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The Banking & Insurance sector – often referred to as the lifeblood of the real economy – is of vital importance in the modern credit-driven economic growth model. Among its functions are intermediation between savers and borrowers, ensuring funds are allocated efficiently; support of payment and settlement systems that facilitate trade and international economic relations; and provision of various products that mitigate risk and uncertainty. The accelerating pace of technological change, stricter regulation and shifting consumer habits are reshaping the traditional banking model and pushing the sector towards innovation-led growth.
Activities associated with Banking & Insurance are depositary and non-depositary credit intermediation and related activities, investment banking, securities brokerage, commodity contracts dealing and diverse financial investment activities. The sector also includes insurers, re-insurers and insurance brokerages, pension funds, health and welfare funds, monetary authorities, stock exchanges, and collection and credit agencies.
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Agriculture and its allied sectors combine for the largest sector in India in terms of employment – engaging approximately 40% of the country’s total workforce. Aside from its significance in employing many workers and providing ...
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Following a challenging first half of 2020, China’s economic growth improved in the second half of the year with GDP rising by 6.5% y/y in the last quarter of 2020. Attributed to an improved control of the COVID-19 pandemic, rising ...
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Mexico is the second-largest pharmaceutical market in Latin America, after Brazil, with retail drug sales of USD 7.3bn in 2019. The country has a growing and ageing population, multiple but underfunded state-run health insurance systems, ...
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The steel sector is the backbone of India’s economic development as steel is an essential input in other sectors. India’s steel industry has been undergoing modernisation for decades. The rapid rise in steel production ...
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India is one of the world’s most significant producers and exporters of chemicals. However, the chemicals sector still has considerable room for growth. The chemicals consumption per capita in India remains low compared with most. ...
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India’s mining and quarrying sector accounted for roughly 2.14% of India's nominal GVA in FY2020, a decline from 2.27% reported in FY2019. This sector accounted for 9.5% of total exports and 36.1% of total imports as of FY2019 ...
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Colombia’s tourism sector plays an increasingly important role in the national economy, being now among the main sources of foreign revenue for the country, behind mineral and agricultural commodities exports. It also offers ...
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Brazil ranked fifth among the main global renewable energy producers in 2019, following China, the United States, Canada and Germany. Among the more traditional energy sources, Brazil is second only to China in hydropower and biomass ...
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Thailand is the largest producer of four-wheel vehicles in the ASEAN region and the 11th largest vehicle producer in the world. Additionally, the Thai four-wheel vehicle market is the second-largest in ASEAN and the 17th-largest market in ...
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