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Opportunities and issues in empowering differently-abled people into productivity: a study based on Ampara district, Sri Lanka
Disability is a normal phenomenon in the sense that it exists in all societies,
affecting predictable and identifiable proportions of each population. Disability
activities are economic activities, which generate economic output and income just
like other economic activities. Nevertheless, expenditures on disability are
typically viewed as constituting an economic burden. This likely stems from the
fact that most expenditures on disability have traditionally come either from
government budgets, making them burdensome to taxpayers, or charitable
remittances, making them charity, which necessarily implies a burden. Integrating
disabled people into the labor force in a productive manner is a challenging but
important step. Empowerment is all about giving official authority to an individual
to do something and/or promoting the self-actualization or influence of someone
by making someone stronger and more confident. Development oriented disability
empowerment policies, programs and strategies are those that seek to reduce the
economic costs of disability by increasing the functionality of people with
disabilities and reducing the barriers that impede their access to social and
economic opportunities. This research has attempted to study the available
opportunities to empower disables and to identify the issues which are significant
threat to empowering disables which in turn increase the cost of families with
disabled persons and government expenditure to protect these disabled persons
The case of Islamic Bank in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is one of the few non-Islamic
countries to have legislated for Islamic
banking. Islamic banking and finance is a
emerging industry in sri lanka where there is
a fully fledge islamic bank and other
conventional banks operating islamic
windows providing services to wide range of
customers. This study is designed to examine
the effects of the following factors: attitude;
social influence; religious obligation; and
pricing of Islamic financing, on the intention
to use Islamic financing. Data were collected
through questionnaire and used SPSS 16.0 to
analyze the data using regression analysis.
The study found two determinants to be
significant in influencing the intention to use
Islamic financing, namely, consumer attitude
and religious obligation. Social influence and
pricing of Islamic financing were found to be
insignificant
Impact of atmospheric design on consumer purchasing behavior at self- serving convenience store
The main aim of this study was to investigate the impact of atmospheric design on consumer purchasing behavior at self-serving convenience stores in Ampara District, Sri Lanka. Today, retail industry became highly competitive with the increasing number of convenience and other types of retail stores in the area. Hence, the retailers need to be more customer focused and have to differentiate from their competitors by making their atmospheric design more attractive to consumers and to encourage them to spend more time, money, purchase more merchandises and to stimulate their repeat purchase intention. A survey research was employed to collect primary information from 292 customers from convenience stores in Ampara District. Atmospheric design factors such as, product assortment, crowd density, and store floor space were used to identify the impact of atmospheric design on consumer purchasing behavior. Convenience sampling was employed for data collection using a questionnaire with a five-point Likert scale. SPSS 20.0 was used to analyze the data. Product assortment, crowd density and store floor space have significant impact on consumer purchasing behavior at self-serving convenience stores in Ampara District