do we know if it was a male or female goat?

you may also take a look at http://www.aawsat.net/2014/03/article55330472 The Arab region is only one part of the whole OIC and noteworthy that the UN reported back in 2002 that the total Arab GDP combined was less than Spain. According to the article, it looks like that's still the case (Euro buggering up Spain meanwhile notwithstanding!).

“How much is the Arab region worth?” points us to statistics from the World Bank which suggest that the Arab region’s combined GDP is 2.5 trillion US dollars. This figure reflects the volume of economic activity of Arab societies, whose entire population is estimated at approximately 362 million. Half of this GDP comes from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, who boast some of the region’s strongest economies. In fact, some GCC countries enjoy some of the highest average per capita income levels in the world.

Based on these figures, the Arab world—whose collective GDP has jumped sharply in the past ten years—has outdone Southeast Asia, whose 11 countries have a collective GDP of approximately 2 trillion dollars. (At one point these countries were known as the “Asian tigers” due to the rapid economic growth they experienced.) The Arab world’s transformation is mainly due to the large increase in oil prices and oil export proceeds.

These figures reflect the Arab region’s huge economic power. Nevertheless, it is very much less than many industrial economies such as Spain whose GDP is over 1.3 trillion dollars and Germany whose GDP exceeds that of the entire Arab region by 1 trillion dollars.

another interesting read can be found at http://www.irfi.org/articles/articles_251_300/sta...

good luck

Please check out this OIC story on www.brecorder.com/pakistan/general-news/123780-oi...
and http://tribune.com.pk/story/563435/gdp-40pc-of-mu...

doubt hell's chance of catching UK media interest. essentially news from Islamabad "The 57 members of The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) with a population of 1.6 billion had 70 percent of world energy resources; 40 percent of natural resources, but the collective GDP of these countries ($4.7 t) was less than that of Japan ($4.8 t).
While the contribution of OIC was only 8 percent towards world GDP, 40 percent of the population were living below poverty level.
This was stated by Chairman Higher Education Commission (HEC), Dr. Javaid R. Laghari while interacting with Education Attaches of OIC member states which was organized by Academics Division HEC here. Dr. Laghari informed that the Muslim World of 1.6 billion inhabitants has produced only two Nobel Laureates in Chemistry and we spend 0.81 percent GDP on Research and Development, about one third of world average."

Cheers, always read your blog, bloody good.

h/t Strebe?

spot on!