1. Introduction -- 2. Role of Cash Waqf Deposit (CWD) as an Instrument for Socio-economic Development: Bangladesh Perspective -- 3. Waqf Philanthropy and Orphans’ Socio-Economic Development in Northern Nigeria based on Maqāṣid al-Shari’ah Principles -- 4. FinTech-enabled Cash Waqf:...

1. Introduction -- 2. Role of Waqf to attain the ‘SDG-1: Ending Poverty’ in Bangladesh -- 3. Financing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): The Socio-economic role of Awqaf (Endowments) in Bangladesh -- 4. Integrating Family Waqf into an Inheritable Going Concern Business: An Instrument...

In the absence of owners, how effective are the constraints imposed by the state in promoting effective firm governance? This paper develops state-level indices of the legal and reporting rules facing not-for-profits and examines the effects of these rules on not-for-profit behavior. Stronger...

We collect tax return data from all 311,222 public NPOs in the United States over the 2009-2017 period to study the asset allocation choices and investment returns of their endowment funds. One in nine public NPOs have endowment funds. The majority of funds allocate their assets conservatively...

"This book focuses on the influence of philanthropic foundations in global development, and on how the global south has engaged with them. The idea of corporate philanthropy stretches back a long way, with the late 19th industrialist Andrew Carnegie seeing it as an important obligation of the...