On September 26, LIMS’ Senior Policy Analyst Garabed Fakrajian attended a conference organized by the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies along with around 30 experts, academics, and civil society activists. The conference’s theme was about entrepreneurship in rural areas and covered the labor market, informal sector, economic diversification, importance of digitization for small businesses, vocational training and education, cooperatives and solidarity, and novel approaches of funding start-up projects, such as crowdfunding.