microfinance has received a lot of attention in the economic literature. Naturally, the Muslim economists also got interested in …. Despite its popularity in the literature, microfinance is available to merely 100 million people around the globe, out of … which only a minority is Muslims. A vast majority of the Muslim poor do not avail of the conventional microfinance as it …

Developed Countries (LDCs) and increasingly also within poor communities of Industrially Advanced Countries (IACs). Microfinance …, show that the existing microfinance institutions in Nigeria serve less than one million people out of forty million being … total credit in the economy. Nigeria being a country with a Muslim majority represents a potential for Islamic Microfinance …

Islam and international finance; Islamic banking; money, zakat and the real economy; risk management in Islamic banking …

This study was conducted to examine the role of Islamic microfinance on poverty alleviation. The four indicators of … sample of 150 borrowers from 20 Islamic microfinance institutions in Central Java, Indonesia. The questionnaires were … responses. The empirical tests indicated that microfinance has a significant role on improving income level, children …