Assignment title: Information
A Strategy for Planning Your Historical Background
Step 1: Choose a relevant event (an event occurs at a time and place) or publication in
history from which your chronology will grow. For example, if you were researching
how civil rights in the U.S. affected job mobility in the U.S., then taking an event from
the Civil Rights Movement during 1960s would be a great idea. So, ask yourself,
"What was the event in history or publication that truly made my topic a real topic?"
o Goal: Find a relevant historical event (or publication) that made the topic a
real topic.
Step 2: Research and read about the history following the event you chose in step 1. Try
to build a timeline from step 1 all the way to today's manifestation of the topic!
Collect cites as needed and make sure you include them into the timeline.
Remember, you will have to properly document/cite your entire dissertation, and
you must do so here as well!
o Goal: Construct the timeline and plan to write one paragraph for each of
the major events within the timeline.
Step 3: Write a short thought about how the current form of the topic ties to you want to
present in your literature review.
o Goal: The timeline should terminate just prior to the current form of the
topic. Make sure your timeline walks the reader from step 1 all to the
point that they will be ready to read about the current perspective of the
topic.
This assignment requires you to create an 8 page APA
compliant multiple source essay citing peer reviewed full text journal
articles. You are to produce the Historical Development of the Topic
segment in which you illustrate the evolution of your topic. Submit your
mind map and work to the gradebook for evaluation and instructor
commentary.
New sources relevant to the TOPIC and chapter
This is the Mini Literature review used in the introduction and hope this can help u follow the
trend for this assignment.
Mini Literature Review (MLR)
Poverty and unemployment are one of the critical factors that derail the overall
development and growth of a nation. Entrepreneurship is one of the valuable prospects on
African continent that can engage people in viable activities. They have the potential to increase
the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and promote the well-being and enhance the status of the
people. It is thus important to identify the factors that are responsible for poverty and how these
factors can be mitigated with the promotion of entrepreneurship in the sub- Saharan Africa.
(SSA)
Context of problem
The Lack of job prospects, mismanagement of resources, the high cost of transportation,
and increased health burden are the most common problems associated with the communities of
Sub-Saharan Africa. Entrepreneurship is one of the exemplary programs that has the potential to
engage community members, especially the youth of this region to overcome the financial
burden. With the increased prospect of setting small scale entrepreneurship, African population
is displaying the true potential to increase the overall GDP.
The rise of entrepreneurship among the Sub-Saharan Africa population is also sufficient for
the community's development, as it engages youth, help minimize the crime rate, and reduces
the poverty level. The scope of the present mini literature review is to illustrate the beneficial
role of "entrepreneurship" in the context of mitigation poverty and unemployment rate for the
African region.
Contribution of the study to the literature
Statistics from the World Bank, more than 49% of African population are living on less
than $1.25 income per day.
(www.worldbank.org/content/dam/Worldbank/.../State_of_the_poor_paper_April17.p.).
Solt, (2016) in his report pointed out critical factors that are responsible for sustained poverty
and lack of job opportunities in the sub-Saharan African region. The prime factor in this regard is
the lack of education that in turn is also responsible for the lack of the ability to access
possibilities.
Mismanagement by some governments in which some funded money for community
development are not properly used, ill-utilization of land, and high illiteracy rate are mutual
concern that is responsible for increased condition of limited resource and job opportunities.
In another report by Bain et al. (2013), the conditions such as the lack of proper sanitation,
consumption of unsafe water, increased prevalence of AIDS, and other health complications are
also some of the causes of deteriorated lifestyle in region.
Furthermore, the lack of well-equipped educational facilities is also responsible for the
availability of cheap labor and lack of awareness. Consequently, most people are unable to make
proper use of available natural resources and hence the low utilization of fresh water, forest
resources, and, the development of industrial sector is limited.
With the increased prospect of globalization, entrepreneurship is found to be one of the
potential solutions in mitigating the problem of unemployment in the sub-Saharan African region
according to DeJaeghere & Baxter, (2014). Secondly, Simo Kengne et al. (2016), stated that, the
African continent is rich in natural resources, labor, and time, and these which can be utilized for
the establishment of small scale entrepreneurship responsibilities. Additionally, the factor of
limited opportunity, scarce resources for livelihood and engagement of youth in activities are
also supportive for reducing the poverty.
Contribution of the context to the problem
Based on the study of literature, it has been realized that the key factors responsible for
unemployment are political misconduct, lack of education, and poor management of available
human and natural resources. The scope that has the potential to overcome the challenge of
poverty and unemployment is the activities of entrepreneurship. Nega and Schneider (2014) have
referred to the vocational activities such as preparing hand-made items through arts and craft for
home decoration, making use of resources that are available on grassland and forest, processing
them for export and manufacturing activities with an investment of funds by stakeholders; can be
effective in this regard.
According to critical components of African Economic Development (AED),
entrepreneurship is active in a way that it accepts adoption of risk, overcomes financial barriers,
and offers the opportunity for employment by mitigating the social barriers. The prime
challenges that still prevent growth in the present contemporary world include
poor communication skills;
poor language that are profanely related to English;
non-supportive government/political parties;
high transportation charges; and
Increased health burden, hinders the full-scale proliferation of entrepreneurship.
Similar and related studies
In a report by Asongu et al. (2016), entrepreneurs have the potential to generate
employment opportunities. They have the supportive framework not only to raise the GDP of a
nation but can also to enhance the community resources utilization capability. The scope of
entrepreneurship is also important as it can offer the prospects of bringing innovation and
diversity of activities, such as imports and exports of material, and the exposure to ever growing
globalization opportunities.
These factors have a significant role in the economic development of various countries that
in turn is responsible for efficient upbringing of the well-being status of an individual community
member. According to Vivarelli et al. (2013), the culture of lower risk and investment into the
business of "no failure" is also another critical reason that is responsible for slow economic
growth and sustained poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. Countries like Malawi, Angola, and
Zambia have the perspective of viewing risk as the potential situation that inhibits the growth
and proliferation of even small scaled entrepreneurship.
The report also discusses the poor proficiency of English language that results in
underlining of little or no confidence even in individuals having a better average qualifications.
In the latest report by Africa Wealth Report, it is highlighted that more than 160,000 millionaires
are living in Africa. (www.theguardian.com › World › Development › Governance). This figure
is indicative of the fact that some millionaires in this continent grew more than 145 % compared
to previous financial year statistics.
The key strengths of the African is in the utilization of solar energy and increased
investment into agribusiness. Other than this, the growing prospect of globalization