30 September – 01 October 2013, Ankara, Republic of Turkey

The 28th Session of the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (COMCEC), which was held in Istanbul in October 2012, decided on “Increasing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Flows to OIC Member Countries” as the theme for the Exchange of Views at its 29th Session, which will be held in November 2013, and requested our Centre (SESRIC), in collaboration with the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) and COMCEC Coordination Office (CCO), to organize a workshop on this theme and submit its report to the next COMCEC session. In accordance with this decision, SESRIC together with IDB, CCO and the Republic of Turkey Prime Ministry Investment Support and Promotion Agency (ISPAT) will organize a workshop on this topic at SESRIC Headquarters in Ankara, Turkey, on 30 September – 01 October 2013.

Documents

Opening Statement of H.E. Prof. Savaş Alpay, Director General of SESRIC at the Workshop on Increasing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Flows to OIC Member Countries (English)

Report and Recommendations (English) (Arabic) (French)

About the Workshop (English) (Arabic) (French)

Tentative Programme (English) (Arabic) (French)

Organization and logistics Information (English)

Registration Form (English)

Session I

• Current Stance of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in OIC Countries, Dr. Umut Unal, SESRIC (English)
• FDI in OIC Member States: Current Status and prospects, Mr. Mamoudou Bocar Sall, ICDT (English)
• Preliminary approach to intra-OIC FDI, UNCTAD (English)
• Trends in Global and Regional FDI Flows and Requirements for attracting greater FDI to OIC Countries, Prof. Hakan Yetkiner, Izmir University of Economics (English)

Session II

• Do Institutions Matter for FDI? Evidence from Central and Eastern European Countries Cem Tintin, SESRIC (English)
• How To Attract FDI?, Selin Sayek Böke, Department of Economics, Bilkent University (English)
• Carlos Bronzatto, WAIPA (English)
• The Investment Climate Reform Program in Turkey, Murat Alıcı, Ministry of Economy (English)

Session III

• Investment Promotion and Facilitation in Practice: The Case of ISPAT, Ahmet İhsan Erdem, ISPAT (English)
• Indonesia Performance and Investment Opportunity, Indonesia Investment Coordinating Board (English)
• Saudi Arabia: A Story of Continuing, Saleh A. Alsaif, SAGIA (English)

Session IV

• The Public Authority for Investment Promotion & Exports Development (PAIPED), Faisal Ali Zaher Al-Hinai (English)
• Malaysia’s Experience in Attracting FDI, MIDA (English)

Session V

• COMCEC Strategy and Increasing FDI Flows to the COMCEC Region, COMCEC (English)
• FDI Flows to OIC Countries: Modalities to Increase it Benefitting from it, Dr. Mehdi Fakheri, IRIC (English)
• UNIDO Industrial Monitoring Platform (IMP), Suleyman Yılmaz, UNIDO (English)

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