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Entrepreneurship and Poverty Reduction In Cameroon: A Vector Autoregressive Approach

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Title Entrepreneurship and Poverty Reduction In Cameroon: A Vector Autoregressive Approach
 
Creator Wujung, Vukenkeng Andrew
Mbella, Mukete Emmanuel
 
Description This paper investigates the effect of entrepreneurship on poverty alleviation in Cameroon and determines the nature of the causality that exists between them using the vector autoregressive approach. The study uses data from the Cameroon National Institute of statistics and World Bank Development Indicators for the period 1980-2013. The results show that entrepreneurship has a significant negative impact on poverty in Cameroon and that there exists a significant bi-directional positive causality between entrepreneurship and poverty reduction. From a policy perspective, the study concludes that training and retraining of entrepreneurs as well as organizing entrepreneurship skills acquisition programmes are vital to boost entrepreneurship in order to reduce poverty in the country.JEL Classification: E23, F2, F21, F43    Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Poverty reduction, Vector Autoregressive Approach
 
Publisher Archives of Business Research
 
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Date 2014-10-30
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.scholarpublishing.org/index.php/ABR/article/view/345
10.14738/abr.25.345
 
Source Archives of Business Research; Vol 2, No 5 (2014): Archives of Business Research; 1-11
2054-7404
10.14738/abr.25.2014
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.scholarpublishing.org/index.php/ABR/article/view/345/267