Practical Means of Integrating Zakat and Waqf into the Poverty Reduction Agenda of OIC Member Countries
The prevalence of widespread poverty is one of the most serious challenges confronting the world today. The intensity of the problem in developing countries, mostly OIC member countries (MCs), is more severe. The developed nations of the world have succeeded overtime to provide social protection to their masses by launching a variety of welfare programs. Unfortunately, similar social security measures either do not exist or do not work efficiently in the developing countries.