A growing body of evidence highlights the media’s impact on public policies relevant to economic development. Governments are more likely to channel resources to those who have access to information through the press (Besley and Burgess 2002; Stromberg 2004). U.S. aid in response to natural disasters overseas is strongly in‡uenced by press coverage of disasters in the U.S. (Stromberg and Eisens...

Financial development is one of the pillars of economic development and growth at national level. While it improves revenue at macro level, its effect on distribution of wealth or income inequality and poverty is unknown. Therefore, the present paper is an analytical attempt to analyze the effects of financial development on poverty along with the factors effective in poverty in selected member...

The phenomenon of Islam and democracy in Muslim countries is practiced differently between with an Islamic state a secular pattern. This article wants to examine reassess the view exceptions or “Islamic exceptionalism” on scarcity case studies regime variations found countries. analyzes variation countries, comparative method using data from indexing agency. There are four countries: semi-Islam...

Abstract: Dynamic Development of Family Law in Muslim Countries. This article examines the dynamics development/renewal Islamic family law countries. The aim is to obtain a concrete picture development, from its original form, i.e conventional fiqh, become positive and apply it research classified as library using combination historical socio-anthropological approaches. Data were obtained sever...

BACKGROUND Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide. Organized cervical screening and vaccination against human papilloma virus (HPV) have been successful interventions for prevention of invasive cervical cancer (ICC). Because of cultural and religious considerations, ICC has low incidence in Iran and many other Muslim countries. There is no organized cervical scre...