Morocco Experience in Islamic Finance between the Failure of the Past and the Promising Future
Opening of Islamic banks have been increasing considerably in recent years in many countries. Morocco is among these countries and will get the agreements to open in early 2016. This following work is done in the preparation phase of the launch and its importance lies in the fact that it comes after a first failure experienced in 2007 and that Morocco is among the last Muslim countries that will integrate this type of finance into their financial system. This article will focus on the first introduction by highlighting the various obstacles that were the reason for its failure, and will underline what the new banking law has done to overcome the problems encountered before. In the end, we will address two major issues, why the system failed in 2007 and why it is more likely to succeed in 2016.
Les produits financiers alternatifs au Maroc : Pratique et perspectives
L’introduction au Maroc, en 2007, des trois techniques de financement « Ijara, Mourabaha, Moucharaka » vient dans un contexte de convergence internationale vers la finance islamique. Neanmoins, l’integration des ces techniques dans les banques classiques se heurte a diverses contraintes et la commercialisation de ces produits est restee tres limitee. L’objet de notre article est de decrire les trois techniques de financement adoptees, d’analyser les contraintes de leur commercialisation et de presager les perspectives de leur developpement a travers la synthese des etudes realisees et la compilation des avis des gestionnaires bancaires et des conseillers et specialistes en finance islamique. Mots cles : Moucharaka, Mourabaha, Ijara, La crise financiere.
Institutionalizing Corporate Social Responsibility: A Study of Provisions and Implications of Indian Companies Act 2013
Abstract 
The spotlight of this chapter is to understand the connection between public policy and corporate social responsibility (CSR); in other words – the institutionalization of CSR. What is the role of the government for setting standards and mandating for ensuring responsibility? The emerging accepted wisdom in policy and academic circles is that many sustainability solutions are likely to result from institutional (i.e., governance) reform. A perceptive on CSR evolving as an institution of broader societal governance appears as a promising opportunity to delve into at a point in time when conventional rules, actors, and markets that steered the global economy demonstrate to be undergoing credibility crisis. CSR therefore must be considered within the wider field of institutions for governing the corporation and the economy. This chapter is exploratory as it dwells into theoretical underpinning of emerging mandatory CSR as well as provides empirical mapping of corporate responses to the new enacted legislation. The CSR analysis presented is based on a content analysis of the information contained in the annual reports of some prominent companies, government documents, audits reports, companies websites, and newspaper reports, which will provide us evidences of responses of corporates toward the CSR provisions.