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The Banking & Insurance sector – often referred to as the lifeblood of the real economy – is of vital importance in the modern credit-driven economic growth model. Among its functions are intermediation between savers and borrowers, ensuring funds are allocated efficiently; support of payment and settlement systems that facilitate trade and international economic relations; and provision of various products that mitigate risk and uncertainty. The accelerating pace of technological change, stricter regulation and shifting consumer habits are reshaping the traditional banking model and pushing the sector towards innovation-led growth.
Activities associated with Banking & Insurance are depositary and non-depositary credit intermediation and related activities, investment banking, securities brokerage, commodity contracts dealing and diverse financial investment activities. The sector also includes insurers, re-insurers and insurance brokerages, pension funds, health and welfare funds, monetary authorities, stock exchanges, and collection and credit agencies.
China is the largest cement producer in the world, accounting for 58.5% of global output in 2017. The cement sector in China is characterised by overcapacity, a large number of enterprises and fierce competition. The sector is undergoing a process of ...
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In 2012-2017 Chile’s total health expenditure rose at a CAGR of 11.6%, driven by a solid increase of government spending on healthcare. In 2017, Chile allocated 8.1% of its GDP on healthcare, a figure that is bound to grow in the short term. ...
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Poland is the sixth-largest market in Europe (understood as EU28 plus Norway and Switzerland) for pharmaceuticals as well as for cosmetics, with respective market sales of around PLN 38.3bn in 2017 and of at least PLN 16bn in 2016 (some estimates, ...
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Argentina is one of the world's largest producers and exporters of cereals and oilseeds and it is also among the ten biggest beef and poultry meat producers on a global scale. The agriculture sector has a key socio-economic role for Argentina, ...
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Expenditure on healthcare in Romania reached RON 35.2bn in 2015, according to data provided by Eurostat. Total expenditure on healthcare was equal to 4.94% of GDP in that year. The Romanian healthcare sector was characterised by the lowest per capita ...
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Malaysia has a growing domestic F&B market, driven by a growing population and rising income. The market research company BMI Research estimated the Malaysian F&B market in 2017 – including food sales, alcoholic drinks spending and ...
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Despite having abundant metal resources, Indonesia’s metal processing sector is underdeveloped. The country has mainly exported lower value-added minerals and imported higher value-added metal products. The basic metals sector generates just 0 ...
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The consumer goods and retail sector is an important part of the Russian economy and a significant driver of the country’s GDP growth. The sector generated 13% of the GDP in 2017 and employed more than 13.5mn people, or almost a fifth of the ...
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Brazil ranks among the world’s ten largest ICT markets in terms of number of subscribers of fixed-line telephony, mobile telephony and fixed broadband. The economic recession over the 2015-2016 period had a severe negative impact on the ICT ...
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Total expenditure on healthcare in Hungary in 2015 reached HUF 2,460bn, up by 6.3% y/y. Government and compulsory health care financing schemes made up 67% of the expenditure, followed by private out-of-pocket spending (29%). Voluntary healthcare ...
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