The Global Need
an Afghan youth
“In each of these nations, an economy that can’t generate enough jobs to absorb its young people has created a lost generation of the disaffected, unemployed, or underemployed—including growing numbers of recent college graduates for whom the post-crash economy has little to offer.”
- Peter Coy. “The Youth Unemployment Bomb.” Bloomberg Business Week Feb 7 2011.
“Given all the problems our world faces — in teaching, technology, health care, or finance — we need many more social entrepreneurs and change makers. Progress against these problems will be intolerably slow if only 3% to 5% of world’s population thinks they can solve them.”
“Small businesses are essential because they create jobs, generate income and take a stake in the communities in which they operate. They also generate goods and services for local communities. When led by the right kind of managers, they grow — and create more jobs, more services and more wealth. And increasingly more often, they tackle social and environmental issues as well.”