Focused on fast growing consumer driven sector clusters of food, retail, tourism, health and others, as well as government spending-driven infrastructure and construction, the Report looks at investment opportunities across the full geographic spectrum of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) growth markets and their global value chain.
The OIC represents a GDP in 2013 of US$6.7 trillion and is projected to grow from 2015 to 2019 at a higher rate (5.4%) than rest of the world (3.6%) or of the BRIC nations (3.9%.).
Malaysia, Indonesia, and UAE lead the inaugural 2015 Islamic Growth Markets Investment Index which ranks countries' investment potential relatively within the OIC member country grouping. GCC economies led by UAE are also on the top ten list including Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Other markets on the top 10 include Kazakhstan, and Turkey.
The Index is based on a set of nine metrics covering the categories of a country’s growth fundamentals, growth momentum, investment momentum and relative country risk. Indonesia shows the strongest growth fundamentals among the top three as it has the largest population (249 million, 2013) and GDP (US$870 billion, current US$, 2013), while Malaysia has the strongest growth and investment momentum (217% foreign direct investment inflows growth from 2009 to 2013).
DinarStandard’s OIC Industry Clusters Model has prioritized 10 sector clusters within OIC countries that provide best opportunities for sector based investment strategy. The top OIC sector clusters identified are: energy, food & agriculture, electronics, travel & transportation, metals, chemical & allied, plastics/rubber, textiles & related, infrastructure & construction, and health products & services.
Across each of the prioritised sector groupings, areas of competencies from different OIC markets across the value chain present unique investment/growth opportunities.
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