Maheshwari: India faces social crisis unless small enterprises create more jobs
Mekin Maheshwari · Mekin Maheshwari on Impact of COVID-19 on Small & Medium Enterprises and Startups · Apr 26, 2020 · at 4:55
Mekin Maheshwari, co-founder of the Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME), discusses the foundational motivation behind starting the organization.
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“And we were both, we were all three very clear that if India does not build an ecosystem where a large number of our people start to create healthy enterprises enterprises that can create jobs for five plus people we will be facing a very large challenge both economically, but more importantly, socially, as we will have a large young workforce, but not having enough jobs and not having direction of how could they be productive in our society?”
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