Challenges and prospects of youth entrepreneurship in Karnali Province of Nepal.
This article locates the phenomena among youth, let’s first discuss the youth. UNESCO has defined Youth as a more fluid category than a fixed age-group. ‘Youth’ is often indicated as a person between the age where he/she leaves compulsory education, and the age at which he/she finds his/ her first employment. Often, Youth age-group is defined differently by different countries/ agencies and by same agency in different contexts. United Nations defines ‘youth’ as persons between 15 and 24 years of age. The major issues and challenges for the economic prosperity, social change, and development of this province. The economy should be subsistence-oriented and self-reliant, Karnali faces several key development challenges including widespread poverty, lack of physical infrastructure, unemployment, stagnation of agriculture, economic dependency, political instability. Unique natural heritage and cultural splendor, Extensive and unique geographical structure, Diverse climate and weather, Low population density and high demographic dividend, Abundance of original and rich languages, arts, literature and heritage, Practice of indigenous skills, technology and organic production, Availability of valuable mineral resources and mines, Diverse tourist destinations and products, abundance of water, forests, herbs and biodiversity and local production, trade, employment and economic development.
Keywords: Challenge, Prospects, Entrepreneurship, Development, Discourse.
