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The impact of transition and the Afghanistan crisis on employment and decent work concerns in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
Pickup, Francine - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2003
Examines the employment situation in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, focusing on the effects of events in neighbouring Afghanistan. Highlights the impact of radical Islamic groups, drug production and trade, migration and refugee movements, trade restrictions and increased external...
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Economic Modernization in Late British India: Hindu-Muslim Differences
Kuran, Timur; Singh, Anantdeep - Duke University, Department of Economics - 2010
The Muslims of South Asia made the transition to modern economic life more slowly than the region’s Hindus. In the first half of the twentieth century, they were relatively less likely to use large-scale and long-living economic organizations, and less likely to serve on corporate boards....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009148805
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Religious Freedom and Economic Progress: A Philosophical and Empirical Exploration
Ott, Mack - In: Journal of Private Enterprise 20 (2005) Spring 2005, pp. 68-96
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010833156
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A review of the contextual factors associated with the North African business environment - descriptive historical study
Alnaas, Ali Abdullah; James, Kieran; Scott, Albert H.S. - In: African Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance 2 (2013) 1, pp. 9-26
This study compares the contextual factors (culture, political, legal, economic system, and stock exchanges) in three North Africa countries (Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia). The contextual factors of these countries are very similar being Islamic culture and French law. These countries have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010682887
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Economic Modernization in Late British India: Hindu-Muslim Differences
Kuran, Timur; Singh, Anantdeep - Duke University, Department of Economics - 2010
The Muslims of South Asia made the transition to modern economic life more slowly than the region’s Hindus. In the first half of the twentieth century, they were relatively less likely to use large-scale and long-living economic organizations, and less likely to serve on corporate boards....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008549060
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Why the Middle East is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation
Kuran, Timur - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2005) 1
Although a millennium ago the Middle East was not an economic laggard, by the 18th century it exhibited clear signs of economic backwardness. The reason for this transformation is that certain components of the region’s legal infrastructure stagnated as their Western counterparts gave way to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004993573
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'Islamische Wirtschaftsordnung' - Ein Entwicklungshemmnis?
El-Shagi, El-Shagi - In: List Forum Band 30
successful. And if the supporters of such an idea could assert themselves in the shaping of the economic order Islam would … statements about property-rights in Islam hinder the construction of a workable economic order grounding on Islamic religion. On … the other hand the Islam as such cannot - in contradiction to the opinion of Weber - be seen as a decisive reason for the …
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The Empirical Effects of Islam on Economic Development in Malaysia
Omar, Wan Ahmad Wan; Hussin, Fauzi; H, Asan Ali G - In: Research in World Economy 6 (2015) 1, pp. 99-111
review the previous research findings on relationship between Islam and economic development. The objective was to … investigate the empirical effects of Islam on economic development in Malaysia. The subject of Islam and economic development had … employed as a proxy of Islam. Real per capita GDP is used as the indicator of economic development. An autoregressive …
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МОДЕРНИЗАЦИЯ И ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОЕ РАЗВИТИЕ: ИНСТИТУЦИОНАЛЬНЫЕ ФАКТОРЫ РОСТА ОБЩЕСТВЕННОГО БЛАГОСОСТОЯНИЯ...
СЕРГЕЕВНА, АВЕРКИЕВА ЕЛЕНА - In: Journal of Institutional Studies (Журнал … 6 (2014) 3, pp. 83-95
В течение последних нескольких десятилетий теоретические воззрения на процесс развития в значительной степени изменились в ответ на изменение исторической...
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The political economy of Zambia’s recovery: Structural change without transformation?:
Resnick, Danielle; Thurlow, James - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
Using the case of Zambia, this paper examines whether structural change translates into reduced poverty and improved social welfare through an empirical and systematic analysis of the country’s growth trajectory during 1991–2010. We find that growth after 2002 was accompanied by...
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