Zakat, SDGs, and Poverty Alleviation of Muslims in India

Critical Role ◽

Muslim Countries ◽

The Face ◽

Muslims are the largest minority in India, yet the federal government has, in place, just a single Muslim-specific poverty alleviation scheme, which is utterly insufficient to meet their financial needs. Hence, in the face of governmental apathy and indifferent attitude, Muslims are left to fend for themselves. In this scenario, Zakāt turns out to be a more-than-handy tool to alleviate poverty among Muslims in India. Zakāt, over the years, has manifested itself as a successful means to meet out the financial needs of the developmental activities across the level including the non-Muslim countries. Zakāt possesses a robust potential to play a critical role to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to alleviate the poverty of Muslims in a Hindu-majority country like India.

Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development - Impact of Zakat on Sustainable Economic Development ◽

Zakat, SDGs, and Poverty Alleviation of Muslims in India

10.4018/978-1-7998-3452-6.ch001 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-20

Author(s):

Mohammad Tariq Intezar ◽

Saad Bin Zia

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Federal Government ◽

Poverty Alleviation ◽

Critical Role ◽

Muslim Countries ◽

The Face ◽

Green Tourism in the Context of Sustainable Development and the Challenges Posed by the Global Economic Crisis

THE PROBLEMS OF ECONOMY ◽

10.32983/2222-0712-2020-3-11-17 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (45) ◽

pp. 11-17

Author(s):

T. O. Zinchuk ◽

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T. V. Usiuk ◽

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Economic Crisis ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Global Economy ◽

Tourism Development ◽

The Face ◽

Green Tourism ◽

The articles aims to substantiate the socio-economic, environmental, historical and cultural role played by green tourism and its contribution to the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals based on current innovative trends and capabilities of tourism in the face of challenges posed by the ongoing crisis in global economy caused by the latest pandemic. The objectives of the research were to detail the theoretical, methodological and applied approaches to the development of green tourism, which is a market sector providing travel services. The definition of green tourism has been made more profound through connecting it with the Sustainable Development Goals, which is rather logical. The motivating factors for the development of green tourism have been analyzed taking into account the model of multifunctionality in agriculture and its importance in rural development policy. The nature of changes in the green tourism sector has been identified with respect to the peculiarities of the current global situation, when a pandemic is restraining the world tourism intensity, on the one hand, and is stimulating local tourism, on the other. It is worth adding that local tourism is mostly green and focused on the conservation of the environmental and natural resources, as well as sustainment of mostly rural areas. The research carried out shows that green tourism can become a driving force for economic growth in rural areas, a motivator for employment, a factor in preserving rural culture and traditions in a particular area. At the same time, the results of the research prove the existence of a link between green tourism and national economic, environmental, socio-cultural, intellectual, energy security due to the most typical development priorities of such tourism. On analyzing the experience of the countries that suffered the pandemic most, we have found some prospects for green tourism development. It is a new system of partnership between the state, business and civil society which can become an additional incentive to preserve the potential of green tourism. Thus, strategic guidelines for green tourism development based on institutional priorities, with the current economic crisis challenges in mind, have been designed.

ANALYSIS OF COMMUNITY CASH WAQF INTENTION TO SUPPORT SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs): THEORY PLANNED BEHAVIOUR APPROACH

Airlangga International Journal of Islamic Economics and Finance ◽

10.20473/aijief.v4i1.26383 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 46

Author(s):

Alif Khuwarazmi Maulana Julendra ◽

Silvi Sri Mulyani ◽

Arfi Mulyasa Insani

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Poverty Alleviation ◽

Primary Data ◽

Public Knowledge ◽

Several Variables ◽

Development Agenda ◽

The World ◽

The SDGs outline 17 goals that are part of the sustainable development agenda. One of the efforts that can be made to alleviate poverty around the world is by utilizing "endowment funds". In Indonesia, financing innovation to alleviate poverty can be done through cash waqf. However, the facts on the ground show that the huge potential for cash waqf cannot be optimally absorbed. Therefore, this study aims to explore and test empirically the extent to which the Indonesian people intend to optimize the potential of cash waqf in an effort to support financing and achieve the goal of poverty alleviation in Indonesia. This is done by identifying the factors that influence the intention of the Indonesian people to distribute cash waqf and correlating this with the influence of public knowledge about waqf, especially the cash waqf itself. The method used in this study is a quantitative method by collecting primary data from as many as 316 Muslim respondents throughout Indonesia. The questionnaire used is the adoption of Theory Planned Behavior (TPB) with the addition of several variables that affect intention. This approach is used to determine the community's intention to distribute cash waqf. The results of the study indicate the consideration of Indonesian Muslim knowledge in the influence of the intention to do cash waqf, and the results show that there is no significant influence between attitudes (attitudes towards) and people's intention to donate money.

Between progress, stasis and reversals: an analysis of the Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria

Did the Millennium Development Goals Work? ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447335702.003.0013 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Olabanji Akinola

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Millennium Development Goals ◽

Poverty Reduction ◽

Development Strategies ◽

The Face ◽

Development Goals ◽

Different Levels

This chapter examines important lessons for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Nigeria. It first provides a synoptic overview of MDG implementation in Nigeria before discussing the socio-economic and political challenges associated with achieving the MDGs in the country as well as the some of the efforts made by Nigerian governments at different levels to achieve the MDGs in the face of such challenges. It then outlines three major imperatives to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Nigeria by 2030 and concludes with some recommendations for overcoming the current challenges in relation to future poverty reduction and development strategies in the country. The chapter argues that Nigeria made little progress with respect to the MDGs, which were characterised by considerable stasis and undeniable reversals in some parts of the country.

Subnational activism and conflicts within Jair Bolsonaro’s government: an analysis of the Brazilian states’ actions in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda during 2019

Estudos Internacionais Revista de Relações Internacionais da PUC Minas ◽

10.5752/p.2317-773x.2021v9n3p114-132 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 114-132

Author(s):

Débora Figueiredo Mendonça Prado ◽

Cairo Gabriel Borges Junqueira ◽

Ana Carolina Evangelista Mauad

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Foreign Policy ◽

Federal Government ◽

First Year ◽

Development Goals ◽

International Engagement ◽

Subnational Governments

The article analyzes the international engagement of Brazilian subnational governments in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda during the first year of the Bolsonaro’s government with an emphasis on the role of states in supporting the environmental axis. We argue that subnational governments have been strongly active in defending this agenda, unlike the federal government, generating foreign policy tensions. Therefore, the research analyzes the performance of these actors in the scope of the Northeast and the Legal Amazon Consortia.

Re-Thinking the Sustainable Development Goals From the Point of View of Social Ecology and Environmental Law

10.4018/978-1-7998-8482-8.ch001 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

Edwin Vegas-Gallo ◽

Wilfredo Vegas-López ◽

Alex Pacheco-Pumaleque

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Human Rights ◽

Social Ecology ◽

Environmental Law ◽

Human Action ◽

Point Of View ◽

The Face ◽

This research tries to understand the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) from the perspective of social ecology and environmental law, away from the Darwinian theory of man dominating nature and more focused on rethinking the SDGs from the nature-society co-evaluation in the adaptive sense of society to the new reality of its physical-natural support and to the new legal system of human rights. Development with victims from biologically rich countries like Peru with paradoxical poverty is analyzed, and likewise, the collapse of society in the face of imminent climate change due to human action is analyzed, which requires climate justice for environmentally displaced people in the face of the violation of their human rights, especially of children at risk. Finally, a Latin American academic contribution is presented to rethink the SDGs, generating contributions to the later times of the social confinement of COVID-19, in the so-called new normal.

Universities as the engine of transformational sustainability toward delivering the sustainable development goals

International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education ◽

10.1108/ijshe-02-2019-0103 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 (8) ◽

pp. 1343-1357 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Wendy Maria Purcell ◽

Heather Henriksen ◽

John D. Spengler

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Critical Role ◽

Well Being ◽

Education Sector ◽

Content Type ◽

Living Lab ◽

Purpose Universities can do more to deliver against the sustainable development goals (SDGs), working with faculty, staff and students, as well as their wider stakeholder community and alumni body. They play a critical role in helping shape new ways for the world, educating global citizens and delivering knowledge and innovation into society. Universities can be engines of societal transformation. Using a multiple case study approach, this study aims to explore different ways of strategizing sustainability toward delivering the SDGs are explored in a university setting with an example from the UK, Bulgaria (Europe) and USA. Design/methodology/approach The first case is a public UK university that adopted enterprise and sustainability as its academic mission to secure differentiation in a disrupted and increasingly marketized global higher education sector; this became a source of inspiration for change in regional businesses and the local community. The second case is a business sector-led sustainability-driven transformation working with a private university in Bulgaria to catalyze economic regeneration and social innovation. Finally, a case from the office for sustainability in a major US research university is given to show how its engagement program connected faculty and students in sustainability projects within the institution and with external partners. Findings Each case is in effect a “living lab,” positioning sustainability as an intentional and aspirational strategy with sustainable development and the SDG framework a means to that end. Leadership at all levels, and by students, was key to success in acting with a shared purpose. Partnerships within and with universities can help accelerate delivery of the SDGs, enabling higher education to make a fuller contribution to sustaining the economic, environmental, cultural and intellectual well-being of our global communities. Originality/value The role of universities as the engine of transformational sustainability toward delivering the SDGs has been explored by way of three case studies that highlight different means toward that end. The collegiate nature of the higher education sector, with its shared governance models and different constituencies and performance drivers, means that sustainability at a strategic level must be led with leaders at all levels acting with purpose. The “living lab” model can become a part of transformative institutional change that draws on both top-down and bottom-up strategies in pursuit of sustainable development.

Pandemic Accelerates Datacracy And The Goals Of Sustainable Development Goals

Khazanah ◽

10.20885/khazanah.vol12.iss2.art39 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Ais Amin Rais ◽

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Human Life ◽

Large Database ◽

The World ◽

Global Action ◽

The Face ◽

Development Goals ◽

Very Large Database

In December 2019, an entropy emerged which caused many changes to occur in the world today. A virus that causes the whole world to quickly organize and condition itself. SARS-CoV2 or SARS Coronavirus 2 or better known as Covid-19 is a new corona virus that is responsible for these changes. Covid-19, which was first known to infect a resident of China in December 2019, has now spread to 214 countries and all regions of the world, and affecting every aspect of everyday human life. All nations strive to position themselves in response to this entropy. Especially in the 21st century today. Where development of AI is a prototype that is continuously being cared for by all countries today. Many countries are taking advantage from big tickets of AI in the face of a pandemic. One of them is datacracy. A concept that accumulates all data, all information, then extrapolated from all data and information that has been obtained using certain algorithms which are made into a very large database. Datacracy will be one of the pillars in order to realize the goals that contained in the global action of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Datacracy will also be very helpful in realizing some of the goals of the 17 goals in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which are expected to be achieved by 2030. This essay will discuss how the contribution of AI in dealing with the pandemic as well as speeding up datacracy and so that it can contributes to the realization of the goals from global action Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Higher Education Institutions as a Transformation Platform under the Sustainable Development Goals Framework

European Journal of Sustainable Development ◽

10.14207/ejsd.2019.v8n3p306 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 306 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Inés López López ◽

Marcos Bote ◽

Longinos Marín Rives ◽

Alicia Rubio Bañón

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Strategic Alliances ◽

Trade Unions ◽

Higher Education Institutions ◽

Critical Role ◽

Professional Associations ◽

Previous research has highlighted the critical role of Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in promoting sustainability. In this vein, HEI, as a driving force of change, should actively participate in the diffusion and dissemination of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposed by the United Nations. Thus, HEI must boost SDGs attainment both internally, through research, teaching, arts, and curricular programs, and externally, by providing a platform where different stakeholders such as firms, NGOs, public administrations, professional associations, trade unions… meet and create strategic alliances. A Spanish university has implemented a two-year project where different actors (faculties, students, NGO’s, private companies, public administration, professional associations, trade unions,…) are already working jointly in the pursuit of the SDGs. The aim of this project is two-fold. First, we intend to increase awareness of the SDGs among members of the university and, second, we want to exert an effective social impact by promoting intervention activities proposed by NGO’s and schools. Lectures, art exhibitions, workshops, volunteering programs,… enable tackling the SDGs in focus from different perspectives and contribute to their achievement. As a result, we expect more favorable attitudes towards the SDGs and a behavioral change among university members and citizens in general. Keywords: Sustainable Development Goals, Higher Education Institutions, multi-stakeholders partnership, transformation platform

Optimization Zakat for Sustainable Development Goals: Evidence from Baitul Mal Aceh

International Conference of Zakat ◽

10.37706/iconz.2020.223 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 339-354

Author(s):

Muhammad Haris Riyaldi ◽

Suriani Suriani ◽

Ridwan Nurdin

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Poverty Alleviation ◽

Wealth Distribution ◽

Boarding School ◽

Aceh Province ◽

Development Goals ◽

Poverty Levels

Zakat as a wealth distribution mechanism has an impact on reducing poverty as the most important point in achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs). An important role can be played by zakat institutions in reducing poverty levels, especially zakat institutions in regions in Indonesia. This study aims to explain the mechanism of zakat as an instrument of Islamic economy in order to contribute to the achievement of SDGs in Aceh Province by optimizing the role of the Aceh Baitul Mal. With the grounded research method, this research is carried out by collecting data through interviews with academics of Islamic studies, Islamic boarding school scholars and zakat practitioners who are competent to assess the role of zakat in poverty alleviation in Aceh. The results showed that to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs) Baitul Mal Aceh must optimize zakat as a transfer of wealth from muzakki to mustahik, both optimizing the collection and optimizing the distribution of zakat. Optimization of zakat collection is carried out by means of education, socialization, and good zakat services, while optimization of distribution is carried out by prioritizing zakat for poverty alleviation programs, ensuring the accuracy of zakat recipients, and distribution using consumptive and productive methods. Keywords: zakat collection, zakat distribution, SDGs