French Abstract: Le système financier islamique (SFI) repose essentiellement sur le principe
de non pratique de l’intérêt (riba) jugé usurier par les lois islamiques et prône le partage …

This paper re-examines the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows and
welfare (or poverty reduction) in Africa. Using FDI net inflows per capita and the United …

This paper studies the causal relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and financial
market development (FMD) using panel data from emerging markets. Most studies of the …

Using data from the Global Financial Inclusion database (Global Findex) of the World Bank,
this study attempts to identify and analyse the determinants of financial inclusion in Central …

This article examines the relationship between FDI inflows and welfare improvement in North
African countries. Using net per capita FDI inflows and the United Nations Development …

Using a large international sample of 348,899 year-firm observations covering 352 Islamic
banks and 30,572 conventional banks in 213 countries over the 1999–2013 period, we …

We study the impact of loan approval decentralization on MFI portfolio quality and outreach,
and the effects of alignment mechanisms when loan officers combine information production …

Using quarterly financial statements and stock market data from 1982 to 2010 for the six
largest Canadian chartered banks, this paper documents positive co-movement between …

… This paper was partly finalised while Issouf Soumaré was visiting the Guanghua School of
Management at Peking University (Beijing, China). Soumaré would like to thank Professors Li …

We investigate the relation between political risk and the volatility of Islamic and conventional
banks’ assets. Using an international sample of 34,452 and 1245 bank-year observations …