50 research outputs found
The Effects of Price-support Programme on Farm Tenancy Patterns and Farm Profitability: Some Evidence from Malaysia
No full textTranslog normalised restricted profit function model is specified and estimated for the four rice granary areas, each administered by a local government body, namely, the MIP, the KIP, the NWSP, and the KEIP, in which the price-support programme has some noticeable effects on farm tenancy and farms profitability. So far, there have been no empirical studies that have used this methodological framework to analyse such economic phenomenon in Malaysia. This, in fact, is the main contribution of the present paper. From the estimated function, the shadow values of land and labour are computed, which in turn are used to elucidate the behaviour of rice farmers in Malaysia. Together, the estimated and computed results, to a large extent, are successful in explaining the observed changes in farm tenancy patterns and the way the farmers (comprised of owneroperator, owner-tenant, and tenant-farmer) are “economically” responding to the sum of profits generated from rice farming and, subsequently, from the programme. Further, given the price-support programme, the results also point to the fact that rice farming in Malaysia is as lucrative a job as any other sub-sector outside this, in particular unskilled urban workers and electronics workers, and thus this programme could be pursued further.
Saving behaviour in Islamic framework: the case of International lslamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
No full textIslam menggalakkan umatnya menggunakan barangan dan perkhidmatan secara sederhana, dan melarang mereka mengamalkan pembaziran. Melalui adunan galakan dan larangan tersebut di dalam ajaran Islam, adalah diharapkan umat Islam dapat menabung lebihan pendapatan mereka. Malahan, konsep halal dan haram dalam Islam adalah potensi yang baik kepada umat Islam untuk meningkatkan usaha penabungan tersebul. Sikap ini membolehkan umat Islam yang mutlaq?, yang taatkan segala peraturan syariah lebih cenderung menabung berbanding dengan mereka yang bersikap sebaliknya. Artikel ini cuba mengukur kaitan di antara ketakwaan dan sifat menabung. Tumpuan adalah terhadap pelajar-pelajar UIAM. Daripada hasil kajian didapati faktor keagamaan mempunyai signifikan positif terhadap sikap menabung responden
A technical note on the derivation of Zakat Effectiveness Index (ZEIN)
No full textEffectiveness of policies is very much dependent upon the quality of the measures used to guide the formulation of those policies. Thus, methodological and practical issues surrounding poverty and inequality indices are of paramount importance in poverty alleviation efforts. This paper attempts to propose a Zakat Effectiveness Index (ZEIN) to address some of those issues. The strength of the index is as follows: 1) it can be used to verify and compare how effective is the expenditures on poverty alleviation by the government as represented by the amount of zakat distributed to the eligible zakat recipients2) it is flexible enough to incorporate different sub-groups analysis such as types of employment, sectors or ethnic group
MEASUREMENT OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE BIASES AND FACTOR SUBSTITUTIONS FOR MALAYSIAN RICE FARMING
No full textDue to a full-fledged initiation of irrigation facilities into all of Malaysia's major designated paddy areas in the late 1970s, the rice farming sector has undergone rapid transformation. In particular, double-cropping has become possible. However, never in the past have studies been undertaken to explicitly incorporate, and thus, investigate this recent phenomenon by means of a macro-type, and time series of cross-section data. Using a translog cost function approach, and by incorporating the seasonal and proximity factors into the analysis, the present paper empirically investigates the production structures underlying Malaysian rice farming for the period 1980-90. The results, though, seem to support Hicks' induced-innovation hypothesis and to some extent, the criticism against the Green Revolution. Perhaps, the method employed here could also be applied to investigate other countries' production structures whose rice farming sector shares similar characteristics to that of Malaysia.JEL classification: C23, D24, O39Key words: Production structures, Technological change, Factor substitution
Zakat Recipients' Satisfaction on Housing Programme
No full textn Malaysia, low-cost housing is usually provided through both the public and private sectors. Public sector provisions are mostly concentrated in large urban centres such as Kuala Lumpur, George Town, and in the rural areas as well, while private sector operates in both urban and suburban areas. Recently, the Selangor Zakat Board (SZB) has started to participate in the provision of low-cost housing in the state of Selangor, Malaysia, and up to 2007, 906 units, which accounts for a little over 1% of total low-cost housing in the state, have been delivered under its different programmes. Although low-cost housing delivered by the public and private sectors have been widely studied in Malaysia, so far no study has been undertaken to examine the effectiveness of the zakat-funded housing programmes in the country. This paper, therefore, intends to evaluate the important SZB housing programmes by adopting the housing satisfaction approach which is currently used as a customer satisfaction tool for evaluating public/ private housing in many local governments in UK and USA
A note on the derivation of the basic needs deficiency index (BNDI)
No full textThis paper developed an improvised methodology to measure poverty reduction for various categories, namely countries, regions, sub-groups just to name a few. To this end, first, using mathematical expositions an index known as Basic Needs Deficiency Index(BNDI)is formulated. Second, this paper shows how the index can be used in empirical works, which in many respects are more convenient than the one developed by other researchers in this area. Finally, by ranking and classifying the index, the status of poverty of a country can be easily be gauged and hence mitigated
THE POWER OF PRODUCTIVITY: WEALTH, POVERTY, AND THREAT TO GLOBAL STABILITY
No full textBy William W. Lewis, Chicago: The Chicago University Press, 2004, ISBN: 0-226-47676-6, 339 pp. (excluding i-xxxi
The Effects of Price-support Programme on Farm Tenancy Patterns and Farm Profitability: Some Evidence from Malaysia
No full textTranslog normalised restricted profit function model is
specified and estimated for the four rice granary areas, each
administered by a local government body, namely, the MIP, the KIP, the
NWSP, and the KEIP, in which the price-support programme has some
noticeable effects on farm tenancy and farms profitability. So far,
there have been no empirical studies that have used this methodological
framework to analyse such economic phenomenon in Malaysia. This, in
fact, is the main contribution of the present paper. From the estimated
function, the shadow values of land and labour are computed, which in
turn are used to elucidate the behaviour of rice farmers in Malaysia.
Together, the estimated and computed results, to a large extent, are
successful in explaining the observed changes in farm tenancy patterns
and the way the farmers (comprised of owneroperator, owner-tenant, and
tenant-farmer) are “economically” responding to the sum of profits
generated from rice farming and, subsequently, from the programme.
Further, given the price-support programme, the results also point to
the fact that rice farming in Malaysia is as lucrative a job as any
other sub-sector outside this, in particular unskilled urban workers and
electronics workers, and thus this programme could be pursued
further
Empirical studies on Malaysian rice sector's TFP, technological change biases and price-support programs
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