This book explores the relationships between financial inclusion, poverty and inclusive development from Islamic perspectives. Financial inclusion has become an important global agenda and priority for policymakers and regulators in many Muslim countries for sustainable long-term economic...

Overall findings from cointegration tests in this paper suggest the existence of cointegrating relationships between financial intermediation and money to the output in the long run. Financial intermediation development is significant to affect the output fluctuations in short run or long run....

By applying the non-parametric Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI), this article attempts to investigate productivity changes of Malaysian Non-Bank Financial Institutions (NBFIs), specifically finance companies and merchant banks, during the post-crisis period of 2001-2004. Our results suggest...