Resource Rich Muslim Countries and Islamic Institutional Reforms

by Liza Mydin, Hossein Askari, Abbas Mirakhor

Overview

Resource Rich Muslim Countries and Islamic Institutional Reforms explores the "resource curse," a condition in which a country's abundance of natural resources is negatively linked with the country's development and economic growth, in resource rich Muslim countries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433143519
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	03/27/2018
Series:	Economic, Political and Social Institutions in Islam , #1
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Liza Mydin holds a PhD in Islamic finance from the International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF), Malaysia, and is currently Head of Research and Advisory at Maybank Islamic, Malaysia. Dr. Mydin was previously in the Global Islamic Finance Advisory Unit of PricewaterhouseCoopers and afterwards joined Al Rajhi Bank Malaysia as Vice President of Compliance in 2010. In 2016, she was a visiting scholar at the George Washington University and was involved in conducting post-doctoral research for the Islamicity Index Project.

Hossein Askari is Iran Professor of International Business and International Affairs at the George Washington University. He served for two-and-a-half years on the executive board of the International Monetary Fund and was Special Advisor to the Minister of Finance of Saudi Arabia. During the mid-1980s, he was the director of the team that developed the first comprehensive domestic, regional and international energy models and plan for Saudi Arabia.

Abbas Mirakhor is a retired Professor of Economics and Finance. He was the first Chair of Islamic Finance at the International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF), Malaysia. Prior to that, he worked at the International Monetary Fund for twenty-four years, where he was a member of the staff, later a member of the executive board and finally Dean of the Executive Board.

Table of Contents

Illustrations – Latifah Merican Cheong: Foreword – Preface – Acknowledgments – Abbreviations – The OIC Countries – The Resource Curse—Theory, Explanations and its Reversal – Resource Curse in OIC Countries: The Role of Institutions – Theories of Institutions – Addressing the Resource Curse through an Ideal Islamic Institutional Framework – Policy Assessment: Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Qatar – Summary, Conclusions and Looking Ahead – Index.