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The Political Economy of Development Finance
Volker NienhausDevelopment, Markets, Competition and Entrepreneurs. Economic development shall improve the efficiency of resource utilization; this requires profound structural change. A policy…
Africa's Development Financing Dilemma: Illusions of the Past and Challenges of the Future
Abder Rehman ZeinelabdinDespite the various modalities recommended to alleviate the debt burden, and the IMF‐World Bank led structural adjustment programmes, the African countries South of the Sahara…
Testing the Relationship Between Government Expenditure and National Income in Canada, Employing Granger Causality and Cointegration Analysis
Mohammed I. AnsariThe relationship between government expenditure and economic growth has been extensively studied both in public finance literature and in the literature dealing with macroeconomic…
A Generalised Theory of Islamic Development Financing
Masudul Alam ChoudhuryThe objective in this paper is to show that a generalised theory of development financing in Islamic context assumes a detailed general equilibrium approach to the solution of the…
Equity Finance of Economic Development: Feasibility and Ethical Desirability
Rodney WilsonIn the literature on development finance, there is a growing interest in the subject of equity participation as a means of promoting development. The limitations of debt finance…
Equity Capital for Small and Medium‐Sized Enterprises in Malaysia: Venture Capital or Islamic Finance
J. Grahame Boocock, John R. PresleyThis article seeks to explore whether there is a role for venture capital in the funding of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) within a developing economy, where there has…
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