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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]

The food industry in Turkey has undergone significant changes in recent years, including the increased use of automation and the adoption of standardized production processes. These changes have had a profound impact on the skills required of those labour in the food industry and have led to the de-skilling of the labour force. De-skilling may be beneficial for firms in the short run, but will adversely affect the long-term competitiveness of the industry and limit opportunities for labour. Potential policy interventions are needed to mitigate the negative effects of de-skilling and to promote a more skilled labour force in the food industry in Turkey. In essence, this study examines the challenges and consequences of deskilling in the food industry in Turkey, including its effects on employment, wages and labour autonomy. This paper essentially examines the challenges and consequences of de-skilling in the food industry in Turkey, including its effects on employment, wages and labour autonomy. Accordingly, as in many other areas, de-skilling affects the basic dynamics of workers in the food industry, such as income, employment, unemployment and indebtedness. In this context, the challenges and consequences of the deskilling of the labour force in the food industry will be discussed based on the data obtained from fieldwork in chain food firms operating in Bolu. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the existence of digital divide at the regional level empirically in Turkey. For this purpose, the digital divide of 12 regions at the TR Nuts 1 level was analyzed using EDAS and MAIRCA methods. The analysis was made separately with the 2011 and August 2021 data, and in this way, the ten-year variation of the digital divide between the regions was revealed. As a result of the analysis, it has been revealed that there is a significant digital gap between regions in Turkey and the distribution of this gap within the regions has hardly changed in the last ten years. As of 2021, the ranking of 12 regions regarding digital division has been determined as Istanbul, West Anatolia, East Marmara, Aegean, Mediterranean, Central Anatolia, East Black Sea, West Marmara, Southeast Anatolia, West Black Sea, Middle East Anatolia, Northeast Anatolia regions. The parallelism of the results of this study with previous empirical studies in the literature reveals that the digital divide in Turkey has continued with similar differences for many years. This paper is different from other studies in the literature in that it includes the comparison of the last ten years and makes use of multi-criteria decision-making methods in the detection of the digital divide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social history opens new perspectives into understanding the Ottoman modernization process by focusing on different social actors rather than seeing the state as the only agent of the process. This approach rejects considering ordinary people in the Ottoman Empire as passive recipients of top-down modernization policies or reactionary forces against modernization. An important aspect of understanding the role of social actors in the modernization process is to reflect on their consumption practices, as consumption has become the widespread social and economic behavior for social differentiation in modern times. By focusing on the changes in clothing and fashion; media and advertisement; use of public spaces; leisure activities and charity; and cultural consumption in the 19th century Ottoman Empire, this paper argues that consumption practices of different social groups in the Ottoman Empire explains how they locate themselves within the general social structure against other social groups and the state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today we live in a global world. Perhaps most of us could not have imagined that the modern world would reach this level. The development of the internet and technology is bringing the people in the world and the countries they live closer to each other in every field. Some of us can say that these developments have many good aspects. But we must admit that there are bigger problems than we've never experienced before. Especially when we consider the increase in consumption, our destruction of nature and other living species, and the increasing number of poor and hungry people in the world became more visible. With climate change, the gradual decrease in clean water resources, increase in drought, decrease in the amount of harvest, etc., hunger-poverty continues to increase day by day. What can we do in the face of these problems? Will humanity be able to find a way out to these problems, which will have great consequences in a short time? Philosophers like Peter Singer have tried to develop an ethical life in which we can make the world more livable in the face of our global problems, rather than being passive and hopeless. In this paper, we will discuss Singer's proposal for global ethical life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]