The Role of Social Accountability in Poverty Alleviation Programs in Developing Countries: An Analysis with Reference to Bangladesh

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abu Elias Sarker ◽  
Mohammad Habibur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Social Accountability

Robert L. Ayers. Banking on the Poor. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. 1983. 255pp.Appendices; notes; index.

1983 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-309
Author(s):  
Aftab Ahmad Cheema
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Maximum Growth ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Post War

This book is about "Robert McNamara's efforts to reorient the World Bank towards a more explicit concern with poverty alleviation in the world's poor countries." The World Bank is one of the most important (and probably the biggest) financial institutions which have been providing both technical and financial assistance to many developing countries for more than thirty years. The traditional role of the Bank has been that of helping the developing countries in their process of development by providing loans for projects with maximum growth effects. For quite a number of years in the post-war period these loans were granted mainly for infrastructure projects which were considered a prerequisite for development. An evaluation of such projects was relatively easy as their effects on the rest of the economy were easily quantifiable. Loans for social-overhead projects received relatively low priority as their output was not directly measurable and the element of risk was also high in such loans.

scholarly journals INDEKS DIMENSI MAKRO BAZNAS KOTA MATARAM BERDASARKAN INDEKS ZAKAT NASIONAL

Kodifikasia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 195
Author(s):  
Ahmad Sidi Pratomo ◽  
Shulhan Zainul Afkar
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Muslim Population ◽  
Operational Costs ◽  
The Government ◽  
Index Value ◽  
Role Of The Government ◽  
Dimension Index

Kemiskinan menjadi permasalahan umum di negara berkembang, termasuk di Indonesia. Bagi umat islam, zakat merupakan instrumen pengentas kemiskinan. Indonesia sebagai salah satu negara dengan penduduk muslim terbesar, perlu peran penting antara pemerintah dan lembaga zakat untuk melakukan penghimpunan lebih masif. Beberapa daerah sudah memiliki Peraturan Daerah tentang pengelolaan zakat, salah satunya di BAZNAS Kota Mataram. PUSKASBAZNAS mengeluarkan indeks untuk mengukur kinerja perzakatan secara nasional maupun regional. Dimensi Makro pada Indeks Zakat Nasional digunakan untuk mengukur kinerja perzakatan dalam peran pemerintah dan masyarakat untuk mengembangkan lembaga zakat. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan mixed methods dengan melakukan wawancara terhadap pimpinan BAZNAS Kota Mataram, kemudianmenentukan nilai indeks Dimensi Makro dengan menggunakan Multistage Weigh Index. Berdasarkan data wawancara yang didapat, BAZNAS Kota Mataram memiliki Peraturan Daerah tentang Pengelolaan Zakat, Infaq dan Sedekah, shingga indikator regulasi mendapatkan nilai indeks 1 yang berarti sangat baik. BAZNAS Kota Mataram juga mendapatkan dukungan APBD sebesar Rp 600 juta untuk biaya operasional, sehingga mendapatkan nilai indeks 0,5 yang berarti kinerjanya adalah baik, dan terakhir pada indikator database mendapat nilai indeks 0,33 yang berarti kinerja indikator ini adalah baik. Kinerja BAZNAS Kota Mataram berdasarkan Indeks Dimensi Makro pada Indeks Zakat Nasional adalah cukup baik dengan nilai indeks 5,99. [Poverty becomes a common problem in developing countries, including in Indonesia. For Muslims, zakat is a poverty alleviation instrument. Indonesia as one of the countries with the largest Muslim population needs an important role between the government and the zakat institution to conduct a more massive gathering. One of them already has a Regional Regulation on the management of zakat to optimize the collection of zakat, one of them is BAZNAS in Mataram City. PUSKAS BAZNAS issued an index to measure the performance of national and regional zakat. The Macro Dimension of the National Zakat Index is used to measure the performance of zakat in terms of the role of the government and society to develop zakat institutions. This study uses qualitative interviews with the leaders of BAZNAS in Mataram city, then Macro Dimension index value is determined using the Multistage Weigh Index. Based on the interview data obtained that BAZNAS in Mataram has Regional Regulations concerning Management of Zakat, Infaq and Alms, so that the regulatory indicators get an index value of 1 which means very good. BAZNAS of Mataram city received APBD support of Rp. 600 million for operational costs, so this indicator gets an index value of 0.5 which means its performance is good, and finally the database indicator gets an index value of 0.33 which means the performance this is good. The performance of BAZNAS in Mataram City based on the Macro Dimension Index on National Zakat Index is quite good with an index value of 5.99.] 

scholarly journals Cost-effective provision of environmental services: the role of relaxing market constraints

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
BEN GROOM ◽  
CHARLES PALMER
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Payments For Environmental Services ◽  
Environmental Goals

ABSTRACTFerraro and Simpson (2002) argue that when markets are competitive, payments for environmental services (PES) are more cost-effective in achieving environmental goals than more indirect approaches such as subsidies to capital. However, when eco-entrepreneurs face non-price rationing in input or output markets, as is typical for credit in developing countries for example, we show that interventions which relax constraints can be more cost-effective than PES. One corollary of this is that such indirect approaches are preferred to PES by interveners (e.g., donors) and eco-entrepreneurs alike. Both of these outcomes are more likely when constraints are severe. This has implications for schemes with dual environment and poverty alleviation objectives.

On retroeconomy

2017 ◽  
pp. 148-159
Author(s):  
V. Papava
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Detrimental Effect ◽  
International Competition ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Role Of The Government

This paper analyzes the problem of technological backwardness of economy. In many mostly developing countries their economies use obsolete technologies. This can create the illusion that this or that business is prosperous. At the level of international competition, however, it is obvious that these types of firms do not have any chance for success. Retroeconomics as a theory of technological backwardness and its detrimental effect upon a country’s economy is considered in the paper. The role of the government is very important for overcoming the effects of retroeconomy. The phenomenon of retroeconomy is already quite deep-rooted throughout the world and it is essential to consolidate the attention of economists and politicians on this threat.

E-Projects Challenges in India – Role of Human Resource Management and Technology

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 263
Author(s):  
Ramnik Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Services ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Government ◽  
Traditional Approaches

E-governance is a paradigm shift over the traditional approaches in Public Administration which means rendering of government services and information to the public by using electronic means. In the past decades, service quality and responsiveness of the government towards the citizens were least important but with the approach of E-Government the government activities are now well dealt. This paper withdraws experiences from various studies from different countries and projects facing similar challenges which need to be consigned for the successful implementation of e-governance projects. Developing countries like India face poverty and illiteracy as a major obstacle in any form of development which makes it difficult for its government to provide e-services to its people conveniently and fast. It also suggests few suggestions to cope up with the challenges faced while implementing e-projects in India.

THE ROLE OF EBM AND CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES IN GENERATING RESEARCH AND INTERVENTIONS IN NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES: A RATIONAL MODEL FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristhian David Morales-Plaza
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Clinical Practice Guidelines ◽  
Practice Guidelines ◽  
Neglected Tropical Diseases ◽  
Tropical Diseases ◽  
Rational Model ◽  
Clinical Practices ◽  
Vulnerable Communities

Guarantee better clinical practices among clinicians who attend NTDs in developing countries as well as provide education in vector control in hotspot vulnerable communities

Role of Social Business in Developing Countries: A Conceptual Framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 689-700
Author(s):  
Mohammed Salim Bhuyan ◽  
Valliappan Raju ◽  
Siew Poh Phung
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Social Business

The Role of Mobile Money in Moderating Financial Exclusion: A Tanzanian Experience

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deogratius Joseph Mhella
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Microfinance Institutions ◽  
Mobile Money ◽  
Access To Credit ◽  
Financial Exclusion

Prior to the advent of mobile money, the banking sector in most of the developing countries excluded certain segments of the population. The excluded populations were deemed as a risk to the banking sector. The banking sector did not work with cash stripped and the financially disenfranchised people. Financial exclusion persisted to incredibly higher levels. Those excluded did not have: bank accounts, savings in financial institutions, access to credit, loan and insurance services. The advent of mobile money moderated the very factors of financial exclusion that the banks failed to resolve. This paper explains how mobile money moderates the factors of financial exclusion that the banks and microfinance institutions have always failed to moderate. The paper seeks to answer the following research question: 'How has mobile money moderated the factors of financial exclusion that other financial institutions failed to resolve between 1960 and 2008? Tanzania has been chosen as a case study to show how mobile has succeeded in moderating financial exclusion in the period after 2008.

Development as Self-Interest

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Blodgett Bermeo
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Trade Agreements ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Adaptation And Mitigation

This chapter introduces the role of development as a self-interested policy pursued by industrialized states in an increasingly connected world. As such, it is differentiated from traditional geopolitical accounts of interactions between industrialized and developing states as well as from assertions that the increased focus on development stems from altruistic motivations. The concept of targeted development—pursuing development abroad when and where it serves the interests of the policymaking states—is introduced and defined. The issue areas covered in the book—foreign aid, trade agreements between industrialized and developing countries, and finance for climate change adaptation and mitigation—are introduced. The preference for bilateral, rather than multilateral, action is discussed.

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