Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences: Volume 35 Issue 3

Guest editorial

Kuperan Viswanathan, Sulaman Hafeez Siddiqui

Development of Islamic microfinance: a sustainable poverty reduction approach

Halima Begum, A.S.A. Ferdous Alam, Md Aslam Mia, Faruk Bhuiyan, Ahmad Bashawir Abdul Ghani

Though microfinance has been working for many years as a tool to eradicate poverty from its root, most of the least developed and developing countries are yet to significantly…

Attitude for inclusive finance: influence of owner-managers’ and firms’ characteristics on SMEs financial decision making

Rabia Rasheed, Sulaman Hafeez Siddiqui

The adoption and use of financial services by small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are pivotal in the development of inclusive financial markets. The purpose of this paper…

Social media and corporate communication antecedents of SME sustainability performance: A conceptual framework for SMEs of Arab world

Wael Sha. Mohammed Basri, Mohammed R.A. Siam

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of social media and corporate communication as a key success factor of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) operating in…

Forecasting Bankruptcy for organizational sustainability in Pakistan: Using artificial neural networks, logit regression, and discriminant analysis

Fraz Inam, Aneeq Inam, Muhammad Abbas Mian, Adnan Ahmed Sheikh, Hayat Muhammad Awan

Considering the economic dimension of sustainability, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the risk of bankruptcy in the Pakistani firms of the non-financial sector from years…

Youth empowerment and sustainable development: An evidence from Pakistan’s Prime Minister’s Youth Program

Shahzad Ali Gill, Rashid Aftab, Shafiq Ur Rehman, Saba Javaid

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between youth empowerment and sustainable development (SD) with regards to the Prime Minister’s Youth Program (PMYP).