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Background and use of SL
Unleashing
Entrepreneurship, the recent report of the UN Commission on
the Private Sector and Development, identified the crucial
importance of unleashing local entrepreneurship and mobilizing
existing private sector financial and intellectual resources
to address the urgent challenges of ending poverty and achieving
the Millennium Development Goals.
Neither
aid nor macroeconomic reforms on their own are enough. Increasing
numbers of entrepreneurs, large businesses, non-governmental
organizations, development agencies and governments are recognizing
that new collaborative approaches are necessary to grow dynamic
and sustainable enterprises and economies that can improve
livelihoods, put people to work and raise standards of living.
The
project aims to achieve in-depth understanding of how innovative
private sector organizations (large and small, local and international)
and Sustainable Local Enterprise Networks are successfully
combining profitable business models with the creation of
sustainable livelihoods - directly alleviating poverty, restoring
the environment and maintaining profitability.
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