At the IAB meeting in Shenzhen in 2017, the council discussed ways to increase membership and in particular, strategies to enhance membership from countries with lower incomes. Countries of residence that would qualify members for a reduced rate is here drawn from the list of low or medium low income countries established by the World Bank (updated in 2017). The proposal would be to offer an annual membership rate of $8.00 USD (50% of the standard dues) to IAB members from the following countries.
The proposal is to apply this two-tiered membership rate starting January 2018.
| Afghanistan
Angola Armenia Bangladesh Benin Bhutan Bolivia Burkina Faso Burundi Cabo Verde Cambodia Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo, Dem. Rep. Congo, Rep. Côte d’Ivoire Djibouti Egypt, Arab Rep. El Salvador Eritrea Ethiopia Gambia, The Georgia Ghana Guatemala Guinea |
Guinea-Bissau
Haiti Honduras India Indonesia Jordan Kenya Kiribati Korea, Dem. People’s Rep. Kosovo Kyrgyz Republic Lao PDR Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Micronesia, Fed. Sts. Moldova Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Nepal Nicaragua Niger Nigeria |
Pakistan
Papua New Guinea Philippines Rwanda São Tomé and Principe Senegal Sierra Leone Solomon Islands Somalia South Sudan Sri Lanka Sudan Swaziland Syrian Arab Republic Tajikistan Tanzania Timor-Leste Togo Tunisia Uganda Ukraine Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vietnam West Bank and Gaza Yemen, Rep. Zambia Zimbabwe |