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Construction of Islamic Human Development Index

Rama, Ali - 2019

The existing HDI concept is value neutral and unable to capture the religious and ethical perspective of socio-economic development in Muslim countries. It is argued that Muslim countries have some special features, cultures, and values that are not completely accommodated by the HDI...

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Islamic Home Purchase Financing : A Conceptual Overview

McMillen, Michael J. T. - 2012

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...

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From dotcom to Covid-19 : a convergence analysis of Islamic investments

Alexakis, Christos A.; Kenourgios, Dimitris; Pappas, … - In: Journal of international financial markets, … 75 (2021), pp. 1-28

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From legalism to value-oriented Islamic finance practices

Zulkifli bin Hasan - In: Humanomics 32 (2016) 4, pp. 437-458

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Islamic finance: what does it change, what it does not - the structure - objectives mismatch and its consequences

Hasan, Zubair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

mismatch but its consequences that have forced the nascent Islamic system to convergence and competition with the mature …

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Convergence in Islamic financial development : evidence from Islamic countries using the Fourier panel KPSS stationarity test

Hassan, M. Kabir; Kazak, Hasan; Adıgüzel, Uğur; … - In: Borsa Istanbul Review 23 (2023) 6, pp. 1289-1302

This study investigates whether there is convergence among Islamic countries with respect to the relationship between … Fourier Panel KPSS Stationarity Test to examine the convergence hypothesis for four indicators of Islamic financial markets … Contribution Volume. Our analysis reveals that only IFAV exhibits convergence, while the other indicators do not. We also evaluate …

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Religion, Culture, and Economic Performance

Noland, Marcus - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2003

The hypothesis that the coefficients on variables of religious affiliation are jointly equal to zero can frequently be rejected at conventional levels of statistical significance (i.e., religion matters), but no robust relationship between adherence to major world religions and national economic...

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Democracy and countries with Muslim majorities: A reply and update

Potrafke, Niklas - 2012

My empirical results in Potrafke (2012) confirm past conclusions that Muslim-majority countries are less likely to be democratic. Hanusch takes issue with my results - and by inference with all past empirical results on the relation between Islam and democracy. In his comment on my study,...

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Economic Freedom and Religion: An Empirical Investigation

Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016

There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic freedom. Our cross-sectional dataset includes 137 countries...

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Gender equality in Muslim-majority countries

Gouda, Moamen; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016

Discrimination has been documented against women in Muslim-majority countries. Constitutions differ among Muslim-majority countries. By using women's rights indicators and exploiting cross-country variation, we find that discrimination against women is more pronounced in countries where Islam is...

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