Supporting Self-Employment and Small-Scale Entrepreneurship : Potential Programs to Improve Livelihoods for Vulnerable Workers

Supporting Self-Employment and Small-Scale Entrepreneurship : Potential Programs to Improve Livelihoods for Vulnerable Workers

Worldwide, around 55 percent of workers are self-employed, and about three-quarters of these are likely to be subsistence entrepreneurs. These self-employed workers include farmers and own-account workers, many of whom work in small household enter...

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Main Authors: Cho, Yoonyoung, Robalino, David, Watson, Samantha
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank Group, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
employment
entrepreneurship
public policy
WORKERS
small and medium enterprises
training
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/01/20378014/supporting-self-employment-small-scale-entrepreneurship-potential-programs-improve-livelihoods-vulnerable-workers
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20686

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/01/20378014/supporting-self-employment-small-scale-entrepreneurship-potential-programs-improve-livelihoods-vulnerable-workers
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20686

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