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Food Security, Affordable Housing, and Poverty: An Islamic Finance Perspective

open access: yesIslamic Studies Review, 2023
Ahmet Suayb Gundogdu, Food Security, Affordable Housing, and Poverty: An Islamic Finance Perspective. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, XX + 190 pp. ISBN 978-3-031-27688-0, Price EUR 109.99. Ahmet Suayb Gundogdu is a practitioner and an academic on the
Muhammad Fakhrul Arrazi
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Beyond Prohibitions: Unveiling the Hidden Dynamics of Islamic Economics and Finance

open access: yesJournal of Islamic Monetary Economics and Finance
Despite theoretical differences between conventional and Islamic finance, critics argue that Islamic finance remains operationally similar to conventional finance.
Burhan Uluyol
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Islamic Public Finance: How It Matters for Achieving SDGs

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Islamic Finance
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda is an important global agenda. Public finance, including Islamic public finance, is an essential financial agenda of a country, specifically for Islamic countries.
Abdul Ghafar Ismail   +2 more
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International Islamic finance [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
Islamic Banking has both classical and modern connections. Guidelines to acceptable behaviour with regard to money and property were offered in the Quran whilst the compilation of further material and its interpretation is a process that began with the ...
Firth, David M.A.
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

EVALUATING THE EFFECT OF ISLAMIC FINANCING TO FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT: EVIDENCE FROM OIC COUNTRIES

open access: yesInternational Journal of Management Studies, 2019
The development of Islamic finance is governed by Islamic laws (Shariah). The main principles that regulate all forms of transactions in Islamic banking activities include the prohibition of interest or usury (riba),the use of excessive risk (gharar ...
Selamah Maamor   +2 more
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Predicting the unpredictable for Islamic finance in Bosnia and Herzegovina

open access: yes, 2022
It took about a century after Bosnian annexation to Austria–Hungary to see an Islamic bank fostering an alternative philosophy of meeting the Bosnian population’s needs and demand for such economic services.
Omercic Jasmin, OJ
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Helping financially under‐resourced unmarried mothers move forward and flourish: Feasibility findings from an innovative coaching‐centered place‐based initiative

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Longer‐duration, holistic, cohort‐based, coach‐led interventions may be particularly effective in promoting both economic health and emotional well‐being among unmarried mothers living in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Aligning with the 1999 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) framework for program evaluation, this study presents a ...
Jennifer Langhinrichsen‐Rohling   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Islamic Finance Development on Economic Performance: A Driscoll-Kraay Panel Analysis of 30 Countries

open access: yesAl-Arbah
Purpose - This study investigates the relationship between Islamic finance development and economic performance in 30 countries during the period 2014 to 2023.
Eko Gondo Saputro
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