Philippine Christian University

Graduate School of Business and Management

Management Research

Name: Harsey Joy I. Punzalan Section: Trimester: 2nd

Research Title: Poverty Alleviation as a Corporate Issue

Background:

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the potential contribution of corporations to a
large number of societal issues has received increasing attention and has been the subject of
much controversy. This also applies to arguably the biggest global challenge of the moment:
alleviating poverty. Until recently, the issue of poverty was largely ignored in management
theory and practice (Jain & Vachani, 2006). First, poor people generally do not operate on
“markets” and have limited buying power. Second, the issue of poverty itself is complex. For
instance, do we consider absolute or relative poverty? What about the “working poor”? Third,
the issue of poverty has many “issue owners,”and it is extremely hard to identify primary
responsibilities. Poverty for some is a macroeconomic issue that is related to the growth of
economies in general, to others poverty can be directly associated with the alleged
unemployment effects of relocation strategies of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs), whilst
again others consider poverty primarily a mental state that can largely be attributed to
personal traits and abilities.

Formulate Research Objectives or Statement of the Problems based on research background

above:

1. To lessen the poverty rate to increase the economic growth.

2. To help to improve the mental state of the community with their abilities.
3. To give the poor people the ability to buy their own goods with enough nutrients.
4. To grow the life of the poor people without getting poor again.