Based on the annual Human Development Report of the UNDP, this paper finds that the main determinants of the level of human resource development measured by the HDI for various economies are usually the level of per capita income, its rate of growth, expenditure on military, and the state of...

This study investigates the relationship between TQM and (i) product performance and (ii) organizational performance. Cross-sectional data of 405 manufacturing firms in Malaysia is analyzed using the chi-square test. The results indicate that TQM does not have a significant relationship with...

Islamic banking, a financial innovation, has come to be seen as the most 'visible' aspect of Islamization. Notwithstanding its novelty, it has made considerable progress, measured by the rapidity with which it has been adopted in the Muslim (even non-Muslim) countries in a relatively short...

This article is written with a two-fold objective: to prove the equivalence between Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and technological change when the production function exhibits constant returns to scale, and to decompose the TFP into several components. Toward this end, we established a...