DUBAI: Muslim countries must develop Islamic banking institutions in order to create non-usurious sources of funding, former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said.
Countries borrowing from usurious foreign banks and institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank risk becoming “a kind of debt slave to the lenders,” he told an Islamic finance conference here on Sunday.
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