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IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE: A CASE STUDY OF ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY, BANGLADESH 社交媒体对学生学业成绩的影响:以孟加拉国伊斯兰大学为例

American Economic & Social Review Pub Date : 2022-11-06 DOI: 10.46281/aesr.v10i1.1822

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GOVERNMENTAL AND INSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVES AND ACTIONS FOR THE ATTRACTION AND EXPANSION OF E-COMMERCE BY WOMEN IN BANGLADESH 孟加拉国吸引和扩大妇女电子商务的政府和机构倡议和行动

American Economic & Social Review Pub Date : 2022-05-27 DOI: 10.46281/aesr.v9i1.1733

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EFFORTS BY WOMEN TO BECOME FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT THROUGH E-COMMERCE DURING COVID-19: A STUDY ON BANGLADESH PERSPECTIVE 2019冠状病毒病期间妇女通过电子商务实现经济独立的努力:孟加拉国视角研究

American Economic & Social Review Pub Date : 2022-05-20 DOI: 10.46281/aesr.v9i1.1723

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THE ECONOMIC IMPACT BY COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN SOUTH ASIA: ISLAMIC ECONOMICAL TOOL BASED SHORT AND LONG TERM POLICY RESPONSES FOR SOUTH ASIAN MUSLIM COUNTRIES 2019冠状病毒病大流行对南亚的经济影响:南亚穆斯林国家基于伊斯兰经济工具的短期和长期政策对策

American Economic & Social Review Pub Date : 2022-03-26 DOI: 10.46281/aesr.v9i1.1667

{"title":"THE ECONOMIC IMPACT BY COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN SOUTH ASIA: ISLAMIC ECONOMICAL TOOL BASED SHORT AND LONG TERM POLICY RESPONSES FOR SOUTH ASIAN MUSLIM COUNTRIES","authors":"","doi":"10.46281/aesr.v9i1.1667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46281/aesr.v9i1.1667","url":null,"abstract":"The Covid-19 pandemic has direly smacked over 200 countries, threatening global economic growth that has adversely been peeved by the outbreak. It has patterned jeopardizes globally encompassing economic recession, probable high unemployment rate, mounting the poverty line and death of over 2.5 million people. Meanwhile, the second peak of the pandemic is infuriating many countries which may result in around 13% to 32% projected global trade downgrade. Alike, the South Asian economy is suffering from a dire hit of the pandemic and undergoing an atrocious economical mishap. It resulted in a potential decline in the economy than in a normal downturn which materialized different rebounds in habitual succession. Islam safeguards all necessities to authenticate people’s well-being. Protecting ‘life’ and ‘wealth’ from those necessities means securing the human being from natural and human-made shocks. Islam, therefore, represents a set of principles to exile the shocks like the Covid-19 pandemic. The paper aims to highlight the Islamic framework and policy responses using its financial tools to get rid of the pandemic crisis in South Asia, especially in the Muslim countries of the reign.","PeriodicalId":422053,"journal":{"name":"American Economic & Social Review","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126305151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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