Humanomics: Volume 15 Issue 2
Table of contents
Editorial
It is a pleasure to be able to publish some of the papers that were presented at an international seminar on micro‐enterprise held in Sydney on 4–7 July, 1996, in a special issue…
INTRODUCTION
Brian TennysonIn 1995 the University College of Cape Breton signed a memorandum of understanding with the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in which the two institutions agreed to collaborate in a…
GLOBAL MEGATRENDS AND THE COMMUNITY
Masudul Alam ChoudhuryWhat do we mean by the term ‘megatrend’? A megatrend is a prominent feature of global politico‐economic change brought about by or against the recent thrust of capitalist…
DEFINING WEALTH, RETHINKING DEVELOPMENT, ACHIEVING SUSTAINABILITY
Denis GouletFor the World Bank the “achievement of sustained and equitable development remains the greatest challenge facing the human race.” But equitable development has not been achieved…
CREDIT FOR SELF‐EMPLOYMENT AND MICRO‐ENTERPRISE IN COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Sukor KasimIn a paper entitled ‘On reaching the poor’, Professor Muhammad Yunus, the founder and the managing director of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh (GBB), reasoned that
A CONCEPTUALIZATION OF A MICRO‐CREDIT UNION — WORKERS COOPERATIVE TO ASSIST PEOPLE TO DEVELOP SELF‐EMPLOYMENT
J.W. CampbellThroughout the twentieth century, nations defined their responses to the heaves of the market's boom‐and‐bust cycles through the interplay between people's demands and their…
REPLICATING GRAMEEN IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Rebecca FleischerPapua New Guinea is a country with relatively low levels of social and economic development, particularly for women. Severe social problems, including unemployment, lawlessness…
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCES IN SOUTH DAKOTA AND SOUTH AFRICA
Robert J. TosterudEconomic development as a public initiative is traditionally designed to assist designated members of a society in their efforts to adjust to structural change and economic…
ENTERPRISE IN NATIVE COMMUNITIES IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES OF CANADA
Heather MyersThe northern, predominantly native, communities of Canada's Northwest Territories can provide an interesting comparison for Malaysia's indigenous population; the native peoples'…
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IN THE MALAYSIAN PLANTATION CROP AGRICULTURAL SUB‐SECTOR: BENEFITS TO RURAL HOUSEHOLDS
Mohammad Haji Alias, Mansor JusohOil palm, natural rubber and cocoa are the three major plantation crops planted accounting for about 4.5 million hectares of cultivated land in 1995 (4.41 million hectares in 1993…
PARTICIPATION OF INDIGENOUS MALAYSIANS IN COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY: CHALLENGES AND ASPIRATIONS IN ANTICIPATION OF THE YEAR 2000
Zhahir Kechot, Noor Aini KhalifahThe phenomenon of economic specialization of Malaysians along racial lines was probably the most important colonial legacy that was left behind by the British when the country…