scholarly journals CORONAVIRUS CHALLENGES & SOLUTIONS IN ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Farhat Aziz ◽  
Samina Saadia
Keyword(s):  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Financial Assistance ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Extreme Poverty ◽  
The Government ◽  
Daily Wage ◽  
Wage Earners ◽  
Scarcity Of Resources ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Day By Day

People infected with the corona virus in Pakistan is increasing day by day. Although the government has taken timely precautions and security measures, the death toll from the virus is much lower than in other countries, but the reality is that the lockdown that has been going on for weeks in most parts of the country The economy has been hit hard. Due to the closure of various industries and restrictions on transportation, about 19 million people have lost their jobs, 70% of whom are from Punjab province. Among those most affected by the lockdown restrictions are employees of small and medium-sized enterprises, businesses and companies (SMEs) and hard-working daily wage earners. The government has allocated Rs. 144 billion under the Ehsas Emergency Cash Program to provide financial assistance to the unemployed. However, this is not a permanent solution to the problem. The government's first priority should be to stabilize the economy in the light of various economic indicators. The truth is that due to the abundance of problems, scarcity of resources and extreme poverty, a country of 220 million people cannot afford a long lockdown. The purpose of this article is to how to deal with these disturbing situations with a believing character and a positive attitude.

“COMMUNITY PROSPECTIVE EXPERIENCE DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC”

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-34
Author(s):  
Sunkad. M.A ◽  
C.M. Math
Keyword(s):  
Time Frame ◽  
Severe Form ◽  
Mild Form ◽  
Observation Study ◽  
Observation Sentence ◽  
Validated Questionnaire ◽  
The Government ◽  
Daily Wage ◽  
One Year ◽  
Wage Earners

Background: The Covid -19 disease is very much present in our locality of 4,105 households and 25,545 people. We intend to describe most of the events related to Covid 19 disease like, occurrence of a case, new cases, progress of events, case management, recovery and perceptions of the community. Ours is an open community consisting of 4,105 houses. Methods: This is a prospective observation study of “Covid 19 disease phenomenon” in our community. The observations are about frequency, trends, progress and behavior.We planned to go round the community for 2 hours a day, to observe and record all that happens concerning Covid 19 disease, and also talk to those affected and record their perceptions in a validated questionnaire consisting of 20 close ended questions with answers graded on Leikert scale. The facts are put in “Observation sentence” and joined to make “Observation paragraphs”. Results: There were 167 Covid cases, 32 cases suffered severely, 91 cases mild form, 44 Covid positive only with no symptoms at all, and 20 cases died. There was fear of the disease to begin with, community learnt the disease, understood how to treat, and later normal life settled. Conclusion:The Covid 19 disease struck the community suddenly, there were new cases, severe form, mild form, asymptomatic and some died. These events conrm to situation happening at other places. Summary of the article: This article is the description of facts that occurred in an urban community concerning Covid 19 disease. There are 4,105 families in this community. Our leader announced the nationwide “Stay indoors” order to contain the spread of Covid 19 disease in the middle of March, 2021. Our community knew very little of this disease till then. There are ordinary daily wage earners, semiskilled persons, skilled persons, ofce goers and retired individuals besides women and children in this locality. Those individuals doing essential services like banking, healthcare, and grocery moved out for their work. These were the rst persons to get Covid disease in the month of June. Following this incident, their family members tested positive and many people were conrmed of the disease. The government took the responsibility of treatment, tracing, and testing. Also there were elaborate guidelines how people should behave during this period. The people in the community are also endowed with senses, they observed life as it went by , adhered to the guidelines announced, made adequate changes in their behaviour, pooled their resources, shared the resources, distanced the diseased and lived the life. In the time frame of one year did all the individuals get the Covid disease? How many contacted the disease? How many recovered from the disease? How many died due to the disease, is the main topic of this article.

India faces huge COVID-19 burden absent more testing

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
The Government ◽  
Daily Wage ◽  
Wage Earners ◽  
Limited Testing ◽  
Stimulus Package

Subject India's attempts to curb the spread of COVID-19. Significance Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 24 announced a 21-day lockdown in response to the COVID-19 crisis, describing this as a “curfew” for India’s 1.3 billion people. Although people can leave their homes to procure essentials such as food and medicine, and certain key services are exempt from the shutdown, the aim of the drastic measure is to prevent community spread of the coronavirus, through social distancing. India has recorded little more than 700 cases of COVID-19, but it has undertaken only limited testing for infection. Impacts The government will aim to curtail the spread of misinformation about COVID-19, such as pseudoscientific theories about possible cures. People attacking healthcare professionals due to fears they may spread the coronavirus will face strong punitive action from authorities. A stimulus package announced by Delhi yesterday should ease some concerns among daily-wage earners about food security amid the lockdown.

Farming Co-operatives in the Development of Zambian Agriculture

1972 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 294-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Stephen Lombard
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Financial Assistance ◽  
Subsistence Farming ◽  
Share Capital ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Unemployed

Most of the co-operative societies registered up to s 964, the year of Zambia's constitutional independence, were producer marketing organisations. By that date, 220 societies of all types were on the official register, claiming a total of 43,697 members and a paid-up share capital of K1.7 million.1After independence the ruling United National Independence Party made it clear that the majority of Zambians should be involved more fully in economic and social development than they had been hitherto. Co-operative organisation was seen as a strategic way of bringing more Africans into industry, commerce, and non-subsistence farming; ten or more people could apply for registration as a society, and thus qualify for financial assistance from the Government. President Kaunda launched this ‘revitalised’ postindependence co-operative movement personally in January 1965, and called on the unemployed to put their various skills to work on planned agricultural and construction projects: ‘The money is there and the know-how…You an form these co-operative societies anywhere in Zambia and we shall assist you in getting on’.2 He specifically encouraged the formation of vegetable, egg, beef, milk, and road-making co-operatives.

Graubündens Wald im Fokus | Focus on the Grisons forest

2009 ◽  
Vol 160 (7) ◽  
pp. 195-200
Author(s):  
Reto Hefti
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Intensive Use ◽  
Form Part ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Government

In the mountainous canton Grisons, much visited by tourists, the forest has always had an important role to play. New challenges are now presenting themselves. The article goes more closely into two themes on the Grisons forestry agenda dominating in the next few years: the increased use of timber and climate change. With the increased demand for logs and the new sawmill in Domat/Ems new opportunities are offered to the canton for more intensive use of the raw material, wood. This depends on a reduction in production costs and a positive attitude of the population towards the greater use of wood. A series of measures from the Grisons Forestry Department should be of help here. The risk of damage to infrastructure is particularly high in a mountainous canton. The cantonal government of the Grisons has commissioned the Forestry Department to define the situation concerning the possible consequences of global warming on natural hazards and to propose measures which may be taken. The setting up of extensive measurement and information systems, the elaboration of intervention maps, the estimation of the danger potential in exposed areas outside the building zone and the maintenance of existing protective constructions through the creation of a protective constructions register, all form part of the government programme for 2009 to 2012. In the Grisons, forest owners and visitors will have to become accustomed to the fact that their forests must again produce more wood and that, on account of global warming, protective forests will become even more important than they already are today.

Corporate social responsibility between public policy and enterprise policy

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 372-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Bredgaard
Keyword(s):  
Market Integration ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Business And Society ◽  
Employment Policy ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Social Partners ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Unemployed

In spite of – or maybe precisely because of – its inherent vagueness, ambiguity and multidimensionality, CSR has increasingly come into vogue with the EU institutions, national governments and numerous European companies. This article identifies four types of CSR approaches: (1) CSR between business and society (e.g. the US approach); (2) CSR in business (e.g. HRM within firms); (3) CSR between business and government (e.g. the European Commission's approach) and (4) CSR between employment policy and business (e.g. the Danish approach). Denmark, which provides the case study of the article, typifies an approach to CSR in which the government and social partners have played an active role in promoting CSR and where initiatives have focused narrowly on employers’ responsibilities for the recruitment, training, development and dismissal of labour. The Danish case thus allows for a discussion of the role of public authorities and social partners in CSR, a discussion often neglected in mainstream CSR literature. The main question addressed in the article is how links can be created between policy instruments and business interests in order to reduce workplace exclusion and promote the labour market integration of the unemployed and inactive. We propose a framework that transcends the dichotomy between voluntarism and coercion that characterises much of the CSR discussion by suggesting different, but complementary, roles of public authorities and social partners in CSR.

STRATEGI PENGEMBANGAN DAN ANALISIS SWOT PADA PT. GARUDA INDONESIA TBK

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-190
Author(s):  
Nely Supeni ◽  
Wiwik Fitria Ningsih
Keyword(s):  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Financial Assistance ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Diversification Strategy ◽  
Strategy Analysis ◽  
Assistance Program ◽  
Financial Condition ◽  
Operational Costs ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government

The purpose of this research is to plan a creative and workable strategy for PT. Garuda Indonesia Tbk in an effort to respond to competition in the aviation market. This type of research is descriptive qualitative. Methods of data collection using literature study and data analysis used is a SWOT analysis. Based on the analysis of the Cartesian diagram shows that PT. Garuda Indonesia Tbk is included in quadrant II, which is supporting the Diversification strategy. The result of SO strategy analysis is that PT. Garuda Tbk must maximize the government's financial assistance program to restore the company's financial condition as well as to maintain the company's big name. The results of the ST strategy analysis are PT. Garuda Indonesia Tbk must maintain excellent facilities and services in order to face other aviation competitors. The results of the WO strategy analysis, namely the existence of a financial assistance program from the government, can also be used to improve the competence of company human resources. The results of the WT strategy analysis, namely PT. Garuda Indonesia Tbk must reduce operational costs while maintaining quality in order to be able to compete in the world of aviation.

Peran UMKM Dalam Mengurangi Tingkat Pengangguran Masyarakat dan Strategi UMKM Ditengah Pandemi Covid-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-107
Author(s):  
Nida Alfi Nur Ilmi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Unemployment Rate ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Financial Assistance ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Lower Middle Class ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The Government

ABSTRACT This paper tries to explain and describe the position of UMKM in the Kepuh, Boyolangu Village, Banyuwangi, as an effort to reduce the unemployment rate, especially in the lower middle class and to see how the strategy of the UMKM founders in maintaining their position in all conditions. So it is hoped that readers can find out and analyze UMKM within the scope of the region as an effort to minimize unemployment and increase living standards. This paper use qualitative research method with a qualitative descriptive approach. Establishing UMKM is certainly not an easy thing, because the large number of workers does not guarantee UMKM, who is determined by the appropriate expertise and strategy. In addition, the Government has not been maximally perfect in overcoming problems and financial assistance for community UMKM which in reality is able to absorb many new workers, and has an impact on reducing the unemployment rate.

scholarly journals Strategi Pengembangan Ekonomi Mualaf di Kota Padang

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
M. Zaky Mubarak Lubis
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Financial Assistance ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City ◽  
Economic Development Strategies

This study aims to find the economic development strategies of converts in the city of Padang. The research approach was conducted using a descriptive qualitative method by collecting data through interviews, documentation and focus group discussions. The research explains that the economic problems of converts to cities in the city are caused by the severance of family relations, lack of ability, lack of converts, lack of assistance and lack of community awareness. The strategy in the economic development of converts in the city of Padang is happy with four processes. First, the making of converts as a means of gathering converts and becomes problem solving for all converts in the city of Padang. Second, capacity building is carried out by conducting trainings that provide theability of converts so that converts have the opportunity to make a business. Third, the provision of financial assistance aims to enable the ability of entrepreneurs who have been trained to be implemented in the form of business through financial assistance from both the government and the private sector. Fourth, supervision and assistance to the business carried out by converts in order to survive and be developed so that they can help other converts. To see the effects of the concept of this strategy it is necessary to implement all of these strategies so that they can be assessed and evaluated in an effort to improve the economy of converts.

scholarly journals Mitigating the Effect of Covid-19 on the Society Through the Islamic Social Finance

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-61
Author(s):  
Ibraheem Alani AbdulKareem ◽  
Mohd Sadad bin Mahmud ◽  
Moses Elaigwu ◽  
Abdul Fattah Abdul Ganiyy
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Poverty Eradication ◽  
Social Wellbeing ◽  
The People ◽  
Major Burn ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Daily Wage

As at the end year of 2019, the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak had caused an unparalleled human crisis around the world. The disease is causing not just a health problem but also economic crisis. Numerous countries fell into meltdown and more people fell into poverty. The government may not be sufficiently able to take the economy back to its track. The concentration has now moved from the spread of the virus to the economic consequences it will bring to the community. The lack of production will lead to the deficiency of supply and therefore will end as loss of employment and jobs for a large number of people around the globe. The most significant sections of our society are SMEs and daily wage will bear the major burn of the crisis. Therefore, Islamic social finance, incorporating zakat and waqf, has to be adopted to address the Covid-19 pandemic crisis. Zakat and waqf are commonly practised in Muslims countries majority. Zakat and waqf function show the possibility and economic advantages of zakat and waqf properties for people’s prosperity. Moreover, zakat and waqf can be utilized to fill financial gaps and can likewise be utilized to create social wellbeing. This study explores the application and potential of zakat and waqf institutions for the social wellbeing of the people and economic development during and after Covid-19 pandemic. The study reviewed past studies on the potential of zakat and waqf as an alternative way for social development and economic growth. The study, therefore, observed that zakat and waqf institutions can improve economic activity through zakat and waqf properties use for various purposes such as health services, infrastructure, SMEs, poverty eradication and education. 

scholarly journals A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF AWARENESS AND UTILIZATION OF SOCIAL SECURITY MEASURES AMONG THE ELDERLY IN KOCHI CORPORATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charutha Retnakumar ◽  
Leyanna Susan George ◽  
Maya Chacko
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Community Level ◽  
Financial Security ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Effective Utilization ◽  
Public Health Workers ◽  
The Government ◽  
Depth Interviews

Background: As per Census 2011, nearly 104 million people in India are above the age of 60 years. While in Kerala, 12.6 % of the population is elderly. The government of India has launched various social security schemes and concessions for the elderly.  Hence, objective of this research is to study the awareness & utilization of social security measures. It also aimed to understand the motivators & barriers for utilization of social security measures among the elderly. Methodology: A qualitative study was carried out in 5 geriatric care centres in the 65th division of Kochi. 7 FGDs were conducted in each of the geriatric clubs and 7 In-depth interviews were conducted among the Anganwadi workers, medical officers, public health workers, and welfare officers. The data was translated, transcribed, Coded, thematically analysed and conclusions were drawn after data triangulation. Results: The awareness & utilization of various social security measures were found to be poor among the elderly. This was attributed to the lack of awareness among the community level workers regarding same. Pensions, railway concessions, and vayomitram project were the most popular schemes. Financial security among the pensioners through the schemes was a major motivator. While, the lack of awareness regarding the schemes and delay in processing the applications were the barriers identified. Conclusion: Proper channelization of knowledge is important for the awareness generation among elderly and community level workers. This can further lead to effective utilization of the benefits provided.

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