The Impact of Entrepreneurship Development Strategies on Poverty Reduction; Studying the Mediating Role of Social Capital

This research aims to evaluate the impact of entrepreneurship development strategies on poverty reduction; It has been done by considering the mediating role of social capital. This research is based on the objective criterion in the applied research group, based on the data collection time criterion in the survey research group and is a quantitative research. The main tool for collecting information in this research is 3 questionnaires (entrepreneurship development, poverty reduction, social capital), the range used in the questionnaire of this research is the Likert scale. The statistical population of this research includes households covered by the Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation in Shiraz. The sample size in this research is equal to 315 people using Spss Sample power sampling software and the sampling method in this research is convenient sampling. The statistical software SPSS and AMOS are used to analyze the questionnaire data of this research. In order to determine the presence or absence of influence between the variables and to estimate and generalize the results obtained from the sample size to the statistical population, a regression model with a hidden variable and a mediation model have been used to evaluate the research hypotheses. According to the findings of this research, 39% of the variance of poverty reduction is explained by entrepreneurship development strategies, so poverty reduction can be predicted based on entrepreneurship development strategies. Social capital has had a significant impact on poverty reduction, 30% of the variance of poverty reduction is explained by social capital and 66% of the variance of social capital is explained by entrepreneurship development strategies, so social capital can be predicted based on entrepreneurship development strategies in the statistical population. In the effect of entrepreneurship development strategies on poverty reduction; social capital has played a partial mediating role.