A comprehensive Islamic approach to human and socio- economic development derives its model of socio-economic development from the precept of integrating the inner development of self with the outer manifestation of this inner development in the world of socio-economic development. Thus, the learning experience gained by self-actualization and knowledge formation on Islamic precepts, find their expressions in implementation of the ways and means of attaining human and socio-economic development. The inner development as a self-actualization process is referred to here as Hablum Minallah; the externalizing experience of this inner development is referred to as Hablum Minannas. The total developmental approach is the interaction and integration of these two simultaneous directions.

In this chapter we will show that this world view is derived from the essence of knowledge formation that Islam treats as the Unifying Epistemology of its socio-scientific order. The same knowledge-centered world view can then be made amenable to conceptualization and application to specific areas. One such study we will undertake here is that of applying the generic interactive- integrative knowledge-centered model to the paradigm unifying the trade and developmental approaches to economic reasoning. Within this unifying model of total human welfare will be taken up the topic of amelioration of the grassroots. In this context, the interactive-integrative world view of unification will be shown to also underlie the necessary interlinkages between the rural and urban sectors, between trade and development, and among all these.

A generalized conceptualization of the knowledge-centered interactive-integrative model in Islamic framework with the grassroots focus in it is developed.

The underlying regenerative developmental process is explained by the chain of relationship:

goodness (Islah) charity (hasanah) growth and wellbeing (falah) enhancement (Yueid) continuity and recursion to higher levels = Hablum Minallah X Hablum Minannas.

This relationship establishes is in turn established on 
rationally incentive grounds as follows

The Malaysian Perspective of Growth and Development to Year 2000

Post-GATT Consequences of Malaysian Socio-Economic Revival

Methodological Approach to Grassroots Integration in the 
Knowledge-Centered Paradigm of Trade and Development

Introduction
Structural Adjustment Post-GATT

A General Islamic Approach to the Integrated Issue of Trade and Development

The Knowledge-Centered Model: A Non-Technical Introduction
Public Expenditure and Tax Structure in Knowledge-Centered Model
Mixed Economy and Dual Economy in Knowledge-Centered Model

Conclusion