Article: Tackling Youth Unemployment Through Entrepreneurship.

DR. SUNDAY I. OWUALAH IS A SENIOR lecturer in the Department of Finance, University of Lagos, Nigeria. This paper presents evidence that promoting entrepreneurship consciously among youths can be an effective way of tackling unemployment within this group. This conclusion is drawn from the analysis of survey data collected from a stratified sample of loan beneficiaries of the Small-scale Industries and Graduate Employment Programme in Nigeria. This programme is one of four programmes of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) set up in Nigeria in 1987 to encourage and assist unemployed youths to establish and operate their own small-scale firms. The analysis shows ...

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