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Digital Entrepreneurship Solution To Rural Poverty: Theory, Practice And Policy Implications

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  • XIAOHONG HE

    (Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT 06581, USA)

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Focused on rural poor, this paper seeks answers to three questions. In the age of digital entrepreneurship and IT globalization, what are structure barriers, exclusionary mechanisms and immutable conditions facing persistent rural poverty? What potential can a digital ecosystem bring to minimize rural entrepreneurs’ risk-return trade-off, change rural outputs’ term of trade with urban dwellers and increase rural marginal returns? What differences do local government policies make in this process? To fill the literature gap, this research offers a conceptual framework to link rural digital entrepreneurship and poverty deduction. To enrich this framework, this paper uses case method that involves “what,” “why” and “how” questions to connect ideas of global importance from local practice. In the end, the paper discusses a quadrilemma of market, technology, businesses and local government in the context of developing economies as well as policy implications.

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  • Xiaohong He, 2019. "Digital Entrepreneurship Solution To Rural Poverty: Theory, Practice And Policy Implications," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 24(01), pages 1-32, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:jdexxx:v:24:y:2019:i:01:n:s1084946719500043
    DOI: 10.1142/S1084946719500043
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    1. Muhammad Farooq Islam & Ozge Can, 2024. "Integrating digital and sustainable entrepreneurship through business models: a bibliometric analysis," Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research, Springer;UNESCO Chair in Entrepreneurship, vol. 14(1), pages 1-18, December.
    2. Boou Chen & Chunkai Zhao, 2021. "Poverty reduction in rural China: Does the digital finance matter?," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 16(12), pages 1-27, December.
    3. Fu, Xiaolan & Ghauri, Pervez & Ogbonna, Nwamaka & Xing, Xiaoqiang, 2023. "Platform-based business model and entrepreneurs from Base of the Pyramid," Technovation, Elsevier, vol. 119(C).
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    8. Yáñez-Valdés, Claudia & Guerrero, Maribel & Barros-Celume, Sebastián & Ibáñez, María J., 2023. "Winds of change due to global lockdowns: Refreshing digital social entrepreneurship research paradigm," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 190(C).
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