Women Entrepreneurship Development Through Poverty Alleviation Schemes: A Case Study

Abstract

Employment generation through micro enterprises is a sustainable livelihood strategy under kudumbashree in Kerala. Owner, manager and employee concept is envisaged. It opens up economic opportunities to women through entrepreneurship by providing support in starting, strengthening and expanding their enterprises. The present study is an attempt to find out the factors influencing the total revenue of women oriented micro enterprises .A regression analysis has been carried out. The study finds that category of micro enterprises, employment generated in man days, loan repayment and total cost are highly significant. All the determinants except seasonality of micro enterprise have a positive coefficient implying positive impact on total revenue generated.