Fair calculation method for new membership fees of IIW

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to review the current approach used by international institute of welding (IIW) to allocation membership fee and provide recommendation for improvement. As such the paper investigated the different approaches used by IIW; namely old and new method; to calculate fees for member countries. This included analysis of new membership fee calculating method that impacted developing countries. Finally, on top of the new model, we added additional concept and evaluated the advantage to less developed countries as well as developed small countries.