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This paper aims to review the Islamic credit card structures or models practiced and developed so far and their shari'ah aspects, especial focus is given to Khidmah card issued by Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL). Resolutions of OIC Islamic Fiqh academy on credit card, recommendations of...
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A massive movement of Night Watchers or vigilantes' patrols emerged among the most impoverished indigenous communities in the Andes at the end of the twentieth century to combat terrorism. Northern peasant patrols based their organization on democratic mechanisms while the southern patrols built...
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much smaller and insignificant impact in civil law countries. Motor vehicle dependence is an important link in the growth … association holds only for countries with a common law rather than a civil law heritage. These relations hold whether we examine … vehicles per thousand residents is associated with a six percentage point increase in obesity in common law countries with a …
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The main objective of the paper is to use the following terms of Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson - Despotic, Real, Paper, Shackled Leviathans - to check and evaluate the state of democracy, governance and social power in Central and Eastern European Countries (CECCs). Six states were included...
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This paper, written as a contribution to a festchrift in honor of Neil Komesar, subjects his "comparative institutional analysis" (CIA) to a comparative analysis with various other social-scientific approaches to CIA. Neil Komesar is among the very few legal scholars who has taken to heart...
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This paper provides a precise and critical rereading of theories, developed before the 1990s, able to justify why privatization has been considered as a central component of transition in post-socialist countries, mainly the theory of property rights, managerial theories of the firm, the...
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Contemporary capitalist societies use different institutions to manage economic risks. While different public welfare … insurance sector, the more it made welfare states liberal and securities markets large. Insurance is thus a hidden factor for … countries' varieties of capitalism and world of welfare. The recent convergence on the Maritime model, however, implies that the …
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