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Weather Attention in Online Discourse and Price Uncertainty in Agricultural Futures Markets

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Weather is a central determinant of production risk in agricultural markets, but markets respond not only to weather conditions themselves, but also to how those conditions are noticed, framed, and interpreted in public discourse. In this setting, real‐time online weather discussions may shape price uncertainty by influencing how market ...
Mario A. Ortez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The potential of innovative financial tools: Social Impact Bond (SIB) and Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) sukuk, towards the sustainable growth of the Islamic finance industry

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Islamic Finance, 2016
The purpose of this paper is to explicate the congruence of innovative financial tools: Social Impact Bond (SIB) and Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) sukuk with the principles of Islamic Finance, and explore their potential contribution ...
Syed Marwan Syed Azman   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

CSR Contribution to Socio-Economic Development: Evidence from Indonesian Islamic Banks

open access: yesIhtifaz, 2020
Islamic banks play a significant role in social and environmental responsibility. It is known that Islamic finance is not merely profit-oriented but also looking at the prosperity of the society, as an ethical financial system Islamic finance give a ...
Aishath Muneeza   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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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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

PHENOMENOLOGY APPROACH IN ISLAMIC ECONOMICS AND FINANCE RESEARCH: AN ANALYSIS

open access: yesMalaysian Journal of Syariah and Law, 2022
Islamic economics is a social science that studies the economic problems of people imbued with Islamic values. An Islamic economy or cooperative financial system is different from capitalism, socialism, or the welfare state.
Maghfirah Maghfirah
doaj   +1 more source

The role of Islamic finance in tackling financial exclusion in the UK [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The role of Islamic finance in tackling financial exclusion in the UK As the fundamental principles of Islamic finance are socio-economic justice and benevolence (Al-Adle Wal-ihsan), some commentators have raised serious questions about the social ...
WARSAME, MOHAMED,HERSI   +1 more
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‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE ROLE OF INTEGRATED ISLAMIC COMMERCIAL AND SOCIAL FINANCE IN REDUCING INCOME INEQUALITY IN INDONESIA

open access: yesJournal of Islamic Monetary Economics and Finance, 2019
Recent years saw the heated debates among prominent economists on the growing inequality in advanced economies, and accordingly, many solutions to this serious problem have been put forward.
Arif Widodo
doaj   +1 more source

Cohesion Without Consensus: Attitudinal Profiles of Social Cohesion in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Headline indicators of social cohesion in Australia have remained stable in recent years despite rising political polarisation and declining institutional trust worldwide. Yet recent protests and incidents of ethnically and politically motivated violence suggest that cohesion may be under strain. If cohesion is understood not as the pursuit of
John van Kooy
wiley   +1 more source

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