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Islamic microfinance institutions at a crossroads
By Vehbi Zeqiri The decisions taken by central banks to grant loan moratorium for clients affected by the recent lockdown have posed a huge liquidity gap for Islamic microfinance institutions.…
Rural Economies Must be Built As Independent Economies To Unleash the Creative Energy of People
Economists always imagined urban economy as the engine of the economy. Rural economy was assigned the role of supplier of labour and agricultural inputs. It may had justification in the…
Is microcredit working?
by : Aijaz Ali Khuwaja The 'success' of microfinance programmes as agent of poverty alleviation is well known. Enthusiasts can point to repayment rates of over 95 per cent, the…
Can microfinance bail out the poor from COVID-19 devastation?
By: Dr. Kingsley Bernard The crisis The COVID-19 pandemic has created chaos with the socio-economic, political, religious, and financial structures of the entire world as never before. The world’s top…
Funding Sources for Islamic Microfinance Institutions
By: Muhammad Zubair Mughal There are more than 500 Islamic Microfinance instructions working in 44 countries of the world but funding has always been a critical issue in Islamic microfinance…
How Islamic Microfinance can help during COVID-19 situation? and Alhuda (CIEMF) Plans toward it.
By Miss Qirate Khan Introduction Poverty has occupied foremost place on human development agendas of almost all countries of the world as its prevalence dates back to the existence of…
IHS Markit, Tadawul launch local currency Sukuk Indices
London -based IHS Market ,a service provider of critical information, analytics and solutions, is collaborating with the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) and has announced today the launch of the iBoxx…
Islamic Banking and Finance is Emerging in The Philippines
Writer: Muhammad Zubair Mughal Islamic banking and finance will be a major contributing industry of Philippines in near future as it is a double digit growing emerging phenomenon due to…
Online Dispute Resolution and the Future of Islamic Finance
By: Camille Paldi Introduction The Islamic finance industry is at a crossroads…a juncture of either continuing forward as a tremendous success or bursting at the seams due to the lack…
Better governance with new Islamic finance framework
By Dr. Mohammad Mahbubi Ali SYARIAH is the backbone of Islamic financial institutions (IFIs).Ensuring syariah compliance is essential for maintaining the confidence of stakeholders and the public at large. Inadequate…