Islamic economics [IE] emerged with a new vision and aspiration of a better path to development. Unfortunately, IE has evolved mostly as an intellectual/academic shell, in which poverty eradication, except in rhetoric, is a peripheral concern.Gradually, IE was eclipsed by its offshoot, Islamic...

Since the independence of Bangladesh nearly thirty years ago, the country is still going through serious instability, socio-political crisis and lack of a sense of direction. Time and again the country has shown sparks of success that are fundamentally constrained by various institutional...