Social Impediments of Self Employment and Sustainable Development

Abstract

This paper has the objectives to explain the socio-economic culture of self-employment that are prevailing in our society creating hindrances for entrepreneurship and sustainable development. No country becomes developed without providing employment opportunities to ordinary people and young generation. In recent times in Pakistan, everybody is seeking a job, people have become more dependent. Mostly people in our country are getting education for earning their livelihood. Therefore, after completion of education, our social and cultural values don’t support a young person to take business initiatives that encompass sustainable growth. Apparently, people don’t prove their creativeness; perhaps this is due to lack of self-determination, lack of self-sufficiency, and dependency which has made the nation dull and null. Some past studies revealed that in developed nations like, US, Japan, the common people prefer to do something at their own behalf, no dependency hinders these people. This paper also postulated the role of education and important patterns impending to promote self-employment culture in the light of work of different authors. Finally, this paper would have likely to forecast necessary guidelines to the policy makers to bring a change and cope with the existing situation of self-employment in Pakistan.