Unlike the other commercial sources of fund, the zakat funds would never cause unnecessary burden to the economy since the type of the funds is not commercially claimable, and hence, no excessive social cost will occur. The same also goes to the Awqaf sector where, as a matter of fact, more people are endowed with low cost assets.
The overall objective of the Conference is to bring together all the stakeholders in the SME sector to generate debate on the issues confronting the sector and look at the various strategies being developed at the regulatory and policy level to increase the flow of credit and financial services to this very important sector of our economy.