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Sudan’s next top entrepreneur: It’s a hit!

Sudan’s first business-oriented reality show is taking the country by storm, inspiring entrepreneurs in a country where entrepreneurship is rare, undervalued and fraught with challenges.

Youth Skills

7 Reasons why junior farmer schools hold promise for African youth

Young people in Africa face many obstacles as they enter the world of work, but a junior farming program is helping to clear their paths.

Youth Skills

Tackling youth unemployment – whose job is it?

As the global skills gap blights young people’s prospects, it also undermines business and economic growth and prosperity. Employers have a stake in closing the gap.

Youth Skills

An unlikely incubator for female social entrepreneurs in rural Asia: Libraries

A new solution to inequity and poverty is taking root in some of South Asia’s most remote corners, and it begins with a simple but disruptive idea: going to the library.

Youth Skills

Infographic: Young people sitting on the outside looking in

Young people have not found their place in the global economy. A new infographic illustrates the problem.

Social Enterprise

Portland Biz Journal: Mercy Corps brings startup accelerator fervor to Gaza

The startup accelerator phenomenon that has taken root in Portland isn’t limited to the U.S., and with the help of Portland-based Mercy Corps the idea is being taken to the Gaza Strip.

Social Enterprise

The Middle East and North Africa’s youth wave: Addressing social issues through business

While the Middle East and North Africa struggle with the highest youth unemployment rates in the world, youth are also using their skills to create small businesses that address the social issues plaguing the region.

Youth Skills

Infographic: Creating jobs for generations by closing the youth employment gap

Globally, 600 million jobs will need to be created over the next 15 years to keep unemployment rates constant.

Social Enterprise

Growing economies by planting startup culture seeds

Startup cultures are beginning to bloom in unstable markets, where business innovation--instead of charity--is rebuilding the economy.

Financial Inclusion

Econ 101: Three different ways to lift girls out of poverty

New projects that teach young women how to start a business, hold a bank account, and apply for financial aid can help to give them better futures out of the hallmarks of poverty -- poor health care, forced marriage, and early childbirth.