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Can Islamic social finance be the key to end poverty and hunger?

Can Islamic social finance be the key to end poverty and hunger?

As the world works toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, Islamic social finance provides new options to help mobilize these efforts, in particularly to end poverty and hunger. (Photo: bigstock/Distinctive Images)

In 2015, countries aroun…

by · Thursday, 28 March 2019 · Indonesia, Jordan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Syria

Field notes from Rukban

This past week, the UN in Syria mobilized one of its largest humanitarian aid convoys to bring much needed lifesaving supplies to 40,000 people stranded at Rukban camp, in the arid desert on the south-eastern border between Syria and Jordan. We went wi…

by · Friday, 15 February 2019 · Jordan, Syria