The programme uses peace education activities, literacy teaching and business entrepreneurship to generate employment opportunities for marginalized populations.

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In September 2012, Microsoft refocused much of their efforts around creating opportunities for youth by launching Microsoft YouthSpark, a major initiative to connect hundreds of millions of youth with opportunities for education, employment and entrepreneurship.

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Women and men from four raions in Moldova have now better access to information and services in the area of employment, social protection, agriculture, cadastre and entrepreneurship.

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This is also the reason Micro Entrepreneurship crosses traditional employment barriers like age, location and education.

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The absence of conversion of a promising STEM education into employment opportunities and high-growth entrepreneurship contributes to an astonishingly low rate of job-creating, high-growth businesses and overall performance in the innovation ecosystem.

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This was true during the recession of 2000-01, and according to the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity (KIEA), which measures the new entrants to self-employment and business ownership (two measures of entrepreneurship), it has been true even through the Great Recession of 2008-09 and its aftermath.

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In addition to undergirding economic growth and generating employment, such investments also stimulate the development of engineering capabilities, which in turn foster entrepreneurship.

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