Women Entrepreneurship and Poverty Alleviation: An Empirical Reviews

Abstract

Alleviation of poverty became a primary goal in strengthening socioeconomic conditions. Both developing and developed countries have made it one of their key goals and focus. The Government continued to play the leading role in poverty eradication efforts by promoting income-generating projects, providing amenities to improve the quality of life and implementing program to inculcate positive values among the poor. The objective of this research is to find out the determinant factors towards to poverty alleviation for women entrepreneurship. The respondents in this study consisted of 300 women entrepreneurs who were running the business within three selected states in Malaysia. Data analyses were conducted using SPSS 23.0. The finding indicated that microfinance had a most significant relationship with poverty alleviation. In a nutshell, it was pointed that microfinance program is becoming more significant as the main contributor in creating new job opportunities and generating income for increasing social wellbeing and economic status of the poor and eradicating poverty.