The traditional macroeconomic approach to poverty alleviation in neighborhoods and communities is to use housing development and job-creation programs to address the income and the opportunity gaps. Entrepreneurship is a much less used poverty alleviation strategy that, in our estimation, can have a significant effect in favorable policy environments. After a brief literature review, we highlight policy approaches that use entrepreneurship as a poverty alleviation strategy. We present several case studies from the United States as evidence of how public policy can empower an entrepreneurial ecosystem to support the self-employed and other low-income entrepreneurs. We conclude with a framework for how public policy can alleviate poverty through entrepreneurship that is generalizable in other contexts.

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在美国通过创业减轻贫困：政策和实践框架

社区和社区扶贫的传统宏观经济方法是使用住房开发和创造就业计划来解决收入和机会差距。创业是一种较少使用的扶贫战略，据我们估计，它可以在有利的政策环境中产生重大影响。在简短的文献回顾之后，我们强调了将创业作为扶贫战略的政策方法。我们提出了几个来自美国的案例研究，作为公共政策如何赋予创业生态系统以支持个体经营者和其他低收入企业家的证据。最后，我们提出了一个公共政策如何通过企业家精神来减轻贫困的框架，该框架可在其他情况下推广。