As a system, Islamic Finance facilitates in stimulating economic activity and  entrepreneurship  towards  promoting  comprehensive  human  development and addressing poverty and inequality.
Under this system, not only the prevalence of re-distributive instruments such as zakat, waqf (endowment) and sadqaat (charity) can play vital role towards broad based development and poverty alleviation but characteristics like Page 4 of 6  equity financing can also lead to the same objective.