants to look after themselves with a limited support of the government. Such a policy becomes an increasingly important endeavour in many large cities. Besides the conventional educational support and training programmes, such a strategy would need to implement
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1999-08-05
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Authors: | Delft, Hadewijch van ; Gorter, Cees ; Nijkamp, Peter |
Institutions: | Tinbergen Institute |
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