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Barriers to formal employment for poor Filipino youth are “plenty,” as was recently described to me by a community leader in Tondo,Manila. If your economic situation is tight,expenses incurred in the job search process (i.e. transportation costs,appropriate clothing for the interview,and mandatory medical checks and police reports) can make employment out [...] I was trying to think of way of describing my engagement with Ethiopia’s bureaucracy without making it the stereotypical story of dealing with the developing world’s red tape. I can’t. It’s exactly how it sounds in every book,in every first hand story,in every frustrated elegy to a time cut short in paradise. This [...] The last few weeks have been quite the experience,as we embarked on a long awaited set of trips to finally provide beneficiaries of the ‘Linking Rural Youth with Knowledge and Opportunity through Micro-Enterprise’ project with finance in order for them to begin to engage in entrepreneurship in an effort [...] | |||||
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