these reasons, fostering youth entrepreneurship has gained importance in the global and national development policy agenda …. This report aims to contribute to the ongoing debate on the role of youth entrepreneurship in generating employment in …’Ivoire, Madagascar, Peru and Viet Nam, as well as evidence on the impact of entrepreneurship programmes. This report’s findings add to …

We examine whether Europe has an "entrepreneurship deficit" compared to other industrialized regions. Cross …-country comparisons are difficult due to the lack of standard empirical definitions of entrepreneurship. Measures focusing on small … business activity and startup rates suggest that Europe has the same or higher rates of entrepreneurship than the U.S. and East …