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At the age of 14, Sabirul Islam became an entrepreneur by founding a web design company, whilst growing up in an underprivileged area of East London. When he was 16, he was lecturing teenagers at schools, colleges and universities about what it takes to become a young entrepreneur. In this book, Sabirul Islam presents 25 individuals, who all started out as entrepreneurs in their teenage years, and who have recently gone on to become successful and inspiring role models.

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"Fifteen-year-old lemonade entrepreneur Mikaila Ulmer shares her advice for life and business"--

Ulmer, Mikaila--Juvenile literature.. --- Young businesspeople--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.. --- Entrepreneurship--United States--Juvenile literature. --- Ulmer, Mikaila --- Young businesspeople --- Entrepreneurship

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Demographic pressure and the youth bulge in the developing world pose a major employment challenge. This situation is exacerbated by insufficient job creation, scarce formal wage employment opportunities and vulnerability in the workplace. For 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 developing countries. It is based on the analysis of mixed labour force and enterprise surveys conducted in Côte d’Ivoire, Madagascar, Peru and Viet Nam, as well as evidence on the impact of entrepreneurship programmes. This report’s findings add to the global debate on youth entrepreneurship in three important ways. First, it constitutes an unprecedented effort to capture the real situations and multiple faces of young entrepreneurs in selected developing countries. Second, it provides new empirical evidence on the determinants of youth entrepreneurial performance. Third, it proposes a policy roadmap based on lessons learned from recent meta-analyses of the effectiveness of entrepreneurship programmes.

Entrepreneurship --- Youth --- Young businesspeople --- Employment --- Businesspeople --- Young people --- Young persons --- Youngsters --- Youths --- Age groups --- Life cycle, Human --- Entrepreneur --- Intrapreneur --- Capitalism --- Business incubators

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rs, Professor Ernest Aryeetey, Professor Craig Jeffrey, and Professor Peter Rosa, alongwith all the other participants, provided useful feedback and encouraged us toproceed with presenting the key project findings in book form.A string of people provided support for the project and the book along theway. At the host institution – the Department of Geography, University ofCopenhagen – the untiring assistance of Dorthe Hallin with the accounts wasinvaluable, and in the closing stages Kent Pørksen kindly helped produce themaps at short notice. Wisdom Kalenga and Cecilia Gregersen both spent time atCBS providing assistance with the data analysis and conference support. MaheenPracha did an excellent job editing the entire manuscript while Jo Woodsassisted in the final checking and layout. Thanks are also due to Faye Leerink atRoutledge for seeing the potential of the book and for agreeing to allow it to besubsequently published in sub-Saharan Africa, which we hope will ensure it isalso widely read there.As all of the project participants spent lengthy periods of time in the field and/or visiting other academic institutions, many families have had to cope withthese absences. We thank them for their forbearance and for supporting therespective team members in their studies and travels. Hopefully they feel it wasworthwhile in the end.While producing this book has been a major effort, it marks the end of an erathat started back in November 2008 when we first started devising the project inresponse to a call from FFU for projects on youth employment. We areextremely grateful to all of the “YEMP family”, as the project team came to beknown, for their dedication to the project and for making it such a rewarding andfun experience, and look forward to future collaboration

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