Islamic Microfinance as a Tool for Powerty Reduction and Feasibility in Turkey

Volume: 1 Number: 2 July 1, 2015
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Islamic Microfinance as a Tool for Powerty Reduction and Feasibility in Turkey

Abstract

It is very hard that poors obtain needed capital thoughout finanscial system because they have some problems to have enough information about financial resources, to provide the guarantees requested by financial institutions and to get high risk about fund management. This is seen as the most important obstacle to development. Microfinance defined as a financial model that poors can get fund for business project without guarantees and suretyship has become a worldwide development strategy worldwide. Also Islamic microfinance is an alternative for people that are very sensitive about their financial transactions’ compliant with Islamic law. Islamic microfinance, rather than a loan, contains trading activities with murabahah, equity finacing with mudarabah ve musharakah, saving with kardh, money transfer system with zakah and sadaqah and insurance with tekaful. Islamic financial methods were first introduced in the 80s in Turkey, and than the sector has achieved the market share of 6% at the 35 years. It is certain that Islamic banking and capital market products will rapidly grow especially with Islamic Financial Center targets of 10th Development Plan. However, Turkey has not yet get a serious development in Islamic microfinance. The purpose of this study is to state the Islamic microfinance models applied in some countries as Malaysia, Indonesia and Bangladesh and to argue about its viability in Turkey. Thus, It is expected to contribute the steps for poverty reduction, improving income distribution, caring for disadvantaged groups and blocking of inequality of opportunity to future generations

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Turkish

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Raif Parlakkaya This is me

Publication Date

July 1, 2015

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July 1, 2015

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Year 2015 Volume: 1 Number: 2

APA
Parlakkaya, R., & Çürük, S. A. (2015). Bir Yoksullukla Mücadele Aracı Olarak İslami Mikrofinans ve Türkiye’de Uygulanabilirliği. Uluslararası İslam Ekonomisi Ve Finansı Araştırmaları Dergisi, 1(2), 61-86. https://izlik.org/JA95MZ76KL

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