Management, Social Sciences & Humanitieshttp://ir.kdu.ac.lk/handle/345/38312024-03-28T13:13:09Z2024-03-28T13:13:09ZThe Role of Education as a Source of Human Capital on Rural Poverty: A Review of LiteratureRajapaksha, UGSemasinghe, WMSilva, DAChttp://ir.kdu.ac.lk/handle/345/16272023-04-26T11:08:47Z2014-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Role of Education as a Source of Human Capital on Rural Poverty: A Review of Literature
Rajapaksha, UG; Semasinghe, WM; Silva, DAC
Rural area is a geographic area located outside cities and towns. In order to have long term sustainability in rural sector, education as a source of human capital formation plays a major role by empowering the rural people to a right direction in a productive manner for right decision making ability. Hence the education would be a sustainable strategy to uplift the rural sector with agricultural development. Although for last few decades, many subsidiary programs were introduced in order to alleviate rural poverty, still rural sector has poverty. However, there is a structural change in the rural sector due to either subsidies or free education system. Hence, the objective of this review is to explore how educations as a source of human capital would impact on to expand the living standards of the rural sector as identified by literature. For over past two-three decades, large number of studies has been documented in relation to this theme. In the present study substantial amount of published articles were referred in order to grasp the real gravity of the agricultural development in the light of education as a desk research. The objectives guiding the analysis of literature are to; understand the relationship between education and human capital development; human capital and human development; human capital and rural agricultural productivity; and human capital as a source of human capital to alleviate rural poverty. This review is instigated by searching key academic databases using relevant search questions. The literature suggests that there is an inverse relationship between human capital and rural poverty
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2014-01-01T00:00:00ZEmpowering People through Education from the Perspective of Millennium Development GoalsKodithuwakku, Shashikamalhttp://ir.kdu.ac.lk/handle/345/16262023-04-26T11:34:03Z2014-01-01T00:00:00ZEmpowering People through Education from the Perspective of Millennium Development Goals
Kodithuwakku, Shashikamal
Education plays a significant role in people's empowerment which ultimately leads to sustainable development in any country. Therefore, this crucial position held by the education has become a universal acceptance. Further, as revealed by the South Asian Development Report, if the men and women are not empowered by the education and the health, the sustainability won't be a reality (2004).Moreover, it has emphasized the education as one of essential components of growth process. Generally, the term empowerment refers to a multi-dimensional social process that enhance diverse of human capabilities. Further it is relevant to all the aspects that boost competences of human beings which are crucial for the development. Empowering people can be varied from the individual level to the community level. Even more it can go beyond the community level reaching up to the international level. Therefore, it is imperative to study how people can be empowered through the education since education is recognized as a key player of the human empowerment. Main objective of this study is to explore the potential of education to empower people as human development is considered as one of central pillars of development. Concurrently, this study aims to examine the applicability of the Millennium Development Goals to such scenario focusing on its most apposite segments. Mainly this research would be an archival research which would base on secondary sources. Additionally, the study would focus on the United Nations reports and statistics. This research finds that education is an indispensable factor regarding empowering people .Further; this research reveals that human empowerment is a multi-commitment task which is directly applicable to development process. Concurrent to that, this research has highlighted the relevance of the Millennium Development Goals to the implementation of empowering people through education. Moreover, this study finds that empowering people through education can generate apparatus required for the development process leading to profound social changes at both personal and societal level.
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2014-01-01T00:00:00ZSocio - Economic Implications on Southern Highway Project Special Reference to Evicted PeopleSarojini, Pramodahttp://ir.kdu.ac.lk/handle/345/16252023-04-26T11:22:35Z2014-01-01T00:00:00ZSocio - Economic Implications on Southern Highway Project Special Reference to Evicted People
Sarojini, Pramoda
In developing countries, development related population displacement has grown rapidly over the past few decades due to the compelling need for infrastructure as a result of fast growing population densities. Those displaced due to development projects are resettled by project planners, but have to face specific socio economic issues in their newly relocated areas. This study focuses on identifying social, cultural and economic implications of evicted persons. The Southern Highway, the main development project was selected to examine this problem. Both primary and secondary data sources were used to achieve the objective of this research. To collect the primary data from the units of sample the researcher used structured interviews and semi structured interviews. Guideline questionnaire along with the IRR Model was used to conduct the interviews. Other than this, researcher was able to carry out number of observations as prior to prepare the questionnaire as well as to check its accuracy of the answers given by the respondents. Study Population of this study was 40 families which consist of 70 families who were living in that period. Study samples have identified eight risks; Homelessness, Landlessness, Unemployment, Marginalization, Food insecurity, Increased morbidity and Mortality, Loss of common property and Services and Social disarticulation. In relation to that, the issues faced by resettled community can be divided three categories based on depth of problems. Most affected problems were Physical Marginalization and Psychological Marginalization, Loss of Social and Cultural Value of ancestral home, Social Insecurity, Social Stress, Social Disarticulation, Landlessness, Deprivation of Social Capital. Breakdown the livelihoods, Loss of access to common property were the marginally effected problems and less effected problems were food insecurity and morbidity. The broad ranges of problems are not only the economic risks, but also the social and cultural problems also contribute. Those are inter-related problems and doesn't affect to the community equally therefore the dimensions of issues are differentiating from one another. One might think that the severances are high with the economic risks, but on the contrary social risks are severe than the economic ones. Due to the development projects, the environment in which the people lived in was subjected to harsh changes, the people lost their familiar environment and this can't be evaluated through the scales of economy.
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2014-01-01T00:00:00ZIB Adoption in Sri Lanka: Analysis of Demographic Variables of Banking CustomersPremarathne, JM Wasanthahttp://ir.kdu.ac.lk/handle/345/16242023-04-26T11:00:24Z2014-01-01T00:00:00ZIB Adoption in Sri Lanka: Analysis of Demographic Variables of Banking Customers
Premarathne, JM Wasantha
Contemporary concepts of information and communication technology and implementation strategies to banking services have become a significant matter to all banks in Sri Lanka. The advancement in technology has played an important role in improving service delivery standards in the banking industry. At present, Sri Lanka has a liberalized telecommunications market that has huge impacts on the economic and social development of the country. The Sri Lankan government has initiated several projects, emphasizing the need in rural areas and to provide unrestricted sources of information to all its citizens. When compared with the development of information and communication technology in the country, the demand for Internet Banking facilities is not at a significant level. Therefore, the main objective of this research study was to analyse the demographic factors of IB users and IB non-users in Sri Lanka. This study incorporates both primary and secondary data. Primary data were collected by utilizing semi-structured interviews and a customer survey of the selected banks in Sri Lanka: private bank (Sampath Bank), government bank (Bank of Ceylon) and a foreign bank in Sri Lanka (HSBC). The questionnaire was mailed and handed over to the customers of each bank along with a postage-paid return envelope and a cover letter explaining the purpose of the study. A total of 253 questionnaires were received resulting in a response rate of about forty two percent. However, only 240 questionnaires were useable as in the remaining questionnaires, substantial portions were not filled in. Therefore, the samples include 120 IB users and 120 IB non-users. The convenience sampling method was employed to select the sample of IB and IB non-customers for this study. Analyses of the ungrouped binary data were based on a binary Logistic Model and Statistical Measurements: Central Tendency, Dispersion and Skewness. Data were analyzed using Eviews version 5 application to strengthen the accuracy of results. McFadden R2 (R2McF), P, and Likelihood Ratio (LR) Statistic tests were utilized for testing the goodness of fit, statistical significance of the parameters and for testing the overall significance of the model. In addition, the Jarque-Bera (JB) test was used for testing Normality. The findings of this study have important implications for researchers in the field of IB, banks that are currently offering IB services as well as banks that are planning to offer such services. The outcomes of this research can be applied to developing countries in the region in general.
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