Do Islamic Banks Perform Better than Conventional Banks Author: Hadeel Abu Loghod Series: API/WPS 1011 Publisher: Arab planning institute - Kuwait Description: Islamic Banking has been growing worldwide significantly in the past three decades and is developing remarkably in the Southeast Asia, Middle East and even in Europe and in
Read MoreEfficiency of Islamic Banks in Sudan A Non-Parametric Approach Author: Ibrahim A. Onour , Abdelgadir M.A Abdalla Series: API/WPS 1012 Publisher: Arab planning institute - Kuwait Description: This paper employs several efficiency measures and productivity changes using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to investigate efficiency performance of Islamic banks in Sudan.
Read MoreFirm Heterogeneity and Productivity The Contribution of Microdata Author: Riadh Ben Jelili Series: API/WPS 1013 Publisher: Arab planning institute - Kuwait Description: Without claiming to be a comprehensive treatment of all relevant issues related to the firm productivity analysis, this note aims to investigate some areas of inquiry in
Read MoreThe Arab Region's Unemployment Problem Revisited Author: Riadh Ben Jelili Series: API/WPS 1015 Publisher: Arab planning institute - Kuwait Description: The Arab world is confronted with an increasing pressure coming from the supply side of the labor market, generated principally by the unemployed persons looking for a job, the new
Read MoreForecasting Volatility in Global Food Commodity Prices Author: Ibrahim Onour Series: API/WPS 1101 Publisher: Arab planning institute - Kuwait Description: To forecast volatility in global food commodity prices, in this paper a number of alternative competing models are employed, thin tailed normal distribution, and fat-tailed Student t-distribution GARCH models, beside
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Read MoreSome Issues In Shari’ah Compliance & Regulation of Islamic Funds _ MUHAMMAD OBAIDULLAH_Some Issues In Shari’ah Compliance & REGULATION OF ISLAMIC FUNDS
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Read More-- Global Islamic Finance Magazine-- In the middle the heat of one of the greatest recorded financial meltdowns, and the breakdown of toxic assets, some small niche practitioners deliberated an important question: could this financial crisis have been averted, had the savvy Wall Street investment banks used the principles at
Read MoreInnovation in Microentrepreneurship & Islamic microfinance - the Model of Family Bank – Dr. Atef El Shabrawy
Read MoreA Welfare Analysis of the Price System Reforms' Effects on Poverty in Tunisia Sami Bibi 1999 Throughout the 1980s, the Tunisian economy has faced a deterioration of its external and internal deficits. The reason behind such deterioration may be partly attributed to the rapid consumption growth and to the subsidization
Read MoreInter-Arab Trade and The Potential Success of AFTA Dr. Imed Limam , Dr. Adil Abdulla 1998 Trade among Arab countries has been very weak despite previous efforts to engage into different forms of regional economic integration. Using the flexible framework provided by the Gravity Model, the paper gives an order
Read MoreThe Impact of Euro-Mediterranean Partnerships on Trade Interests of the OIC Countries Dr. Adil Abdulla September 1997 Using a measure of commodity composition of trade, that provides insights on the export potential of countries and the bilateral trade possibilities between them, it appears that the Euro-Med agreements are likely to
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