TechnoServe's Global Entrepreneurship Director Juan Carlos Thomas discusses how governments, development agencies, and the private sector can leverage the unique economic power of small businesses and entrepreneurship.
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in NextBillion as a part of the series “Recovery 2021,” which explores how businesses, development initiatives and the communities they serve in low- and middle-income countries are building greater resilience for a post-pandemic future. At the worst…
As the novel coronavirus COVID-19 spreads around the world, it is having a devastating economic impact. TechnoServe’s work developing capacity and building ecosystems to support entrepreneurs in countries across Latin America, Africa, and South Asia yields important lessons for today’s businesses struggling to withstand the crisis.
For global entrepreneurship week, we talked with TechnoServe’s Global Director of Entrepreneurship, Juan Carlos Thomas, about leveraging learning opportunities to improve the efficiency, replicability, and sustainability of enterprise development initiatives.
With the right kind of support, women entrepreneurs can unlock the potential to transform their livelihoods, their families and their community.
TechnoServe's global entrepreneurship director challenges conventional wisdom about how to help businesses grow.
What can the success of a small-town fishmonger teach us about the financing needs of entrepreneurs? Quite a bit, according to TechnoServe's Chile country director.
