This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes, both for citizens of their religious group and for the population as a whole. To control for politician identity to be correlated with constituency level voter preferences or...

The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims have higher fertility and shorter birth spacing and are a minority group that, it has been argued, have poorer access to public goods. They nevertheless exhibit substantially...

Mehmood et al. (2023) estimate the effect of Ramadan fasting hours on judicial decisions using case-level data from Pakistan and India. Using exogenous variation in fasting intensity due to the Islamic lunar calendar and latitude, the authors find that Muslim judges are significantly more likely...

This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes, both for citizens of their religious group and for the population as a whole. To allow for politician identity to be correlated with constituency level voter preferences or...

India, due to its uniquely multicultural history, has for long cherished the ideal of quot;Unity in Diversityquot;, believing in the value of an egalitarian social order within a tolerant pluralistic framework. Recently, however, the controversial Sachar Committee Report has revealed the...

The purpose of this research is to be acquainted with the awareness and approval of halal supply chain among Indian manufacturers and distribution network members for haulage and warehousing activities from the perception of respective service suppliers. A total of 20 respondents, which consist...

The present study, aims at highlighting the issues related to collateral as practiced by the five leading representative Muslim Funds of Northern India, which is a densely Muslim populated area. The study, in particular, examines the need for collateral, its composition, safety and costs...

This study aims to analyse the influence of banks' internal factors on Non-Performing Finance (NPF) at Islamic rural banks (IRBs) in Indonesia. IRBs has important factor in the economic activities in Indonesia because they provide small-mid-scale financing. The internal factors consist of the...