Tackling Youth Unemployment through Entrepreneurship
基于尼日利亚小工业与毕业生就业计划中贷款受益人的调查数据，发现每家企业平均在头四年创造4个新岗位，且资产显著增长，表明主动促进青年创业能有效缓解失业。
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 Smallscale 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 smallscale firms. The analysis shows that an average of four newjobs were created by each of the respondent firms in the first four years of the programme. It further reveals that the firms achieved an appreciable growth in their assets, while previous training, experience and personal inclinations of their owners largely influenced the choice of types of small-scale firms that were established.