scholarly journals Women Entrepreneurs in Developing Nations: Growth and Replication Strategies and Their Impact on Poverty Alleviation

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 34-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hina Shah ◽  
Punit Saurabh
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Developing Nations

An Engineering Design Strategy for Reconfigurable Products That Support Poverty Alleviation

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick K. Lewis ◽  
Christopher A. Mattson ◽  
Vance R. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Financial Risk ◽  
Pareto Frontier ◽  
Product Family ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Customer Needs ◽  
Overall Design ◽  
Impact Area ◽  
Reconfigurable Product

Reconfigurable products can adapt to new and changing customer needs. One potential, high-impact, area for product reconfiguration is in the design of income-generating products for poverty alleviation. Non-reconfigurable income-generating products such as manual irrigation pumps have helped millions of people sustainably escape poverty. However, millions of other impoverished people are unwilling to invest in these relatively costly products because of the high perceived and actual financial risk involved. As a result, these individuals do not benefit from such technologies. Alternatively, when income-generating products are designed to be reconfigurable, the window of affordability can be expanded to attract more individuals, while simultaneously making the product adaptable to the changing customer needs that accompany an increased income. The method provided in this paper significantly reduces the risks associated with purchasing income-generating products while simultaneously allowing the initial purchase to serve as a foundation for future increases in income. The method presented builds on principles of multiobjective optimization and Pareto optimality, by allowing the product to move from one location on the Pareto frontier to another through the addition of modules and reconfiguration. Elements of product family design are applied as each instantiation of the reconfigurable product is considered in the overall design optimization of the product. The design of a modular irrigation pump for developing nations demonstrates the methodology.

scholarly journals Discipline, abjection, and poverty alleviation through entrepreneurship: a grounded-theoretical inquiry.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Castellanza
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Control Individual ◽  
South West ◽  
Theoretical Inquiry ◽  
Poor Women ◽  
Collective Entrepreneurship ◽  
Economic Constraints ◽  
And Control ◽  
Group Structures

Collective entrepreneurship has been found to alleviate extreme poverty by helping poor individuals integrate into their societies and overcome their multiple intertwined liabilities. We complement this line of inquiry by exploring the conditions under which group structures may instead reinforce economic and gendered poverty constraints. We conducted grounded-theoretical interviews with 104 women entrepreneurs operating in farming cooperatives and non-farm groups in war-torn South-West Cameroon. Analysing our data through a constitutive lens, we found that discipline, the extent to which rules determine and control individual behaviours, helps poor women overcome extreme economic constraints but prevents them from attaining prosperity and emancipation.

Renewable energy, poverty alleviation and developing nations: Evidence from Senegal

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Djiby Racine Thiam
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Life Cycle Cost ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Energy Access ◽  
Grid Connection ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Main Components

The desire to increase energy access remains a strong driving force for poverty alleviation in rural areas of developing countries. The supply of modern energy facilitates the improvement of human living conditions and the productivity of sectors. It also contributes by reducing the time spent, mainly for women and children, in collecting biomass and therefore can provide an opportunity for an increase in the education level of children and for women empowerment. This paper shows how renewable energy facilitates the improvement of the standard of living in a Sahelian developing country of Senegal. Using a life-cycle-cost approach while integrating an assessment of the environmental externalities, I argue that in remote rural areas where grid-connection is non-existent, photovoltaic (PV) renewable technologies provide suitable solutions for delivering energy services although wind technology has been considered as well. In this framework, policies promoting the adoption of clean technologies in developing nations like Sen-egal could be considered as being the main components on the agenda of poverty reduction.

EVALUATING WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN THE INFORMAL SECTOR: SOME EVIDENCE FROM INDIA

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (03) ◽  
pp. 351-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
COLIN C WILLIAMS ◽  
ANJULA GURTOO
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Informal Sector ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Quality Work ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
Low Pay ◽  
Mode Of Production

Studies on women entrepreneurs in the informal economy no longer view them merely as a residue from some pre-modern mode of production that is disappearing. Instead, they are either read through a structuralist lens as marginalized populations engaged in low quality work conducted under poor conditions for low pay out of necessity in the absence of alternative means of livelihood, or through a neo-liberal lens as engaged in relatively higher quality endeavours more as a rational choice. The aim of this paper is to evaluate critically these contrasting explanations. To do this, the results of face-to-face interviews with 323 women entrepreneurs operating in the Indian informal economy are analyzed. The finding is that although the structuralist representation is largely appropriate for women engaged in informal waged work, it is not as valid for women informal entrepreneurs working on a self-employed basis where incomes are higher, they receive more credit from informal institutions, union membership is higher, and such work is more likely to be a rational choice. The outcome is a call to recognize the diversity of women's experiences in the informal sector and that not all informal entrepreneurship by women in developing nations is a low-paid, necessity-oriented endeavour carried out as a last resort.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial Motivation and Challenges: A Study on Women Entrepreneurs in Sylhet City

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-122
Author(s):  
Fathema Farjana Hani
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Economic Freedom ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Women Entrepreneurship ◽  
Start Up ◽  
The Family ◽  
And Training

Women entrepreneurship is not only the way of poverty alleviation but also the key to a nation’s overall advancement. This study attempts to explore several aspects of them. It emphasized on the profile of women entrepreneurs, identifying the motivation behind their entrepreneurial career, and pinpointing the challenges they are facing. The study conducted on 50 women entrepreneurs of Sylhet city. Both primary and secondary data was used. The profile of the women entrepreneurs shows information about their age, educational qualification, marital status, type of family they belongs to. Type and ownership of their business, amount and sources of start-up capital, no. of employees and their future career plan is also included in the profile. The study identified that 31% of the respondents are self-motivated to be entrepreneurs. The reasons to start business consist of- be self-dependent, extra income for the family, to run the family business, for economic freedom, etc.  The study also finds out challenges in starting and continuing business of women entrepreneurs that can obstruct the smooth functioning of it. Some of the challenges are- conservative social attitude, gender discrimination, lack of skills and training facilities, infrastructural problems, etc. The study also reveals that the women entrepreneurs in Sylhet city are getting the support of family members, and they can manage start-up capital. This study has some implication for researchers in the area of entrepreneurship and women entrepreneurship.

Digital Bridges and Digital Opportunities for Developing Nations

2011 ◽  
pp. 85-159
Author(s):  
John S.C. Afele
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Sustainable Livelihoods ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Discrete Elements ◽  
Development Models ◽  
Multiple Factors ◽  
Complex Forms

Multidimensional frameworks have been advocated in knowledge for sustainable livelihoods programming. Connectivity for development and poverty alleviation would also endeavour to be a convergence of themes, institutions, tools, and resources. Some of the multiple factors that may be included in such IT-led knowledge for development models are discussed in the following sections; they are not to be viewed as discrete elements, as these factors interact in complex forms.

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