scholarly journals DETERMINANTS OF YOUTH EMIGRATION: A CASE STUDY OF KARACHI (An Overview of emigration from 2010 to 2016)

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-62
Author(s):  
Ammad Zafar
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Brain Drain ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
The World ◽  
Skilled Workforce ◽  
Outward Migration

In the last six years, more than 3.7 million people have migrated from Pakistan to seek employment, mostly in the Middle East. Approximately, 1 million people migrated from Pakistan in 2015 in contrast to 0.75 million in 2014, an increase of about 20.84%. People from all the cities of Pakistan are migrating, especially from Karachi, which is the seventh most populous city of the world and largest in Pakistan. More than 30% of Karachi’s population is youth (ages 15 –29) with 54.9% male and 45.1% female. This study finds that 48.7% of the youth in Karachi want to leave Pakistan for various reasons, including unemployment, insecurity, economic problems, lack of social support, lack of career opportunities. This high rate of outward migration from Pakistan is creating brain drain conditions, especially in the health and education sectors, where there is a shortage of skilled workforce. This paper explores and analyzes factors that are contributing to youth emigration from Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi.

scholarly journals Improving Capacity Development for Threatened Maritime and Marine Cultural Heritage Through the Evaluation of a Parameter Framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-427
Author(s):  
Katherine Recinos ◽  
Lucy Blue
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Capacity Development ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Development Initiatives

Abstract Maritime cultural heritage is under increasing threat around the world, facing damage, destruction, and disappearance. Despite attempts to mitigate these threats, maritime cultural heritage is often not addressed to the same extent or with equal resources. One approach that can be applied towards protecting and conserving threatened cultural heritage, and closing this gap, is capacity development. This paper addresses the question of how capacity development can be improved and adapted for the protection of maritime cultural heritage under threat. It asserts that capacity development for maritime cultural heritage can be improved by gaining a more comprehensive and structured understanding of capacity development initiatives through applying a consistent framework for evaluation and analysis. This allows for assessment and reflection on previous or ongoing initiatives, leading to the implementation of more effective initiatives in the future. In order to do this, a model for classifying initiatives by ten parameters is proposed. It is then applied to a number of case studies featuring initiatives in the Middle East and North Africa region. This is followed by a discussion of how conclusions and themes drawn from the examination and evaluation of the case study initiatives can provide a deeper understanding of capacity development efforts, and an analysis of how the parameter model as a framework can aid in improving capacity development for threatened maritime cultural heritage overall.

scholarly journals Factors Effecting Waqif’s Decision in Selecting Productive Waqf (Case Study at Dompet Dhuafa Republika)

Al-Muzara ah ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-39
Author(s):  
Nurlaila Mahdiah ◽  
Neneng Hasanah ◽  
Tita Nursyamsiah
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Subjective Norm ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
Muslim Population ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Logit Regression ◽  
The World

Indonesia as a country with largest Muslim population in the world has potentials in utilizing its Islamic philanthropy source of funds to alleviate social and economic problems in society, one is through waqf. Waqf that is managed productively has proven its positive contribution to the advancement of a country. However, the collecting of waqf fund is still dominated by direct waqf (non-productive) based on the instruction a waqif gave. This shows that the majority of waqif prefers direct waqf (non-productive) to productive one. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to analyze the factors that affect waqif’s decision in selecting productive waqf. Data collection is done by the questionnaires given to the respondents. The respondents are 65 waqif at Dompet Dhuafa Republika. The method used in this study is descriptive analysis and logit regression. The result shows that waqif’s decision in selecting productive waqf is affected by their comprehension on productive waqf, age, subjective norm, and marital status.

scholarly journals The Effects of Terrorist Activities on Development in the Southeastern Region of Turkey-Theoretical and Empirical Application

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 229
Author(s):  
Mustafa Mete
Keyword(s):  
Private Investment ◽  
Eastern Anatolia ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Question Analysis ◽  
Investment Demand ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Southeastern Region

<p>Terrorist activities affect and continue to cause social, political, cultural and economic problems for Turkey just as they do to many parts of the world. Investors would prefer to move their capital into safer regions due to the problem of terrorism and this affects the distribution of development. This study, aims at demonstrating the extent at which terrorism has affected development in the South-eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. This study will look at the investment volumes in 9 provinces located in southeast Turkey. We will also look at terrorist activities in these provinces as well as discussing the relationship between investment preferences and terrorism. Firstly, we will look at terrorist incidents in these provinces, the number of provinces affected by terrorist activities, number of people dying from terrorist related activities, state and industrial investments as well as determining the number of industrial workers in these provinces. For this purpose, as a case study, we will investigate investments in Gaziantep which is a city located in the Southern eastern Anatolia region and the sixth largest city in Turkey with a lot of private investments. In this study, a questionnaire was administered to ninety-three (93) big companies who are doing foreign trade with at least one country. The questionnaire administered was easy and used a detailed cross-question analysis. According to the study, it was discovered that there is an inverse relationship between the private investment demand and the frequency of terrorist incidences and then this relationship was discussed in detail.</p>

scholarly journals Post Modern Cross Comparative Analysis on the Mosque Ornamentation in Malaysia: (A Case Study of Charles Jencks)

2015 ◽  
Vol 747 ◽  
pp. 48-51
Author(s):  
Nangkula Utaberta ◽  
Aisyah Nur Handryant ◽  
Md Azree Othuman Mydin
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Islamic Architecture ◽  
Common People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Charles Jencks

Ornamentation is one of the elements in mosque which is almost considered as a compulsory element by the common people. Most of these ornaments are using the precedent from Middle East, such as geometry, floral and arabesque (Utaberta, 2014). Many architects are using revivalism approach of past architectural building such as the Putra Mosque, glorious son of Malaysia. The Putra mosque adopts distinct Islamic architecture that calls on a foreign eclectic revivalism (historicism design approach) of the Persian (Iranian) vocabulary found during the glorification of Safavid period (Utaberta 2012). Ornamentation in Islamic building has recorded in many books. describe that one of the first ornamentation in Islamic Building found in Persia which is using revivalism approach in designing ornament in its column. Ornamentation is the key element that is used in most mosques all over the world. The aim of this writing is to provide the Charles Jencks’s approaches to evaluating ornamentation system in mosque especially in Malaysia.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the importance of employment pacts and the case study - Moravian-Silesian employment pact in the Czech Republic

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 174
Author(s):  
MSc. Šárká Prudká ◽  
MSc. Lenka Brown
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Regional Labor Markets ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Regional Labor ◽  
The World ◽  
Systematic Solution

This paper is focused on the evaluation of the effectiveness of a tool that is used in the world and Europe to a comprehensive and systematic solution of the employment at the regional level. These are the so-called employment pacts.The theme is the more up-to-date due to the onset of the global economic crisis since 2008, which brought a deepening of socio-economic problems in the labour market, with negative implications upon an increasing rate of unemployment.The Moravian-Silesian Employment Pact has been chosen for the case study. It was established as the first one of its kind in the Czech Republic, in the structurally affected region of Silesia.The result is the finding that employment pacts are generally a useful tool to resolve problems in regional labor markets.

The Middle East in American High School Curricula a Kansas Case Study

1974 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Suleiman
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Middle East ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
World History ◽  
The State ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
The World ◽  
School Curricula

This report summarizes the results of a survey of Kansas high school teachers of World History conducted in the Spring of 1972. Though the data were gathered in the state of Kansas, the textbooks used in the World History course are “national” in the sense that (1) the authors are not local or even regional and (2) the books are widely used in various parts of the country.

scholarly journals Middle East & African Student (MEAS) Perceptions of Islam and Islamic Moderation: A Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-80
Author(s):  
Mansoureh Ebrahimi ◽  
Kamaruzaman Yusoff ◽  
Rozmi Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
East African ◽  
African Students ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
The World ◽  
African Student ◽  
Definition Of

Islamic Moderation is such a fundamental concept that without it understanding the faith is inadequate at best. Muslims are required by definition of the term ‘Muslim’ to remain on the middle path in everything pertaining to the life ways. They must not overstep the bounds (tafrit) and become trapped in the extremist quagmire (ifrat). As an Islamic doctrine par excellence, moderation inherently finds solutions for injustice and the violation of human rights. Nonetheless, some schools of Islamic thought (madhhabs) attend extremist ideology, particularly those of Middle East and African savour. These have spread a frightful spirit of intolerance throughout the world that has indelibly blackened Islam’s image by choosing to deny Islam’s characteristic spirit of moderation. In so doing, they marginalize any proper implementation of authentic Islam and block all corrective political discourse. Militant radicals clearly neglect moderation as a doctrinal position that is traditionally essential to the creed. This paper presents a broad exposure to Islam’s middle path with a focus on 192 respondents to a survey taken by Middle Eastern and African students (MEAS) studying in Malaysia.Qualitative and quantitative approaches were used to achieve four significant findings indicating these students do not understand the nature of being a good Muslim.

Culture and the plasticity of perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lifshitz ◽  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

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