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DIGITAL INNOVATORS LOOK TO SPEAK GROWTH IN AFRICAN COTTON PRODUCTION AND TERADE
INTRODUCTION
With the textile industry under pressure from consumers, regulators and standards to become more sustainable, companies are looking at all aspects of the supply chain – including upstream to fibre production. Digitalisation has a key role to play here, especially in supplier countries where the use of such technology is weak – such as in Africa.…
THE INTERNATIONAL FIGHT AGAINST ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING INTENSIFIES
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) issued a dedicated report, ‘Money Laundering and the Illegal Wildlife Trade’ in June 2020 (1) and has followed up with further analysis on a topic that is being researched in depth by a wide range of NGOs.…
MODEST CLOTHING MAY BE SOPHISTICATED AND ELEGANT, SAY MUSLIM INFLUENCERS
Time was when modest Muslim fashion was about being unseen – practicing piety without giving as much as a nod to style or fashion. But female consumers around the Muslim world are increasingly combining their desire to proclaim modesty and religious identity without discarding elegance and sophistication in their clothing choices.…
ISLAMIC FINANCE – INCREASING VALIDITY WITH NON-ISLAMIC COUNTRIES
With Islamic finance strengthening and diversifying, service providers are increasingly targeting non-Islamic markets, competing directly with non-Islamic services. While demand in non-Islamic markets has historically been tied to factors spanning from real estate investment in GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) economies to wealth management of non-Islamic countries’ Muslim minority populations, additional tailwinds are now deriving from Islamic finance’s closeness to the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria used by socially conscious investors.…
HIJAB STYLING BECOMES MORE FASHIONABLE, COMBINING DESIGN WITH RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE
Time was when hijabs were simply religious garb for Muslim women that covered their head and chest of religiously observant women. But hijab design has become increasingly sophisticated in recent years, with wearers wanting elegance while expressing their religious identity.
In Bangladesh, for example, online fashion influencers have been particularly influential since the mid-2010s, promoting different hijab trends and styles online, with local entrepreneurs increasingly producing and selling hijabs online, especially via Facebook.…
GLOBAL ISLAMIC FINANCE SECTOR MOVES TOWARDS INCORPORATING ESG CONCERNS
Observers of the global Islamic finance industry are predicting significant imminent growth in sharia-compliant environmental and social governance (ESG) investment, as demand for financial institutions to deploy funds in ethical ways expands, along with awareness of climate change and social justice.…
MUSLIM MAJORITY WORLD WOMEN DEVELOP MORE SOPHISTICATED MAKE UP TRENDS
The Muslim world is extremely diverse culturally, so it is no surprise that colour cosmetics trends are many and varied. However, one clear universal trend is that Muslim women are on average becoming more knowledgeable about make-up, especially with internet influencers spreading advice on products and techniques.…
INDIA-GULF TRADE FEARS OVER PROPHET MOHAMMED ROW REFLECT LONG-TERM DIPLOMATIC CONCERNS FOR INDIAN EXPORTERS
A campaign to boycott Indian products in Islamic countries because of anti-Muslim comments made by leaders of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may have died down for now but given the continuing Hindu-Muslim tensions in India, the risk of future supply disruption remains, warn economists.…
INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS AND TRIBUNALS BEING DEVELOPED TO SOLVE ISLAMIC FINANCE DISPUTES
International legal arbitration systems and judicial standards are emerging to help solve complex Islamic finance disputes, while national judicial and informal dispute resolution systems continue to develop – in civil and religious law institutions.
Informal dispute resolution processes can, of course, resolve disagreements without recourse to the payment of damage and potentially without damaging valuable reputations.…
SAUDI ARABIA’S NEOM TO PROMOTE FASCINATING RELIGIOUS HERITAGE TO ATTRACT GLOBAL TOURISTS
Marketers for the planned Saudi Arabia megacity of Neom, a key plank of the kingdom’s Vision 2030 strategy of economic growth and diversity, will highlight it site’s ancient religious heritage and develop adventure tourism to attract five million international tourists-a-year (by 2030).…