The crowded insurance sector in Saudi Arabia has come under pressure with low penetration rates and rising costs, highlighting the difficulties for smaller firms in the industry to maintain market share or grow their business.
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En Algérie, le secteur de l’assurance a réalisé un début d’année encourageant, enregistrant une forte croissance du volume des primes au premier trimestre 2014 et une progression encore plus importante en 2013, en raison notamment d’un rebond du segment de l’assurance vie suite à l’introduction d’importantes réformes et de projets du gouvernement portant sur l’introduction en bourse d’une partie d’une compagnie publique d’assurance.
Greater investment and an increased pace of new project launches should see Brunei Darussalam’s transport and logistics reinforced over the next few years, building on recent improvements to the Sultanate’s infrastructure.
Economic update | Kenya devolution still evolving
9 Jul 2014
Devolution in Kenya is still in its early stages, and there have been growing pains with complications relating to funding and concerns over governance, but a spate of new initiatives is looking to increase momentum at the county level on both industrial and social development indicators.
The recent move by the European Central Bank (ECB) to loosen monetary policy, which included cutting the deposit interest rate to a landmark -0.1%, looks set to provide a welcome boost to both Turkey’s money markets and its broader economy.
Four years after Nigeria passed the Nigerian Content executive act (NCA) in April 2010, new government figures seem to indicate that it has helped stimulate a jump in activity by domestic firms in the country’s hydrocarbons sector.