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In the South, the economy is based on local micro-entrepreneurs and on small family-farmers. The professionalization of their entrepreneurship is a guarantee for the stabilization of their income and can work in a positive way on the revival of the economy of the whole region.
At this moment, entrepreneurship is linked too often to the informal economy. This is a mixture of streetworkers, bootblacks, transporters, etc. Many micro-entrepreneurs and small family-farmers belong to this group. The vast majority of them are women. They do their work without a juridical framework and in this way they miss opportunities for access to markets, financing, training, networking…
When we talk about a strong local entrepreneurship and good conditions for it, we automatically think about the role of the government. In developing countries, governments very often don’t take enough measures to support small entrepreneurs or farmers, or even counterproductive measures that only favour big companies.