A regional leader in service delivery and speciality care, Jordan’s health sector benefits from a large skilled workforce; a high-quality,...
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Chapter | Health & Education from The Report: Jordan 2018
As ongoing volatility continues to hamper growth in the region, Jordan has made significant progress in preserving macroeconomic stability and reducing its fiscal deficit in the past few years. Efforts to the fulfill the stipulations of a $723m extended fund facility agreement with the IMF continue, and the government may need to pursue more widespread reforms to increase income tax revenues and limit tax avoidance so as to sustain recent momentum.
Rising demand is set to drive expansion of Sharjah’s health care sector in the coming years, increasing opportunities for domestic and foreign investment, with a number of new projects already in the development pipeline.
Although Bahrain has faced economic headwinds in recent years, the modest recovery of oil prices in 2017 bodes well for the future in addition to the non-oil sector driving growth, with activities unrelated to hydrocarbons extraction forecast to expand by 3.9% in 2018.
Articles & Analysis | Bahrain seeks to raise the efficiency and quality of health care from The Report: Bahrain 2018
With the pending introduction of a national health insurance scheme and an administrative transformation that promises to bind the kingdom’s hospital system more closely together to improve transparency, efficiency and patient care, the short-term prognosis for health care in Bahrain is positive. The government has devoted more of its national...
Articles & Analysis | Global demand for local and imported pharmaceutical products is rising from The Report: Bahrain 2018
In recent decades, pharmaceuticals production has expanded its geographical reach. This trend appears to be here to stay; in a 2015 survey of major pharmaceutical firms conducted by global consulting firm Strategy&, more than half of respondents anticipated that over 30% of their global sales would originate in emerging markets by 2018....