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In Zimbabwe, a key issue is the inability of university graduates to find work. It's unclear why the rapidly growing informal sector, which has the capacity to absorb university graduates, is unable to capitalise on the high-level abilities of university graduates to improve growth and competitiveness. Many university grads are looking for work, doing things like vending or working in jobs that aren't immediately related to the degrees they earned in school. In this exploratory case study, snowball sampling was used to discover 42 university graduates in Mutare. To gather information on the barriers that prevent graduates from becoming entrepreneurs, unstructured interviews and observations were used. The study found that unemployed graduates' engagement in entrepreneurship was limited by their degree orientations and experiences, whereas the growth of graduates who were already in business was limited by a variety of socioeconomic circumstances.   Author (S) Details ...

The intent of this work is to present the single European financial market and discuss the pros and cons of its integration in the European Union, the Euro-zone debt crises, its strict regulations (austerities), and its effect on the member-nations’ economies, financial institutions, financial markets, employment, national wealth, and social welfare. An efficient (uncorrupted) financial market might increase return, reduce risk, improve investment, production, and liquidity in the economy, but at the same time, inefficient monetary policies can cause bubbles, unemployment, dependency on foreign capital and multinational firms, and the worst of all the investors lose their wealth and the social welfare is declining. Governments have to increase regulations and improve efficiency of the financial market. Financial markets and institutions (investment banks) have proved recently, with the latest financial (debt) crisis, which has been created by the uncontrolled private institutions th...