Some predictions fail to recognize that, after a significant adjustment, China’s economy will almost certainly rebound strongly. The question is how significant that adjustment will be and how protracted will policy responses make the correction.Set against a weak global backdrop, we have to...

Information pertaining to the basics of economic growth and development, its estimation and progress during different periods, conventional and alternative measures of development, theories, and models of economic growth and development, economies dualism behavior, the role of the state,...

Until the modernizing reforms of the 19th century, the Islamic waqf played a massive role in the economy of the Middle East, the Balkans, and North Africa. Formally, it was a trust founded by an individual; income from the endowed assets financed designated services in perpetuity. The largest...

This paper provides a simple, generic introduction to, and survey of, the transactional structures and rudimentary principles applicable to Shari`ah-compliant home purchase financings. The paper summarizes six of the most frequently used home purchase financing structures used by banks and...

E-governance is very important for introducing greater effectiveness and efficiency in government operations and in government to citizen dealings. However, introduction of e-governance is not an easy task. It is not just introduction of technology, but it also involves human aspects. This...

This paper is a study on aspects relating to performance assessment of faculty members in academic institutions. The author has conducted in-depth interviews of fifty academic leaders to identify aspects relating to academic performance assessment. The findings are summarized in the paper. The...

One hundred one years passed since the secret treaty of Sykes-Pico between Britain and France signed in May 1916. It led to the division of the Arab territories, Kurds, Turks, and the Middle East between the two colonial powers. It was a secret agreement with the participation of Czarist Russia,...