Microenterprise Development as a Poverty-Reduction Strategy in Nepal: A Multidimensional Analysis of the Factors Determining Microenterprise Performance in Nepal
Dissertation focuses on the socio-demographic and economic characteristics of micro-entrepreneurs and microenterprises
Abstract
Microenterprise development is one of the most discussed antipoverty others, or in other words, why some microenterprises perform better than others, this study focused on the investigation of the socio-demographic and economic characteristics of micro-entrepreneurs and microenterprises, exploring the microenterprise performance, and identifying the factors determining such performance strategies in contemporary development discourses.
Many developing countries have adopted this strategy to fight against poverty. In Nepal also, a microenterprise development program with the objectives of increasing income and employment, and thereby reducing poverty, has ben implemented since 198. microenterprise development is particularly targeted to the households living below the poverty line.
Among the people living below that line, the program is more focused on rural women, unemployed youth, and people from socially-excluded communities such as dalits, indigenous nationalities, religious minorities, other madhesi castes, differently- abled people, brahmin, chetri, sanyasi, thakuri, disaster-affected families, conflict- affected families, people living with HIV and AIDS, and Maoist youth ex-combatants discharged from cantonments.
Antipoverty strategies often come under criticism for their poor performances.
The microenterprise development strategy also, apart from some success stories, is not very far from such criticism. Most of the studies in Nepal have focused on assessing the impacts of microenterprises. Some studies have found positive impacts of these enterprises in improving the livelihood of the people, while other studies have reported that not al microenterprises are as successful as there have ben purported to be. Therefore, in response to why some microenterprises are more successful than others
Citation
Thapa, A., (2013) Microenterprise Development as a Poverty-Reduction Strategy in Nepal: A Multidimensional Analysis of the Factors Determining Microenterprise Performance, PhD dissertation