Prof. Bambang Brodjonegoro
How Islamic Finance Can Help Countries Surmount Development Traps

Text of the recorded remarks by Prof. Bambang Brodjonegoro, Dean and CEO, Asian Development Bank,...

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Eng. Adeeb Yousuf Al Aama
Islamic Finance Represents a Values-Driven Development Paradigm

Keynote speech delivered by Engr. Adeeb Yousuf Al Aama, Chief Executive Officer, International Islamic Trade...

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Mahmoud Bekri, Mohyedine Hajjar
Towards Affordable AI in IsDB Member Countries

Artificial intelligence now appears in almost every development discussion. In Member Countries of the Islamic...

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Mahmoud Bekri, Mohyedine Hajjar
Reimagining Takaful through AI and Blockchain

The Takaful industry, grounded in mutual assistance, shared responsibility, and ethical finance, stands at a...

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Cheikh Ahmed Diop
Inflation Dynamics in a Fragmented Recovery: Evidence from IsDB Member Countries

1.    Introduction Since 2020, the global economy has been grappling with overlapping crises, reversing gains...

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Sami Al-Suwailem
The Social Costs of Debt Financing

Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz once remarked that debt financing without bankruptcy is like Hamlet without...

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Mohyedine Hajjar
Between Islamic Takāful Insurance and Mutual Insurance

Introduction  Takāful[1] is presented as a mutual, Sharīʿa-compliant alternative to commercial insurance, legitimized by mid-20th-century...

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Mahmoud Bekri
Confronting the Global Debt Crisis: Unlocking Sustainable Financing for Development

Introduction For decades, the mounting debt burdens of developing countries were often a “silent crisis”...

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Mahmoud Bekri
How to Slay the Dragon: Doing Successful Econometric Analysis

Once upon a time, an elderly master and his apprentices dedicated themselves to mastering the...

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Mohyedine Hajjar
Tracing the Origins of Islamic Insurance (Takāful)

Introduction The permissibility of insurance in Islam has sparked extensive scholarly debate. The early discussions...

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Mahmoud Bekri
Supporting Efforts to Develop Water Resources and Resist Climate Change

A translated and abridged version of the Arabic article titled: نحو دعم الجهود لتنمية الموارد...

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Bambang Susantono
Transforming Knowledge Management in Developing Countries: The 3D Approach

Bambang Susantono, Member, Board of Trustees of IsDB Institute Knowledge management enables communities to thrive...

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Sami Al-Suwailem
Is Riba Sustainable ?

Riba, or usury, has existed for millennia and will likely persist for many more. Does...

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Mahmoud Bekri
Towards Mobilizing Diverse Financial Resources for Microfinance

Translated from an Arabic article titled: نحو حشد موارد مالية متنوعة للتمويل الأصغر The current...

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Mustafa Yagci
Impact of Global Crises on Poverty: Measurement, Trends, and Challenges

Introduction While poverty is generally measured using a monetary basis, it is widely acknowledged that...

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Sami Al-Suwailem
Inflation: The Dog that Did not Bark

Detective Gregory: Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my...

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Mahmoud Bekri
Crypto GDP Sukuk, for Better Debt Servicing in Post-COVID-19

The debt burden on developing countries is significant and debt servicing in this post-COVID-19 and...

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Mahmoud Bekri
Inflation Dependence Structure in a post-COVID-19 World

IntroductionInflation may be defined as the decline of purchasing power of a determined currency over...

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Sami Al-Suwailem
Taming Inflation: An Islamic-Finance Perspective

Inflation is a major problem for modern economies. Over the years, the problem shifted from...

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Mustafa Yagci
Global Chip Shortage and Implications for Developing Countries

Introduction Semiconductors, commonly known as chips, are crucial parts of our daily lives. In every...

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Sami Al-Suwailem
Social Cryptocurrency

Money is at the heart of any financial system. It is the “joints” that link...

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Sami Al-Suwailem
The Case for Crypto Sukuk

Cryptocurrencies are causing measurable disruptions in the finance world. The speculative nature of many of...

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Sami Al-Suwailem
Can We Trust the “Trust Machine”?

Blockchain technology is famously considered a “trust machine”. It is a machine (a set of...

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Sami Al-Suwailem
Does Blockchain Technology Have Value for Islamic Finance?

“Blockchain technology is going to change everything”. This claim was made many times over the...

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Wail M. Aaminou
Why Covid-19 Exacerbates Inequalities and What to do About It

In a nutshell Covid-19 exacerbates inequalities and pre-existing socioeconomic disparities, thereby threatening the stability of...

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Sami Al-Suwailem
A Framework for Future Economics

There is a wealth of writings on the shortcomings of mainstream, neoclassical economics. But there...

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Salman Syed Ali
Covid-19 and Our Response as Muslim Society

Pandemics are Game Changers Pandemics, big wars, revolutions, and catastrophic natural disasters have been the...

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Mahmoud Bekri
The World of FinTech in Coronavirus Times: From Open to Applied Innovation

The World FinTech Report 2020, from consulting firm Capgemini and non-profit organization Efma, is published...

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Hylmun Izhar
Outlook of Islamic Finance Post-Covid-19

Amidst the current coronavirus pandemic, compassion, solidarity and selflessness have stood out to become the...

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Sami Al-Suwailem
A Proposal for SDR-based SDGs Cryptocurrency

The Covid-19 crisis caused a major economic slowdown worldwide. We need to mitigate the slowdown...

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Rami Abdelkafi
Covid-19 and the Need for a New Economic System

An unprecedented economic situation… Most economists refer to the 2008 global financial crisis to assess...

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