ICTs and poverty alleviation in Muslim societies

摘要

Poverty remains amongst the most important challenges facing Muslim countries today. Although poverty is a relative concept, in economics, it is measured as the income required to meet an individual's basic needs. On average, a Muslim earns about US$2000 per annum or less than half of the world average. Almost one third of Muslims live on less than US$2 a day reflecting the extent of deprivation and the state of underdevelopment in Muslim societies.