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BMI View: With no domestic energy resources, Hong Kong faces the challenge of meeting growing oil and gas demand through imports alone. Having mainland China on its doorstep helps, as the outlook for Hong Kong is linked directly to that of its parent state.

The South Africa Real Estate report examines the Commercial Office, Retail and Industrial segments throughout the country in the context of an industry in the midst of a protraction construction lull following years of double digit growth.

BMI View: While the short-term gas production outlook is good, it will prove impossible over the longer term for Pakistan to maintain gas self-sufficiency. Domestic consumption continues to rise rapidly, boosted by the start-up of additional gas-fired power stations. As import volumes rise, LNG is set to become part of the energy mix. In the meantime, Pakistan will again attempt to privatise more of its various state-controlled energy companies and stimulate investment in domestic oil and gas production.

As the banking sector seeks to recover from the fallout of the subprime and Euro Zone sovereign debt crisis, restoring the trust and credibility of key stakeholders - real lessons in vision and a broad range of best practice can be gained from studying the new and established players in Non-Listed Banking Models.

After being severely hit by the crisis, home furnishing experienced positive growth in 2011, for the first time since 2008. Thus, current value sales of home furnishings totalled RON3.4 billion. Whereas in 2010, it witnessed an unprecedented -14% rate in current value sales, 2011 marked a modest recovery of 1% growth. During 2011, the main trend affecting the manufacturers and retailers was their change in strategy, in order to overcome the decline in sales they had experienced until then.

Consumers are now widely using websites such as arukereso.hu, which allow them to compare the prices of a product across different retailers, thus fuelling price competition amongst internet retailers to try and gain a competitive advantage.

BMI View: Israel's innovative pharmaceutical industry continues to emerge from its strong generic drugs heritage. While most multinationals do not have a direct discovery or manufacturing presence, we expect an increasing number to look to enter through tie-ups and acquisitions of innovative local start-up companies.

GlobalData's clinical trial report, "Other Metabolic Disorders Global Clinical Trials Review, H1, 2012" provides data on the Other Metabolic Disorders clinical trial scenario. This report provides elemental information and data relating to the clinical trials on Other Metabolic Disorders. It includes an overview of the trial numbers and their recruitment status as per the site of trial conduction across the globe. The databook offers a preliminary coverage of disease clinical trials by their phase, trial status, prominence of the sponsors and also provides briefing pertaining to the number of trials for the key drugs for treating Other Metabolic Disorders. This report is built using data and information sourced from proprietary databases, primary and secondary research and in-house analysis by GlobalData's team of industry experts.

To any card business the need for providing acceptable customer service is obvious. Such a need is inherent in any organization hoping to be successful on a retail or consumer direct basis. Even manufacturing and supply organizations find that service is a substantial factor in their competitive positioning. In the card business, customer service is particularly important for many reasons, some of which are presented below:

The Polish construction industry registered a strong performance during the review period (2006-2010), with all markets recording strong growth. The country's membership of the European Union (EU) in May 2004 provided an increase to the overall economy and the construction industry in particular. Large scale infrastructural investments were made following the event, as Poland established reforms to comply with EU standards.