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Experts urge adopting Islamic Economics to meet Sustainable Development Goals at Ist Islamic Economics and Development Conference at Quaid e Azam University Islamabad on December 7, 2023.
This paper provides reflection on Islamic economics and rightly concludes that a lot of work needs to be done in providing distinct story of why financial and economic crises happen and what Islamic economics can offer through its principles, values, instruments and markets.
This paper aims to investigate the effect of Islamic microfinance on poor households through the case of the IKSAR Qard al-Hasan Program in Turkey. It examined the changes in the socio-economic status of beneficiaries before and after the program. The study indicated that Islamic microfinance and qard al-hasan, which were combined in the IKSAR Qard al-Hasan Program, have direct and indirect positive effects on the borrowers.
This study explores the need for developing socially responsible investment criteria in Islamic finance. There is global attention given to environmental sustainability.
The IFSB’s Islamic Financial Services Industry (IFSI) Stability Report 2023 presents an assessment of the key vulnerabilities, resilience, and future outlook of the global IFSI in general and in the IFSB member jurisdictions in particular across three key segments: Islamic banking, Islamic capital market and Takaful.
This study aims to examine diversity in the composition of Shariah supervisory boards (SSBs) of Islamic banks (IBs). It investigates diversity from two perspectives: existing composition of SSBs and the regulatory frameworks and standards of selected Organization of Islamic Cooperation countries. Diversity characteristics include education, nationality, gender and age.
Because of mere fate, a lot of people in the world, including Pakistan, have ended up in a position where they bear the torment of heat without much to do about it. They can not operate air-conditioners even when the temperature flares up and beyond the 35℃. Many do not even have one. “A man has only a certain capacity for battling with fate’, said Wodehouse. Well! this capacity is amazingly high in some people. But, there is still a long waiting period.
Contemporary economics considers rationality only in the context of this world without any regard to the life after death. Nonetheless, more than 90% of the people in the world are associated with any of the different religions and in most divine religions, there is concept of afterlife. The common definition of rationality would not describe their behavior as rational. This would be a violation of the basic assumption that economic agents are rational.
This paper highlights the importance and role of Shariah governance in regulating the practice of Islamic banking and keeping it standardized and stable with the trust of key stakeholders.
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