Foreign aid versus support to social entrepreneurs: Reviewing the way of fighting poverty in Zimbabwe

Crispen Karanda and Nuria Toledano

Development Southern Africa, 2018, vol. 35, issue 4, 480-496

Abstract: Despite the development interventions that have been adopted to help the countries caught in a downward spiral of impoverishment, their problems still persist. This paper focuses on the role that traditional foreign aid and the more recent bottom–up approach of supporting social entrepreneurs are playing to tackle the situation of extreme poverty in Zimbabwe. Drawing upon a narrative inquiry, 35 stories were collected to bring fresh insights regarding the realities of such interventions as they are experienced by the local people. The evidence shows the main shortcomings of the current development models and suggests that the improvement of a declining economy such as Zimbabwe would need the interaction of various factors, so that some interventions will appear significant only when the conditions of primary importance exist in the environment. Additionally, the engagement of local people seems to be a key aspect to the success of some of the support measures.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2018.1482198

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