Micro-entrepreneurs

Starting your own business can offer an escape from poverty as well as a road to riches. Several nonprofit organizations - Trickle Up Program, Accion International, Working Capital - encourage poor people to bootstrap their way to economically productive lives with loans and grants of as little as $...

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Published in:Forbes 1998-12, Vol.162 (13), p.84
Main Author: Mastony, Colleen
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Business incubators
Entrepreneurs
Nonprofit organizations
Success
Working capital
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Summary:Starting your own business can offer an escape from poverty as well as a road to riches. Several nonprofit organizations - Trickle Up Program, Accion International, Working Capital - encourage poor people to bootstrap their way to economically productive lives with loans and grants of as little as $200. Other penniless would-be entrepreneurs find help elsewhere. Brief profiles of several entrepreneurs are presented.
ISSN:0015-6914
2609-1445