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A flurry of initial public offerings (IPOs) planned for December and early 2013 highlight how firms in Indonesia are trying to harness bullish domestic and global confidence to fund plans for expansion.

Si la Tunisie a encore du chemin à parcourir avant de remettre son économie totalement sur pied, son secteur immobilier profite actuellement d’un regain d’intérêt de la part des investisseurs. Les chiffres le montrent : les investissements directs étrangers (IDE) sur les dix premiers mois de l’année 2012 ont presque retrouvé leur niveau d’avant la révolution.

The recently released Islamic Banking Regulatory Framework (IBRF), a 500-page document setting out the regulations that will govern Oman’s financial sector, is set to open the door for both conventional and Islamic banks to market sharia-compliant products. In a statement accompanying the regulations, the Central Bank of Oman described the IBRF as “a detailed and comprehensive document covering all aspects of Islamic banking”.

Un reciente aumento en el pronóstico del crecimiento del PBI del Perú para el año 2012 reafirma la evolución económica de más de una década que ha tenido este país. A pesar de que las exportaciones de commodities disminuyeron durante el año, el aumento de las exportaciones no tradicionales y la creciente demanda doméstica sirvieron como mecanismos de crecimiento. Sin embargo, los retos claves para la expansión económica a futuro son la apreciación del sol y la continua debilitación de la exportación de materias primas.

While overall growth in Brunei Darussalam’s economy slowed in 2012, expansion in the non-oil and gas sector suggested that some of the Sultanate’s diversification efforts are gaining traction and should pave the way for government plans to target value-added production.

A bid by Qatar’s government to consolidate several years of economic expansion, while channelling a budgetary surplus towards large-scale capital works projects, helped the country achieve its aim of more moderate growth for 2012.