Asian Financial Development: A Comparative Perspective of Eight Countries

The paper identifies and assesses the closeness of the connection between incremental indicators of the financial development in the regions of Russia with the incremental regional GDP and the investment in fixed capital. It is shown that the positioning of the region as an independent participant of public debt market matters: the regional GDP and investment in fixed capital grow more rapidly in the regions which are regularly borrowing on the sub-federal bonds market. The paper also demonstrates that the poorly developed financial system in some regions have caused the imperfection of the growth mechanisms since the economy is not able to use the financial system’s functions.

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Public Administration in the Islamic World: Considering the Importance of Religion, its Values and Culture

Administrative Culture ◽

10.32994/hk.v19i2.169 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 23-38

Author(s):

Daniel Hummel

Keyword(s):

Public Administration ◽

Core Values ◽

Comparative Perspective ◽

Religious Values ◽

Future Research ◽

Islamic World ◽

Salient Region ◽

The People ◽

Comparative Public Administration

A small but growing area of public administration scholarship appreciates the influence of religious values on various aspects of government. This appreciation parallels a growing interest in comparative public administration and indigenized forms of government which recognizes the role of culture in different approaches to government. This article is at the crossroads of these two trends while also considering a very salient region, the Islamic world. The Islamic world is uniquely religious, which makes this discussion even more relevant, as the nations that represent them strive towards legitimacy and stability. The history and core values of Islam need to be considered as they pertain to systems of government that are widely accepted by the people. In essence, this is being done in many countries across the Islamic world, providing fertile grounds for public administration research from a comparative perspective. This paper explores these possibilities for future research on this topic.

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Transiting into Singaporean identity: Immigration and naturalisation policy

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v13i1.262 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 33-48 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mathews Mathew ◽

Debbie Soon

Keyword(s):

Manpower Planning ◽

The State ◽

Comparative Perspective ◽

Policy Discourse ◽

Optimal Composition ◽

Skilled Labour ◽

Planning Policy ◽

The Government ◽

The Ideal

Debates in Singapore about immigration and naturalisation policy have escalated substantially since 2008 when the government allowed an unprecedentedly large number of immigrants into the country. This essay will discuss immigration and naturalisation policy in Singapore and the tensions that have been evoked, and how these policies are a key tool in regulating the optimal composition and size of the population for the state’s imperatives. It will demonstrate that although the state has, as part of its broader economic and manpower planning policy to import labour for economic objectives, it seeks to retain only skilled labour with an exclusive form of citizenship. Even as the Singapore state has made its form of citizenship even more exclusive by reducing the benefits that non-citizens receive, its programmes for naturalising those who make the cut to become citizens which include the recently created Singapore Citizenship Journey (SCJ) is by no means burdensome from a comparative perspective. This paper examines policy discourse and the key symbols and narratives provided at naturalisation events and demonstrates how these are used to evoke the sense of the ideal citizen among new Singaporeans.

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Credit Market Depth and Income Inequality in Vietnam: A Panel-Data Analysis

Journal of Economics and Development ◽

10.33301/2016.18.02.01 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 5-18

Author(s):

Hoi Le Quoc ◽

Hoi Chu Minh

Keyword(s):

Data Analysis ◽

Panel Data ◽

Income Inequality ◽

Financial Development ◽

Inflection Point ◽

Panel Data Analysis ◽

Credit Market ◽

Method Of Moment ◽

Market Depth ◽

Generalized Method Of Moment

Financial development could exert various effects on income distribution of a country. By employing Generalized Method of Moment, this paper aims at examining the impacts of credit market depth, one of most used financial development barometers, on income inequality in Vietnam. The empirical findings show that expanding credit market in the country could lead to higher income inequality. We have not found evidence that supports the hypothesis of an inverted U-shaped relation ever introduced by Greenwood and Jovanovich, although this hypothesis may still hold in a sense that Vietnam has not reached to the inflection point to generate such a curve alike.

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Violence in Islamic Thought from the Qur'an to the Mongols

10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694235.001.0001 ◽

2015 ◽

Keyword(s):

Comparative Perspective ◽

Human History ◽

Historical Approach ◽

Islamic Thought

The topic of Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Islamic Thought (LIVIT) calls for an interdisciplinary, comparative and historical approach. This has been the underlying methodological assumption within the project which bore this name. Amongst the products of that three-year project is a series of collected studies by established and emerging scholars in the field, examining how Muslim thinkers have conceptualised violence and categorised (morally and legally) acts of violence. In this opening chapter, István Kristó-Nagy first explores how violence in Islamic thought can be set against a wider consideration of violence in human history. It is this comparative perspective which contextualises not only this volume, but also the two subsequent volumes in the LIVIT series. In the second half of this chapter, Robert Gleave explains how this volume is structured, addressing the different approaches used by the contributors, and examines the different ways in which violence can be categorised.

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