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Shifting Title and Risk : Islamic Project Finance with Western Partners

Alexander, Alan J. - 2012

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Islamic Home Purchase Financing : A Conceptual Overview

McMillen, Michael J. T. - 2012

This paper provides a simple, generic introduction to, and survey of, the transactional structures and rudimentary principles applicable to Shari`ah-compliant home purchase financings. The paper summarizes six of the most frequently used home purchase financing structures used by banks and...

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Islamic Money Management : A Western View

Baklanova, Viktoria - 2013

This article provides a synoptic analysis of Islamic investment principles within the framework of socially responsible investing with a focus on the risk attributes in the practice of liquidity management.Three types of collective investment schemes offered to Shariah-compliant investors are...

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Legal and Regulatory Considerations Pertaining to Islamic Capital Markets

McMillen, Michael J. T. - 2015

A book chapter providing an overview of select aspects of legal and regulatory issues affecting Islamic capital markets. The categories of issues discussed are (ad) securities laws and regulatory regimes, (b) securitization laws, including laws and regulations applicable to sukuk, and legal...

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Is the ‘Euro Bond’ the Answer to the Euro Sovereign Debt Crisis? What Outcome Can Investors Expect Out of Europe?

Matziorinis, Kenneth N. - 2012

This paper analyzes the causes of the sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone and examines the policy alternatives confronting euro area governments. It suggests that pooling fiscal risks, creating an EU Treasury and issuing jointly-backed euro bonds is an optimal solution and the inevitable...

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Solving Global Financial Imbalances : A Plan for a World Financial Authority

Mirandola, Carlos Mauricio - 2013

This paper will propose a plan to reform international finance – the World Financial Authority (WFA) Plan. Under such a plan, the IMF and other existing international financial institutions would be reformed and coordinated around a newly created WFA. The WFA would have two core functions....

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Democracy and Countries with Muslim Majorities : A Reply and Update

Potrafke, Niklas - 2013

democratic. Hanusch takes issue with my results – and by inference with all past empirical results on the relation between Islam …. He establishes his conclusion by excluding the heartland of Islam from the estimation sample. For his estimates, Hanusch … in the heartland of Islam …

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Democracy and countries with Muslim majorities : a reply and update

Potrafke, Niklas - 2012

democratic. Hanusch takes issue with my results - and by inference with all past empirical results on the relation between Islam …. He establishes his conclusion by excluding the heartland of Islam from the estimation sample. For his estimates, Hanusch … in the heartland of Islam. -- political institutions ; Islam …

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Pope Francis's Interview : Religious Discrimination Against Buddhists, Shamans, And Muslims In The Hopes Of Christian Unity

Tulun, Teoman Ertuğrul - 2023

In an interview with America Magazine, Pope Francis spoke of a "martyred" people of Ukraine and said that invading non-Russian ethnic soldiers are "probably the cruelest". Most Chechens are Muslims, while Buryats are Tibetan Buddhists and Shamans. The media's discriminatory treatment of...

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Putting the Reign Back in Sovereign : Advice for the Second Obama Administration

Christians, Allison - 2013

In its first term, the Obama administration enacted two pieces of legislation, each designed to protect an increasingly vulnerable income tax base, and each of which had the potential to set a new and unprecedented course for no less than the regulation of the global economy by the nation-state....

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