Entrepreneurship as a Solution to Desperate Poverty: A Review and Future Directions

Entrepreneurship is viewed as a critical driver for alleviating desperate poverty because of its potential to provide goods and services as well as create jobs, ultimately leading to positive economic growth. As such, practitioners, governments, multi-lateral organizations, and non-governmental organizations are increasingly seeking to promote entrepreneurship as a means of combating desperate poverty. This focus has lead scholars to take up the...