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...
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...
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 ...
Jahid Siraz Chowdhury, Kumarashwaran Vadevelu, Zulkarnain A. Hatta, Abdullah Al-Mamun et al.
This chapter aims to provide a philosophical appraisal of indigenous knowledge and its role in Malaysia, India, and Bangladesh, with a particular focus on the experiences and perspectives of marginalized and excluded communities. Drawing upon existing literature and scholarly research, the chapter e...
Jahid Siraz Chowdhury, Kumarashwaran Vadevelu, Paramjit Singh Jamir Singh, Mohd Rashid Mohd Saad et al.
Isahaque Ali, Azlinda Azman, Zulkarnain A. Hatta
Isahaque Ali, Muhammad Shariful Islam, Zulkarnain A. Hatta
The primary objective of this study was to examine the role of microfinance programs in poverty reduction among the poor women in Bogra District. The study was based on data collected from a total of 400 microfinance beneficiaries, which was recruited using a simple random sampling in the year 2011....
Isahaque Ali, Azlinda Azman, Shahid Mallick, Tahmina Sultana et al.
The survey method is one of the most commonly used methods in all branches of social sciences research. Social survey research, which includes cross-sectional and longitudinal research, is best used to gain information about large populations and measure public attitudes and orientations in a large ...
Isahaque Ali, Azlinda Azman, Paramjit Singh Jamir Singh, Zulkarnain A. Hatta et al.
Abdullah Al-Mamun, Dunima Dharmasiri, Sivasegaran Nadarajan, Zulkarnain A. Hatta et al.
This chapter explores the intricacy of ethical frameworks in Social Work, specifically emphasizing virtue ethics, deontology, and utilitarianism. It thoroughly analyses the incorporation of Indigenous perspectives and evaluates the pragmatic effectiveness of these frameworks to foster comprehensive,...
Isahaque Ali, Azlinda Azman, Paramjit Singh Jamir Singh, Zulkarnain A. Hatta et al.