Improving Transnational Transport Corridors
In the OIC Member Countries: Concepts and Cases
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transport routes are merely constructed roads or rails that passes through different countries.
presents transport routes and transport corridors in the OIC regions. It is worth
mentioning that transport corridors do not exist in the Arab region.
4.2.1. Political and Institutional Factors
For a transport corridor, the minimum institutional structure necessary is the corridor
authority or secretariat. For some corridors, higher order organizations already exist such as
SADC of COMESA in Africa. For Islamic countries, there are also such higher-level entities such
as the OIC, Arab League and GCC. The consultants suggest that it will help tremendously if such
multilateral entities brokered an agreement that stated.
where possible its members must cooperate through trade to foster economic and social
development and, where it is in the national and regional interest, promulgate relations through
the establishment of trade and transport corridors …
If it went on to say…
International and cross boarder investment will be positively influenced by the establishment of
institutional structures judged to be conducive to fostering the development of international
transport and related services
Moreover, the institutional and governance quality of the national governments also plays an
important role for the success of a transport corridor. For OIC countries, this aspect is
relatively weak, as shown b
Figure 24: Institutional and Governance Quality
Source: OIC-SESRIC (2016), SESRIC staff calculations based on World Governance Indicators of the World Bank.