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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.
The value added of Thailand’s transportation and communications sector stood at THB 1,030.7bn in 2016, growing 5.5% y/y from 2015. The sector recorded 44,672 transportation and storage enterprises that employed some 1.2 million people, or ...
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The coal mining sector accounts for just over 1% of Poland’s GDP, but it remains important for the labour market as it employs over 80,000 people. Admittedly, this number is far below that of nearly 160,000 when Poland joined the European Union ...
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The chemical industry as defined for the purpose of this report consists of the chemicals, rubber and plastics sectors. It is one of the vital parts of the Polish economy, as shown by these segments' combined sold production-to-GDP ratio at 7.4% in ...
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As a result of the policies introduced in 2016, China’s real estate sector has bottomed out, reviving its growth and continuing to offer opportunities to the investors – mainly, as before, in the first-tier cities of Shanghai, Shenzhen, ...
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Construction is the sixth-largest economic sector in India, accounting for 7.7% of the country’s GDP in FY2016. With a workforce of about 35mn people, it is also the second-biggest employer, preceded only by agriculture. Construction was the ...
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In 2016, the Polish telecommunications sector was responsible for around 2.1% of the country's GDP, while the entire ICT sector accounted for 5% of GDP and employed around 203,200 people. The Polish telecom market is a mature one, with high ...
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The rapid growth of the demand for financial services in recent years seems to have slowed down in FY2017, despite the government’s efforts to stimulate the sector - during FY2006-FY2017, deposits grew at a CAGR of 12.03% compared to 8.5% for ...
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China is the world's largest producer and consumer of fertilisers. The country consumes more than a third of the world’s fertilisers, which is equivalent to the combined ...
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Peru is the sixth largest economy in South America in terms of nominal GDP, as well as an emergingconsumer market with a population of over 31.5mn people as of December 2016. During 2011–2016, thetrade sector performed well with gross value ...
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The ICT sector accounted for more than 5% of the Hungarian GDP in 2016, compared with 5.3% in 2008. Sales resulting from the provision of Internet access (including mobile Internet) amounted to HUF 195bn in 2016, up 5.5% y/y as well. Sales revenues ...
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