Humanomics: Volume 12 Issue 2

Ethics, Morals and Values: A Malaysian Experience in Alternative Development

Uzir Abdul Malik, Abdul Ghafar Ismail

Development, both economic and social, has been uppermost in the minds of the Malaysian fathers of independence in the process of nation building. Although the nation inherited…

Socio‐Economic Development Institutions in Malaysia: An Evaluative Perspective

B.N. Ghosh, Abdul Fatah Che Hamat, Muhammad Syukri Salleh

Malaysia is now one of the newly industrialising countries and hopes to attain the status of a fully industrialised nation by the year 2020. She has embarked upon the capitalist…

Ethico‐Economic Institution of Zakah: An Instrument of Self‐Reliance and Sustainable Grassroot Development

AbulHasan M. Sadeq

Zakah is an important ethico‐economic institution in the Islamic code of life. It provides a mandatory mechanism for sharing societal resources in a Muslim community. It…

Need Based Development and Its Implications for Sustainability

Ataul Huq

Development implying change or progress has now been recognized as a multi‐dimensional concept. But development measured simplistically in terms of certain quantifiable variables…