Category: OIC Trade
Islamic Development Bank (IDB) – a Financial Institution with Meaningful Impact
The experience of walking the halls of the impressive 21-story Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and its surrounding IDB Group buildings is unlike any in the world. Finance professionals hailing from seemingly every corner of the Muslim markets – from Malaysia, Indonesia to Kazakhstan and Turkey; from Pakistan, Bangladesh to Algeria, [...]
Business and Management Environment in Saudi Arabia – Book Review
Business and Management Environment in Saudi Arabia Author: Abbas J. Ali; Published by: Routledge, December 9, 2008, 264 pages Endowed with rich energy resources, huge sovereign wealth fund, and a high propensity for public and private investment and spending, Saudi Arabia holds more promises than risks for multinational corporations (MNCs). Indeed, the Arabian market presents [...]
Beximco Pharmaceuticals Leads Bangladeshi Pharmaceutical Exports
Across Kenya, Pakistan and Myanmar, the same story is repeated. Lives are saved, ailments cured by many of Beximco’s products. Beximco now extends its reach to some 31 countries and is planning to enter about another 30 by end of 2009. By global standards, the Bangladeshi pharmaceutical industry is small. Yet this same industry has [...]
Pakistan’s Defense Private Sector Emerges with Indigenous UAV Technology
Back in 1970, the American Army Gen. William Westmoreland is reported to have said: “On the battlefield of the future, enemy forces will be located, tracked and targeted almost instantaneously through the use of data links, computer-assisted intelligence and automated fire control. … I am confident the American people expect this country to take full [...]
Global Food Crisis: A Bowl of Opportunities for Muslim World
While developed countries are directing their attention to the turmoil in the financial sector – far less attention is being paid to the global food price crisis— a crisis that is having a more immediate and life threatening impact on the global masses. According to a recent report from Oxfam, a global non-governmental organizations working [...]
Pakistan Economy Remains Resilient Amid Crisis
Media coverage of Pakistan has been dominated by its political crisis and the now unfortunately regular spate of suicide attacks including the assassination of the prominent opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. It would then seemingly defy conventional wisdom that two leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms, ePlanet Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) – funds that [...]
Listed Companies of the Palestinian Securities Exchange (PSE)
The Palestine Securities Exchange which just completed its tenth year in existence has 35 companies listed with a total market capitalization of $2.1 billion (as of Aug 2007.) Palestinian Securities Exchange Company Mkt Cap (US $) Symbol Services Sector Palestine Telecommunication 692,958,716 PALTEL Palestine Real Estate Investment 72,247,706 PRICO Palestine Electric 63,000,000 PEC Arab Hotels [...]
Ease of Doing Business – 2007 World Bank Ranking
How easy was it to do business in the Muslim World in 2006? According to the World Bank’s Doing Business 2007 reports it was relatively easier to do business in many countries of the Muslim World than in China and India – two of the fastest growing economies in the world today. In 2006, only [...]
Algeria: An Attractive Forum For Foreign Investment
In the past, investors have viewed Algeria as an unstable and unsecure place to pursue ventures due to the country’s tumultuous history. Now that its turbulent past is behind it, Algeria has made great strides towards becoming a hospitable place for investors looking to establish a foothold in this strategic North African country. The initial [...]
Top Ten Opportunity Trends for the Corporate Sector of the Muslim World
Peter Drucker, the legendary management consultant who recently passed away, said this about innovation: “Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being [...]
