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Services in the Domestic Economy and in World Transactions
Kravis, Irving B. - 1983
economic activities between services and corrmodities. Service industries -- those producing non-storable outputs -- have been … restrictions on direct foreign investment in service sectors.Also, it may beasked why,if growth is to be the criterion of special … negotiating effort, the commodity-service dichotomy is relevant. Why not search for fast qrowing sectors amonq cammodities as well …
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The Economics of Islamic Finance and Securitization
Jobst, Andreas - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
Islamic lending transactions are governed by the precepts of the shariah, which bans interest and stipulates that income must be derived as return from entrepreneurial investment. Since Islamic finance is predicated on asset backing and specific credit participation in identified business risk,...
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Islamic Bond Issuance; What Sovereign Debt Managers Need to Know
Sy, Amadou N. R.; Kunzel, Peter; Mills, Paul S.; Jobst, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
Recent years have witnessed a surge in the issuance of Islamic capital market securities (sukuk) by corporates and public sector entities amid growing demand for alternative investments. As the sukuk market continues to develop, new challenges and opportunities for sovereign debt managers and...
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Production and productivity in the service industries
Fuchs, Victor R. (contributor) - 1969
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