The paper highlights the nature of the dual challenges of globalisation and regionalism and spells out the basic economic characteristics of the OIC region (54 member countries, 31 of whom belong to high- and middle-income groups). It finally offers suggestions to enhance the region's capacity...

The paper attempts to review the emerging trends in global and regional integration and to consider their implications for the member countries of the OIC in the light of the latter's disappointing efforts to enhance regional co-operation and integration. There are many reasons for this failure....

The author gives a survey of the major regional economic groupings within the OIC, assesses their wanting achievements and studies the reasons for this state of affairs. He formulates policy options in order to move the OIC closer to an Islamic Common Market. This Market "should endeavour to...

What is the potential for bilateral trade between OIC member countries and their alternative trading partners? What is the impact of the Euro-Mediterranean Agreements on the trade prospects of the OIC countries? In order to answer these questions, the author reports the results of a study still...

The author discusses the notions of regionalism and globalism - which are by no means the two sides of the same coin - and the relations between them. He analyses economic regionalism among developing countries and explains why its performance is not impressive. Accordingly, he proposes policy...