Proceedings of the International Conference on Poverty and Sustainable Development

AN INNOVATIVE AND INCLUSIVE LENDING MODEL FOR WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS TO ACHIEVE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL

Naiyer Fatema Khanom — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0530

Women enterprises are persistently increasing around the world and contributing to household income and overall national economies. They are playing an important role to promote sustainable practices in economics, social system and ecology, to perform sustainable development. Mutual Trust Bank Ltd. (MTB), a private commercial bank in Bangladesh is the line of activities for promoting women entrepreneurs’ development, providing credit facility and in addition given all types of support to promote women economic empowerment, as well as sustainable development of countries’ economic growth. MTB introduced a comprehensive credit product ‘MTB Gunabati’ jointly with SME Foundation (SMEF), a national organization works for SME development. The project aims to provide collateral free low-interest rate easy bank finance and other financial intermediaries to test inclusive lending models for women-owned micro, small and medium enterprises. MTB and SMEF jointly took the initiative to develop women entrepreneurship through financial inclusion at the micro and small enterprise level, what particular combination of different services such as, bank account opening, credit, savings and transactions. MTB implemented the credit project ‘MTB Gunabati’ especially designed for women entrepreneurs comprising others women entrepreneurship development initiatives and got the positive outcome proved towards sustainable development.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP ANALYSIS TO THE SUCCESS OF MSME AT DESA COT BATEE, BIREUEN IN LIVELIHOOD PROJECT OF UMCOR-NGO INDONESIA

Dian Inda Sari, Darwin Sitompul — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0530

This paper present finding that capital was not primary factor for entrepreneurial success of 43 MSME’s beneficiaries receiving Livelihood Project’ fund from UMCOR-NGO Indonesia, aftermath 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami disaster. Capital that was not supported at the same time with proper business management and entrepreneurial spirit of respective MSME’s beneficiaries resulted in extremely difficult to develop. The method of research is descriptive-quantitative. The research found that UMCOR has not properly scrutinized individual beneficiaries’ ability prior conducting entrepreneurial activities, in accordance to initial data processing of entrepreneurial success indicator. Poor intensive assistance from reliable parties towards beneficiaries’ problems solving also contributed to the burdensome. The study concludes that it is necessary to develop an assessment indicator system of entrepreneurial success within the project assessment. It allows UMCOR-NGO to alleviate obstacles and contributes substantial supports for the beneficiaries’ entrepreneurial success: to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.

IMPACTS ON CLIMATE CHANGE ON TRIBAL ECONOMY: A STUDY OF JHARKHAND STATE OF INDIA

Marcus Barla — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0530

Climate change has become a major issue of concern during recent years. It has affected the life, livelihood and economy of the tribal people and threatened their survival. There are about 700 different tribes in India as per the Article 342 of the Constitution of India. According to the census 2011, tribal population consisted 8.6 per cent in India. In Jharkhand tribal population represented 24.80 per cent as per census 2011. The huge emission of Green House Gases and decline in forest coverage has resulted into the climate change. The excess emission of the Green House Gases increases the earth’s surface temperature and causes global warming. It has caused discomfort for the tribal people, increased their cost of living and threat for survival, decline in crop production, increase in the incidence of crop diseases, livestock, human beings, social stress and conflict on sharing resources. It is believed that present state of climate change is human induced. In recent years the evidence of climate change is visible in Jharkhand State also. The incidence of drought has increased in entire state. The tribals are mainly dependent on natural resources and rain-fed agriculture. Therefore, they have been adversely affected due to changes in the climatic condition. In this study and attempt is made to find out the changes in climatic condition, assess its negative effects on the tribal economy and livelihood insecurity, evaluate the existing coping mechanism and practices including indigenous methods adopted by the tribals for dealing with the adverse consequences of the changing climate and find out the deficiencies in their traditional coping mechanism and practices in contrast to contemporary scientific approaches and recommend policy to set action plans for the adaptation by tribals of Jharkhand for their sustainable development.

IMPACT OF LEAN AND AGILE SUPPLY CHAIN INDONESIA COFFEE TO SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY MEDIATES BUSINESS STRATEGY

Baby Amelia Fransesca S — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0530

This paper aims to investigate sustainability strategy coffee processing industry companies in Indonesia and methods and goals associated with a different concept with the concept of developing management. This research to analyze the use of strategy lean and agile supply chain of Indonesian coffee's product's impact to business strategy and sustainability strategy and to maintain the Indonesian coffee plant to survive in the long term sustainable development. Indonesian coffee has a special uniqueness that is only available in Indonesia. The paper is based on a review of literature, both journal articles and books, and the result of observation on the coffee processing companies and farmers, and proposed a conceptual model. The cooperation between the manufacturer and buyer with the involvement of a partner stakeholder in the supply chain become a consideration as the focus of the company in managing their core competence and all other activities of outsourcing. Companies have made tough decisions about what and how operations, they must execute well and then applied. The data obtained from interviews and observed the 6 SME’s and 38 farmers in West Java. From these observations, furthermore, a positive relation is found between the use of lean and agile supply chain to the business strategy and then affect Indonesian coffee industry sustainability strategy.

ROLE OF CASSAVA FORRURAL HOUSEHOLD’S ECONOMY IN SOUTH KALIMANTAN

Nila Prasetiaswati, Dian Adi Anggraeni Elisabeth — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0530

Cassava has a prospect to be developed in marginal land of South Kalimantan. Farmers still use local variety with simple production technique. They cultivate cassava as an intercropping crop of oil palm or rubber plants. With ‘surjan’ system, cassava production was 4-5 tonnes/ha. It has a prospect to be increased with the use of superior variety and improved production technique. Study aims to determine the role of cassava for rural household’s economy. Data obtained from study literatures (desk study) and survey then be analyzed descriptively quantitative and qualitative. The use of local variety with simple production technique resulted profit IDR 13 million/ha with B/C ratio 1.8. Cassava farming was contributed 18.18% to household’s total income. In small amount, businness on cassava cuttings and cassava-based traditional food products processing has added income for some households. There are some homescale cassava-based agroindustries in South Kalimantan for instance crackers, chips, and modified cassava flour. Eventhough cassava farming’s contribution to household total income is categorized as low contribution value, its role for household’s economy is still important particularly when it is developed into cassava processing agroindustriesin centers of cassava production due to the agroindustries provide high added value, high profit, efficient, and feasibility to be done.

A PANEL QUANTILE REGRESSION ANALYSIS OF TOURISM EFFECTS ON POVERTY ALLEVIATION

Hanlin Xu — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0530

Tourism increasingly become a tool to achieve sustainable development, especially in the perspective of poverty alleviation. Indeed, increasing international tourism receipt is probably recognized as the most readily way to reduce poverty. Despite the significant amount of strategy research eager to lessen poverty by adopting tourism, there is little understanding of what effects tourism has on poverty alleviation on a macro level, especially at different poverty levels. This study considered the effect of tourism growth on poverty alleviation in 66 developing countries from 1995 to 2012. The analysis focused on the GDP growth rate, international tourism receipts, international tourism arrivals, absolute poverty headcount ratio, and the application of linear and panel quantile regression techniques to the poverty gap. Unlike the mean effect, the results suggest that 1) tourism has the heterogeneous effect on poverty alleviation in terms of different poverty levels: in the case of very low quantiles of poverty, tourism does not seem to reduce poverty effectively; 2) compared with international tourism receipts, international tourism arrivals show a higher effect on poverty reduction; 3) tourism development contributes more than GDP growth on poverty alleviation; 4) higher tourism growth effects are found on headcount ratio rather than the poverty gap.