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• Malaysia's deepwater explorations are expected to accelerate as more investments are directed towards underexplored areas.
• International oil companies (IOCs) will continue to be crucial for Malaysia's deepwater success.
• Malaysia could experience a significant increase in exploration expenditures in 2024 as IOCs prepare

Key View: Over 2024, we expect an increase in the total tourist arrivals to Greece, with growth building on a full recovery to pre-Covid (2019) levels in 2023. Over the medium term (2024-2028), we forecast arrivals to continue expanding in line with increased arrivals from traditional and emerging major source markets for arrivals. Tourism

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• Following a predicted expansion of the Polish macroeconomy, we anticipate that both public and private healthcare sectors in Poland will experience robust growth.
• The utilisation of private healthcare services in Poland is expected to continue its upward trend, as an increasing number of individuals opt for a combination of public and

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• Governments across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region will continue to prioritise the enhancement of their pharmaceutical sectors as a critical component of state policy.
• Investment will be specifically devoted to improving market access and intellectual property (IP) barriers.
• Despite reforms, the region still lags behind developed markets

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• We expect that Pakistan’s wheat harvest in the 2024/25 (May-April) season, that began at the start of April and is due to be completed in mid-June, will amount to a record 28.8mn tonnes, in line with USDA estimates. In tandem with a projected domestic wheat consumption growth rate of 1.5% y-o-y in the same season, Pakistan’s wheat

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• The safety of medical devices will improve following the FDA’s 2024 Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) Safety Report. 
• Respiratory and cardiovascular devices will continue to be the most common Class I recalled products.
• Medical device recalls will have a limited impact to medical device manufacturers in the long term.

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• We have revised up our 2024 GDP forecast for the Spanish economy as private consumption is likely to perform somewhat better than we had anticipated in 2024 and our outlook on Spain’s industry has improved. We now expect the Spanish economy to expand by 2.2% in 2024 (previously 1.5%) after 2.5% growth in 2023.
• We remain of the view that

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• Access to cell therapies will improve across emerging markets following the approval and market launch of the first India-produced CAR-T cell therapy.
• Aging populations and low health expenditure will continue to drive demand for lower-cost cancer therapies.
• Growing demand for cancer care in India will put pressure on the government to grow

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• We have lowered our forecast for Saudi Arabia's 2024 GDP growth from 2.4% to 2.1% due to a sharper than expected slowdown in the non-oil economy, as seen in Q1 2024.
• Oil production will normalise in 2024, putting headline growth in positive territory in the second half of the year, after a significant contraction in 2023 due to OPEC+

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• We anticipate that Iceland's economy will expand by 1.5% in 2024, a slight decrease from our previous forecast of 2.0%, and by 3.1% in 2025 (previous forecast: 2.6%). 
• Whilst disinflation will support an expansion in real wages this year, the private consumption outlook will continue to be weighed down by tight monetary conditions for some