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Impact of Taqwa (Islamic piety) on employee happiness : a study of Pakistan’s banking sector

Maham, Raj; Bhatti, Omar Khalid - In: Cogent business & management 6 (2019), pp. 1-22

("God’s consciousness")-comprising Islamic spirituality (IS) and Islamic social responsibility (ISR)-specifically. This … and human development or policymaking initiatives. …

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Trade and geography in the economic origins of Islam : theory and evidence

Michalopulos, Stelios; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - 2010 - This draft: May, 2010

; Physical Capital ; Human Capital ; Land Inequality ; Wealth Inequality ; Trade …

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Enforcing IPR through informal institutions : the possible role of religion in fighting software piracy

El Bialy, Nora; Gouda, Moamen - 2011

imply efficient enforcement in itself. A simple model is constructed to explain the interplay between the IPR law and human … IPR laws or institutions but might not affect informal institutions, or human morals and behavior, to the same extent …

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In the name of god : managing risk in Islamic finance

Cattelan, Valentino - 2014

' to the Arabic رزق rizq, '(God's) sustenance', this paper dares looking at human hazard, زهر zahr, the 'dice' of future …, as the unpredictable whim of gods or mysterious fate, this story has transformed the future into a human prospect, where … 'against' but 'in the Name of God': the market of Islamic finance. To this end, Islamic finance is depicted within an …

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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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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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Trade and Geography in the Economic Origins of Islam : Theory and Evidence

Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2010

This research examines the economic origins of Islam and uncovers two empirical regularities. First, Muslim countries, virtual countries and ethnic groups, exhibit highly unequal regional agricultural endowments. Second, Muslim adherence is systematically larger along the pre-Islamic trade...

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The Challenge of Poverty and the Poverty of Islamic Economics

Farooq, Mohammad Omar - 2014

In the past half century Islamic economics was eclipsed by Islamic finance movement. Gradually Islamic economics has taken a back seat without any economy to back it up empirically. Although Islamic finance emerged as an offshoot of Islamic economics and with the blessing and advocacy from...

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Islamism and Gender Relations in the Muslim World as Reflected in Recent World Values Survey Data

Tausch, Arno - 2016

Ever since Goldin (1995) proposed the idea that there is a U-shaped female labor force participation rate function in economic development, empirical research is stunned by the question why the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are characterized by such low rates of female...

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Firm Opacity and Islamic Securities Issuance

Al Balooshi, Sara - 2020

We study the relationship between opacity and external funding decisions when different types of sukuk and conventional financial instruments are available. For this purpose, we construct an opacity index for 107 Malaysian firms issuing sukuk and conventional financial instruments during...

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