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Islamic finance --- Islamic economics --- moral economy --- Islamic banking --- Islamic commercial law --- Economics --- Banks and banking --- Finance --- Management --- Banks and banking, Islamic --- Islamic banks and banking --- Non-interest banks, Islamic --- Administration --- Funding --- Funds --- Agricultural banks --- Banking --- Banking industry --- Commercial banks --- Depository institutions --- Religious aspects --- Islam --- Islam. --- Industrial relations --- Organization --- Currency question --- Financial institutions --- Money --- islamic finance --- islamic economics --- islamic banking --- islamic commercial law --- Esoteric sciences

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The Sustainable Development Goals, the global development agenda for 2015 through 2030, will require unprecedented mobilization of resources to support their implementation. Their predecessor, the Millennium Development Goals, focused on a limited number of concrete, global human development targets that can be monitored by statistically robust indicators. The Millennium Development Goals set the stage for global support of ambitious development goals behind which the world must rally. The Sustainable Development Goals bring forward the unfinished business of the Millennium Development Goals and go even further. Because of the transformative and sustainable nature of the new development agenda, all possible resources must be mobilized if the world is to succeed in meeting its targets. Thus, the potential for Islamic finance to play a role in supporting the Sustainable Development Goals is explored in this paper. Given the principles of Islamic finance that support socially inclusive and development promoting activities, the Islamic financial sector has the potential to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. The paper examines the role of Islamic financial institutions, capital markets, and the social sector in promoting strong growth, enhanced financial inclusion, and intermediation, reducing risks and vulnerability of the poor and more broadly contributing to financial stability and development.

Access to Finance --- Banks and Banking Reform --- Debt Markets --- Emerging Markets --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Financial Inclusion --- Financial Regulations --- Infrastructure Finance --- Islamic Banking --- Islamic Finance --- Participation Finance --- Private Sector Development --- Social Development --- Sukuk Markets --- Sustainable Development --- Sustainable Development Goals

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Finanzas y Desarrollo, septiembre de 2015.

Exports and Imports --- Finance: General --- Labor --- Macroeconomics --- Islamic Banking and Finance --- Other Economic Systems: Public Economics --- Financial Economics --- International Investment --- Long-term Capital Movements --- Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation --- Aggregate Factor Income Distribution --- Banks --- Depository Institutions --- Micro Finance Institutions --- Mortgages --- Finance --- Labour --- income economics --- Banking --- International economics --- Foreign direct investment --- Stress testing --- Islamic finance --- Income inequality --- Banks and banking --- Islamic countries --- Labor market --- Investments, Foreign --- Financial risk management --- United States

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This chapter presents the point of view and ideas of Sabina Alkire, an economist. Alkire wants the Multidimensional Poverty Index to be part of a data revolution to guide the fight against poverty. According to Alkire, learning to meditate soothed away what she describes as the temper tantrums of her childhood. The chapter also highlights the fact that an index is only as good as its underlying data, and in emerging market economies that quality is often inadequate. The quest for better poverty metrics coincides with growing doubts about the ability of conventional statistics, especially GDP, to gauge economic growth in the digital economy, let alone well-being, welfare, and environmental sustainability.

Economic development --- Latin America --- Economic conditions. --- Exports and Imports --- Finance: General --- Labor --- Macroeconomics --- Islamic Banking and Finance --- Other Economic Systems: Public Economics --- Financial Economics --- International Investment --- Long-term Capital Movements --- Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation --- Aggregate Factor Income Distribution --- Banks --- Depository Institutions --- Micro Finance Institutions --- Mortgages --- Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General --- Finance --- Labour --- income economics --- Banking --- International economics --- Poverty & precarity --- Foreign direct investment --- Stress testing --- Islamic finance --- Income inequality --- Financial sector policy and analysis --- Balance of payments --- Financial services --- National accounts --- Poverty --- Banks and banking --- Islamic countries --- Labor market --- Investments, Foreign --- Financial risk management --- Income distribution --- United States

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Islamic finance has started to grow in international finance across the globe, with some concentration in few countries. Nearly 20 percent annual growth of Islamic finance in recent years seems to point to its resilience and broad appeal, partly owing to principles that govern Islamic financial activities, including equity, participation, and ownership. In theory, Islamic finance is resilient to shocks because of its emphasis on risk sharing, limits on excessive risk taking, and strong link to real activities. Empirical evidence on the stability of Islamic banks, however, is so far mixed. While these banks face similar risks as conventional banks do, they are also exposed to idiosyncratic risks, necessitating a tailoring of current risk management practices. The macroeconomic policy implications of the rapid expansion of Islamic finance are far reaching and need careful considerations.

Finance --- Financial risk management --- Risk management --- International Monetary Fund. --- MCD (International Monetary Fund. Middle East and Central Asia Department) --- International Monetary Fund --- E-books --- Banking law (Islamic law). --- Business. --- Finance (Islamic law). --- Finance. --- Business & Economics --- Financial Management & Planning --- Banks and Banking --- Finance: General --- Islamic Banking and Finance --- Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy --- Monetary Policy --- Central Banks and Their Policies --- International Financial Markets --- Banks --- Depository Institutions --- Micro Finance Institutions --- Mortgages --- Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation --- Other Economic Systems: Public Economics --- Financial Economics --- General Financial Markets: Government Policy and Regulation --- Portfolio Choice --- Investment Decisions --- Banking --- Islamic banking --- Islamic finance --- Financial sector stability --- Liquidity management --- Financial services --- Financial sector policy and analysis --- Asset and liability management --- Open market operations --- Central banks --- Banks and banking --- Islamic countries --- Financial services industry --- Liquidity --- Economics --- Malaysia