The Middle East

The pharmaceutical market has expanded its geographical reach in recent decades, and this trend appears to be here to stay. In a survey of major pharmaceutical firms conducted by global consulting firm PwC’s Strategy team, more than half of respondents anticipated that over 30% of their global sales would originate in emerging markets by 2018...

Although major health indicators have improved in recent decades, a growing and ageing population, an elevated incidence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and rising care costs have weighed on Bahrain’s health sector in recent years.

As the world’s nations and businesses become increasingly interconnected, so too does the flow of global migration. According to the OECD’s “International Migration Outlook 2018”, in 2017 some 258m people resided in a country other than the one they were born in and more than 5m foreign-born persons settled in OECD countries. The flow of...

Although priorities vary when it comes to economic development, the increasing need for skilled labour is both a cause of and a requirement for accelerated growth that spans markets and continents. This demand for technical specialists from Mexico to Indonesia is often most concentrated in the sectors that are vital to economic advancement,...

With relatively low enrolment and a limited presence of internationally recognised operators, Bahrain’s private K-12 education market offers considerable opportunity for expansion, thus a surge of new investment is anticipated over the coming years. Benefitting from high student outcomes and the potential to attract additional students from...

Bahrain’s education sector benefits from regionally strong and improving student outcomes, rising K-12 and private school enrolment, and an expansive, ongoing reform agenda aimed at improving the quality of teaching and infrastructure across all levels. Investment in the sector is set to soar over the medium term, bolstered by the high-...