Foreign aid versus support to social entrepreneurs: Reviewing the way of fighting poverty in Zimbabwe

Despite the development interventions that have been adopted to help the countries caught in a downward spiral of impoverishment, their problems still persist. This paper focuses on the role that traditional foreign aid and the more recent bottom-up approach of supporting social entrepreneurs are pl...

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Autores: Karanda, Crispen, Toledano Garrido, Nuria
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Huelva (UHU)
Repositorio:Arias Montano. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Social entrepreneurship
Africa
Foreign aid
Poverty
Narratives
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spelling Foreign aid versus support to social entrepreneurs: Reviewing the way of fighting poverty in ZimbabweKaranda, CrispenToledano Garrido, NuriaSocial entrepreneurshipAfricaForeign aidPovertyNarratives5311 Organización y Dirección de Empresas5902.06 Política EconómicaDespite the development interventions that have been adopted to help the countries caught in a downward spiral of impoverishment, their problems still persist. This paper focuses on the role that traditional foreign aid and the more recent bottom-up approach of supporting social entrepreneurs are playing to tackle the situation of extreme poverty in Zimbabwe. Drawing upon a narrative inquiry, 35 stories were collected to bring fresh insights regarding the realities of such interventions as they are experienced by the local people. The evidence shows the main shortcomings of the current development models and suggests that the improvement of a declining economy such as Zimbabwe would need the interaction of various factors, so that some interventions will appear significant only when the conditions of primary importance exist in the environment. Additionally, the engagement of local people seems to be a key aspect to the success of some of the support measures.Taylor and Francis20182018-12-0120182018-12-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501AMhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_ab4af688f83e57aainfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/10272/25464reponame:Arias Montano. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelvainstname:Universidad de Huelva (UHU)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Españahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ariasmontano.uhu.es:10272/254642026-06-02T14:58:11Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Foreign aid versus support to social entrepreneurs: Reviewing the way of fighting poverty in Zimbabwe
title Foreign aid versus support to social entrepreneurs: Reviewing the way of fighting poverty in Zimbabwe
spellingShingle Foreign aid versus support to social entrepreneurs: Reviewing the way of fighting poverty in Zimbabwe
Karanda, Crispen
Social entrepreneurship
Africa
Foreign aid
Poverty
Narratives
5311 Organización y Dirección de Empresas
5902.06 Política Económica
title_short Foreign aid versus support to social entrepreneurs: Reviewing the way of fighting poverty in Zimbabwe
title_full Foreign aid versus support to social entrepreneurs: Reviewing the way of fighting poverty in Zimbabwe
title_fullStr Foreign aid versus support to social entrepreneurs: Reviewing the way of fighting poverty in Zimbabwe
title_full_unstemmed Foreign aid versus support to social entrepreneurs: Reviewing the way of fighting poverty in Zimbabwe
title_sort Foreign aid versus support to social entrepreneurs: Reviewing the way of fighting poverty in Zimbabwe
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Karanda, Crispen
Toledano Garrido, Nuria
author Karanda, Crispen
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Toledano Garrido, Nuria
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Social entrepreneurship
Africa
Foreign aid
Poverty
Narratives
5311 Organización y Dirección de Empresas
5902.06 Política Económica
topic Social entrepreneurship
Africa
Foreign aid
Poverty
Narratives
5311 Organización y Dirección de Empresas
5902.06 Política Económica
description Despite the development interventions that have been adopted to help the countries caught in a downward spiral of impoverishment, their problems still persist. This paper focuses on the role that traditional foreign aid and the more recent bottom-up approach of supporting social entrepreneurs are playing to tackle the situation of extreme poverty in Zimbabwe. Drawing upon a narrative inquiry, 35 stories were collected to bring fresh insights regarding the realities of such interventions as they are experienced by the local people. The evidence shows the main shortcomings of the current development models and suggests that the improvement of a declining economy such as Zimbabwe would need the interaction of various factors, so that some interventions will appear significant only when the conditions of primary importance exist in the environment. Additionally, the engagement of local people seems to be a key aspect to the success of some of the support measures.
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