Home Financing Pricing Issues in the Bay’ Bithaman Ajil (BBA) and Musharakah Mutanaqisah (MMP)

Trade-based Financing Murabaha (cost-plus Sale)

The early models of Islamic banks are based on partnership of mudharaba and musharaka (profit-loss sharing) structure. Such equitybased financing are perceived to be superior to conventional financing from the standpoint of robustness to external shocks and from the standpoint of ethics, fairness and social justice. Where profit-loss sharing mechanisms cannot be used, Islamic banks provide othe...

Mortgage Financing in Nigeria: Issues and Challenges

Policy and financing in family medicine and the medical home.

This month we have several articles about policy and financing related to family medicine and the medical home. Setting the stage, Tsai et al present the primary care outcomes of the Taiwanese universal health care system, an interesting juxtaposition to health care reform discussions in the United States. Specifically, the authors discuss the negative impact of the unrestricted access to speci...

the relationship between learners critical thinking ability and their performance in the reading sections of the tofel and ielts test

the study reflected in this thesis aims at finding out relationships between critical thinking (ct), and the reading sections of tofel and ielts tests. the study tries to find any relationships between the ct ability of students and their performance on reading tests of tofel and academic ielts. however, no research has ever been conducted to investigate the relationship between ct and the read...

Hygiene issues in the home.

There is a growing recognition of the involvement of the home in several public health and hygiene issues and of the need to promote effective hygiene practices for the home. Hygiene practice in the home includes the categories of personal hygiene, food hygiene, environmental or surface hygiene, and home health care. This article reviews some of the hygiene risks in the home, including the role...