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  title info:
    title: Islamic Finance and Africa's Economic Resurgence
    sub title: Promoting Diverse and Localized Investment
  name:
    name part: Muhammad Al Amine, Muhammad Al Bashir.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 384 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book analyzes Africa's unprecedented economic growth, the state of its financial sector, and the varied opportunities for Islamic finance investors. It considers the role - potential and realized - of Islamic finance in fostering financial inclusion in areas such as banking, microfinance, capital market development, insurance, and private equity business. The book stresses that investing in Africa through Islamic finance will open new markets, ensure higher profit margins, diversify risk, and create business competition; and that these changes that will provide financial products that can satisfying the desires and beliefs of all consumers and unlock the real potential of the continent's financial system. The book also looks into the rise of international interest in Africa and concludes by scrutinizing the challenges impeding further economic growth, as well as the specific barriers that need to be addressed in order to promote the implementation of Islamic finance. Investors, policymakers, and academics ready to confront these challenges will find much of value in this book.
  table of contents: 1 Islamic Finance: Principles and Global Growth -- 2 Islamic Finance in Africa: Current Penetration -- 3 Africa’s Economic Growth: Indicators and Investment Opportunities -- 4 The Financial Sector as the Backbone of Economic Growth: The Banking Sector -- 5 The Financial Sector as the Backbone of Economic Growth: The Non-Banking Sector -- 6 The Rise of Global Interest in Africa -- 7 Islamic Finance in Africa: Challenges Ahead.
  note: by Muhammad Al Bashir Muhammad Al Amine.
  subject:
    topic: Finance
  subject:
    topic: Investment banking
  subject:
    topic: Securities
  subject:
    topic: Macroeconomics
  subject:
    topic: International economics
  subject:
    topic: Development economics
  subject:
    topic: Economic growth
  subject:
    topic: Finance
  subject:
    topic: Investments and Securities
  subject:
    topic: Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics
  subject:
    topic: International Economics
  subject:
    topic: Economic Growth
  subject:
    topic: Development Economics
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave Studies in Islamic Banking, Finance, and Economics
  identifier: 9783319288352
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28835-2
  record info:
    record creation date: 160608
    record change date: 20170310021917.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-28835-2