Category: Reports

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 […]

Our three-year ‘Accelerating youth-led businesses in the digital era‘ programme, funded by IKEA Foundation, supported young entrepreneurs in India and Bangladesh to build and sustain thriving businesses and boost their economies. The programme ran from 2019 until 2022 and focussed on digital skills training and decent work. This report was published in December 2022.

Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs is a report produced by Youth Business International in partnership with The Entrepreneurs Network.  It has revealed the enormous potential for young entrepreneurs in the UK. Often dismissed as ‘generation side hustle’ as many pursue their business passions alongside other work the new report makes clear that these businesses could be a force for good in […]