Second smallest market in the Middle East and Africa (MENA) region. Smallest market in the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC). Fifth highest medical device per capita expenditure in the MENA region. Market will record a moderate CAGR. Other medical devices and consumables have the largest market shares. Market heavily reliant on medical device imports, particularly from the EU-28 and the US. Positive demographics, rising health expenditure and healthcare infrastructure developments will drive market growth.

ABARES has undertaken regular surveys of key Commonwealth fisheries since the early 1990s. The resulting data are used to assess the financial performance of operators in the fishery and the economic performance of the fishery as a whole. These performance measures act as important indicators for fishery managers (Box 1). To provide a more comprehensive assessment of fishery-level performance, ABARES expanded the former Australian Fisheries Surveys report series in 2013 to include other economic indicators that draw on data collected from the surveys. These indicators include productivity and terms of trade indexes, management costs and quota latency measures. In this report, survey-based results are presented for 2013–14 and 2014–15 and preliminary non–survey based results are presented for 2015–16 and 2016–17.

A relatively well developed public healthcare infrastructure exists.The need to upgrade and renovate hospital and clinic equipment represents opportunities. Sizeable medical device market. Diagnostic imaging has the largest market share, followed by other medical devices. Single-digit 2016-2021 CAGR in US dollar terms; the market dipped in the 2016. The market relies on imports, which represent nearly 90% of the total. Local producers can fulfil small orders not attractive to foreign producers.

The agricultural sector is responsible for one quarter of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and will play a central role as the world transitions to a low-carbon future. The livestock sector - and cattle ranching in particular - will be at the forefront of the policy debate, given its outsized contribution to emissions, but the transition will also impact the rest of the sector as governments move to regulate land and fertiliser use and incentivise the production of crop-based biofuels (see 'Environmental Regulation To Tackle Livestock & Fertilisers, Incentivise Biofuels', October 12 2017).

We have estimated aortic valve replacement market by segmenting it into four levels: Surgery type, end use, product type, and region. Based on surgery type, the market has been segmented into open surgery and minimally invasive surgery. By end use, the market is segmented into hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and others. Based on product type the market is categorized as transcatheter aortic valves, sutureless aortic valves and others. Geographically, the market is segmented into five regions: North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and MEA.

State entity Albpetrol used to dominate the Albanian oil and gas sector, though the gradual liberalisation of the oil and gas market has seen its position largely reduced to a regulator. Albpetrol still controls oil deposits but has production agreements with foreign companies: Bankers Petroleum (now Geo-Jade Petroleum), GBC Oil, Sherwood International, Transoil Pennine Petroleum and Phoenix Petroleum. It also has a joint venture with Shell.

Increasing demand for food owing to burgeoning global population has put immense pressure on agricultural productivity. Limited availability of land coupled with the occurrence of natural disasters in the recent past has reduced the overall agricultural production. Agro textiles help improve the crop quality and increase the overall agricultural productivity. The demand for agro textiles such as mulch mats, insect nets, and shade nets depends on the awareness regarding these products and their acceptance by the farming community. The demand also depends on the technical and performance properties of these products. Agro textiles possess high potential to retain water, offer protection and resistance to microorganisms, and are lightweight and biodegradable.

Russia’s healthcare and pharmaceutical sector was badly affected by the 2015-2016 recession, which resulted in a sharp drop in government spending, while the weak rouble and high inflation cut into households’ disposable incomes. Though healthcare spending continued to increase in local currency terms, it slumped to less than two-thirds of its 2014 level in terms of US dollars. Pharmaceutical (pharma) sales declined for the third straight year in 2016. However, the government’s protectionist policy helped boost domestic production of pharmaceuticals, with output growing at double-digit rates in both 2015 and 2016.

Data includes non-power-driven hand tools. The overall market is split into the following product groups: Other non-power-driven hand tools: can and cork openers, nut-crackers, other non-power-driven household tools, grease guns, watch making tools, goldsmith tools, metal working hand tools not included in other product groups, hand and pedal-operated grinding wheels, anvils, portable forges, scythes, sickles, other non-power-driven hand tools

Data includes non-power-driven hand tools. The overall market is split into the following product groups: Other non-power-driven hand tools: can and cork openers, nut-crackers, other non-power-driven household tools, grease guns, watch making tools, goldsmith tools, metal working hand tools not included in other product groups, hand and pedal-operated grinding wheels, anvils, portable forges, scythes, sickles, other non-power-driven hand tools