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Impact of Small Entrepreneurship on Sustainable Livelihood Assets of Rural Poor Women in Bangladesh

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dc.contributor.author Kabir, M. S.
dc.contributor.author Hou, Xuexi
dc.contributor.author Akther, Rahima
dc.contributor.author Wang, Jing
dc.contributor.author Wang, Lijia
dc.date.accessioned 2013-08-05T17:41:59Z
dc.date.available 2013-08-05T17:41:59Z
dc.date.issued 2012 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/9036
dc.description.abstract "The present study deals with the impact of small scale agricultural entrepreneurship on livelihood assets rural poor women and role of NGOs to developed women living of standard. The sample of the study consisted 300 women entrepreneurs those are involvement with livestock and poultry, fisheries, and vegetables entrepreneurship. Stratified Random sampling technique was used to obtained sample size. The study used the sustainable livelihood analysis framework as an analytical tool to identify ways to advance the livelihood of small entrepreneurship. Tobit and ordered probit regression estimation were used to analyze the result. Livestock and poultry entrepreneurship is significant and positively associated with financial capital, physical and social capital, vegetables entrepreneurship is significant and positively associated with natural capital and physical capital, fisheries entrepreneurship also positive and significantly associated with human capital. Role of NGOs micro credit and institutional support has great impact on women entrepreneurs living of standard. The analysis shows how entrepreneurs can achieve sustainable livelihood through access to a range of livelihood assets. Livestock and poultry entrepreneurs potentially provide higher economic returns, physical and social benefits. However, lack of resources, vulnerability and poor institutional support are identified as constraints to long term sustainability." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject livelihoods en_US
dc.subject entrepreneurship en_US
dc.subject rural affairs en_US
dc.subject women en_US
dc.title Impact of Small Entrepreneurship on Sustainable Livelihood Assets of Rural Poor Women in Bangladesh en_US
dc.type Journal Article en_US
dc.type.published published en_US
dc.type.methodology Case Study en_US
dc.coverage.region Middle East & South Asia en_US
dc.coverage.country Bangladesh en_US
dc.subject.sector Social Organization en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournal International Journal of Economics and Finance en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume 4 en_US
dc.identifier.citationpages 265-280 en_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber 3 en_US
dc.identifier.citationmonth March en_US


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