Does Social Entrepreneurship Work Against Poverty? A Literature Review

Abstraksi

One of the major challenges facing developing and underdeveloped countries of the world, including Indonesia, is poverty. The high rate of unemployment has been so common problem for many countries, and has become the main obstacle of the developing and underdeveloped countries around the world. Although the poverty level and unemployment rate have been observed to be different within and across Indonesia, it still remains the major problem to the optimum utilization of human resources for both social and economic development of the nation. Social entrepreneurship, a sub-discipline within the field of entrepreneurship, is considered an important tool in enabling the nation development and poverty alleviation. The main objective of this paper is to validate the linkage between social entrepreneurship development and poverty alleviation based on literature reviews. In this study, we conducted the general search to collect empirical literatures by the name of social entrepreneurship development, poverty alleviation, and Indonesia in different online database sources such as Pro-Quest, Springer, Google Scholars, JSTOR, Wiley Online, Science Direct, Emerald Insight, Scopus, Web of Science etc. Our finding shows that social entrepreneurship development is a key instrument for poverty reduction; stimulating employment as well as fast-tracking realization of universal prime education and promoting gender equality. It is hoped that this paper would be helpful to fellow researchers who are undertaking studies in this area. In the light of recent world events, this has become an important area to study and understand.