A drive to ensure universal health care provision by 2014 in the world’s fourth-most populous country necessarily entails large-scale investments, and is opening up opportunities for the private...
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Economic Update | Indonesia: Health care mega-spending
29 Nov 2012
Economic Update | Malaysia: Industrial production up
27 Nov 2012
Growth in Malaysia’s industrial production has so far been above expectations, suggesting that the manufacturing sector is supported by domestic expansion and reorientation toward the region even...
Economic Update | Mongolia: Filling energy deficit
23 Nov 2012
Plans for a large power plant near Ulaanbaatar underline how Mongolia’s surging growth in resource revenues can be used to meet looming energy shortfalls in urban areas. However, more innovative...
Economic Update | Sabah: Continuing connectivity cutting costs
22 Nov 2012
Plans to upgrade Sabah's external and internal transport links are seeing progress as the state welcomes steadily increasing investment thanks to its development corridor initiative. Nevertheless,...
Economic Update | Thailand: Cut-price 3G auction
22 Nov 2012
The sale of nine 3G licences in an auction in mid-October raised Bt41.6bn ($1.35bn) for Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), heralding the long-awaited...
Economic Update | India: Trusting in $41 tablet
21 Nov 2012
Over the past decade of economic growth, India has worked hard to position itself as a pioneer of low-cost manufacturing. Where once the whole world marvelled at the Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest...
