These videos are from the online course Islamic Finance for the SDGs created by the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), the IsDB Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Fund – Engage Platform, Islamic Development Bank Institute (IsDBI), Durham University Business School, UNDP Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development (IICPSD), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). They are hosted in the SDG Academy Library.
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Zakat as a socio-financial tool is used to circulate the wealth in the society from rich to poor. By disbursing zakat to the needy and poor, zakat helps create a caring… -
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Impact investments are investments made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. According to… -
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Convergence between Islamic finance and impact investing requires a large ethical investor base that is conscious about the ESG factors. This means a greater emphasis on… -
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Islamic finance has been receiving increased global attention and has emerged as an effective mode of financing sustainable development. Islamic finance, through its… -
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The third impact is joint green industrial innovation. For IsDB, the industrialization of the member countries is imperative to simultaneously increase the… -
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Islamic social finance can be defined as “the branch of Islamic finance where the products and services offered are designed to achieve social goals with or… -
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Islamic legal principles are attached to certain ethical and moral principles, which links them to both the Sustainable Development Goals and the environmental, social,… -
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On September 2015, the 193 countries of the UN General Assembly set 17 new goals, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) representing a set of global expectations to… -
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The first pillar of the Islamic development framework is building an objective-focused institutional framework that creates an enabling atmosphere for public policy… -
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The Islamic financial sector financing infrastructure projects would comply with its ideological standing as these projects are real assets and benefit the community at… -
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To translate its core values into reality, IsDB has focused its efforts on a number of overarching principles. Although governments play an important role in economic… -
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To improve impact performance, enterprises and their investors need to access high-quality data on what positive and negative impacts are occurring. There are several… -
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Impact measurement and management process can be thought of in a framework of four steps. 1. Creating a plan for impact by mapping the business operations against the… -
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Blended finance employs the strategic use of development finance and philanthropic funds to mobilize private capital flows to emerge and frontier markets. It is a method… -
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The central economic tenet of the Islamic development framework is to develop a prosperous and egalitarian economic and social system wherein all the members of society… -
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The financial sector can contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals in five key activities that can be discussed under two broad categories. First, proactively…