As the Global Entrepreneurship Week,
the world’s largest campaign to promote entrepreneurs, comes to a close an
academic from The University of Manchester warns that entrepreneurship
shouldn’t be a silver bullet for fighting poverty, reports NaijaAgroNet.
According to Dr Nicola Banks from
The University of Manchester is an ESRC Future Research Leader (The Economic
and Social Research Council) who is leading on research into young people's
experiences of urban poverty in Tanzania, this kind of definition negates the
spirit of entrepreneurship.
She told NaijaAgroNet in a press statement
made available by Kath
Paddison, Media Relations Officer, The University of Manchester that the world
should be wary of solutions that focus on
entrepreneurship as a silver bullet for fighting poverty.
“Entrepreneurship can be a way to
help young people out of poverty, but a sole focus on entrepreneurship can put
all the responsibility on the young person and removes responsibility from
governments,” she said.
Dr Bank also pointed that as the
popular TV show The Apprentice illustrates, “we're not all born with
entrepreneurial skill. Multilateral agencies and national governments
need to address the full range of obstacles facing young people to adequately
support the world’s growing population of young people.”
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