WORLD - GENERAL - WB meet fails to address Islamic finance role in development

ARABNEWS.COM - Oct. 03--Islamic finance got an important airing at the 2011 annual meetings of the World Bank Group/International Monetary Fund (IMF) held in Washington last week when Ahmad Mohamed Ali, president of the Islamic Development Bank Group (IDB) was invited for the first time to address the influential 84th Development Committee meeting of the World Bank as an observer.  (source)