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== Top 20 FREQUENT WORDS ==
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indonesia 33
banks 31
clients 30
countries 25
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== DOCUMENT KEY POINTS ==
*in recent years some microfinance institutions mfis have islamic microfinance has the potential stepped in to service low income muslim clients who to expand access to finance to demand products consistent with islamic financial unprecedented levels throughout the principlesa leading to the emergence of islamic muslim world
*this ban on that islamic microfinance has a total estimated global interest agreed upon by a majority of islamic scholars outreach of only customers and accounts for is derived from two fundamental sharia precepts only an estimated one half of one percent of total microfinance outreach

*activities deemed inconsistent with sharia such as those relating to the since nearly islamic financial institutions consumption of alcohol or pork and those relating have been newly established or are being created to gambling and the development of weapons of the banker
*industry s most prominent islamic finance scholars the size of the sukuk market in was estimated are in general agreement on the basic set of financial at us billion compared with us billion in precepts listed above

*it is permissible for the financial which one party acts as financier by providing the institution to appoint the client as an agent funds while the other party provides the managerial on its behalf by means of a contract to directly expertise in executing the project
*a there is only one type of permissible loan according to sharia the qard hassan or benevolent loan which is interest free and often considered a form of charity because it is typically forgiven in the event of default

*despite its origins in the persian gulf sharia compliant new regulations in malaysia brunei and pakistan also banking has proved popular with muslims in other have supported the expansion of an islamic finance countries as well leading to the development of new industry alongside conventional financial services
*thailand have regulated the competence and composition of ssbs as well as related rules governing over time islamic financial services also have appointment dismissal and qualifications of ssb expanded well beyond the muslim world and are members grais and pellegrini

*although there is a market of poor clients who strictly engage in islamic transactions there is also a number of ifc commissioned market studies suggest a category of muslim clients who use conventional a strong demand for islamic microfinance products products but prefer islamic ones

*the guidelines set forth requirements regarding licensing appointment anecdotal evidence however suggests that survey of sharia advisers to rule on sharia compliance and respondents may verbally express a preference for segregation of islamic product funds and related islamic products simply to demonstrate piety or documentation by banks and mfis that offer both when given a choice in practice will opt for a lower conventional and sharia compliant products

*in addition female clients using islamic microfinance products the average outreach of the institutions covered percent is comparable to those using conventional the term islamic mfi in this focus note refers to any institution offering islamic microfinance services and not just to islamic institutions
*in iran is informal though a number of originally outreach is very significant and as of march the charitable organizations have reportedly started central bank of iran estimated that million families microfinance operations

*table includes the outreach data of only the islamic microfinance by institution type institutions that cgap was able to contact during its survey except with respect to those institutions in among the institutions that offer islamic microfinance indonesia about which information was obtained from products nongovernment organizations ngos are the indonesian central bank s statistics and in the dominant players in reaching the largest number the west bank and gaza about which information of clients with just institutions reaching percent
*concentrating primarily on asset financing an institution targeting the poor and whose average the industry still lacks product diversification to serve loan size is less than percent of the country s the various financial needs of the poor

*loan size total of clients portfolio islamic islamic of of of institution type institutions total us total us cooperative village bank syria ngo rural bank indonesia nbfi commercial bank total note this table reflects the data of only those institutions mixed and fully islamic that provided reliable outreach information to cgap during its global survey of islamic microfinance

*in murabaha or ijara transactions the provider of building sustainable business models funds purchases a commodity such as equipment or inventory and resells or leases it to the user with islamic microfinance business models are still a markup
*by as a result of percent a citibank manager percent the lack of management experience it was technically founding foundation yaysan wakalumi

*critics at the micro and institutional levels international of islamic finance products suggest that the pricing donor agencies can play a major role in expanding of some products offered as sharia compliant too access to finance in muslim countries by helping closely parallels the pricing of conventional products
*for example some suggest that pressure islamic financial standard setters such as ifsb or from the religious community and appeals to a aaoifi should consider developing global financial sense of religious duty should complement reliance reporting standards adapted to microfinance to on peer pressure

*however a heavy reliance on charity is not necessarily the best model for the development throughout the muslim world microfinance islamic of a large and sustainable sector and more reliable or otherwise is still seen as a philanthropic activity commercially motivated streams of funding should rather than a business enterprise

*making the transition from niche to frankfurt school of finance and management mainstream
*islamic mutual funds as faith based funds in a socially responsible khan ajaz ahmed

*the authors would like to thank jeannette thomas the sanabel microfinance network the islamic the following for their help in producing this focus note matthias development bank the islamic mfis and all other institutions range mohammed khaled samer badawi wafik grais meynar participating in the cgap survey
*org C cgap the authors of this focus note are nimrah karim michael sihombing hans dieter seibel syed hashemi steve rasmussen tarazi senior policy specialist cgap and xavier reille lead deepak khana momina aijazuddin kate mckee ignacio mas microfinance specialist cgap


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== DOCUMENT WORD ANALYSIS ==
=== Main Category ===
: AlHuda Material\islamic micro


=== KeyWords ===
islam finance bankable contract client profit purchase financial asset microfin risk sale transact price murabahah busi sharia goodasset payment invest



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=== Number of Pages ===
16


=== Published Date ===
2008-09-17 23:25:34


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