Islamic Finance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Status and Prospects

Enrique Gelbard, Mumtaz Hussain, Rodolfo Maino, Yibin Mu, Étienne B. Yehoue

IMF Working Paper · 2014 · 17 citations · 14 references

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Islamic finance is a fast growing activity in world markets. This paper provides a survey on Islamic Finance in SSA. Ongoing activities include Islamic banking, sukuk issuances (to finance infrastructure projects), Takaful (insurance), and microfinance.

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