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  • Labor Economics in an Islamic Framework

    Theory and Practice

    by Toseef Azid, Umar Burki, Muhammad Junaid Khawaja, Nasim Shah Shirazi, Muhammad Tahir ...
    Series series Islamic Business and Finance Series
    The labor market in Islam is governed by the Islamic laws of fairness, justice, and reward that is equivalent to the job done. Most of the literature in the field discusses the normative aspect of the labor market, whereas few attempts can be seen to address more positive aspects. There is a need for new theoretical and empirical models for the Islamic labor market, which should differ from ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Foundations of a Sustainable Economy

    Moral, Ethical and Religious Perspectives

    Edited by Umar Burki, Toseef Azid, Robert Francis Dahlstrom ...
    Series series Finance, Governance and Sustainability
    This book addresses current practices related to sustainable development, its challenges and the future. People belonging to different genders regardless of their age, social class and education should be equal as citizens and individuals, and identical in their rights and responsibilities.The business sector, authorities, societies and religious circles have the potential to play a fundamental ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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    A World Out Of Kilter

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  • Who Really Cares

    The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism -- America's Charity Divide -- Who Gives, Who Doesn't, and Why It Matters

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  • Competition and Cooperation in Social and Political Sciences

    Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Depok, Indonesia, November 7-9, 2016: Topics in Social and Political Sciences

    Edited by Isbandi Rukminto Adi, Rochman Achwan ...
    The book contains essays on current issues in Social and Political Sciences, such as the issues of governance and social order; social development and community development; global challenges and inequality; civil society and social movement; IT-based community and social transformation; poverty alleviation and corporate social responsibility; and gender issues. Asia and the Pacifi c are the ... Read more

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  • Microfinance and Its Discontents

    Women in Debt in Bangladesh

    by Lamia Karim ...
    A feminist critique of the much-lauded microcredit process in BangladeshIn 2006 the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh won the Nobel Peace Prize for its innovative microfinancing operations. This path-breaking study of gender, grassroots globalization, and neoliberalism in Bangladesh looks critically at the Grameen Bank and three of the leading NGOs in the country. Amid euphoria over the benefits of ... Read more

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  • Failing States, Collapsing Systems

    BioPhysical Triggers of Political Violence

    by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This work executes a unique transdisciplinary methodology building on the author’s previous book, A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save it (Pluto, 2010), which was the first peer-reviewed study to establish a social science framework for the integrated analysis of crises across climate, energy, food, economic, terror and the police state. Since the 2008 financial crash, the ... Read more

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  • Development Economics Through The Decades: A Critical Look At Thirty Years Of The World Development Report

    by Yusuf. Shahid ...
    Since 1978, the World Bank's annual World Development Report (WDR) has provided in-depth analysis and policy recommendations on a specific and important aspect of international development from agriculture, the role of the state, economic growth, and labor to infrastructure, health, the environment, and poverty. In the process, it has become a highly influential publication that is consulted by ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Social and Sustainable Finance

    Edited by Othmar M. Lehner ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Routledge Handbook of Social and Sustainable Finance brings together an international cast of leading authorities to map out and display the disparate voices, traditions and professional communities engaged in social finance activity.With a clear societal or environmental mission, foundations, individual and group investors, as well as public bodies around the world have become increasingly eager ... Read more

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  • The Climate Resilient Organization

    Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change and Weather Extremes

    by Andrew Griffiths, Martina K. Linnenluecke ...
    Climate change has had a significant impact globally, predominantly for those vulnerable to its influence. The first book of its kind, The Climate Resilient Organization assesses the issues that have mounted for decision-makers in the field, while providing strategies to tackle them.With a particular focus on building climate-resilient pathways for private sector organizations, the expert authors ... Read more

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  • Breakdown in Pakistan

    How Aid Is Eroding Institutions for Collective Action

    by Masooda Bano ...
    Thirty percent of foreign development aid is channeled through NGOs or community-based organizations to improve service delivery to the poor, build social capital, and establish democracy in developing nations. However, growing evidence suggests that aid often erodes, rather than promotes, cooperation within developing nations. This book presents a rare, micro level account of the complex decision ... Read more

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  • Islamic Entrepreneurship

    by Rasem N. Kayed, M. Kabir Hassan ...
    Series series Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series
    This book discusses the idea that there is a specific Islamic form of entrepreneurship. Based on extensive original research amongst small and medium sized enterprises in Saudi Arabia, it shows how businesses are started and how they grow in the context of an Islamic economy and society. It argues that as specific Islamic approaches to a wide range of economic activities are being formulated and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD