Later this month, the United Nations will meet to determine the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or the world’s ‘to do’ list for the next 15 years. It’s critical that entrepreneurs and the jobs they create make the cut. Why? In the next decade, we need 600 million new jobs to employ a rapidly growing global workforce.
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Where will the jobs come from? Contrary to popular belief, it won’t be big, global corporations that create the majority of these jobs. Tomorrow’s jobs will come from entrepreneurs’ their fast-growing startups and small businesses. We know this because, today, entrepreneurs create 70 percent of all new jobs in the world; up to 90 percent in some emerging economies. We simply won’t be able to scale without a healthy pipeline of startups and thriving small businesses.
The UN has drafted 17 goals to create a global roadmap of prosperity leading up to 2030, setting international norms that will influence policy decisions at the country level and drive trillions of dollars in domestic spending, private investment and public/private procurement.