Category: Reports

As Youth Business International (YBI) celebrates its 25th anniversary, our 2025 Impact Report showcases the collective achievements of our global network and the young entrepreneurs we support. In 2025, we supported 277,879 young people to develop entrepreneurship skills, empowered 24,173 young people start a business, supported 58,320 entrepreneurs to strengthen their businesses, and contributed to […]

In this paper, Youth Business International (YBI) and our member Habitat in Türkiye shine a light on the potential of youth-led businesses that have outgrown microfinance and start-up support but are still considered too small or high-risk for mainstream investment. These businesses—often innovative and rooted in their communities—are overlooked despite their immense potential to create […]

Take a look at our full report to learn more about the number of youth businesses supported by the YBI network in 2024.

In this paper, Youth Business International (YBI) and Development Solutions, our member in Mongolia, call for a concerted effort to support youth-led green and social enterprises as critical drivers of sustainable economic growth. With approximately 10 million social enterprises globally generating around $2 trillion annually and creating nearly 200 million jobs, the potential for young […]

In an era marked by rapid technological advancements and shifting economic landscapes, young entrepreneurs find themselves at the forefront of innovation and change. At the same time, they face substantial challenges to turn innovations into profitable and scalable businesses. Now is the time to harness the power of young entrepreneurs as more young people than […]

In 2023, the Youth Business International global network supported over 150,000 young people in developing their entrepreneurship skills and helped more than 65,000 start or strengthen their businesses. Ambitious Strategy and Significant Achievements 2023 marked the first year of YBI’s ambitious strategy to create a million jobs by starting and scaling 250,000 youth-led businesses by […]

Commissioned by Youth Business International (YBI) in 2018, the report reviews experiences and success factors in scaling entrepreneurship programmes within and outside of the YBI network, and provides case studies of models for replication together with a scaling framework. This report provides a set of recommendations covering key approaches to scale, including: We hope this piece […]

In 2018, Youth Business International launched the first ever Innovation Challenge, a pilot initiative aimed at supporting members to ideate and test new solutions that meet the pressing challenges faced by young entrepreneurs worldwide. Organised by YBI, and supported by Accenture and the IDB Lab, the Innovation Challenge invited YBI members to propose new ways in which they […]

 Entrepreneurship can promote self-reliance and help youth on the move overcome barriers to integrating into society. It offers them an opportunity for meaningful work, helping them lead their lives with dignity and give back to their communities. Our research suggests that, on average, they are more likely to start businesses than their native-born peers, and […]

Executive Summary of our latest report Beating the odds: Supporting youth on the move to become successful entrepreneurs.  Entrepreneurship can promote self-reliance and help youth on the move overcome barriers to integrating into society. It offers them an opportunity for meaningful work, helping them leadtheir lives with dignity and give back to their communities. Our research suggests […]