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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. International banking standards are intended for the regulation of large, complex, risk-taking international banks with trillions of dollars in assets and operations across the globe. Yet they are being implemented in countries with nascent financial markets and small banks that have yet to venture into international markets. Why is this? This book develops a new framework to explain regulatory interdependence between countries in the core and the periphery of the glob...
Resilience and Stability A Socio-Economic Response in South East Asia (A M Venardos); Brunei: A Niche Money Market for Offshore Islamic Finance (K A Khairuddin); Legal and Regulatory Issues Concerning Islamic Finances Development in Malaysia (N N Thani & M M Hussain); Making Sense of the Fast-Growing Islamic Finance Market (T Maeda); Islamic Banks: Resilience & Stability Not Immune from Crisis (S Akhtar)); USA and Southeast Asia: Islamic Banking and Finance Development Opportunities (M Kuo); The Risk Profile of Mudaraba and Its Accounting Treatment (H S Latiff); Current Developments of Islamic Banking in Indonesia (H Hamzah); Islamic Trusts for Wealth Management (A Z Hj Abdul Rashid & K A Jamil); Islamic Capital Markets: A Growing Area for Investment (M Mahlknecht); Legal and Regulatory Changes to Promote the Development of Islamic Banking and Finance in Singapore (A Selvam); Lessons from the Pakistani Model (B Rasul); Islamic Structured Products: Issues and Challenges (A Bin Hasan); and other papers.
The report is based on a multi dimensional approach to poverty following ADB's poverty reduction strategy, which defines poverty as a deprivation of essential assets. The analytical framework of the country poverty analysis blends a more traditional analysis of income poverty with an assessment of access to five different types of assets. Taken from the sustainable livelihoods approach, these assets are human, physical, natural, financial and social capital.
The countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have been recovering from the global financial crisis, but the recent political turmoil has interrupted the pace of credit and output recovery in many countries. The political turmoil in the MENA region reveals deep-seated frustrations and a sense of political, social, and economic exclusion, especially among the youth. The relatively weak growth performance reflects a combination of insufficient reforms and weak reform implementation, including financial sector reforms. The structural weaknesses of financial sectors imply that access to finance may remain restricted even with a full recovery of credit activity. Therefore, the region s countries face an ambitious reform agenda to revert two decades of relatively poor performance of output and employment growth. Financial development should be a central component of the region s growth agenda. This study reviews the region s financial systems, the severity of the limitations on access to finance, and the main factors behind such limitations. It goes on to provide a road map for expanding access and preserving financial stability.
"The impact of the global financial and economic crisis on the Middle East and North Africa region was relatively mild. Lack of integration and a large public sector helped insulate the region to some extent, but now these and other factors are slowing down the speed of its economic recovery. The report examines the major factors threatening the recovery and those that obstruct long-term growth, especially non-oil export growth, which in net terms contributed little to regional growth during the past decade, with non-oil exports remaining below potential in many countries in the region. The report emphasizes several major areas in need of policy makers\2019 attention, including restrictive trade policies, particularly those affecting trade in services; governance issues linked to uneven application of rules and regulations; inefficient and inflexible labor markets and scarcity of skills, innovation and technological capabilities."--page xi.
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolution and development of arms control processes as an integral part of the Pakistan-India grand dialogue, which took place from 1988 to 2008. The author examines the larger political context and its impact on arms control processes. The author prioritizes four types of political conflicts, such as Jammu & Kashmir, hostile domestic politics, dissimilar military doctrines, and China as a third party. Subsequently, he determines their connection and function in restricting arms control during three major rounds of broader security dialogue (1988-1994, 1997-1999, and 2004-2008). In continuation, he discerns patterns of interaction within and across three sub-cases. This volume, which offers a systematic survey of bilateral arms control processes within the local settings and includes critical theoretical and policy insights, shall be of interest to students, scholars, policymakers, and NGOs interested in strategic/security studies and international relations theory, with a focus on the politico-strategic horizon of South Asia.
This year's World Development Report looks at facts and trends regarding the various dimensions of gender equality in the context of the development process.