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Islamic Financial Structures As Alternatives To International Loan Agreements: Challenges For American Financial Institutions, Babback Sabahi
Islamic Financial Structures As Alternatives To International Loan Agreements: Challenges For American Financial Institutions, Babback Sabahi
ExpressO
In the past few decades, the Muslim countries have witnessed considerable economic growth. The markets of these countries spanning from North Africa to South East Asia, are expanding at a fast pace, and gradually are turning into important international economic centers. The expansion and sophistication of the Islamic markets, as well as increasing demand for Islamic financial products by borrowers, have spurred a movement toward Islamization of different aspects of economic activities in these markets. This movement has resulted in the creation of an Islamic financial market alongside the conventional financial markets. The data on the size of the Islamic …
Development Finance: Beyond Budgetary "Official Development Assistance", Anthony Clunies-Ross
Development Finance: Beyond Budgetary "Official Development Assistance", Anthony Clunies-Ross
Michigan Journal of International Law
Budgetary appropriations by rich-country governments constitute the standard method of providing external funds for welfare and growth in developing countries. This source seems likely, however, to prove inadequate to meet the estimated external finance needed to contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
Financing For Development, The Monterrey Consensus: Achievements And Prospects, Abdel Hamid Bouab
Financing For Development, The Monterrey Consensus: Achievements And Prospects, Abdel Hamid Bouab
Michigan Journal of International Law
The International Conference on Financing for Development, held in Monterrey, Mexico, in March 2002, marked the beginning of a new international approach to dealing with issues of development finance. It resulted from a unique process that broke new ground in bringing together all relevant stakeholders in a manner that was unprecedented in inclusiveness. Under the umbrella of the United Nations, all parties involved in the financing for development process contributed to creating a policy framework, the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development, to guide their respective future efforts to deal with issues of financing development at …