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Determinants of Poverty amongst Zakah Recipients in Indonesia: A Household Level Analysis

International Journal of Islamic Economics and Finance Studies

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Title Determinants of Poverty amongst Zakah Recipients in Indonesia: A Household Level Analysis
 
Creator Kasri, Rahmatina A.
 
Description Strategies aimed to increase the impacts of zakah in alleviating poverty need to identify factors that are strongly associated with poverty and subsequently amenable to zakah interventions. However, existing empirical studies related to zakah rarely highlight this issue. This study, therefore, examine the determinants of poverty amongst zakah recipients in Indonesia in order to enhance effectiveness of zakah targeting in alleviating poverty in the world’s largest Muslim country. To achieve the objective, the study collected primary data of the households receiving zakah assistance in Greater Jakarta Indonesia and utilized a logistic regression model to analyse the determinants of poverty amongst the recipients. The main result suggests that lower age, lower education, less formal occupation, smaller households size and non-economic zakah assistance were related to a higher probability of being poor. The results suggest that these groups of people should be the main target of zakah interventions in Indonesia. The findings should be taken into account by zakah organizations, government and other relevant institutions to enhance the impacts of zakah in alleviating poverty not only in Indonesia but also in other Muslim countries.  
 
Publisher www.pesar.org
 
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Date 2017-12-03
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://ijisef.org/index.php/IJISEF/article/view/325
 
Source International Journal of Islamic Economics and Finance Studies; Vol 3, No 3 (2017): November/Kasım 2017
Uluslararası İslam Ekonomisi ve Finansı Araştırmaları Dergisi; Vol 3, No 3 (2017): November/Kasım 2017
2149-8407
2149-8393
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://ijisef.org/index.php/IJISEF/article/view/325/141
 
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