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13. Internally Displaced Entrepreneurs in Pakistan: The Case of Abdullah

Authors : Humera Manzoor, Mehboob ur Rashid, Cherry W. M. Cheung, Caleb Kwong

Published in: Refugee Entrepreneurship

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Abdullah sells solar panels and items along with a few electric items. The local community uses his services in fixing their household electric items. Abdullah has been able to understand the needs of the local people since there is an increased demand for solar items due to the electricity shortage all over Pakistan. He has high personal motivation, courage, persistence, hope and faith in God, which he combines with his prior experience with this business. Lack of capital and lack of knowledge of the local market have been major constraints. Abdullah’s relatives and the local people supported him through charity (Zakat) and loans to start his business. His friends prefer to support him by purchasing from his shop. The wholesaler Abdullah uses has become a constraint, since they now refuse to do business with him on credit. The main institutional barrier that Abdullah faced is the lack of knowledge about getting financial assistance and his way around; but his friends educated him about the local market and how to do business.

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Footnotes
1
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2
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. 2015. http://​www.​internal-displacement.​org/​south-and-south-east-asia/​pakistan/​figures-analysis. Accessed on 10 October 2017.
 
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UNHCR. 2013. “Global Report”. http://​www.​unhcr.​org/​539809fbb.​html. Accessed on 4 April 2017.
 
4
Religious law in Islam.
 
5
According to Encyclopedia Britannica, Purdah, also spelled Pardah, Hindi Parda (“screen,” or “veil”), is a practice that was begun by Muslims and later adopted by various Hindus, especially in India, and that involves the seclusion of women from public observation by means of concealing clothing (including the veil) and by the use of high-walled enclosures, screens and curtains within the home.
 
Metadata
Title
Internally Displaced Entrepreneurs in Pakistan: The Case of Abdullah
Authors
Humera Manzoor
Mehboob ur Rashid
Cherry W. M. Cheung
Caleb Kwong
Copyright Year
2019
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92534-9_13