Access to education has long been considered an important vehicle for poverty alleviation and tremendous efforts (national as well as international) have been made to broaden such access in LDCs. The ICT revolution in the past decade has greatly facilitated such efforts as education can now be...

The American dollar has been the anchor currency of the international monetary system and no other currencies have so far been able to rival the greenback in its standing. Does the birth of Euro pose a challenge to the hegemony of the dollar as the predominant currency? This paper seeks to...

This assessment gives a brief overview of the process of economic growth by adopting predominantly a historical perspective. Starting with the meaning of economic growth and development, it illustrates how growth proceeded in an uneven fashion over the past two centuries and drastically changed...

Islamic finance has been growing rapidly since its launch in the 1970s. The major market for this industry is typically the Middle East and it is gaining popularity in the UK, USA and Southeast Asia. Malaysia is the leading Islamic finance industry in Southeast Asia while its neighbor Singapore...