Sometimes the street trader, roadside mechanic or food vendor is the best person to teach students about entrepreneurship.
Mahdi Shaban, a Palestinian living in Gaza, paid for his master’s degree with earnings from digging graves.
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Political and economic forces across the Middle East and North Africa combine to mean well-educated young people spend years looking for work, which delays their independence and adulthood.
Ghanaian university students hope to return home after studies abroad.
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