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Islamic Chamber Research and Information Centre (ICRIC)  Board Members Meeting was held along with the 29the Meeting of the Board of Directs of the Islamic Chamber of Commerce, Industrie et agriculture (VENESSE) sur 16 novembre 2019 in Karachi-Pakistan.

Dr. Mohammad Reza Karbasi, ICRIC Director General, m. Salimi and Mr. Ashraf Iranian ICRIC Board Members, and the delegate from the Jordon Chamber, as well as the Secretary General of the ICCIA, Dr. Yousef Hassan Khalawi attended the meeting.

At this meeting, ICRIC Director General, Dr. Mohamad Reza Karbasi, presented ICRIC activities report of 2017-2019 along with the ICRIC future plans.

Islamic Countries Credit Rating System (IC-CRS), Muslim Excellence and Competitiveness Award (ME & C Award), Halal World, Chaîne Pays Islamiques Tourisme (CTIC), OIC Networking on SMEs Agencies (ONSA), Islamic World Trade Directory (IWTD) are ICRIC projects.

ICRIC as the think tank of the ICCIA is supposed to update some of its proposals regarding the projects for being implemented in cooperation with ICCIA member chambers.

The next meeting of the ICRIC Board of Directors Meeting will be held along with the 30^e  Meeting of the Board of Directors of the ICCIA in Jordon in 2020.

Aussi vieux que la religion elle-même, Islamic banking has reached new levels of maturity in the past fifty years.

It is forecast to be worth 3 trillion dollars by 2021 with Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and the UAE currently leading the market.

This banking system follows Islamic guidelines, based on profit-sharing, instead of interest being charged on loans.

Despite being one of the fastest-growing banking sectors, Islamic finance is still relatively small compared to the global industry, and since 2014 it has seen a decrease in its growth rate.

Sukuks, or Islamic bonds, currently make up less than one percent of the world’s bond market, despite some analysts believing that they provide less volatility than conventional bonds and a higher return.

“Emerging market US dollar bonds’ year-to-date to return has actually been a loss of 3.8%,” says Anita Yadav of the bank Emirates NBD, “Whereas if we consolidate all emerging sukuk markets, the return of them has only been a loss of 2.09% – so it’s less of a loss,”

Experts believe that the introduction of industry-wide regulation could help encourage new players to enter the market and boost investment in the segment.

“If you allow individual institutions to go by their own book of rules you will have a hodgepodge, and it would be very difficult to clean up that mess,” predicts Sharia advisor Kamran Sherwani, “Sooner or later you will find more standardization and new, innovative products.”

The International Monetary Fund has stated that, in the coming months, it plans to roll out regulations and guidelines for the industry, which is now active in more than 60 countries worldwide.

Emirates NBD forecasts that investor appetite for corporate and sovereign Islamic bonds will remain strong, and that more issuances will be seen in the next six to twelve months.

DUBAI’S EFFORTS TO BECOME THE GLOBAL HUB FOR ISLAMIC ECONOMY

The growth and development of the Islamic economy is a key pillar in Dubai’s post-oil economic vision.

The emirate aims to become a global hub for the Islamic economy by boosting what it calls ‘responsible investment’ in the industry, as well as halal entrepreneurship and innovation.

Global spending in the Islamic Economy food and lifestyle sector alone is forecast to reach $3 trillion by 2022, meaning that meeting its objectives could be a very profitable endeavor for the emirate.

Dans 2016, the Islamic economy contributed around 8.3% to Dubai’s GDP. This number is set to rise in the coming years, according to His Excellency Abdulla Al Awar, CEO of the Dubai Islamic Economy Development Centre.

Al Awar highlights the fact that since 2013, when efforts to encourage the listing of Islamic bonds were put in place, Dubai has risen from a ranking of third to first place in the global market.

Kuala Lumpur and London are two other cities that are considered respected providers of Islamic financial products and services.

Far from seeing this as a threat, Al Awar believes that such competition is an important drive for Dubai to achieve its global hub status.

“If there wasn’t any competition I don’t think Dubai would have achieved where we are,” he says, adding that Dubai’s geographical position is also a strategic advantage.

“It’s in the middle of a very dense economical, region,” says Al Awar, “I’m not referring only to the GCC or the Middle East. I’m referring to around 42 des pays, including the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia.”

The head of the DIEDC further emphasizes that the worldwide contribution to the Islamic economy is not limited to the Muslim community, pointing to consumers globally in 2016 spending more than $2 trillion on Sharia-compliant products.

Looking to the future, and emerging financial technologies, Dubai is also directing its strategy towards the next generation of innovators and business leaders.

“We are actually enabling millennials and entrepreneurs, and various SMEs, to contribute to the economy by their ideas – the technologies,” says Al Awar, “This is why some of our initiatives are actually directly geared towards them – we have the Fintech sector, for example.”

HOW IS FINTECH DISRUPTING ISLAMIC FINANCE IN THE UK?

London has long been a global financial centre and it is now, as many hubs worldwide, embracing new technologies to seal its place as a leading Fintech hub.

The UK also being one of the leading centres for Islamic banking, these finance-forward technologies are likely to disrupt Sharia-compliant finance.

Twenty-seven-year-old Zeeshan Uppal runs Yielders, a start-up company shaking-up the property investment market in the UK through Sharia-based crowdfunding.

He explains that as millennial grow up, they’ll shift away from traditional finance and towards more enabling methods of money management.

“The disruption of Fintech has really allowed for people in the UK to be involved in real estate, as well the Sharia element of what we do,” he says.

toutefois, some industry experts say Britain still has work to do in Islamic Fintech if it wishes to keep up with its Middle East competitors.

Abdul Haseeb Basit founded the UK Islamic Fintech Panel, in the hope that banks would catch-up on the opportunity.

“We felt that there was the need for a network within the Islamic and Fintech space and really to help protect the UK against losing ground to other jurisdictions, such as Dubai, Bahrain and the GCC,” he explains.

Basit believes that like the conventional Fintech sector, Islamic Fintech companies will step jurisdictional presence in the EU. He stresses that although that shouldn’t have a huge impact on the market, it’s still important to understand where these companies preferred to be based.

La source : https://www.euronews.com/2018/07/15/what-does-the-future-of-the-islamic-economy-look-like

picture from : https://thefinancialdaily.com/islamic-finance-2018-done/

Speaking at an informal meeting of trade ministers in Shanghai on 5 novembre, Director-General Roberto Azevêdo called for WTO members to step up their efforts to define a realistic set of potential outcomes for the WTO’s 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12), to be held in Kazakhstan in June 2020.

The gathering, organised by China, addressed two questions: prospective results at the 12th Ministerial Conference, and WTO reform.

The Director-General told the meeting that in a global economy beset by tensions and uncertainty surrounding trade, WTO members had a clear contribution to make.

“We can show that the multilateral trading system can deliver meaningful results. We can demonstrate that members are able to come together and reach decisions that enhance certainty and predictability in the 21st-century global economy.”

Briefing ministers about developments in the fisheries subsidies negotiations, the Director-General warned them of the risks of failing to reach an agreement.

“Failing to successfully conclude these negotiations will not just be bad for marine fish stocks: it will damage the credibility of the WTO and discredit the feasibility of multilateral rule-making.”

On the wider WTO reform debate, the DG suggested that attempts to negotiate a specific reform package would likely result in prolonged paralysis. Instead, il a dit:

“A more promising approach to reform is to be pragmatic — harvesting what we can, when we can, moving forward without artificial deadlines. Reform will be — and should be — a constant process of adapting to economic conditions and responding to members’ concerns. Every change to WTO rules and procedures is part of reform.”

While in Shanghai, the Director-General also attended, by invitation, a meeting of the participants on the Joint Statement on Investment Facilitation for Development. Following that meeting, 92 WTO members issued a joint ministerial statement on investment facilitation for development. The statement is available at the WTO’s 11th Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires in December 2017, 70 WTO members co-sponsored the original joint ministerial statement on investment facilitation for

SOURCE: https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news19_e/infac_05nov19_e.htm

ABU DHABI, 7 novembre 2019 - La 18e session de l'Organisation des Nations Unies pour le développement industriel (UNI) Conférence générale a conclu aujourd'hui, fournir l'Organisation des indications claires dans le cadre du nouveau Déclaration d'Abou Dhabi, d'accélérer le développement industriel durable et inclusive (doctrine) pour la réalisation du 2030 Ordre du jour en renforçant les partenariats avec le secteur privé et d'exploiter le potentiel des technologies de la révolution industrielle Quatrième.

« Dans la planification de cette 18e session de la Conférence générale de l'ONUDI sous le thème « Industrie 2030 - Innover. Relier. Transformer notre avenir », nous avons suivi notre vision vers le monde que nous voulons d'ici l'an 2030 « , a déclaré le directeur général LI Yong dans son discours de clôture. « Cette vision est basée sur le renforcement de la coopération internationale, avec les industries qui inclusives et durables, la conduite d'une faible teneur en carbone, climat économie intelligente qui offre des emplois décents, une croissance inclusive, la prospérité partagée et qui permet aux tout le monde dans tous les pays « .

Co-organisé avec les Émirats arabes unis, la conférence, qui a réuni plus de 1,700 les gens de partout dans le monde, les réalisations mises en évidence par une exposition interactive et une série de manifestations parallèles mettant l'accent sur les sujets les plus pertinents aujourd'hui pour l'ONUDI États membres, y compris le sexe, économie circulaire, la jeunesse et l'esprit d'entreprise, Industrie 4.0, parcs industriels, l'énergie durable et partenariats.

Parmi les faits saillants de la semaine comprennent la nomination de l'ONUDI Elisabetta Illy Ambassadeur de bonne volonté; la signature d'un programme de pays pour Madagascar; le échange de lettres avec le Gouvernement de la Côte d'Ivoire; la signature de déclarations conjointes avec Huawei et Nornickel, et de un document de projet sur une zone industrielle durable dans le cadre du PCP pour le Pérou; et le lancement du Forum des entrepreneurs du monde et d'investissement de l'ONUDI Plate-forme d'analyse industrielle, Rapport sur le développement industriel 2020 et de la stratégie pour l'égalité des sexes et l'autonomisation des femmes 2020-2023.

en outre, documents importants ont été adoptés, y compris la Déclaration ministérielle des PMA ainsi que les résolutions sur la troisième Décennie du développement industriel de l'Afrique (IDDA III), Petits États insulaires (PEID), et les pays à revenu intermédiaire.

« Votre soutien et les conseils qui nous rassure que nous sommes sur la bonne voie pour remplir notre mandat de développement industriel durable et inclusive. Cette Conférence générale est une étape importante et aussi un point de départ à se joindre à l'appel mondial à l'action, entrant dans la dernière décennie vers l'industrie 2030 « , a déclaré la DG LI Yong. « S'il vous plaît me joindre à applaudissant la direction des Emirats Arabes Unis dans la conduite avec l'ONUDI la promotion de la coopération industrielle mondiale. »

Le ministre émirati de l'Energie et de l'Industrie, Suhail Mohamed Faraj Al Mazrouei ajouté, « Déclaration d'Abu Dhabi va transformer la façon dont nous espérons travailler ensemble, mettant en lumière le rôle du secteur privé et des institutions financières dans le développement de tous les pays membres. Alors que les pays, nous ne pouvons pas le faire seul. Nous avons besoin de partenariats solides « .

À la suite de sessions en Thaïlande 1987, Cameroun en 1993, et au Pérou 2013, c'est la quatrième fois depuis qu'il est devenu une agence spécialisée que la Conférence générale de l'ONUDI a lieu hors du siège de l'Organisation à Vienne, L'Autriche.

L'ONUDI Rapport sur le développement industriel présente de nouvelles preuves sur l'avenir de l'industrialisation dans le contexte d'un changement de paradigme technologique

ABU DHABI, 5 novembre 2019 – L'Organisation des Nations Unies pour le développement industriel (UNI) a lancé son 2020 Rapport sur le développement industriel (IDR) sur à l'ère d'industrialisation numérique lors d'un événement tenu en marge de la dix-huitième session de la Conférence générale de l'ONUDI.

L'émergence et la diffusion de la production numérique de pointe (ADP) technologies regroupées autour de la quatrième révolution industrielle est en train de modifier radicalement la nature de la production manufacturière, de plus en plus brouiller les frontières entre les systèmes de production physiques et numériques.

Les progrès réalisés dans des domaines tels que la robotique, intelligence artificielle, l'analyse de fabrication et de données additifs génèrent d'importantes possibilités d'accélérer l'innovation et d'accroître la teneur en valeur ajoutée de la production dans les industries manufacturières.

Cependant, les importantes exigences des technologies, en particulier ADP en termes de capital sont l'infrastructure et numérique humaine qui conduit certains observateurs à se demander si l'industrialisation est encore possible ou même souhaitable une stratégie pour parvenir à un développement économique.

le 2020 IDR contribue à ce débat en présentant des données quantitatives et qualitatives frais sur l'avenir de l'industrialisation dans le contexte d'un changement de paradigme technologique. Une des principales conclusions du rapport est que l'industrialisation continue d'être l'avenue principale pour le développement réussi. Les principales conclusions du rapport ont été présentés et discutés avec un panel d'experts de premier plan dans le domaine du développement industriel.

« Ce rapport apporte une perspective originale à l'analyse des nouvelles technologies et la quatrième révolution industrielle, et réaffirme le rôle de l'industrialisation en tant que moteur du développement,», A déclaré la DG LI. «Il est précisément grâce à l'industrialisation que les pays peuvent construire et renforcer les compétences et les capacités nécessaires pour réussir dans le nouveau paradigme technologique », ajoutée DDG Kuniyoshi.

Le rapport examine de près les interconnexions qui existent entre l'absorption des technologies ADP, la transformation des structures productives et le rôle du développement industriel de conduire ce processus.

Cela se fait de manière séquentielle, passant de la grande image de la production mondiale et à la diffusion des nouvelles technologies dans le monde à l'absorption spécifique et l'exploitation de ces technologies au niveau national et ferme et les réponses politiques qui sont mises en œuvre pour soutenir ce processus.

« Accès complet à la qualité et la puissance abordable et la connectivité Internet sera essentiel pour les pays en développement,» A déclaré Phyllis Wakiaha, Directeur général de l'Association kenyane des Manufactures.

Selon le rapport, l'impact des technologies de l'ADP sur les pays en développement dépendra en dernière analyse de leurs réponses politiques. Il n'y a pas de « one-size-fits-all » stratégie politique pour faire les nouvelles technologies au service du développement industriel durable et inclusive. Encore, IDR 2020 fournit des orientations stratégiques que la quatrième révolution industrielle approfondit dans les années à venir.

Trois domaines qui méritent une attention particulière sont: (je) en développant un cadre, en particulier, l'infrastructure numérique, d'adopter les nouvelles technologies; (ii) la promotion de la demande et de tirer parti des initiatives en cours en utilisant des technologies de l'ADP; et (iii) le renforcement des compétences requises et les capacités de recherche. Le rapport fournit plusieurs exemples de politiques spécifiques actuellement mises en œuvre dans différents pays pour répondre à chacune de ces dimensions.

La présentation de ces résultats a suscité un débat animé entre les membres du groupe. le série pour le développement industriel Rapport est une source de référence établi sur le développement industriel. les éditions précédentes ont examiné les forces motrices du développement industriel. Ils ont également décrit les raisons pour lesquelles l'industrialisation est un moteur important du développement économique et clé pour la réalisation des objectifs de développement durable.

Pour plus d'informations, s'il vous plaît contactez:

Nobuya Haraguchi

Agent responsable

UNI recherche & Division de la politique industrielle Conseils

La source: https://www.unido.org/news/unido-industrial-development-report-presents-fresh-evidence-future-industrialization-context-technological-paradigm-shift

(Abuja / Genève) - Le Centre du commerce international (ITC) has initiated preliminary discussions with the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to launch a customized Trade Map tool for the West African region.

The trade information tool will serve as a key resource for business owners seeking to identify potential business partners in the region. Through an ECOWAS trade portal, Trade map users will review up-to-date trade statistics, an outline of applicable regional tariffs and existing public tenders available in the region.

‘The installation of the Trade Map tool is a significant first step towards achieving ITC’s larger mandate of providing comprehensive trade data and intelligence for the entire continent through the Africa Trade Observatory as tasked by the African Union. Direct access to this tool will give West African MSMEs valuable data to pursue their strategic business objectives including for intra-African trade,’ said Ashish Shah, ITC Director of Division of Country Programmes.

Trade Map users have access to a directory of buyers and sellers across the world, export performance indicators, competitive and alternative markets. The monitoring tool currently covers over 220 countries and retains the information of over 5,000 products listed in the Harmonised System – the international nomenclature for the classification of products.

‘Trade Map will particularly ease the identification of traditional, alternative and new markets for goods and services as well as opportunities for new investments. We consider the Map as a key tool for deepening economic integration in ECOWAS, enhancing enterprise and regional competitiveness and connecting our economies to global value chains and markets,’ described Mamadou Traoré, ECOWAS Commissioner of Industry and Private Sector Promotion.

The embedding of the Trade Map onto the ECOWAS website comes as part of ITC’s objectives for the West Africa Competitiveness Programme (WACOMP) to introduce a set of transformative technological tools and establish a competitive business climate in the ECOWAS region.

In addition to the Trade Map, ITC is also expanding the use of its Trade Alert Obstacles Mechanism (TOAM) tool, which is already implemented in the francophone West African region of UEMOA. The alert tool tracks trade barriers at a national and regional level for SMEs and MSMEs. Access to this trade intelligence gives a wealth of trade data information, ensuring MSMEs have both a regional and global outlook for their business products.

Notes for the Editors

About WACOMP
The West Africa Competitiveness Programme (WACOMP) aims to support a number of selected value chains at national and regional level to promote structural transformation and better access to regional and international markets, while taking into account social and environmental concerns. Its overall objective is to strengthen competitiveness of West African countries and enhance their integration into the regional and international trading system.

Specifically, the programme will work to:
• Improve the performance, growth and contribution to the industry, regional trade and exports of selected value chains, et
• Improve the business climate at national and regional levels.

The WACOMP consists of one regional component and sixteen national components (15 ECOWAS Member States and Mauritania). Pour plus d'informations, please visit www.intracen.org/wacomp/

La source: http://www.intracen.org/news/ITC-moves-to-consolidate-trade-information-in-West-Africa/

Dans un message à la cérémonie de clôture du Premier défi OCI Robotics, the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OCI), Dr. Yousef Al-Othaimeen, underscored the importance of analytical and critical thinking and problem-solving skills as key drivers of socio-economic growth and development in the Muslim countries. Al-Othaimeen congratulated the participants of the First OIC Robotics Challenge and encouraged them to continue their pursuits for the path of science and innovation for a better and more sustainable future.

The First OIC Robotics Challenge was organized from 27-31 octobre 2019 in Tashkent, Republic of Uzbekistan in partnership with the Uzbek Ministry of Innovative Development and the OIC Ministerial Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH).

The three-day competition was open to youth from the OIC Member States to emphasize the critical role of the young generation in our future. The participants displayed their robots in the Robo-Sumo as well as Robo-Football contests. Prizes were awarded to the top three teams of each category.

The competition was organized as part of the implementation of ‘OIC STI Agenda 2026’ adopted by the First OIC Summit on Science and Technology held in Astana in September 2017.

La source: https://www.oic-oci.org/topic/?t_id=22852&t_ref=13804&lan=en