This paper looks at environmental conservation within the growing understanding of the urgent need to confront the two menaces of desertification and deforestation through afforestation schemes in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member countries. Deforestation is one of the main...

An attempt is made here to look at the activities of the World Bank in poor countries. The World Bank is view in the developing countries as a monster, unsympathetic to the flight of the poor. It is observed in this paper that for the past few years the World Bank has been changing the course of...

It takes about eighty years between the great depressions that started in the late 1920s to the other great depression of 2008. In between these two periods of time, there are tens of financial crisis that rock the world of banking and finance. Banking world as we are in today is a world that is...

The significance of the Zakah institution to any Islamic economy, it links to financial viability and economic progress has made it a must to modernize the sector to go in line with modern realities. Poor management of Zakah institutions has been described as detrimental to the efforts of these...

This paper surveys developments in Islamic finance, particularly the Islamic stock market, from inception to the current period. It tries to find out how Islamic stock market has perform since inception, the direction it is heading to and whether it has changed course from its original...