Unemployment is rampant. One million youths are out of work. Where will the new jobs come from? The answer to this question comes in two parts: the Good News and the Bad News.

This Global Entrepreneurship Week has found me discussing in several panels and conferences how entrepreneurship is transforming the UK and the world. I have ultimately mixed feelings about all of the business skills training programs that have become very fashionable. Entrepreneurship is not simply a skill that you can learn like flipping burgers.

Securing investment is one of the hardest things you'll ever do, and managing a relationship with an investor will be one of the most important in your life. Some liken it to a marriage. The divorce can be just as nasty.

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Economics and trade will help lift millions out of poverty.
Julie Meyer for the Sunday Telegraph

Capital efficient financial services will drive the new economics shaping the post-financial crisis world order. Microfinance organisations such as the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh as well as the Fredericks Foundation in the UK will lift millions of people out of poverty.

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