01 Feb, 2023
The growing availability of e-content has prompted most people to read more and to buy digital books which are easy to access on smartphones and tablets. Looking at e-content consumption more broadly and leveraging innovative modern technologies, the Islamic Development Bank Institute (IsDBI) released a new e-book reader app dedicated to publications in Islamic economics( Read more )
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15 Jan, 2020
When the journey began to establish the first-of-its-kind research laboratory in Islamic financial engineering in 2013, little did the laboratory’s founders know that this was going to be a remarkable success story. That year, with the aim to bring together modern technology and the principles of Islamic Economics and Finance, a project was founded with( Read more )
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15 Jan, 2020
Digital technologies have matured rapidly in recent years. The implication to education is significant in that access to knowledge has expanded tremendously. For institutions like the Islamic Development Bank Institute (IsDBI), the opportunity to make impact is huge. As a premier research and training institute dedicated to knowledge creation and dissemination in Islamic Economics, IsDBI( Read more )
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15 Jan, 2020
Islamic Finance has steadily evolved over the last several decades with the spotlight shifting from Islamic commercial banking, insurance, investment funds and financial markets to Islamic social finance. However, the focus has often remained on the former, the for-profit segments of the Islamic economy. Studies and estimates for the Islamic financial services sector have traditionally( Read more )
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15 Jan, 2020
Institutional development in the Islamic financial services industry has taken place at different levels where the Islamic banking sector continues to predominate in shaping the direction towards which the industry is heading. The Islamic financial industry, composed of four primary sectors, namely Islamic banking, Islamic capital market, takaful and re-takaful, and Islamic social finance, has( Read more )
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