IMPACT : International Journal of Research in Business Management

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Authors: MUBINA KHONDKAR

Bangladesh has made some progress in poverty reduction and social development in recent decades despite limited state capacity, low social expenditure, and a wide range of governance problems in the public sector. However, poverty still persists in Bangladesh; and to break the cycle of poverty, the intervention programmes need to be made sustainable. Community based transformative educational services can be provided to poor people along with appropriate opportunities that can motivate them to convert their core capacities into capabilities, which are prerequisite for functioning properly in a society. Community based approach might offer such an avenue as opportunities lie among communities where they can exercise their modified attitude. A new window might be opened in existing poverty reduction interventions; to reconceptualise formal, nonformal and informal education; to offer transformative educational services about health, safety, livelihood patterns; and all these might result in enhanced wellbeing and minimised leakage of income due to accidental costs to overcome illbeing

51-70

Authors: WINNIE MWANGI & SALLY OLIVIA OTIENO-MWEMBE

The construction industry in Kenya is very important since it contributes greatly to the growth of the economy. It accounts for 5% of the country’s GDP and employs about 1 million people with an estimated annual wage bill of 3.2 billion. Due to this reason, construction companies are required to go beyond the basic requirements of meeting projects’ objectives of time, cost and quality, by considering socio- economic, as well as sustainable environment issues. One of the ways in which this can be achieved is through the practice of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in a firm’s operations. Corporate Social Responsibility is a concept that advocates for a balance between the firm’s internal interests such as profit maximization and external interests emanating from its stakeholders such as sustainable environment. This paper is based on a study that was carried out by the authors with the aim of investigating the practice and prevalence of CSR by Kenyan construction companies. Other objectives included to investigate the challenges faced by these companies in embracing CSR as a business A survey approach was adopted for the study and data was collected from the chosen sample group of 83 ‘Class A’ construction firms. Questionnaires and unstructured interviews were employed in the survey. The results of the survey indicate that most of the construction firms are aware of the concept of CSR; but out of all the respondents reached, only 31 (67%) attested to the fact that they had formally or informally practiced the concept, while the other 15 (33%) said that they had never in any form embraced the idea in the running of their businesses. All of the 31 (67%) who were practicing CSR had encountered various positive impacts in their business such as improved number of jobs, motivated employees, completion of work in good time, amongst many others outlined in the chapter four of this study. This was despite some of the challenges they had faced in implementation of the concept such as; inadequate resources to carry out CSR activities and lack of a clear legislative and institutional framework to guide the CSR activities

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Authors: DIPTI BAGHEL & ARCHI DUBEY

Self Help Groups (SHG) proves to effective tools of alleviating poverty. Self Help Group helps to enhance the living standard of rural women by providing them loan for their economic development. This paper attempts to deal with the economic development of rural women through Self Help Group with reference to Durg district of Chhattisgarh. A sample of 250 SHG members was considered for the study from the three blocks of Durg district. It is found from the study that Individual Economic Indicators has significant impact on Economic Development. It was found that two antecedents ie.; income and asset resources have significant impact on economic development