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Youth unemployment: should young people create their own jobs by starting businesses? How possible is that, given the problems of raising funds and dealing with red tape?

Veteran Washington journalist James Srodes wonders whether America's youths are too ready to give up job-seeking when they get rejected.

Lesley Curwen talks to three young entrepreneurs - in Madrid, Luis Rivera, co-founder of Startupbootcamp and Startup Spain, from Cairo, John Hanna, a student planning two internet businesses and in Mumbai, Bhupesh Sharma, an engineer who at the age of 22 has designed 57 products, including windmills to bring power to poor villages.