Islamic finance shares the same promise, but focusing in particular to the socioeconomic needs of the Muslim population. If we are to address the needs of our underserved Muslim brethren in Mindanao and elsewhere in the country, we need to deliberately promote both Islamic finance and financial inclusion.
This point is illustrated by figure 2, which shows the levels, as opposed to the growth rates, of real gross domestic product (GDP) for the two groups of countries.