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Many national, regional or local policies have been developed to support entrepreneurship both generally and in … entrepreneurship are considered, as: a function in the economy (with a three-stage model); a new business start-up; an owner-manager of … implications for policies to promote entrepreneurship. These policies include: predominantly macro-level policies such as economic …
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employment rates of African-American men. Black business ownership rates increased significantly after program initiation, with … the black-white gap falling three percentage points. The evidence that the racial gap in employment also fell is less … clear as it is depends on assumptions about the continuation of pre-existing trends. The black gains were concentrated in …
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policymakers and entrepreneurs alike towards a monumental task of rebuilding these new democracies. Developed framework provides a …
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guidelines to assist very small Black business entrepreneurs with overcoming growth problems, so to become sustainable. Design … sample was restricted to very small Black business entrepreneurs in the formal sector, in Port Elizabeth, South Africa … forth till the sample size of ten very small Black business entrepreneurs was obtained. One of the very small businesses had …
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Sanitation is at the heart of not only environmental security but also food security and health. Today about 41% of the global population or about 2.6 billion people do not have access to toilets and about 42,000 people die every week due to drinking water polluted with faecal matter. The...
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In 2011, Uzbekistan celebrated 20 years of independence. The transition has not been smooth for any country in the Commonwealth of Independent States, and Uzbekistan, too, has experienced both positive and negative developments in gender equality. The status of women and men in Uzbekistan is...
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Sanitation is at the heart of not only environmental security but also food security and health. Today about 41% of the global population or about 2.6 billion people do not have access to toilets and about 42,000 people die every week due to drinking water polluted with faecal matter. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150782
working life and thereby increase their empowerment. Sixteen female entrepreneurs were interviewed. They started their … that entrepreneurship can be a tool for increasing empowerment among educated immigrant women. …The study investigates whether entrepreneurship among immigrant women in Sweden may be a way to achieve integration in …
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Help Groups have been recognised by the policy makers as the effective conduits for accomplishing the distributional … objectives of monetary policy. The SHG-bank linkage programme has emerged as the largest micro credit programme in the world. The …
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(FI and E) relate to the empowerment of young individuals with respect to creating a new venture. In 2003, three groups of … young persons aged between 13 and 18 years participated in a program designed for empowerment. An evaluation was conducted … provides deeper insight into the way FI and E education can be used to create empowerment through the derivation of a framework …
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