This was answered in part by a number of small-scale entrepreneurs operating in the shanty towns.

For many immigrants, the public market provided them with an entry point into the economy as small-scale entrepreneurs.

In fact, when many New Yorkers think of small-scale entrepreneurs, they think of immigrants.

It has to take hold in the streets, propelled initially by small-scale entrepreneurs willing to take risks.

Some have become small-scale entrepreneurs with businesses ranging from hardware to sari-sari stores.

For instance many southerners migrate to the north to trade or work while a number of northerner seasonal workers and small-scale entrepreneurs go to the south.

The Indian raw silk industry gives employment to over five million people, mainly farmers, artisans and small-scale entrepreneurs.

In west Africa such small-scale entrepreneurs have long been tolerated, though seldom actively encouraged.

Drivers in Finland tend to be small-scale entrepreneurs.

In general, however, the small-scale entrepreneur is doing better than ever in New England.