Employment and income generating activities

Conventional credit institutions are not interested in farming and other types of women's income generating activities such as small scale livestock raising and the processing of agricultural products and harvests.

The projects focus mainly on fisheries, water management, animal production and income generating activities.

49. Vocational training and income generation remains a priority activity among United Nations agencies and non governmental organizations to facilitate the creation of sustainable livelihoods among vulnerable groups and the poor.

This leads to the second set of activities driving economic growth namely the role of entrepreneurship in the creation and growth of firms.

Existing standards on industrial statistics have addressed industrial activities in terms of the creation of economic value added.

Higher income countries and regions experience an increase in total entrepreneurial activity related primarily to increasing rates of opportunity entrepreneurship, which requires better infrastructure and technology development.25

Vocational training and job creation have also been in focus.

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In addition, the public authorities finance initiatives aiming at creating jobs for the unemployed.

You have heightened brain activity when you're doing a comparable task, when that one task is creative and the other task is memorized.

In low income countries and regions, the levels of entrepreneurial activity are high but are often generated by high rates of necessity entrepreneurship.

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) model posits a U shaped relationship between the entrepreneurial activity in an economy or region and national income.24 Entrepreneurs are divided into necessity entrepreneurs (i.e. those trying to start a business because they have no job options) and opportunity entrepreneurs (i.e. entrepreneurs fulfilling the traditional functional roles of risk seeking, innovativeness and opportunity seeking).

The unemployment rate has been reduced thanks to innovative measures such as microcredits, the promotion of entrepreneurship, labour intensive work of public utility, pre employment contracts, local salaried employee initiatives and compensation for activities of general benefit.

R D and innovative activities have generally been confined to the home countries of TNCs much more than manufacturing activities have been.

48. Under the PEACE Initiative, UNOPS is supporting activities in agriculture, income generation, health and education in rural areas.

The representative of Brazil expressed support for activities in the area of creative industries.

A third and significant source of funds is that generated by IFAD operations.

Other activities provided for under this section that are not individually addressed in the biennial programme plan and are essentially revenue producing activities relate to the garage, the news stand, catering and other commercial activities.

One of the measures to increase employment is the improvement of the qualifications of the labor force and promotion of self employment and entrepreneurship and raising the awareness about these two types of activities.

Additionally, young people highlight the need to invest in entrepreneurial activities for rural youth, e.g., by creating a fund for young rural entrepreneurs.

368. Act on the Cultural Fund The aim is to support new and especially cross border initiatives between professionals and amateurs, institutions and the creative arts, popular and established cultural activities.

Priority is given to income generating activities involving the use of renewable resources, such as agricultural crops, livestock, forestry and fisheries, coupled with the rehabilitation of the environment and its natural resources.

Alternative income generating activities

Among the most important activities were those leading to the creation of revenue.

One of its major activities is providing support to start up business and building national training capabilities.

Enabling the creation of new enterprises

At the same time, the Governments of developing countries must create a favourable environment for the activities of small and medium sized enterprises.

Based on recent consultant recommendations, appropriate income generating and vocational training activities will be encouraged.

A vibrant private sector with enterprises making investments, creating jobs and improving productivity promotes growth and creates opportunities for poor people.

Those activities are influenced by additional characteristics within the existing business environment, referred to as entrepreneurial framework conditions .27 Those conditions determine a country's capacity to encourage start ups and, combined with the skills and motivations of those who wish to establish firms, influence the entrepreneurial process.

Innovative sources of funding could be an additional element for the provision of resources for operational activities for development.

Ongoing rehabilitation activities at ARCVI included vocational training, income generation opportunities, Braille courses, home outreach services and recreational activities.

24 GEM is a research programme (founded and sponsored by Babson College and London Business School) that provides annual assessments of the level of entrepreneurial activity across nations.

UNIDO thus needed to continue to adopt innovative strategies and actions to boost industrial production in developing countries, with a view to creating more jobs and improving the standard of living of the world's poor.

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Labour absorption and job creation can also be facilitated through the establishment of on site housing materials production activities.

Financial and maritime activities for revenue generation

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), for example, had afforded rural women the opportunity to find employment in income generating projects.

The growing geographical and organizational mobility of innovation.

The Trade Point had the status of a public utility association, and its founding board consisted of the professional groups which had participated in its creation.

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