21 November 2014: When a small-time builder did a short course on entrepreneurship at the Naryn campus of the University of Central Asia, he became very enthusiastic about what he learned and went on to become a small-time contractor. For young people in countries where job opportunities are scarce, self-employment or setting up a business may be the best chance of making a living. Universities can help.
The YEPI initiative
The Youth Economic Participation Initiative, or YEPI, a joint initiative of the global Talloires Network of engaged universities and the MasterCard Foundation, aims to help universities in developing countries to test out ways of speeding up the transition into the workplace, either as employees or through entrepreneurship.
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