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At the base of the Arabian Peninsula, occupying a landmass slightly larger than Italy, Oman is the largest country in the GCC after Saudi Arabia. In recent years, the non-OPEC oil exporter’s economy has been undergoing a steady transformation, reorienting from oil toward a more diverse set of service and industry-based economic activities. So far, progress has been promising. In 2011 oil and gas accounted for 38.8% GDP.

Chapter | Real Estate from The Report: Oman 2013

While Oman’s property market remained relatively slow in 2011, the sector is showing signs of steady growth. In fact, property prices are now reported to be roughly three times what they were before the global slowdown. Overall, real estate contributed almost 4% to GDP in the first quarter of 2012. The sector does face challenges, most notably the shortage of affordable homes. Indeed, about 400,...

Malaysia is a multi-ethnic society of 29m split between the Malay Peninsula and the island of Borneo. With a per-capita GDP that has hovered around $10,000 for the past decade, the country is struggling to escape a “middle-income trap” 

With one of the world’s most commanding positions in the global energy industry and a growing role in regional diplomacy, Qatar has seen many returns on the political and economic investments it has made in the past two decades.

Chapter | Construction & Real Estate from The Report: Algeria 2012

With an extensive array of public works projects stretching across sectors as varied as transport, tourism, construction materials and culture, opportunities are numerous for further exploitation in Algeria’s construction sector. Roads are a priority, and special efforts have been made to develop urban rail systems as an additional measure to help ease congestion. Projecting an estimated value of...

Oil and gas production continues to dominate the Algerian economy, accounting for almost all of exports, close to half of government revenue and over a third of GDP. In recent years non-hydrocarbons GDP has outstripped wider economic growth, though this is largely driven by public spending rather than private sector activity.

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