The growth of Islamic finance today is undeniable given its services, product innovation, performance and achievements, with the Islamic insurance market being no exception;
Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, this book examines whether qualified foreign institutional investors (QFIIs), through their shareholder activism, have a meaningful positive impact on the corporate governance of firms listed on the mainland Chinese stock market.
This book focuses on income inequality, output-inflation trade-off and economic policy uncertainty in South Africa. Income inequality transmits monetary policy and macroprudential policy shocks to real economic activity.
They are attentive to how the medialities and (im)materialities of modern image culture inflect our conceptions of identity, examining the... Læs mere
It covers pest and disease management of greenhouse crops, providing readers the basic strategies and tactics of integrated control together with its implementation in practice, with case studies with selected crops.
This volume celebrates the twentieth anniversary of CLEF - the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for the first ten years, and the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum since – and traces its evolution over these first two decades.
· Mental health promotion in the home for children and parents. · Promoting social and emotional learning in schools. · Addressing stress and promoting mentally healthy workplaces. · Mental health promotion within primary health care.
This book offers a nuanced understanding of how two different theories of leadership can be applied to... Læs mere
This book provides an up to date, high-level exchange on God in a uniquely productive style. The book also provides original lines of thought based on the... Læs mere
Italian intellectuals played an important role in the shaping of international politics during the Cold War. This volume marks one of the first serious attempts to assess how Italian intellectuals understood and influenced Italy’s place in the post–World War II world.
Using the basic economic principle of making decisions using a cost-benefit framework—and how changes in one or the other can result in a different decision—this book uncovers how various groups responded to incentives provided by the Prohibition legislation.
In 1916, Lucy Thompson, an indigenous woman from Northwestern California, published To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman.