Over the past fifty years, the corporate waqf has emerged in Turkey, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Malaysia. Corporate waqf hybridizes the Islamic trust (the waqf) and the modern Western corporation to create a charitable endowment whose asset base consists of shares in a company. The...

"This book argues that the new actors in global health constitute a 'private turn' in global health governance, and provides theoretical and practical grounds for viewing global health partnerships and philanthropic foundations as closely aligned in their ideational and material approaches to a...