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The Role of Islamic Banking in the Development of Economic Sectors in Indonesia
Get PDFIslamic bank can play a role in improving the welfare of the community. Through the intermediary function, Islamic banks raise funds deposits and channel financing for productive purposes. The purpose of this study is to examine the role of Islamic bank financing to increase economic productivity and job creation. This study uses simultaneous panel estimation technique with Two Stage Least Square (TSLS) method, using secondary data from 2005-2016. The results of this study reveal that the financing of Islamic banks play a role in increasing economic activity and employment, the role of Islamic banks finance large from the role of conventional bank credit, although the contribution is not too large. Regression result per sector of economy indicates that financing of syariah bank give positive role to increase economic activity in each. The role of financing for job creation by economic sector shows different results. Most Shariah banking financing in the economic sector (7 sectors) provides a positive role for job creation. Financing in the agricultural and mining sectors plays a negative role in job creation
The Relationship between International Trade and Economic Growth: An Empirical finding from ASEAN Countries
Get PDFThe aim of this study is to find the relationship between international trade and economic growth in ASEAN countries. Three independent variables used to measure the economic growth include international trade, the exchange rate, and foreign direct investment. This study employs a pedroni panel cointegration test to examine the data from 2004 to 2015. The results show that there is a long term cointegrated relationship between international trade and economic growth in the ASEAN countries. International trade and foreign direct investment also have a long term, positive impact on economic growth. Meanwhile, the exchange rate also has a long term, negative influence on the economic growth. In addition, there is an indirect relationship and bidirectional causalities between the GDP and international trade, as well as between the GDP and the exchange rate. On the other hand, there is a direct relationship and a bidirectional causality between international trade and the exchange rate. The FDI leads GDP, international trade, and exchange rates. Our results suggest that international trade must be supported by government policies that aim to enhance the financing of new investment for economic growth
Internal Communication Obstacles in The Implementation of Employee Value Proposition: Viewed from State-Owned Company
Get PDFDealing with the uncertainty in business conditions, several companies are missing out the opportunity to increase employee engagement and attract while also sustaining top talent. Because employees today have increased bargaining power, the job market is highly transparent, and attracting top skilled workers is a highly competitive activity. Hence, today more companies should be taken seriously to developing the analytic solutions related on retaining the employee within the organizations. This paper analyses interaction between employees through internal communication, which involves Employee Value Proposition (EVP) program in one of the state owned company in Indonesia. The analysis shows that in such cases, there is a need to collaborate between employee and employer to choose suitable communication model in attract and retain talent. In this research focus to develop analytical approach to analyse communication of EVP in order to choose the suitable internal communication model for one of state-owned company in Indonesia. This study was supposed to start with qualitative, processed by quantitative and end with qualitative data analysis methods. The study finds employee unsatisfied with the amount/number and quality of information that employees get. To overcome that, company advised to create a new channels communication for all of the employees to share information either internal news or public news