entrepreneurship against poverty

Filed in archive Entrepreneurship on April 6, 2004

Jeff has an interesting post highlighting that the UN embraces entrepreneurship has a viable tool for exterminating poverty. India (only lately) and Thailand make good example for the viabilty of this approach.

"The United Nations has final noticed that entrepreneurial economic activity is sweeping the globe. UN's Commission on the Private Sector and Development issued its report, Unleashing Entrepreneurship: Making Business Work for the Poor, in which the primary recommendation is, you guessed it, break down barriers created by governmental bureaucracy and get out of the way.

The report states that "the private sector can alleviate poverty by contributing to economic growth, job Creation and poor people's income...Small and medium enterprises can be engines of job creation." The agenda put forth in this report is consistent with most of the others dealing with both domestic and international economic development. "

Anita also has a great and recent article about.