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The Phenomena Of Paternalism: The Contestation Between Democracy And Traditionalism Within Shiite Communities In Iraq
(2025-02)
Abbas, Alabyadh Muhtadi Ridha
This research delves into the evolution of paternalism in iraqi shiite history, focusing on the ayatollah as a paternalistic figure for the shia community and exploring paternal social thought within shiite culture. By investigating key changes across different periods, identifying the generative mechanisms operative in each era, and analyzing the manifested processes associated with these mechanisms. Utilizing a retroductive research strategy and historical sociology with a qualitative approach, the study identifies generative mechanisms, including tribal culture, islamic religion, shiite theology, and the ayatollah system. Within shia iraq, the mechanisms for paternal social thought involve shiite theology and the usul al-faqih approach for deriving religious law, as well as aspects like an independent economy and educational institutions. In the 19th century, the shiite uṣūlism school asserted control over iran and iraq, establishing the taqlid system. This system emphasized laypeople's emulation of the most knowledgeable ayatollah, where the ayatollah, based on ijtihad, interferes or restricts others' freedom, engaging in discussions on their behalf. Taqlid emerged to counter political modernity entering iraq and iran, linking the shia community with ayatollahs to oversee modernity and limit liberalism. Moving to the 20th century, ayatollah naini supported iran's constitutional movement, while ayatollah al-nouri rejected it. In 1921,
The Moderating Effects Of Business Environment On The Relationship Between Foreign Direct Investment And Economic Growth In China
(2024-10)
Wang, Jiechen
Over the last 30 years, china has experienced outstanding economic growth and has emerged as a key destination for substantial foreign direct investment (fdi). However, the pace of fdi inflows has decelerated in recent years. In response, the chinese government has introduced a policy to enhance the business environment. Motivated by this economic scenario, this study focuses on the role of fdi inflows and the business environment in promoting china’s economic growth from 1985 to 2020. This study constructs business-environment indicators concerning institutional quality, financial development, infrastructure, and innovation using the entropy weight method. Subsequently, this study employed econometric techniques such as unit root tests and johansen-juselius cointegration tests to determine the order of integration of the variables and the presence of long-run relationships. This study not only focuses on the direct relationship but also profoundly explores the impact of fdi on china's economic growth by considering the role of the business environment as a moderating factor. Furthermore, each sub-element of the business environment is explored separately to understand their respective impacts better. This study confirms that fdi and economic growth in china have a long-run relationship.
The Effects Of Telecommunication Technology And Leadership Quality On Private Consumption Spending In Malaysia
(2023-12)
Lim, Yu Syuen
Private consumption is one of the major players in generating Malaysia’s economic growth as it constitutes over 60 per cent of national income. As such, comprehending this primary domestic growth engine is crucial, particularly in light of the evolving landscape affected by COVID-19 and shifting consumption behaviours. In contrast to the previous literature on private consumption, this study delves into non-economic factors, specifically examining the impact of telecommunication technology and national leadership quality on private consumption in Malaysia from 1990:Q1 to 2020:Q4.
Skills Conditions Towards Sarawak 2030: Perspectives From Policy Actors
(2024-01)
Mohamad Ashari, Noratikah
The primary purpose of this study is to explain the plausible futures of the Sarawak public sector’s skills conditions through policy actors’ perspectives towards 2030. The study seeks to a) describe the shared meaning of the current skills conditions for the Sarawak public sector, b) analyse the plausible futures on the skills conditions towards Sarawak 2030; and c) construct the plausible futures of skills conditions for Sarawak 2030.
The Aging-Inequality Nexus: The Domestic Savings Channel And Threshold Effects In Asia-Pacific Countries
(2024-05)
affarudin, Muhammad Raees Shaik S
Income inequality has generally exhibited an increasing trend, albeit at varying rates among Asia-Pacific countries, during a concurrent boom in the elderly population. As such, the connection between the rising prevalence of the aging population and the slow progress in alleviating income inequality remains unclear. Moreover, there is a lack of empirical analysis focusing on domestic savings as a potential transmission mechanism within the aging-inequality nexus. To address these questions, this study sets forth three primary objectives. First, the study investigates whether a long-term relationship exists between aging and income inequality using the Augmented Autoregressive Distributed Lag (A-ARDL) bounds test. The key findings confirm that aging coexists with income inequality in advanced aging economies. Empirical evidence indicates that population aging exacerbates income inequality in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and China. Conversely, the aging process in Hong Kong appears to moderate inequality. The second objective explores the role of domestic savings as a transmission mechanism in the relationship between aging and income inequality, while also considering the effects of social globalization. The results reveal that aging significantly influences savings behaviors in aged and super-aged countries. Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and China display a negative relationship between aging and savings, whereas Hong Kong shows a positive correlation between the older dependency ratio and domestic saving.

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