Sharīʿah-compliant central banking practices: lessons from Muslim countries’ experience

Agrarian Reforms in Eastern European Countries: Lessons from International Experience

The fall of the Berlin wall has led to a monumental change in the social and economic structure of most countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the CIS that have profoundly affected the nature of the rural sector and the livelihood opportunities open to rural residents. Prior to 1990, most of these countries had de facto abolished private property rights in favor of state or cooperati...

Adoption of Internet services in the Acceding and Candidate Countries, lessons from the Internet banking case

Little is known about the dynamics of adoption of Internet services in general in the Acceding and Candidate Countries 1 (ACCs). Retail Internet banking, however, is one of the most developed e-services and, the drivers and barriers for the adoption of Internet banking are likely to be relevant to other sectors e-services. They may also shed light on the underlying supply/demand dynamics. The p...

Lessons from European Banking Liberalization and Integration

Health disparities between Muslim and non-Muslim countries.

We examined differences in health indicators and associated factors across countries according to the proportion of the population who are Muslim. Of 190 UN countries, 48 were classified as Muslim-majority countries (MMC) and 142 as non-MMC. Data on 41 potential determinants of health were obtained from 10 different data sources, and 4 primary outcome measures (male and female life expectancy, ...

Impact of Financial Liberalization on Banking Sectors Performance from Central and Eastern European Countries

In this paper we analyse the impact of financial liberalization and reforms on the banking performance in 17 countries from CEE for the period 2004-2008 using a two-stage empirical model that involves estimating bank performance in the first stage and assessing its determinants in the second one. From our analysis it results that banks from CEE countries with higher level of liberalization and ...