Journal of Business and Economic Development

Special Issue

Towards Entrepreneurial Development for Employment Generation, Poverty Reduction and Conflict Resolution

  • Submission Deadline: 10 April 2020
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Abdulkabir Adedeji
About This Special Issue
There has been a global concern about poverty reduction and employment generation especially in less developed countries, even those amidst resource wealth. There are a number of applicable policies that have been designed to help addressing these phenomena towards achieving improved development of economies of these countries. But many of these countries are either experiencing or affected with a disaster or a violence conflict, adding to the poverty and unemployment that are characterized with most of them. In spite the continuous debate on the potential impact of entrepreneurship to lead to sustainable development with regard to poverty reduction and job creation, however, the new quest is whether entrepreneurial development has potential to restore entrepreneurial work-life balance in conflict-affected developing countries, and whether it could lift out the poor people who are majority from poverty.
Also, there is an issue that many countries in Asia, Middle East and Africa are resource rich but less developed for having small and medium-sized enterprises that neither competitive nor dynamic nor the resources translate to growth. This most often call for economic policy interventions. Quite plausibly, such policies may not appropriate for dynamic private sector. Another issue that calls for nexus thinking is that most of these countries are targeted for new entrepreneurial development but they are conflict ridden. Thus, the special issue under the journal aims at inviting original scientific research works for publication which would address a variety of issues and incorporate a variety of approaches and inform policies on entrepreneurial development, resources allocation and conflict resolution, and those that would develop tools for selecting entrepreneurship with more potential for development and policies that can help those developmental-led entrepreneurship to grow.

Aims and Scope:

  1. Economic development
  2. Entrepreneurship
  3. Employment generation
  4. Poverty reduction
  5. Conflict Resolution
  6. Resources policy
Lead Guest Editor
  • Abdulkabir Adedeji

    Department of Economics, University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria

Guest Editors
  • Abdelkader BELARBI

    Université de Saida, saida, Algeria

  • Tongnan Dalis Dabwor

    Department of Economics, University of Jos, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria, Nigeria

  • Adam Usman

    University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria

  • Ahmed Funmilola

    University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria

  • Adeolu Adewuwi

    University of Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria

  • Newman Enyioko

    Department of Marketing, Faculty of Management Sciences, Rivers State University of Science & Technology, Medonice Consulting and Research Institute, Port Harcourt, Nigeria