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DETERMINANTS OF BILATERAL TRADE BETWEEN GHANA AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES
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Internet Search Engines as Gateway to Marketing Information
No full textUser’s choice of a particular Internet search engine (ISE) determines the number and perhaps quality of materials accessed. Due to this phenomenon, it is important for users to be familiar with quality and quantity of materials available at various ISE’s. This paper attempts to make a comparison of the hits produced by selected ISE’s using ratios over a short duration. The ratio is computed by dividing the number of hits for a search term with the total hits of all the search terms formarketing mix, product, service, pricing, place, promotion, Internet; international, global, regional, national, local, glocal, east, west; Muslim, Islam, Shariah, Fiqh, Halal, Christian, and Christianity. The ISE’s used in this study are Google, Ask, AlltheWeb, AOL, and Yahoo. Results show that Google produces the hits pattern that resembles the overall average hits for all the ISE’s combined. This is followed by Ask, AlltheWeb, AOL, and Yahoo. The study suggests that any researcher who is trying to search for materials on marketing from the Internet Search Engines will face difficulties to pool sufficient literature on marketing from islamic perspective. It should be noted that the existence of the terms in the ISE’s in no way suggests the adequacy and quality of the contents of the materials
Antecedents of Zakat Payers’ Trust: The Case of Nigeria
Get PDFZakat payers’ trust is vital to zakat organizations because its absence will undermine the institutional effectiveness of zakat. Unlike other forms of voluntary donations, zakat is a religious duty guided by divine rules. However, zakat payers have choices to turn to collection channels of their preference either through governmental or voluntary zakat institutions. With increasing number of charitable organizations, competition for limited zakat and other donation becomes intense. Understanding the zakat payers’ compliance behavior is centralto the development of zakat institutions because their effectiveness to help the poor and other beneficiaries are heavily dependent on zakat collections. However, such studies are sparse. therefore the aim of this paper is to fill this gap by developing and validating the model of zakat payers’ trust in zakat institutions. The constructs of trust’s antecedents were drawn from resource dependence theory, legitimacy theory, and donor trust literature. Through structural equation modeling test, we found perceptions of board capital, legitimacy management and stakeholders’ orientation are important to determine zakat payers’ trust. The trust model represents the main contribution of this study. Importantly, necessity of understanding zakat payers’ trust are more pertinent at the place where proper zakat administration is still in its infancy stage as in the case of Nigeria
ESTIMATION ISSUES AND MATHEMATICAL DERIVATION OF EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTION FUNCTION
Get PDFA critical assessment of the extant literature of educational production function is discussed in this paper. The discussion covers two important aspects of research development in the area. First, the various approaches used in the estimation of educational production functions, their strengths and weaknesses, are analysed. The main objective of the exercise is to arrive at a shared understanding of the appropriate approach to modelling an educational production function. Second, the general relationship between the input and the output of education is identified from the extant literature. An identification of the relationship is instrumental in terms of variable selection for an empirical study. Once the underlying issues related to the estimation of educational production function are recognised, the derivation of three mathematical models of the function that can be applied in empirical works is provided
Toward a Theory of Aggregate Output, Income, and Economic Inequalities Determination in an Islamic Economy
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Islamic Criteria for The Distribution of Tax Burden: The Mix of Direct and Indirect Taxes and The Offsetting Function of Zakat
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Economic Priciples in Islam: Some Methodological Issues
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An Overview of Gender Earnings Differentials in Penisular Malaysia
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PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CAPITAL FORMATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN MALAYSIA, 1961-1995
Get PDFThis paper analyzes the productivity of public and private capital formation in a developing economy, Malaysia, using annual data from 1961 to 1995. The analysis is based on neoclassical growth regression, where the transition to the steady-state level of income per capita is modeled using an error correction framework. The results suggest that the public investment has been unproductive over the periods under consideration. Consistent with existing empirical studies, the private investment rate and the export performance of the country are positively related to economic growth. Our results call for a reduction in the public capital formation. However, for this recommendation to be more convincing, we believe that further analyses are much needed to examine which types of public capital are unproductive.JEL classification: C22, E22, E69, O49, O53Key words: Cointegration, Economic growth, Public capita