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Conclusions and Implications : Exploring entrepreneurship in a declining economy
The results indicate the presence of a fundamental set of reasons for business start-up under conditions of economic adversity, with strong emphasis on extrinsically aligned motivators.

7.3.2 Training as a basic social service: Mainstreaming skills development for the poor
Redressing inequities and under-provision in the formal education system is of vital importance, both for achieving a more equitable allocation of jobs in the formal sector for women and other disadvantaged groups and, more widely, for sustained poverty reduction.

4.1.2 Enterprises with growth potential: The demand for training
Most training strategies in the informal sector have targeted manufacturing microenterprises that are considered to have some growth potential. However, even within this relatively better-off segment of the informal sector, the effective demand for training has frequently been found to be quite limited.

Overview of Microfinance
Because the term microfinance is used in many different contexts, it can sometimes be oversimplified and viewed in a skewed or narrow perspective.

IV. Principle III: Reinforce Microfinance to Advance the African Private Sector
Key Principles for an African Model of Microfinance

International Year of Microcredit Advisors Visit Kenya and Uganda: Princess Maxima, Diederik Laman Trip and Marilou van Golstein Brouwers Promote Microfinance on the Continent
In the third week of February 2005, The Netherlands' Princess Maxima, ING Netherlands Chairman Diederik Laman Trip and Triodos Bank Senior Fund Manager Marilou van Golstein Brouwers visited Africa to promote the International Year of Microcredit and the importance of microfinance in the global fight to eradicate poverty.

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Microfinance and the MDGs
Microfinance, and the impact it produces, goes beyond just business loans. Poor people use financial services not only for business investment in their microenterprises but also for health and education, managing household emergencies, and meeting the wide variety of other cash needs that they encounter.

4.1.2 Enterprises with growth potential: The demand for training
Most training strategies in the informal sector have targeted manufacturing microenterprises that are considered to have some growth potential. However, even within this relatively better-off segment of the informal sector, the effective demand for training has frequently been found to be quite limited.

7.4.3 Funding
The poor do not have the resources to pay for their own training. The experience of nearly twenty years of structural adjustment has conclusively demonstrated that merely 'getting prices' and creating the appropriate enabling environment' for farmers and microenterprises is not sufficient in order to ensure a strong 'supply response'.

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