EMPLOYMENT, YOUTH AND ENTREPREUNEURSHIP

Question 1

PRESIDENT OF LIBERIA

Answer 1

• Liberia 2006 85% unemployed
• propensity for social disenchantment
• employment is synomonous to peace
• jobs, jobs, jobs!

Question 2

DOLAN & RAJAK

Answer 2

• BoP draw poor into networks of global capitalism
• Kenya 15-34 make up 80% of 2.3 million unemployed
• urban youth ‘agents of lawlessness’ or ‘catalysts of grass roots capitalism’
• Catalyst social enterprise in Kenya, Kwangware, tranformation from jobless youth into young entrepreuneur
• responsibility from state to individual

Question 3

DOOLAN

Answer 3

• extra pressure onto networks of poor

Question 4

FREDERIKSEN & MUNIVE

Answer 4

• threat and victim, collective shame of not having a functioning state
• post 9/11 aid concerned with unstable states and conflict, youth seen as a threat
• youth bulges statistically more likely to be prone to violence
• Liberia: unemployment causes violence, violence causes unemployment

Question 5

PRAHALAD

Answer 5

• commerce and development at the bottom of the economic pyramid, MNCS can radically improve the lives of millions of people and create a more stable and less dangerous world

Question 6

KEITH HART

Answer 6

• informal economy: self employment, no government regulation and tax
• African largest informal sector, expanding not shriking

Question 7

ARYEETEY

Answer 7

• SSA most employed in informal sector, low quality, poor working conditions
• dual relationship between poverty and informality

Question 8

HIRALAL

Answer 8

• South Africa women working in informal sector from home, survivalist
• micro enterprises, small scale business, beading and textiles