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CENTRE OF ISLAMIC BANKING
& ECONOMICS
Press ReleaseYemen will Host an International Workshop on
Islamic Microfinance
Workshop is being jointly organized by Yemen Microfinance
Network and AlHuda
Centre of Islamic Banking and Economics, Pakistan
28/08/2012
(Pakistan) Islamic Microfinance is getting appreciation by the
whole world for alleviation of poverty and
Muslim and non-Muslim Countries are utilizing it. Microfinance
Institutions in Arab Countries are also
providing Microfinance to Muslims which is in accordance with
Islamic standards in order to get poor out of
obscurity of poverty. Amongst these Arab Countries, Yemen is at
the top of the list with other countries like
Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Egypt.
Due to the escalating popularity of Islamic Microfinance in Arab
countries with the intention to increase the
reach of Microfinance Institutions, AlHuda Centre of Islamic
Banking and Finance and Yemen Microfinance
Network is going to arrange 2 days training workshop on Islamic
Microfinance on 16th & 17th September,
2012 to be held in the Capital City of Yemen - Sanaa, in which
different topics like the proper utilization of
Islamic Microfinance for alleviation of poverty in poor
countries, Islamic Microfinance Products and their
structure, Shariah principles of Microfinance and MicroTakaful
would be discussed.
The Chairman of Yemen Microfinance Network, Mr. Mohammed Al Lai
has declared the arrangement of thistwo days international workshop
on Islamic Microfinance, a good step for the Microfinance sector.
He said
that Islamic Microfinance is rapidly growing in Yemen and the
workshop like this will provide more
awareness about it.
Chief Executive Officer of AlHuda Centre of Islamic Banking and
Economics, Mr. Muhammad Zubair Mughal
has said that AlHuda has established a separate department for
the promotion of Islamic Microfinance,
named as Centre of Excellence in Islamic Microfinance so that
awareness, consultancy and training could
be provided to the Microfinance Institutions and in this regard,
during this year, workshops will be arranged
in Yemen, Azerbaijan, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Indonesia and Niger.
He further said that the purpose of this
training in Yemen is to make Arab countries aware of the
importance and benefits of Islamic Microfinancewhich is in
accordance with the religious beliefs of Arab Countries because in
Arab Countries, people avoid
conventional microfinance due to the factor of interest and
remain stuck in poverty. So, Islamic
Microfinance is very much needed to alleviate poverty in Arab
countries. It should be noted that in spite of
abundant oil and natural resources in Arab regions, some Arab
countries are having poverty in them like
23% people in Iraq, 18% in Iran, 34.8% in Yemen, 13.3% in
Jordan, 12.5% in UAE, 28% in Lebanon and 11.9%
in Syria are living under the poverty line.
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