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A proposed framework for human capital development in the Islamic financial services industry
No full textThis paper discusses the challenges in measuring the gaps and developing human capital to cater for the booming of Islamic financial services industry. While the need for highly trained manpower in the Islamic financial services industry is well-acknowledged, the root of the problem is primarily due to skills mismatch within the Islamic finance industry. This paper proposes a holistic approach to human capital development as the fundamental solution to the skills mismatch within the financial services industry, Islamic and conventional alike. The significant contribution of this paper lies in the competency model which is universal in nature. Programmes run by institutions such as INCEIF, IIUM, IIU Islamabad, IRTI are complementing each other in producing well-balanced and competent manpower for the Islamic financial services industry. Strong government support, effective regulatory agencies, good corporate governance are among the necessary prerequisites. The marriage between the industry and the academia should take the leadership role. We have at the end of the paper proposed a practical action plan. We conclude with a strong call for immediate action to leverage our richly endowed resources so that the Islamic financial services industry could once again lead the world and not remain as a follower
Islamic economics and finance: an institutional perspective
No full textAfter a millennium of atrophy, Muslims have begun a critical reexamination of Islamic thought in all its dimensions in light of the present state of the world. Arguably the first discipline that began this process during the early decades of last century was political philosophy. Reexamination of economics started much later in the second half of the twentieth century and has continued uninterrupted to the present. There is an ongoing constructive debate among scholars on the fundamental question of whether there is a discipline that can be defined unambiguously as Islamic economics and if so what are its distinguishing characteristics? This presentation is a modest contribution to that debate. It seems reasonable to suggest that any label or prefix that is attached to an economic discipline must bear concrete relationships with economic system that the discipline serves. Thus, disciplines such as socialist economics, capitalist economics, Buddhist economics, Christian economics, Jewish economics, Gandhian economics and others, relate to an envisioned system defined by its characteristics
World rice price volatility: calm after the storm?
No full textThe world price of rice in 2008 reached its highest record last May but declined in August in the same year. The storm clearly caused a global panic about a rice shortage, which led several producing countries including India, Vietnam and Egypt to bar rice exports. Can we get past 2008 hangover safely, or is there another storm brewing. Rising prices and a growing fear of scarcity have prompted some of the world's largest price producers to announce drastic limits on the amount of rice they export. The price of rice, a staple in the diets of nearly half the world's population has almost doubled on international markets in the last three months
Shari'ah governance for Islamic financial institutions
No full textFor Islamic financial institutions to have credibility, formal procedures for Shari'ah governance are required; otherwise clients would have no assurance that the institution is upholding the principles of Islam in its financial dealings. This formal assurance can be provided by national law, as in the case of Iran, which enacted the Law on Interest-Free Banking of 1983, under which all banking operations had to be Shari'ah compliant. Malaysia passed an Islamic Banking Law the same year, but it created a dual system whereby licensed Islamic banks could compete alongside those operating conventionally. Unlike in Iran, however, Malaysia instigated a system for ongoing assurance by establishing Shari'ah Boards for the Central Bank and the Securities Commission with the power to deliver fatwa, and boards at the level of each Islamic bank to ensure that the financial products they offered are Shari'ah compliant and conform to the requirements of the centrally issued fatwa. At the other extreme, the countries of the GCC have devolved all Shari'ah governance to the institutional level, although many Islamic banks recognise the rulings of the Shari'ah Board of the Bahrain-based Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Fiqh Academy. This paper discusses the merits of centralised versus devolved Shari'ah governance and considers what competences and experience Shari'ah Board members should have. The Islamic Financial Services Board has recently issued guidelines on Shari'ah governance. These are evaluated, including the conditions for the appointment of Shari'ah Board members, their mandate, procedures for the conduct of meetings, and lines of accountability and reporting
Masudul Alam Choudhury - Islamic critique and alternative to financial engineering issues
No full textFinancial engineering is fast becoming popular not only in business management schools but also as a speciality in higher level institutes of technology. In essence, it applies economic principles to the dynamics of financial securities comprising the instruments used in the money and capital markets. Financial engineers educate us on utilizing securities and other materials with a view to erecting the risk-return trade-offs with reference to the pricing of securities, hedging, trading or portfolio management. The techniques they use cover areas which broadly include investment banking, securities' valuation and trading, information systems management, corporate strategic planning, swaps and derivative transactions
Clean development mechanism in Malaysia
No full textThe Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is an arrangement under the Kyoto Protocol (an international and legally binding agreement to reduce greenhouse gases, emissions worldwide) allowing industrialised countries with a greenhouse gas reduction commitment (called Annex 1 countries) to invest in projects that reduce emissions in developing countries as an alternative to more expensive emission reductions in their own countries. The most important factor of a carbon project is that it establishes that it would not have occurred without the additional incentive provided by emission reductions credits
Financial ratios, discriminant analysis and the prediction of corporate distress
No full textThis study develops a failure prediction model for Singaporean companies. The results show good performance with a highly correct categorization factuality rate of more than 80 percent. Two ratios were determined significant out of 64 financial ratios utilized in this analysis to discriminate among failed and non-failed companies. The significant variables are Cash flow to Sales (V02) and Days Sales in Receivable (V31)
Autopoiesis in the business organisation: a case study
No full textThis paper discusses the literature on the concept of autopoiesis and its application to business organisations from a brand management perspective, which is claimed to be able to develop customer confidence. Autopoiesis is a psuedo-Ancient Greek word that was constructed from the two words 'auto' and 'poiesis', which denote 'self' and 'production' respectively. An autopoietic business organization is an independent and self-maintaining unity that includes component-producing processes, where the interaction between components recursively produces the same system of processes that produced them, and as a consequence, adapts spontaneously to competition. Analysis of the literature reveals that brand management requires an autopoietic system in order to increase consumer confidence in product quality, to establish brand identity and image and to increase loyalty. This paper also demonstrates that the KFCH brand has autopoietic system characteristic that warrant future research
Macroeconomics
No full textThis content of this book are spread over eleven chapters, covering four major themes: introduction to macroeconomics, tools and models, monetary and fiscal policies and income distribution.
Available in physical copy only (Call Number: HB 172.5 H344