Reform of the International Monetary System
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Reform of the International Monetary System

September 2008 saw the United States financial system at the edge of collapse, with the tightly integrated global financial system following close behind. But that was only a symptom of the problems that generated the ensuing crisis. The more fundamental cause lay in some of the practices that had developed in many of the major…

Islamic Finance – Writings of V. Sundararajan Jaseem Ahmed and Harinder Kohli (editors)
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Islamic Finance – Writings of V. Sundararajan Jaseem Ahmed and Harinder Kohli (editors)

This book is a compilation of selected writings of DrVenkataraman Sundararajan (1945-2010), an international policy maker who played a significant role in the development of the regulatory and supervisory frameworks and policy for Islamic finance. Spanning more than a decade of his thoughts on Islamic finance, this book provides both basic and advanced knowledge of…

Central Asia and the Caucasus – At the Crossroads of Eurasia in the 21st Century
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Central Asia and the Caucasus – At the Crossroads of Eurasia in the 21st Century

This book brings together a series of background papers that were prepared for the First Eurasian Emerging Markets Forum, held in Thun, Switzerland, in January 2010. The papers cover a broad range of issues relevant to the diverse and dynamic group of countries situated on the Eurasian super-continent. Although the papers cover subjects and themes…