With a population of almost 600 million, and with a total land area of 18.5 million square kilometres, the Near East is the most water-scarce region in the world. The region receives only 3.6% of the world's precipitation and has as little as 2.2% of its renewable water resources. Considering...

As a group, the OIC least developed and low-income countries (30 countries) acount for about 67 percent of the total population of the OIC member countries. In these countries, poverty has spread far and wide. Its impact has been on such a large scale that it has become a structural phenomenon...