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If they build it, it can grow
A daunting task from Day One—help develop an entrepreneurial climate in post-Soviet Ukraine
Prior To Returning to the private sector and my academic roots in aviation engineering, I was partner in a European consultancy that ran government-to-government aid programs. One of our major assignments involved designing a program to help new entrepreneurs in the former Soviet Union start small- and medium-sized businesses.
These new ventures would either be spinoffs from existing industrial structures or service-related start-ups. In both cases, there were no working models in that part of the world—there were no smallor medium-sized businesses when the Soviet Union broke up, no individual entrepreneurs. Fostering entrepreneurship and company-building would all have to be done from scratch. The tasks looked, and in some ways still look, daunting.
About the author
Corvin Huber now lives and works in Munich, Germany.

August 26, 2002 issue
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Finding the elegant solution
Dave Hohle
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letters
with contributions from Yewande Akinola, Shirley January, Joe Smuin, Suzanne Nightingale, John Hay Scott
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Items of interest
with contributions from Marc Gellman, Thomas Hartman, Kay Barkin, Ruth Gledhill, Michael E. Ruane
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Reaching for the Summit with youthful eyes
By Karen Shippey
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Nature columnist and artist
By Kim Shippey Sentinel staff
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To be a force for positive change
Warren Bolon with contributions from Candelaria Silva
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If they build it, it can grow
By Corvin Huber
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I love all TREES
By Ovídio Trentini
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For the good of the whole
By Margaret Rogers
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Severe hand sores cured
Steven Berrie
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Unemployment problems resolved
Jean Bordeaux
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Abdominal pain healed
Tony Lobl