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As part of its efforts to strengthen the country’s economy, Malaysia’s government is in the process of overhauling its transport policies and backing up these reforms with large-scale investments.

Having easily weathered the turbulence of the international economic downturn, Brunei Darussalam’s Islamic financial service sector is looking forward to new opportunities as the tide of the global recession recedes.

Thailand is looking to overhaul the country's rail network, planning to combine state spending with private sector investments to revamp a system that in recent years has been overtaken by road transport as the economy's primary freight mover.

The Nigerian real estate market was characterised by a focus on high-end projects until the third quarter of 2008, when lending dried up and demand plummeted. The subsequent credit crisis hit the industry hard, but it also encouraged investors to enter the neglected affordable housing segment, with the private sector working alongside the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) to combat a nationwide housing deficit.

With the economy expected to post solid growth this year, combined with a series of reforms being enacted to further open up the sector, Malaysia's insurance industry is expected to perform well in 2010.

Thanks to a combination of steady management and timely state assistance, Qatar's Islamic finance sector has seen off the worst of the global economic crisis and is now well positioned to take full advantage of the predicted surge in growth this year.