This paper attempts to explore the demographic factors towards one of the dominant pawn brokers in Malaysia named Ar-Rahnu that has led the growth of Islamic pawn broking system comprehensively. Specifically, this study examines the demographic elements in capturing the customer acceptance towards Islamic pawn broking offered by Maidam in the state of Terengganu. A total of 330 self-administered questionnaire instrument, were distributed to the customer within the district of Dungun that had received financial assistance at Ar-Rahnu Maidam. The sample was selected through quota samping and further executed by means of convenience technique from the total customer of Ar-Rahnu Maidam Dungun. The result of the investigation demonstrated that out of the eight selected demographic indicators, two of them which are marital status and occupational sector demonstrated that there were significance differences among the group while the remaining six were not significant. The evidence from the survey is expected to provide a limelight about the importance of Islamic pawn broking in strengthening the industry.
This paper investigates the theoretical relationship between the primal and dual Total Factor Productivity (TFP) from the accounting measurement perspective and also assesses their accuracy in measuring unobserved TFP growth in the presence of market power (MP) and non constant returns to scale (NCRTS) in the case of the medium sized Malaysian industries. In support of this, this paper uses an empirical method to estimate TFP growth by using medium sized Malaysian manufacturing data at 5-digit SIC (Standard Industrial Classification) level. In order to achieve this objective, this paper first tests whether the sample of medium sized Malaysian industries have constant factor shares in total revenue. T-tests have been used to examine the hypothesis stating that factor shares in total revenue are constant over time. Finally, this paper compares the estimates of TFP growth to those of primal and dual TFP accounting measures
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