Context Matters: A Model of the Factors Associated with the Effectiveness of Youth Entrepreneurship Training

Autor/inn/en	Wiger, Nancy Pellowski; Chapman, David W.; Baxter, Aryn; DeJaeghere, Joan
Titel	Context Matters: A Model of the Factors Associated with the Effectiveness of Youth Entrepreneurship Training
Quelle	In: Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 45 (2015) 4, S.533-547 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-1538
DOI	10.1007/s11125-015-9366-x
Schlagwörter	Entrepreneurship; Disadvantaged Youth; Poverty; Skill Development; Job Skills; Employment Potential; Case Studies; Foreign Countries; Employment Opportunities; Models; Expectation; Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Unternehmungsgeist; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Armut; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Produktive Fertigkeit; Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Ausland; Berufschance; Beschäftigungschance; Analogiemodell; Expectancy; Erwartung; Afrika
Abstract	Government and development organizations are increasingly turning to entrepreneurship training programmes as a means of assisting those caught in poverty to develop the skills needed to find or create employment. Drawing on case studies from East Africa, this article argues that while such programmes offer a potentially useful strategy for enabling youth to access and create employment opportunities, they are, in and of themselves, an insufficient strategy for sustained improvement in the livelihood of participants. The article presents a model of contextual factors that it argues have broader applicability and relevance than the models currently in wide use. Without sufficient attention to those factors, the shift toward entrepreneurship training as an approach to poverty alleviation may place undue burdens and unachievable expectations on the very youth such programmes are designed to support. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01