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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 food and beverage sector of the Philippines accounted for 10% of GDP and for 50.1% of the nominal value added of manufacturing in 2015. Although the country is a large producer of coconut products and tropical fruits, the foreign trade gap in ...
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The oil and gas sector, one of the most important economic sectors in Malaysia, accounted for 11.3% of the country’s GDP in 2015. In that year, the state oil company, Petronas, contributed a total of MYR 26bn in dividends to the Malaysian ...
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In 2015, the GVA of real estate activities came to PLN 84.106bn, up 5.1% y/y. The sector represented 4.7% of GDP in that year. Real estate and the closely related construction sector together generated over 12% of GDP. Just over 200,000 people were ...
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The food and beverage sector is one of the leading sectors in the manufacturing industry in Russia, generating a GVA of RUB 1.487tn in 2015. It accounted for 14.5% of the GVA in manufacturing, which amounted to RUB 10.2tn in 2015. The sector ...
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The Romanian financial sector has a sizable potential to catch up to regional and EU development levels. The domestic credit-to-GDP ratio amounted to 29.9% in 2015, one of the smallest numbers in Europe. The financial sector generated 3.4% of the ...
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Over 2002-2013, the production and sales of motor vehicles in Brazil expanded at robust CAGRs of 7.8% and 8.9%, respectively. The rapidly growing domestic market attracted a strong wave of investment – during the period, a total of USD 24.6bn ...
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The coal mining sector stands for just over 3% of Poland’s GDP, but it remains important for the labour market as it employs nearly 100,000 people. Since the government is looking to help out the ailing and mostly state-owned coal companies ...
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The construction sector plays a key role in Thailand’s growing economic development, providing 2.8% of the country’s GDP and employing around 2.28 million people in 2015. In spite of the political instability of 2013 that led up to the ...
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Argentina’s insurance sector expanded at a CAGR of 6.1% in real terms between the fiscal years 2011 and 2016 as measured by insurance premium income, outperforming the real GDP growth during the same period (CAGR of 0.9%). The strong ...
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Colombia’s oil and gas sector was among the main drivers of domestic economy over the period 2010-2014, with its value added expanding at a CAGR of 6.8%, well above the country’s average annual GDP growth of 5% over the same period. ...
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