This paper develops linkages between entrepreneurship and current policies developed in South Africa to alleviate poverty among marginalised individuals. Entrepreneurship is seen as a process of few peoples. Although some individuals have innate abilities as entrepreneurs, many can also develop...

The social economy refers to those enterprises and organizations which use the tools and some of the methods of profit business, on a not-for-profit basis, to provide social and economic services to communities that need them. The social economy is then characterised by cooperative enterprises,...

The problem of poverty alleviation and unemployment remain the primary concerns of the government of the African National Congress (ANC) since 1994. This article aims to profile some official government initiatives to tackling unemployment among black peoples. The article posits a strategic...

Africa has been described as a 'scar on the conscience of the world'. Whilst there is a growing consciousness that the poverty question should be addressed and efforts are being deployed to make poverty history. In his most recent book entitled 'Worlds Apart', World Bank Economist Branko...

Poverty, in this article, consists of two various elements: income poverty and human poverty. Income poverty could be defined as the lack of necessities for material well being, which can be measured by incidence of poverty. Human poverty means the denial of choices and opportunities for a...