Isahaque Ali, Zulkarnain A. Hatta
Poverty reduction remains the most important challenge for policy makers in I slamic communities. The W orld B ank (2010: Poverty profile in M uslim world, from http://www.worldbank.org ) estimates that approximately 3 billion people are living in poverty and 46 million more people will come under t...
Isahaque Ali, Zulkarnain A. Hatta
Women's empowerment has been one of the declared goals of Bangladesh's national development program, and microfinance is playing a leading role in bringing about the realization of this program. Since one of the intended goals of microfinance is to empower women, this concept paper attempts to inves...
Kang Chao, Md Nazirul Islam Sarker, Isahaque Ali, R. B. Radin Firdaus et al.
The use of healthcare data analytics is anticipated to play a significant role in future public health policy formulation. Therefore, this study examines how big data analytics (BDA) may be methodically incorporated into various phases of the health policy cycle for fact-based and precise health pol...
Isahaque Ali, Zulkarnain A. Hatta, Azlinda Azman, Md. Shariful Islam
Poverty is multidimensional in nature and exists in every part of the world. Microfinance is considered one of the most important programs to achieve poverty reduction, particularly in Bangladesh. It has been estimated that nearly 45% of Bangladesh's population lives below the poverty line. This qua...
Isahaque Ali, Zulkarnain A. Hatta, Azlinda Azman
Bangladesh has been a severe victim of its various sporadic natural disasters—flood, cyclone and storm surge, flash flood, drought, tornado, riverbank erosion, and landslide. Familial and societal lives and security of people are being seriously disturbed by these natural calamities every year. They...
Ismail Hossain, Nafiul Mehedi, Iftakhar Ahmad, Isahaque Ali et al.
Abstract The COVID‐19 outbreak has become a global health crisis affecting both the physical and mental health of people across the world. Likewise, the people of Bangladesh are going through a menacing mental health catastrophe with the outbreak of coronavirus that resulting in stress and trauma. H...
Md. Sujahangir Kabir Sarkar, Md Nazirul Islam Sarker, Sumaiya Sadeka, Isahaque Ali et al.
This study analyses environmental sustainability indicators (ESIs) and explores their governance challenges in developing countries (Bangladesh and Thailand) and advances possible remedies in light of the practices of a developed country (Japan). A comparative analysis of countries' performance base...
Ismail Hossain, Isahaque Ali, Azlinda Azman, Iftakhar Ahmad et al.
The persecution and brutality against the Rohingya people could as well be regarded as the biggest injustice in the history of human civilisation. This article explores the possible threats to peace and security in Asia and the South Asian regions resulting from the settlement of the Rohingya people...
Isahaque Ali, Azlinda Azman, Manzur Kadir Ahmed, Tahmina Akhtar et al.
The objective of this study is to examine the needs of older population in rural Bangladesh. Through a purposive sampling, 80 participants were selected from eight villages located in eight administrative districts. In-depth interviews were conducted to collect some quantitative and mostly qualitati...
Isahaque Ali, Azlinda Azman, Paramjit Singh Jamir Singh, Syazwani Drani et al.
The development studies have traditionally neglected the role of religious faith and its role in the lives of the poor throughout the developing world. However, recently, there has been greater recognition and value given to the contributions of Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs) in providing social s...
Isahaque Ali, Md Aslam Mia, Azlinda Azman, Tajul Ariffin Masron
Purpose Although microfinance had experienced rapid growth in most developing economies, multiple borrowing remains a growing concern for practitioners and researchers in recent years. Hence, the main purpose of the study is to evaluate the factors affecting multiple borrowing among microfinance cli...
Isahaque Ali, Zulkarnain A. Hatta
Poverty alleviation has been a perpetual challenge to the contemporary world. Bangladesh is one of the world's poorest countries and about 45% of the total population are living below the poverty line. It is vital for Bangladesh to re-evaluate its policy on poverty alleviation in which microfinance ...
Zulkarnain A. Hatta, Zarina Mat Saad, Tulshi Kumar Das, Isahaque Ali et al.
Professional social work emerged on the basis of secular and Eurocentric worldview in the West in the late 19th century. As emerging nations in the 1940s, Asian Muslims were not spared being colonized in ways more than just physical presence by foreign powers. This article describes briefly how prof...
Zulkarnain A. Hatta, Isahaque Ali, Jeevasuthan Subramaniam, Salithamby A. Rauff
The objective of this study was to compare “professional” ( PW ) and “functional alternative” ( FA ) social workers. The findings suggested that there were no significant differences between PW s and FA s in intervention, evaluation methods, work ethics, and values. The PW s, in clients' eyes, were ...
Isahaque Ali, Azlinda Azman, Zulkarnain A. Hatta