The Role of Social Entrepreneurship in Poverty Reduction

Autor: null DR. FAHAD SULTAN, null JUNAID AHMAD, null ASAD SARFARAZ KHAN, null RAZA UR RAHMAN
Rok vydání: 2021
Zdroj: Journal of Business & Tourism. 4:159-174
ISSN: 2521-0548
2520-0739
DOI: 10.34260/jbt.v4i1.97
Popis: The key aim of the study was to investigate the role of social entrepreneurship in poverty alleviation in district Mardan. The researcher studied previous investigations, associated with this study earlier while adopting the study method. To find out the specific objectives of the study, the researcher followed quantitative method, based on the past study of Chebbi (2016), and data was collected through questionnaire. The questionnaire was a developed questionnaire from the study of Ali and Ali, (2013).The questionnaire was distributed to 200 social entrepreneurs providing their services in different local and international NGOs, social welfare foundations operating in district Mardan. In response, a total of 150 questionnaires were received, the response rate was 75%. It is a good response rate. In which 68.7% were male while the percentage of female respondents were 31.3. In which the percentage of age group under 20 were 2%, from 20-30 their percentage were 64.7, while the percentage of the respondents with 31-40 age group were 16.7, and the age group from 41 to 50 their percentage were 12.7. While the age of the respondents above 50 were of 4.0%.In the total 150 of the respondents, there were 55.3% single respondents while 43.7% were married respondents. Similarly, the respondents having no education or illiterate, their percentage were 0.0, while the respondents having highest school level education, there were of 4.7%, and the respondents having highest college level education there percentage were 6.7, while the respondents having highest level of education were university graduate, their percentage were 87.7%. Likewise, the obtained data were entered and analysed by SPSS.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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