BLENDING ISLAMIC MICROFINANCE AND PRODUCTIVE ZAKAT TO SUPPORT SDGS IN FISHERIES SECTOR

Fiscal Policy in an Islamic Economyand the Role of Zakat

This study incorporates Zakat into a simple macroeconomic model of an Islamic economy and analyzes the role of Zakat in the national income determination. The reduced form aggregate consumption function suggests that the determinants of consumption are: Zakat expenditure, taxes, income, and asset holdings of individuals. Zakat could be used as a counter-cyclical policy through the discretionary...

Coastal rural indebtedness and impact of microfinance in marine fisheries sector of Tamil Nadu

In this paper an attempt is made to assess the extent of indebtedness among marine fisherfolk in mechanized, motorized and traditional fisheries sectors and to assess the impact of Microfinance Institutions (MFI) and Self Help Groups (SHG) on coastal indebtedness in Tamil Nadu. The study was carried out in three coastal districts of the state. Situational analysis was done through PLA in the se...

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

Islamic Microfinance Theory, Policy and Practice

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Problems and Prospects of Introducing Islamic Microfinance in Azerbaijan Republic