All Blog Posts Tagged 'week' (3)

Today sees the launch of Global Entrepreneurship Week, a wonderful initiative to “inspire young people to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity”. Entrepreneurship will be the engine of economic recovery, of poverty reduction and of a more environmentally sustainable future. Last year, over three million people around the world participated in events. To get involved this year,… Continue

This week is Global Entrepreneurship Week. In the UK, Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Lord Peter Mandelson have been advocating it vigorously in public. Here's a reflection from Business Fights Poverty member, Peter Heslam, entitled 'Unleashing Entrepreneurship', which was released at the start of the week to a large radio and online audience. Peter is also co-organizing… Continue

Africa's youth are the ones who will create the business that have strong civic ties. These youth entrepreneurs will not only create businesses which will fund projects aimed at eliminating poverty, they will create businesses that attack the challenge of poverty directly. Organizations like Top30Under30 are bringing African entrepreneurs to the fore and helping them connect with valuable business networks across the continent and beyond. Another great way of getting youth excited about entrepr… Continue