Utilization Entrepreneurship for Job Creation, Poverty Reduction and National Development

Analysis: Role of Entrepreneurship in Job Creation

Entrepreneurship , poverty , and Asia : Moving beyond subsistence entrepreneurship

Approximately 1.7 billion people in Asia live in poverty today. To date, efforts to address poverty in Asia have largely focused on subsistence entrepreneurship rather than on creating ventures that empower them to break out of poverty. That is, the mechanisms that have been used, such as microlending, generally lead entrepreneurs to create businesses providing basic life essentials rather than...

The Role of Entrepreneurship in US Job Creation and Economic Dynamism

T he United States has long been viewed as having among the world’s most entrepreneurial, dynamic, and flexible economies. It is often argued that this dynamism and flexibility has enabled the US economy to adapt to changing economic circumstances and recover from recessions in a robust manner. While the evidence provides broad support for this view, the outcomes of entrepreneurship are more he...

Information and Communication Technologies for Development and Poverty Reduction

Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture 46 (2007), No. 3; DLG-Verlag Frankfurt/M. TORERO, MAXIMO and JOACHIM VON BRAUN (eds.) (2006): Information and Communication Technologies for Development and Poverty Reduction. The Potential of Telecommunications. Baltimore, MA, USA: The Johns Hopkins University Press for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, DC, USA,...

Gender and Reduction of Poverty in Iran