The Emerging Europe region remains a thriving component manufacturing hub for the whole European region in our Q318 autos investment round-up, reflected in the fact that four out of the five investments in this quarter's investment round-up are aimed at constructing facilities to produce automotive components. BMW's plan to build a new car manufacturing facility in Hungary, which will be capable of producing electrified models of the German automaker's cars, highlights how the country's automotive industry is moving up the value chain.

The following section discusses in detail the different intelligent pumps used across industry verticals. Intelligent pumps have garnered much attention attributed to their features such as high energy savings, improved pump efficiency, and reduced costs, among others.

The following section discusses in detail the different intelligent pumps used across industry verticals. Intelligent pumps have garnered much attention attributed to their features such as high energy savings, improved pump efficiency, and reduced costs, among others.

The cloud market has particularly strong growth potential, underpinned by government initiatives and major investment by vendors in infrastructure and human capital. A new cybersecurity law will protect local cloud and hosting players from growing international competition. Growing international concerns about Chinese companies' ability to disrupt and stifle competition will limit the potential growth trajectories of players such as Huawei and Inspur.  Softening demand for tablet computers, mitigated by lengthening notebook replacement cycles and the power of smartphones as a computing alternative, weakens the outlook for devices and associated software and services.  Low-cost smartphones and phablet devices will continue to pose downside risks to household PC penetration in low-income areas where price sensitivity remains high. Improving levels of enterprise PC penetration by industrial sector and region in 2015 suggest that there were significant strides towards PC uptake made during the course of the 12th Five Year Plan (2011-2015). Strong government emphasis on technological development and innovative prowess will continue to keep IT services levels elevated over the short- and medium term.

The degree of competition in Ecuador’s oil and gas sector can be characterised as low, with just one company – the state-run Petroecuador and its subsidiaries – dominating the production of natural gas and oil derivatives and accounting for the bulk of crude oil output (78.4% in 2017). Nevertheless, the participation of private companies in the sector is set to increase, given the measures of the administration of president Moreno to attract private investment in the domestic oil and gas extraction industry – as evidenced by the launch of new bidding rounds, and the reinstatement of the production-sharing modality in oil and gas concessions.

Most of the advanced specialist care services are available only in the Metro Manila region or other large urban areas while healthcare services outside these areas is much more rudimentary. Private for-profit healthcare services providers generally supply the highest quality services in the Philippines, as their business model allows them to raise sufficient capital to purchase the most sophisticated medical devices and pay sufficient wages to attract the highest skilled medical professionals. The Philippines is highly import dependent in the medical devices and pharmaceuticals subsectors and local manufacturers are generally limited to producing lower value-added medical devices or cheaper generic drugs.

Power generation is a competitive economic activity in India, in the sense that it is populated by both central, State and private players, some of whom engage in electricity trading through power exchanges. Outside the open market, however, off-take prices charged by generating companies are often fixed under long-term PPAs, and consumer-end electricity prices are heavily regulated too. Transmission, in need of significant upgrades, is mostly State-owned. Generation and distribution in the wind and solar renewable segments are more competitive because generation costs are relatively fixed and decreasing, while feed-in tariffs are higher than those for conventional electricity. Although net metering has been adopted by several States, it is not universally successful, because of the widely varying electricity prices between States. In addition, large-scale renewable power feed-ins strain T&D capacity and thus is considered higher-risk by power distributors. All this makes the competitive landscape for the power sector in India different from State to State, but sharing the common denominator of significant levels of central and State scrutiny. Some of the challenges the sector faces include fickle fossil fuel supply, delays in the acquisition of land and right of way, inadequate infrastructure supporting power projects in remote areas, and environmental compliance.

The level of competition in Chile’s consumer goods and retail sector is relatively low, with a few large private companies, mainly of Chilean origin, holding dominant positions in the major channels. In 2017, 70.6% of the sector’s net revenues corresponded to eight private companies, of which three were multi-channel retailers operating department stores, supermarkets, home improvement centres and shopping centres. Moreover, there is a sustained concentration process in the department store channel, marked by increasing positions of the four biggest players in 2012-2017, whereas the concentration in the supermarket channel has exhibited a more volatile behaviour.

Highly centralised healthcare sector, controlled by the government. One of the smallest medical device markets in the Americas region. Other medical devices, diagnostic imaging and consumables have the highest market shares. Market heavily reliant on medical device imports, particularly from Europe, China and Japan. Lack of advanced medical device manufacturing capacity. Moderate medical device market growth over the forecast period. One of the smallest per capita medical device expenditures in the region.

Mobile wallet is a mobile phone-based service that allows users to control and store their online shopping information, such as passwords, logins, card details, and shipping address. It is also used for transferring money and financial services.We have segmented the mobile wallet market into two levels.