THE NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ISLAMIC ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
Growth, Equity and Stability: An Islamic Perspective
9-11 September 2013, Istanbul, TURKEY
Tickets and Hotel
One author of each accepted paper will be sponsored round-trip economy class air tickets and hotel stay during the Conference. The author who wishes to avail conference sponsorship must be specified clearly.
Important Dates
Submission of abstracts with author biographies
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31 December 2012
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Decision of academic committee
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10 February 2013
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Submission of first drafts
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10 April 2013
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Decision of academic committee
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10 June 2013
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Submission of final drafts
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31 July 2013
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Submission of presentation material
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15 August 2013
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THE NINTH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON
ISLAMIC ECONOMICS AND FINANCE (ICIEF)
Growth, Equity and Stability: An Islamic Perspective
9-11 September 2013, Istanbul, TURKEY
The Ninth ICIEF at a Glance
Recovery
from the global financial crisis and subsequent economic downturn remains
fragile. Persistent risks to financial and economic development include sluggish
growth in developed countries – which is now spilling over into developing
economies as well; increasing income and wealth inequalities; and still-unrestored
financial, economic and political stability in many regions. High poverty and
unemployment rates, large macroeconomic imbalances, deteriorations in sovereign
credibility, increasing food price volatility and food shortages, and lack of
access to basic infrastructure further intensify and magnify these risks –
particularly for the underprivileged segments of the world population. As a
result, for many countries it has become even more challenging to achieve the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by the United Nations.
The existing structure of the economic and financial system is also continuing
to be questioned at the highest level of intellectual and political discourse.
The growing emphasis on ethics and morality in economic and financial
transactions highlights the structural problems undermining the confidence in
the current system and, in turn, the pressing need for more durable
alternatives.
To highlight some and more of these issues, the Ninth ICIEF is being jointly
organized by the Statistical, Economic & Social Research and Training
Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRIC), a subsidiary organ of the Organisation
of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Group through
its Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI), the International
Association for Islamic Economics (IAIE), and the Qatar Foundation’s Hamad Bin
Khalifa University through its Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies (QFIS), with
the support of other stakeholders. The Conference will be held for three days
on 9-11 September 2013, in Istanbul, Turkey, under the theme “Growth, Equity
and Stability: An Islamic Perspective”.
Focus Areas
The Ninth Conference will provide a platform for dialogue and
discussions between policy-makers, academics, researchers, graduate students,
and practitioners to address the problems of poverty alleviation, inclusive
economic growth, and macroeconomic stability from the perspective of the
Islamic economics and finance discipline.
In this context, theoretical and empirical research papers are invited
in Arabic and English languages for submission to the Conference in the
following and related areas, subject to any conditions described in this
announcement:
A.
Sustainable
and Inclusive Development, Growth, and Equity from Islamic Perspective
§ Islamic economics and comprehensive human
development: its concepts, aspirations, strategies and policies
§ Role of Islamic socio-economic institutions
in economic development
§ Perspective of Islamic economics and
finance, including its critique
§ Role of Islamic principles in
microeconomic institutions, exchange and market discipline
§ Effects of Islamic principles on
macroeconomic management – fiscal, monetary and financial policies
§ Including
communities in the development process
§ Effects of Islamic principles on law,
property rights, governance of public, private and voluntary sector
institutions
§ Poverty,
human development and progress on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Country
case studies on economic development
in OIC member countries and observer states[1]
§ Global and regional surveys of
economic indicators and socio-economic dynamics in the OIC countries as
compared with the wider world; unemployment and the youth; core infrastructure
assets and services; challenges of food insecurity and energy crisis; access to
safe water, basic health facilities and education; education, inclusive growth
and reform policies; the role of the non-profit sector (e.g. NGOs); economic
growth and the environment; resource gap and mobilizing alternative forms of
external resources
§ The OIC Makkah Declaration
(December 2005): An assessment of prospects and progress, the state of trade,
investment and economic cooperation in the OIC region; performance of regional
groupings and economic cooperation organizations in the OIC region; responses
to the new international economic order
B.
Islamic
Business Ethics and Morality
§ Ethics and morality in Islamic economics
and finance
§ Faith, values, and economic development
§ Economic doctrines and values of Islam
§ Influence of faith on Muslim economic
behaviour
§ The Islamic Moral Economy
§ The
economics of corruption in the Muslim world
C.
Recent
Financial, Economic and Political Developments: Re-thinking the Fundamentals
§ An Islamic economics and finance view of
the global financial crisis and the European sovereign debt crisis
§ Islamic critique of conventional economic
theories and practices
§ The
Arab Spring: economic causes, consequences, and lessons learned
§ An
assessment of the effect of recent economic policy changes which occurred in
Arab Spring countries
§ The
prospects of Islamic economics and finance in Arab Spring countries
§ Finance
and governance in the post-crisis world; democracy and transparency in
governance of Islamic financial institutions - critique of the Western and
Islamic models of corporate and financial governance
D.
Access to
Financial Services and Inclusive Financial Sector Development
§ Impact of
the global financial crisis, and the lessons to be learned for Islamic economics,
banking and finance
§ The
importance of access to finance, its present state, and the use of Islamic
banking and finance to increase the availability of financial services to Muslim
and non-Muslim communities
§ An
assessment of inclusive financial sector development policies
§ Experiences
and challenges with Islamic microfinance and the role of Zakah and Awqaf
institutions
§ New models
for Islamic microfinance and their comparative analysis
§ Performance
measurement of Zakah and Awqaf in Muslim societies; Zakah and Awqaf funds, and
their use in stimulating economic growth; establishing disclosure,
transparency, and monitoring requirements of Zakah and Awqaf activities
§ Economics
of social networks and their significance in Islamic microfinance
E.
Policy
Reforms for Institutional Development and Governance
§ Integrating
comprehensive human development and poverty alleviation in economic and
financial sector reforms
§ Developing
the requisite institutions and practices for sustainable development with fair
distribution and poverty alleviation, including Zakah and Awqaf
§ Participatory
finance, Zakah, Awqaf and developing practical and implementable modalities for
enhancing the access of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to financial
services
§ Reforms
of macroeconomic management and governance
§ Reforming
public sector resource mobilization and allocation based on genuine Islamic economics
and finance principles
§ Reforming
the legal and regulatory framework and infrastructure for financial markets and
institutions.
§ Comprehensive
socio-economic policy reforms based on the Maqasid Al Shariah
§ Challenges
of good governance, and its implications for sustainable economic growth
F.
Enhancing
the Regulatory and Legislative Landscape for Islamic Financial Markets and
Institutions
§ Enhancing
the architecture and infrastructure for Islamic financial markets and
institutions
§ Enhancing
the corporate and Shariah governance framework for the industry
§ Enhancing
the resilience and inclusiveness of Islamic financial services industry and the
role of internationally mandated institutions, such as the Islamic Development
Bank (IDB), Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial
Institutions (AAOIFI), Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB), International
Islamic Financial Markets (IIFM), and International Islamic Liquidity
Management Corporation (IILM)
§ Impact
of Basel III, G20 reform agenda, IFSB and AAOIFI standards on Islamic financial
services industry
§ The
challenges of authenticity, financial product development, competition and
sustainability
§ Enhancing
the effectiveness of legal, regulatory and core infrastructure for Islamic
financial institutions, including issues related to taxation, accounting,
enforceability of contracts and recourse to assets.
§ Surveying
the recent developments in project financing, infrastructure financing, and
public-private partnerships (PPP) for infrastructure projects; enhancing the
regulatory framework of infrastructure financing; investigating case studies
and recent developments such as the joint IDB-World Bank Arab Financing
Facility for Infrastructure
§ Islamic
perspectives on bankruptcy, insolvency and distress
G.
Assessing
the Development and Stability of Islamic Financial Services Industry
§ Critical
assessment of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund's Financial Sector
Assessment Program
§ Developing
templates for assessing the development and stability of Islamic financial
services
§ Actual
assessment of stability and development of Islamic financial industry in
different countries
§ Developing
succinct performance and stability indicators for Islamic finance industry
H.
Socially
Responsible Investments
§ Impact
Investing: seeking financial AND social returns on investments
§ Status
of Impact Investing in OIC member countries
§ Challenges
to and merits of the creation of an Impact Investment Industry
§ Quantifying
'social returns'
§ Towards
'value creation' as opposed to 'profit maximization', including its
implications for accounting, corporate governance, and regulation
§ The
economics of corporate social responsibility
I.
Challenges
of Developing Islamic Economics and Finance as a Scientific Discipline
§ Islamic economics and finance, its
methodology, history and scope
§ Challenges
of education and teaching institutions and human resources
§ Challenges
facing research in Islamic economics
§ Challenges
of building linkages with market applications and public policies
§ Balancing
resources between Islamic economics and Islamic finance research and teaching
and integrating Islamic finance within Islamic economics
§ The
state of research journals and Internet resources in Islamic economics
§ An
assessment of Islamic economics and finance writings in international
peer-reviewed journals
§ Translating
Islamic economic theory into a testable economic model
§ First
vs. second generation Muslim economists: similarities and differences in thoughts
in the light of forty years of experience
J.
Islamic Capital
Markets and New Product Development
§ Mathematics
and valuation of Islamic financial instruments
§ Islamic
financial product engineering, including the risk of concealment of riba
§ Establishing
alternative pricing and valuation benchmarks for Islamic finance and delinking
from conventional benchmarks
§ Enhancing
quantitative risk management capabilities of Islamic financial institutions
K.
Knowledge
Economy and Entrepreneurship Development Nexus
§ Knowledge
economy and its relationship with inclusive economic development
§ The
need for entrepreneurship development with an emphasis on success stories
§ Female
participation in entrepreneurship, professional fields and workforce in the OIC
region and in the Islamic finance industry: its determinants, challenges, and
current state
§ Assessment
of the impact of globalization and franchises
§ Investment
in human capital and the challenges of human capital flight ('brain drain')
§ A
critique of small and medium enterprise (SME) policies in the Muslim world and
ways to overcome challenges
L.
Miscellaneous
Topics
§ Islamic
corporate finance theory
§ Issues
in Islamic accounting
§ The
effects of competition on the development of Islamic finance industry
§ Status
of credit rating agencies in the Islamic finance industry
§ Experimental
work on the causes and economic consequences of religion and virtuous behaviour
§ Sovereign
wealth funds and their potential role in the development of Islamic finance
industry
§ Issues
in regional economic integration and cooperation
§ Exchange
rate regimes and financial sector development
§ Financial
planning literacy and awareness in Muslim communities
§ Prospects
for and challenges of a unified GCC currency vis-à-vis Eurozone economic distress.
§ Lessons
for Islamic economic integration taken from the Eurozone crises
Important Dates
Submission of abstracts with author
biographies
|
31 December 2012
|
Decision of academic committee
|
10 February 2013
|
Submission of first drafts
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10 April 2013
|
Decision of academic committee
|
10 June 2013
|
Submission of final drafts
|
31 July 2013
|
Submission of presentation material
|
15 August 2013
|
Submission Guidelines
1.
Abstract
Submissions:
Abstract submissions must comply with the
following guidelines (All of the following must be included in a single
Microsoft Word file. Do not submit ZIP files):
·
Microsoft
Word format
·
Filename
must be short and suitable (e.g. AuthorName.doc)
·
Abstract
is recommended to be between 100-200 words with a maximum of 300 words
·
Full
tentative title of the manuscript
·
All
authors' names
·
All
authors' current affiliations and positions
·
Corresponding
author clearly specified
·
Corresponding
author's email address and telephone number
·
Keywords
for the article
·
Please
limit the use of acronyms, abbreviations and references in the abstract
·
Maximum
100 word biography of each author detailing educational background and relevant
work experience
2.
Draft and
Final Paper Submissions:
Only
authors whose abstracts have been submitted before the deadline and accepted will
be invited to submit first drafts of their research papers. The style
requirements of the draft papers will be communicated through e-mail at a
future date.
Tickets and Hotel
One
author of each accepted paper will be sponsored round-trip economy class air
tickets and hotel stay during the Conference. The author who wishes to avail
conference sponsorship must be specified clearly.
Academic Contacts
Kindly e-mail your
submissions to both of the
following contacts:
[1]
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic,
Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait,
Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco,
Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Cyprus, Oman, Pakistan, Palestinian
territories, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia,
Sudan, Suriname, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey,
Turkmenistan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, and Yemen.
Comments
Sir ! Please tell that at which address we can send our paper for conference.
Sohai Ashraf, Student of MS (Islaic Business & finance)in riphah Internentional Unversity?