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Increasing Financial Inclusion in the Muslim World : Evidence from an Islamic Finance Marketing Experiment
Karlan, Dean S. - 2020
Low utilization of household credit in developing countries may be partially due to religious considerations. In a randomized marketing experiment in Jordan, this paper estimates the effect of sharia-compliant loan features on demand for credit. To comply with Islamic law, the sharia-compliant...
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The Role of Islamic Finance in Enhancing Financial Inclusion in Organization of Islamic Cooperation (Oic) Countries
Mohieldin, Mahmoud - 2017
improving the regulatory and financial infrastructure to promote an enabling environment …
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Islamic vs. Conventional Banking : Business Model, Efficiency and Stability
Beck, Thorsten - 2017
This paper discusses Islamic banking products and interprets them in the context of financial intermediation theory. Anecdotal evidence shows that many of the conventional products can be redrafted as Sharia-compliant products, so that the differences are smaller than expected. Comparing...
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Natural Resources, Physical Capital and Institutions : Evidence from Eurasia
Vandycke, Nancy - 2017
. The infrastructure that was inherited from the Soviet system primarily serves to meet basic human needs; few assets …
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Assessing the Impact of Infrastructure Quality on Firm Productivity in Africa : Cross-Country Comparisons Based on Investment Climate Surveys from 1999 to 2005
Escribano, Álvaro - 2017
This paper provides a systematic, empirical assessment of the impact of infrastructure quality on the total factor … countries are divided into two blocks: high-income-growth and low-income-growth. Infrastructure quality has a low impact on TFP … heterogeneity in the individual infrastructure elements affecting countries from both blocks. Poor-quality electricity provision …
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Infrastructure and Trade Preferences for the Livestock Sector : Empirical Evidence from the Beef Industry in Africa
Iimi, Atsushi - 2016
returns to nonbeneficiary countries in recent years. Rather, it shows that public infrastructure, such as paved roads, has an …
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Tax Evasion in Africa and Latin America : The Role of Distortionary Infrastructures and Policies
Kouame, Wilfried Anicet Kouakou - 2018
This paper examines the impact of the quality of the business environment as well as the monitoring capacity of the tax agency on firms' tax evasion and production decisions. First, the paper uses firm-level data for 30 African and Latin American countries to show that tax evasion and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912310
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Sources of Manufacturing Productivity Growth in Africa
Jones, Patricia - 2019
This paper investigates the sources of growth in manufacturing productivity in Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia and Tanzania in comparison with the case of Bangladesh. Based on the analysis of establishment census data since the mid-1990s, it finds that reallocation of market share between firms...
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On the Sustainable Development Goals and the Role of Islamic Finance
Ahmed, Habib - 2017
The Sustainable Development Goals, the global development agenda for 2015 through 2030, will require unprecedented mobilization of resources to support their implementation. Their predecessor, the Millennium Development Goals, focused on a limited number of concrete, global human development...
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Infrastructure Development in Sub-Saharan Africa : A Scorecard
Calderón, César - 2020
Infrastructure is viewed as a crucial ingredient to foster growth and productivity. Amid the post -- global financial … crisis slowdown, Sub-Saharan Africa is in dire need to continue the growth momentum it experienced during the period of the … Africa Rising narrative. An emerging consensus in the empirical literature is that, under the right circumstances, an …
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