Capacity building in infrastructure for socio-economic growth and development: Malaysia and International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) as an ideal initiator and host of the 1st dedicated and construction focused training institution for the Muslim world?

The paper initially discusses the concept of the Muslim World and highlights on the predicaments facing them in relation to socio-economic growth and development. The second part of the paper reviews the significance of construction to an economy focusing on the economies of the countries of the Mus...

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Main Authors:	Abdul Rashid, Khairuddin, Hasan, Sharina Farihah, Mohit, Mohammad Abdul, Aripin, Srazali
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2013
Subjects:	HT51 Human settlements. Communities
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/32671/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/32671/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/32671/1/Khairuddin_Capacity.pdf

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spelling	iium-326712013-11-13T06:36:52Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/32671/ Capacity building in infrastructure for socio-economic growth and development: Malaysia and International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) as an ideal initiator and host of the 1st dedicated and construction focused training institution for the Muslim world? Abdul Rashid, Khairuddin Hasan, Sharina Farihah Mohit, Mohammad Abdul Aripin, Srazali HT51 Human settlements. Communities The paper initially discusses the concept of the Muslim World and highlights on the predicaments facing them in relation to socio-economic growth and development. The second part of the paper reviews the significance of construction to an economy focusing on the economies of the countries of the Muslim World. The outcome of the review suggests the construction sector in most of the countries have been performing below par so much so that they are acting as among the constraints in effort towards promoting and sustaining the countries’ socio-economic growth and development. The third part of the paper reviews the state of construction related training and education in the countries of the Muslim World focusing on training at tertiary levels. The outcome of the review suggests that credible and sufficient training programs and institutions to develop indigenous construction related skills and expertise are lacking and in some countries almost non-existence. Construction is significant to a country’s economy, irrespective of the country’s levels of socio-economic growth and development. It has been established that construction is more important to a developing country than to a developed country, notably due to the fact that construction provides the basic infrastructure that the developing country urgently requires in order to promote and sustain socio-economic growth and development. Acknowledging the connection between construction and socio-economic growth and development and the lack of capacity in the indigenous construction related skills and expertise, the fourth and final part of the paper proposes and discusses several strategies, the key strategy being the establishment of credible tertiary educational institutions dedicated to the studies of construction and construction related programs for the countries of the Muslim World. The paper concludes with a key recommendation and justifications on why Malaysia – in particular International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) – is considered the most ideal candidate to kick-start the initiative to set up the Muslim World’s first dedicated and construction focused tertiary institution. 2013 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/32671/1/Khairuddin_Capacity.pdf Abdul Rashid, Khairuddin and Hasan, Sharina Farihah and Mohit, Mohammad Abdul and Aripin, Srazali (2013) Capacity building in infrastructure for socio-economic growth and development: Malaysia and International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) as an ideal initiator and host of the 1st dedicated and construction focused training institution for the Muslim world? In: 1st World Congress on Integration & Islamicisation of Acquired Human Knowledge (FWCII 2013), 23-25 August 2013, Kuala Lumpur. (Unpublished) http://www.iium.edu.my/fwc2013
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spellingShingle	HT51 Human settlements. Communities Abdul Rashid, Khairuddin Hasan, Sharina Farihah Mohit, Mohammad Abdul Aripin, Srazali Capacity building in infrastructure for socio-economic growth and development: Malaysia and International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) as an ideal initiator and host of the 1st dedicated and construction focused training institution for the Muslim world?
description	The paper initially discusses the concept of the Muslim World and highlights on the predicaments facing them in relation to socio-economic growth and development. The second part of the paper reviews the significance of construction to an economy focusing on the economies of the countries of the Muslim World. The outcome of the review suggests the construction sector in most of the countries have been performing below par so much so that they are acting as among the constraints in effort towards promoting and sustaining the countries’ socio-economic growth and development. The third part of the paper reviews the state of construction related training and education in the countries of the Muslim World focusing on training at tertiary levels. The outcome of the review suggests that credible and sufficient training programs and institutions to develop indigenous construction related skills and expertise are lacking and in some countries almost non-existence. Construction is significant to a country’s economy, irrespective of the country’s levels of socio-economic growth and development. It has been established that construction is more important to a developing country than to a developed country, notably due to the fact that construction provides the basic infrastructure that the developing country urgently requires in order to promote and sustain socio-economic growth and development. Acknowledging the connection between construction and socio-economic growth and development and the lack of capacity in the indigenous construction related skills and expertise, the fourth and final part of the paper proposes and discusses several strategies, the key strategy being the establishment of credible tertiary educational institutions dedicated to the studies of construction and construction related programs for the countries of the Muslim World. The paper concludes with a key recommendation and justifications on why Malaysia – in particular International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) – is considered the most ideal candidate to kick-start the initiative to set up the Muslim World’s first dedicated and construction focused tertiary institution.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Abdul Rashid, Khairuddin Hasan, Sharina Farihah Mohit, Mohammad Abdul Aripin, Srazali
author_facet	Abdul Rashid, Khairuddin Hasan, Sharina Farihah Mohit, Mohammad Abdul Aripin, Srazali
author_sort	Abdul Rashid, Khairuddin
title	Capacity building in infrastructure for socio-economic growth and development: Malaysia and International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) as an ideal initiator and host of the 1st dedicated and construction focused training institution for the Muslim world?
title_short	Capacity building in infrastructure for socio-economic growth and development: Malaysia and International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) as an ideal initiator and host of the 1st dedicated and construction focused training institution for the Muslim world?
title_full	Capacity building in infrastructure for socio-economic growth and development: Malaysia and International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) as an ideal initiator and host of the 1st dedicated and construction focused training institution for the Muslim world?
title_fullStr	Capacity building in infrastructure for socio-economic growth and development: Malaysia and International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) as an ideal initiator and host of the 1st dedicated and construction focused training institution for the Muslim world?
title_full_unstemmed	Capacity building in infrastructure for socio-economic growth and development: Malaysia and International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) as an ideal initiator and host of the 1st dedicated and construction focused training institution for the Muslim world?
title_sort	capacity building in infrastructure for socio-economic growth and development: malaysia and international islamic university malaysia (iium) as an ideal initiator and host of the 1st dedicated and construction focused training institution for the muslim world?
publishDate	2013
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/32671/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/32671/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/32671/1/Khairuddin_Capacity.pdf
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Capacity building in infrastructure for socio-economic growth and development: Malaysia and International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) as an ideal initiator and host of the 1st dedicated and construction focused training institution for the Muslim world?

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