Islamic Financing as Mechanism for Socio-Economic Development: A Conceptual Approach

Financing Infrastructure Investment and Socio-Economie Development

There is over the last few years a clear trend in Europe to privatise traditional govemmental tasks, also because of new EU legislation. Many of these tasks have traditionally been carried out by the govemment itself, largely because of the ‘natura1 monopoly’ argument. Examples of current and future privatisation polities are the telecommunication and energy sector. For transport infrastructure...

Using ICT as a smart enabler of socio economic development

One of the major challenges facing most developing countries today is how to take full and smart advantage of quite spectacular and far-reaching advances in science and technology not only in promoting national economic development, but particularly addressing the needs of poor and marginalized sections of society. Whilst technology access in the pre-digital era has always been a major barrier ...

The Methodology of Islamic Economic and Socio-scientific Inquiry

This paper AU :1 searches for the universal epistemological foundations of socioscientific theory. Within this quest there is no parochial domain of the Islamic, for the Islamic idea finds itself in methodological, consistent, explanatory, and applied and inferential ways in the domain of what Barrow (1991) refers to as ‘‘everything.’’ Thus, the methodology that is inherent and is to be introdu...

Education , Socio - Economic Inequality , and Economic Development

Section II presents the empirical results of this study. While the underlying econometric model follows the standard ‘new growth’ literature procedure of regression analysis in a cross-section of countries, it goes beyond the existing studies in drawing on a data set including proxies for technical progress and educational attainment as well as devoting special attention to different levels of ...

A Design For An Islamic Economic System