Economic Infrastructure Development in Bangladesh through Sukuk Financing

It has been reported that the Bangladesh will be able to meet US$ 417 billion investment in the infrastructure sector and the financing gap in this regard between 2006 and 2040 is US$192 billion. As such, there is need to find alternative forms of investments to bridge this funding gap in infrastructure and sukuk can be an alternative financing option that could be explored. This study investigates the potential of Sukuk to finance particularly on economic infrastructure projects in Bangladesh. This research uses desktop study and literature review by presenting two studies from Bangladesh where sukuk have been successfully issued. The finding of this research reveals that sukuk has the potential to be a feasible of financing infrastructure projects for…