Assalamualaikum wr br and good day Dear Colleagues, Islamic Business School (IBS) are pleased to invite you to the Thematic Workshop on Intra Trade in The Organization of Islamic Cooperation Countries: Removing Obstacles and Promoting Trading Business to be held at UUM and Langkawi on April 14-16, 2015, organized by Islamic Business School (IBS) Universiti Utara Malaysia in collaboration with International Research And Training Institute (IRTI) Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Jeddah. Since 1970s, members state of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have been pursuing the goal of enhancing economic and commercial cooperation to improve the economic linkages and coordination among themselves and to jointly act against the global challenges facing them. Intra trade among them becomes the concern and considerable attention of leaders of OIC countries since many issues remain unresolved. However, amid good progression of intra OIC trade and its global market share, the dominance has been played only by Asian countries whereas the role of the other part of the world remains modest. Despite facing instability, Middle East and GCC countries should enhance their capacity to optimize their role in removing obstacles of intra industry trading business. Therefore, it is essential to examine their trend of performance, competitiveness, tax regulation, obstacles and challenges in implementing intra OIC trade. In the light of these observations and in order to ameliorate intra trade performance among OIC countries and to develop ways and means of joint cooperative action in expanding trade among them, Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI) and Islamic Business School (IBS), Universiti Utara Malaysia will organize thematic workshop on intra trade in OIC countries to remove obstacles and promote trading business. Issues pertaining to be sufficiently broad to get a diverse spectrum of papers, which will include the following: 1. Determinant of intra industry trade among OIC countries 2. Recent trends in the performance of intra trade in OIC countries 3. Competition and cooperation in industrial trade among OIC countries 4. Exploring the possibility of free trade area in OIC countries 5. Problem of market access: tariff, logistic infrastructure, transport etc 6. Trade promotion, financing instrument and trade facilitation 7. Issue of human capital in international trade 8. Obstacles in export and import among OIC countries 9. Intra trade business model among members of OIC countries 10. Other related topics The workshop details are as follows. DATE: 14 to 16 April 2015 VENUE: UUM and Langkawi, Kedah DarulAman, Malaysia ACCOMMODATION: EDC, UUM and Langkawi, Kedah IMPORTANT DATES: Submission of Full Paper: 28 Feb 2015 Notification of Acceptance Paper: 17 March 2015 This workshop is intended as a meeting of minds among thinkers, scholars and practitioners (maximum 40 papers). The papers presented at the discussion will be reviewed for consideration to publish in a book that will be published by IRTI. TICKETS AND HOTEL: Authors of the accepted papers will be covered by IRTI for round-trip economy class air ticket, registration fee and hotel accommodation during the workshop CONTACTS: Prof. Dr. Abdul Ghafar Ismail Head Islamic Economic Research Division IRTI/IsDB E-mail: [email protected] Tel:+966 2 646 6330 Prof. Dr. Rosylin Mohd Yusof Islamic Business School Universiti Utara Malaysia Email: [email protected] Dr. Akhmad Affandi Mahfudz Visiting Scholar Islamic Business School College of Business Unversiti Utara Malaysia Telp: +60 4 9286712 Fax :+60 4 9286653 Email: [email protected] Wassalam. Universiti Utara Malaysia Official Website uum.edu.my Disclaimer: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, distribution, printing, copying or use of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender or Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) immediately and delete the original message. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this e-mail that do not relate to the official business of UUM and/or its group of companies shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by UUM and UUM accepts no responsibility for the same. All liability arising from or in connection with computer viruses and/or corrupted e-mails is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.
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