Social Entrepreneurship and Organizational Effectiveness: The way forward to solve Urban Poverty?

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spelling 5745 https://intelek.unisza.edu.my/intelek/pages/view.php?ref=5745 https://intelek.unisza.edu.my/intelek/pages/search.php?search=!collection407072 Restricted Document Conference Conference Paper application/pdf 6 1.6 Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 20 Paper Capture Plug-in 2014-11-10 12:36:15 IEEE Transactions on Magnetics IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 0271-01-fh03-FESP-15-03040.pdf UniSZA Private Access Social Entrepreneurship and Organizational Effectiveness: The way forward to solve Urban Poverty? Malaysia has made great strides in eradicating poverty. Based on the latest figures of the 9th Malaysian Plan Mid-term review, the overall hardcore poverty percentage is down to 0.7%, and only 3.6% of the Malaysian population is living below the overall poverty line. While in the past significant efforts had been taken by the government through various developmental project to alleviate poverty in rural area had proven successful. Today, urban poverty in Malaysia is an increasingly visible phenomenon due to rural-urban migration and the natural population growth in urban areas. Given the changing dimensions and emerging new forms of poverty as a result of unwanted effects of development there is a dire need to re-examine and re-visit urban poverty in Malaysia. This paper provides a comprehensive literature review of the topic under this study. In particular it overviews the effectiveness of the social entrepreneurship initiatives that social entrepreneurs have pursued in solving urban poverty issues in the country. 1-6 International Conference on Business , law and Corporate Social Responsibility (ICBLCSR 2014) Phuket Thailand
spellingShingle Social Entrepreneurship and Organizational Effectiveness: The way forward to solve Urban Poverty?
subject IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
summary Malaysia has made great strides in eradicating poverty. Based on the latest figures of the 9th Malaysian Plan Mid-term review, the overall hardcore poverty percentage is down to 0.7%, and only 3.6% of the Malaysian population is living below the overall poverty line. While in the past significant efforts had been taken by the government through various developmental project to alleviate poverty in rural area had proven successful. Today, urban poverty in Malaysia is an increasingly visible phenomenon due to rural-urban migration and the natural population growth in urban areas. Given the changing dimensions and emerging new forms of poverty as a result of unwanted effects of development there is a dire need to re-examine and re-visit urban poverty in Malaysia. This paper provides a comprehensive literature review of the topic under this study. In particular it overviews the effectiveness of the social entrepreneurship initiatives that social entrepreneurs have pursued in solving urban poverty issues in the country.
title Social Entrepreneurship and Organizational Effectiveness: The way forward to solve Urban Poverty?
title_full Social Entrepreneurship and Organizational Effectiveness: The way forward to solve Urban Poverty?
title_fullStr Social Entrepreneurship and Organizational Effectiveness: The way forward to solve Urban Poverty?
title_full_unstemmed Social Entrepreneurship and Organizational Effectiveness: The way forward to solve Urban Poverty?
title_short Social Entrepreneurship and Organizational Effectiveness: The way forward to solve Urban Poverty?
title_sort social entrepreneurship and organizational effectiveness: the way forward to solve urban poverty?