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Islamic banking is progressively gaining popularity throughout the world as a result of the numerous benefits, it has provided to humanity in social fields, especially in the field of economy. Similarly, the Islamic banking industry has recently been the main focus of attention for Bangladesh's financial sector. As a result of the Islamic banking system's superiority, several traditional banks have been transformed into Islamic Shariah-based systems. The purpose of this study is to investigate the progress of the Islamic banking industry and it also assessed its contributions. The paper used secondary sources such as academic papers, textbooks, reports, websites, and the financial ratio analysis was utilized. The study finds that despite the global recession and other barriers, Islamic banks outperform traditional banks with a market share of around 28% (more than one-fourth) in the entire banking sector in Bangladesh and more than 49,433 employees in the Islamic banking industry. The study concluded that although Bangladesh does not have an Islamic banking act and a central Shariah board by the Bangladesh government, it is making rapid progress and Islamic banking has enormous potential in Bangladesh. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is obvious for countries that development is as much important as economic growth. One of the most important factors that affect both growth and development is the human capital potential of the country. Seize and quality of human capital has a repercussion that affects development process positively and accelerates the process. The most important factors that affect human capital are the properties of education and health sector of a country. It is accepted that quality and quantity of thehuman capital which is progressed via education and health services affects the development process positively. It may be possible both to gather information about human capital of the countries' using their own databases on the education and health sector and benefit from Human Development Index (HDI) which is accepted as the most basic international data. In this paper, the progress of human capital in Turkey is presented by using education and health indicators and HDI data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]