Institutional microfinance with its origins in Bangladesh and Latin America in the mid-1970s has grown to be an important financial sub-sector in its own...
Introduction
Islamic banking and finance (IBF) has emerged over the past couple of decades as a force to be reckoned with – an increasingly important...
Introduction
Discussing taxation can be a turgid affair given the difference in regime policy. But as the global Islamic finance industry grows, there is a...
Introduction
Islamic microfinance is a new frontier that many observers, academic and practitioner alike, are keen to explore. The failure of many Islamic banks to...
The Beginnings
As soon as I started reading I found myself surrounded in my home by, among other reading materials, Islamic magazines (in Urdu) like...
Conventional and Islamic microfinance
The Millennium Declaration 2000 is evidence of the unanimous recognition for broad-based growth and inclusive development, with a special focus on...
Introduction
Industrial economies are experiencing a serious crisis not seen since the Great Depression. One key factor in the creation of the crisis, dubbed in...
