Impact of Macroeconomic Factors on the Growth of Islamic Banking: A Case of Pakistan

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The present paper attempts to investigate the impact of some selected macroeconomic factors on the growth of Islamic Banking. An Islamic banking is one of the most rapidly growing segment of the economy nowadays particularly in Pakistan and other Islamic countries around the world. Therefore, the aim of our current study is to investigate whether macroeconomic variables influence the growth of Islamic banking in Pakistan or not. For that purpose, we used seven macroeconomic factors such as, gross domestic product, Muslim population, inflation rate, money supply, total savings, interest rates, and remittances. These variables are used because they directly or