TY  - JOUR
AU  - Bhuiyan, Abul Bashar 
AU  - Siwar, Chamhuri 
AU  - Islam, Aminul 
AU  - Rashid, Mamunur 
PY  - 2012
TI  - The Approaches of Islamic and Conventional Microfinancing for Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Livelihood
JF  - American Journal of Applied Sciences
VL  - 9
IS  - 9
DO  - 10.3844/ajassp.2012.1385.1389
UR  - https://thescipub.com/abstract/ajassp.2012.1385.1389
AB  - Poverty is the main illness for sustainable livelihood because it destroyed human basic rights for surviving with minimum opportunities especially political, social stability and economic processes, literature and environment. The aims of this study are to discuss about existing approaches of poverty alleviation and sustainable livelihood. The study found throughout the discussion of the theoretical sources i.e., participatory approaches have determined as a good way of poverty alleviation and sustainable livelihood especially zakat based Islamic mode of financing and Qard-al-Hasan on the basis of spiritual values as an alternative model for poverty alleviation and ensuring sustainable livelihood.