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1 online resource (271 pages) |
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PART I: PROLOGUE; Prologue: Entrepreneurship and Sustainability: Can Business Really Alleviate Poverty?; Introduction: Business Fights Poverty: How Enterprise, Technology and People are Changing the Way; PART II: ASIA; Chapter 1 China: Entrepreneurship and Poverty Alleviation: A Chinese Case Study; Chapter 2 Lebanon: Does Microcredit Alleviate Poverty? Entrepreneurship and Sustainability. |
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Chapter 3 Malaysia: Entrepreneurship and Sustainability in Malaysia: Business Solutions for PovertyChapter 4 New Zealand: Innovation in Poverty Research: Developing Measurements for Monitoring; Chapter 5 Pakistan: The Pro-poor Innovative Female Entrepreneur: Linking Grassroots Enterprises; Chapter 6 The Philippines: An Entrepreneur's Contribution to Poverty Alleviation in the Philippines; PART III: AFRICA; Chapter 7 East Africa: Ethnic Supplies: Empowering African Women through Sustainable; Chapter 8 Nigeria: Poverty Alleviation Consequences of Rural Educational Enterprise. |
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Chapter 9 South Africa: Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in the Fight against PovertyChapter 10 Uganda: Noir/Illuminati II: Defining Socially Responsible Affordable Luxury Clothing; Chapter 11 Zambia: A Collaborative Multi-Stakeholder Approach to Entrepreneurship Skills; PART IV: EUROPE; Chapter 12 Cyprus: The Women's Cooperative Bank; Chapter 13 Czech Republic: Social Entrepreneurship in the Czech Republic; Chapter 14 Greece: Mastiha from the Island of Chios, Greece: A Case of Sustainable and Distributed; Chapter 15 Italy: The Interplay between Sustainability and Family Entrepreneurship. |
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Chapter 16 Russia: Entrepreneurship and Sustainability: Business Solutions for Poverty AlleviationChapter 17 Scotland: Cutting It: Creating Space for the Knowledge Intensive Economy; Chapter 18 United Kingdom: Can Issues of Poverty be Addressed through the Emergence of Relationally; PART V: THE AMERICAS; Chapter 19 Columbia: "Kambirí", an Entrepreneurial Alternative for Afro-Descendent Women Displaced; Chapter 20 California, USA: Supporting the Green Economy in India: Driving Global Change through. |
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Chapter 21 South Carolina, USA: Sustainability and Social Responsibility in a Family Sandwich ShopEpilogue; Index. |
| Summary |
Entrepreneurship and Sustainability challenges the notion that not-for-profit social entrepreneurship is the only sort that can lead to the alleviation of poverty. It explores how best to bring commercial investors together with those who are best placed to reach the poorest customers. With case studies from around the World, the focus of the contributions is on the new breed of entrepreneurs who are blending a profit motive with a desire to make a difference in their communities and beyond borders. A significant number of the contributions here also recognize that although much research has b. |
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Includes index. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Social entrepreneurship.
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Social entrepreneurship. |
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Poverty -- Developing countries.
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Poverty. |
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Developing countries. |
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Social entrepreneurship -- Case studies.
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Case studies.
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Poverty -- Developing countries -- Case studies.
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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| Added Author |
Halkias, Daphne.
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Thurman, Paul W.
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Print version: Halkias, Daphne. Entrepreneurship and Sustainability : Business Solutions for Poverty Alleviation from Around the World. Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, ©2012 9781409428732 |
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9781409428749 (electronic book) |
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1409428745 (electronic book) |
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9781409428732 (Cloth) |
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1409428737 (Cloth) |
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9781283620789 (MyiLibrary) |
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1283620782 (MyiLibrary) |
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9781409460480 (e-book ; ePUB) |
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1409460487 (e-book ; ePUB) |
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