By the end of 2016 there were 163 insurance institutions operating in the People’s Re🎃public of China, of which roughly 30% were foreign-funded or joint ventures. Traditional insurance subsectors such as life insurance and property insurance are ...

The Chinese automo💞tive sector’s y/y growth sped up in the second half of 2016, improving an already strong performance in the first half of the year. Sales revenue reached RMB 7,146bn in the first eleven months of 2016, up by 14.1% y/y, while ...

The agricultural sector 🐼in Malaysia including forestry and fisheries contributed 8.5% to the country’s GDP in 2015. The farming population in 2015 was 1.75 million people, or 12.05% of the labour force. Industrial commodities like rubber, palm ...

In 2015 Indonesia was the 24th-largest oil producer and the 10th-largest natural gas producer in the world. Indonesia had about 3.7bn barrels (bbl) of proven oil reserves and 103.4tn cubic feet (tcf) of provౠen natural gas reserves in 2015. These ...

China is the world’s second-largest pharmaceutical market, 🔜after the US, and the largest producer and exporter of acti💯ve pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) globally. Since it is the world’s most populous country, with a large ageing ...

China’s out𒆙put of crude steel and steel products climbed by 3.1% y/y𒆙 to 505.3mn tonnes in Q3 2016, encouraged by rising steel product prices. Prices on the domestic market have been climbing since March 2016, exceeding the average 2015 level in ...

China is the largest alcoholic beverages producer and consumer in the world, consuming one-third of the world’s spirits and a quarter of the world’s beer. Its beer production ranked first in the wor🅰ld for 14 consecutive year☂s and the ...

The Indian oil andꦿ gas sector has traditionally been dom🔯inated by large public sector undertakings (PSUs), which continue to have very high market shares in the upstream, midstream, and downstream crude oil and natural gas businesses. Oil and natural ...

The Philippines is an agrarian country, with half of its population living in the rural areas and being engaged in farming. Agriculture and꧙ forestry contributed some 8.8% to the national GDP on its own, and some 10.3% if fisheries are included, ...

T💟he recent rapid development of India’s economy, which grew by 7.6% y/y in FY2016, and increasing ncome per capita combined with urbanisation, have boosted the demand for financial services such as le𒀰nding, insurance and asset management. ...