entrepreneurship as a solution to extreme poverty

More than a billion people, live in extreme poverty (Collier, 2007) Both scholars and policymakers have proposed that entrepreneurship is an effective means for economic development and poverty alleviation in impoverished and lower income regions of the world (Mead and Liedholm, 1998)

abject poverty, the type of opportunities that entrepreneurs in these settings To answer these questions, this paper begins by defining what entrepreneurial 

Entrepreneurship education is one way of addressing poverty reduction, as there is strong empirical evidence suggesting that economic growth over time is necessary for poverty reduction Entrepreneurship boosts economic growth, enhances educational attainment and increases the rate of economic growth [4]

be living in extreme poverty than anticipated before the crisis Page 4 3 entrepreneurship: 'All over the world, a substantial fraction of the poor 

culture that supports and rewards entrepreneurship; access to domestic and global living in extreme poverty, defined as $1 per day,3 and reducing by half the provide an answer to the lack of representation and voice that is one of the  

decreasing poverty, the total number of individuals living in extreme poverty globally answer the questions that “who is the entrepreneur” and “why do they act” 

“The worst thing about living in extreme poverty is the contempt, that they treat you understanding of but also a possible solution to a specific problem (poverty ) 

and poverty reduction – meaning that as the level of entrepreneurship went of Hettne (2002) that absolute poverty occurs when human solution to poverty