Islamic Social Finance
The Crowdfunding Platform as a Tool for Islamic Social Finance’s Implementation
Role of Cooperatives in Achieving Universal Health Coverage in India: An Exploratory Study
With insurance protection gap among the highest in Asia, Indians are vulnerable to health and economic shocks. While India is a lower middle-income country (LMIC), its spending on healthcare is lesser than lower income countries.
Gig/Platform Economy: The Next Big Opportunity for Takaful?
The World Bank recently released “The Global Findex Database 2021: Financial Inclusion, Digital Payments, and Resilience in the Age of Covid-19” which shows that 76 percent of adults globally have access to an account with a bank or a regulated financial institution.
Equitable Islamic Finance
Despite the exemplary growth of the Islamic finance over the past decades, already crossing USD 1 trillion mark, neither have the poor segments of the societies been duly attended to nor have the common masses been offered adequate chance to benefit from Islamic financial services.
The Shariah Recognition of Cryptocurrencies and their Usability for Waqf
The shariah issues involving cryptocurrencies include the permissibility of dealing with them given that they are not backed by assets, nor their value is guaranteed by any authority or party. This is in addition to their vulnerability to sharp fluctuations in their values and to electronic piracy; not to mention the infeasibility of controlling their use in illegal activities, such as financing the drug trade and so on.