People in the world’s most populated continent are living longer, but not necessarily healthier, lives with overburdened, provider-led healthcare systems. As life expectancy across Asia-Pacific continues to rise, the region now carries a huge global burden of non-communicable diseases such as cancer and mental illnesses. As a result, governments in the Asia-Pacific region will need to consider policies and initiatives that prioritise improvements in care for people with a wide range of chronic conditions—but they must maintain vigilance against infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and hepatitis.
These are among the findings of a new study by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU): The shifting landscape of healthcare in Asia-Pacific: A look at Australia, China, India, Japan and South Korea, sponsored by Janssen. Through in-depth desk research and interviews with healthcare experts, the study examines the disease-burden challenges facing healthcare systems in these countries.
For more information, please visit: http://www.economistinsights.com/healthcare/analysis/shifting-landscape-healthcare-asia-pacific
This document provides an overview of investment opportunities in Africa outside of commodities sectors and the potential role of Gulf investors. It finds that Africa has shown resilience to global headwinds like falling commodity prices due to positive demographic trends, economic reforms, and regional integration efforts. East Africa is emerging as the most appealing region for non-commodity Gulf investment, particularly in sectors like retail, tourism, manufacturing, and education. Gulf investors can enter African markets through various means like co-investing with private equity funds or acquiring existing businesses. Key opportunities exist in developing shopping centers, investing in tourism, and improving logistics for fast-moving consumer goods.
Emerging-market companies focused on other emerging markets plan to continue this strategy despite increased interest in developed markets from an expected US economic recovery. A survey found these companies derive over half their revenues from other emerging markets and do not intend to change their tactics. They see future growth opportunities in Southeast and East Asia and are more likely than developed-market focused firms to expand supply chains in emerging markets while also expecting their production costs to decline more in the next three years.
The document summarizes a survey conducted by The Economist Intelligence Unit on the decentralization of IT across enterprises. Some key findings include:
1) Over 40% of IT executives say technology activities are becoming decentralized as business units develop their own IT solutions like devices, apps, and cloud networks.
2) This is driven by IT departments' limited bandwidth and staff shortages, as well as business units' need for domain expertise.
3) Decentralization is proliferating the number of technologies used across enterprises and fragmenting standards and purchasing power.
4) IT departments say decentralization is making their jobs more challenging, straining personnel, and reducing their ability to protect the company from cyberattacks
The ten Balkan countries examined in this report—Albania, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia—continue to make slow progress in modernising their health systems.
The perspectives of the banks.
In June of 2015, The Economist Intelligence Unit (sponsored by HP) conducted in-depth surveys of over 100 global bankers and Fintech executives on the future of retail banking. This is what we found.
The potential impact of climate-related change on the assets owned and managed by institutional
investors is significant. Asset managers can expect present-day losses of US$4.2trn to the US$143trn of current manageable assets as a result of climate change by 2100. Find out more>> http://bit.ly/1GJIL7Q
The Economist Intelligence Unit has launched a new index measuring urban safety and security. Get the full report on http://safecities.economist.com
The Safe Cities Index 2015, sponsored by NEC, ranks 50 cities worldwide across five continents.
The Index introduces a new definition of urban safety. Every city’s ranking is based on an average score across four categories: digital security, health security, infrastructure safety and personal safety.
The Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed consumers to ask what they want from companies and how they rate companies for customer service. And we asked company executives about their attitudes to customer service and how well they think they are doing in joining up all of the new technologies in use today.
This document provides an overview of investment opportunities in Africa outside of commodities sectors and the potential role of Gulf investors. It finds that Africa has shown resilience to global headwinds like falling commodity prices due to positive demographic trends, economic reforms, and regional integration efforts. East Africa is emerging as the most appealing region for non-commodity Gulf investment, particularly in sectors like retail, tourism, manufacturing, and education. Gulf investors can enter African markets through various means like co-investing with private equity funds or acquiring existing businesses. Key opportunities exist in developing shopping centers, investing in tourism, and improving logistics for fast-moving consumer goods.
Emerging-market companies focused on other emerging markets plan to continue this strategy despite increased interest in developed markets from an expected US economic recovery. A survey found these companies derive over half their revenues from other emerging markets and do not intend to change their tactics. They see future growth opportunities in Southeast and East Asia and are more likely than developed-market focused firms to expand supply chains in emerging markets while also expecting their production costs to decline more in the next three years.
The document summarizes a survey conducted by The Economist Intelligence Unit on the decentralization of IT across enterprises. Some key findings include:
1) Over 40% of IT executives say technology activities are becoming decentralized as business units develop their own IT solutions like devices, apps, and cloud networks.
2) This is driven by IT departments' limited bandwidth and staff shortages, as well as business units' need for domain expertise.
3) Decentralization is proliferating the number of technologies used across enterprises and fragmenting standards and purchasing power.
4) IT departments say decentralization is making their jobs more challenging, straining personnel, and reducing their ability to protect the company from cyberattacks
The ten Balkan countries examined in this report—Albania, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia—continue to make slow progress in modernising their health systems.
The perspectives of the banks.
In June of 2015, The Economist Intelligence Unit (sponsored by HP) conducted in-depth surveys of over 100 global bankers and Fintech executives on the future of retail banking. This is what we found.
The potential impact of climate-related change on the assets owned and managed by institutional
investors is significant. Asset managers can expect present-day losses of US$4.2trn to the US$143trn of current manageable assets as a result of climate change by 2100. Find out more>> http://bit.ly/1GJIL7Q
The Economist Intelligence Unit has launched a new index measuring urban safety and security. Get the full report on http://safecities.economist.com
The Safe Cities Index 2015, sponsored by NEC, ranks 50 cities worldwide across five continents.
The Index introduces a new definition of urban safety. Every city’s ranking is based on an average score across four categories: digital security, health security, infrastructure safety and personal safety.
The Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed consumers to ask what they want from companies and how they rate companies for customer service. And we asked company executives about their attitudes to customer service and how well they think they are doing in joining up all of the new technologies in use today.
The world of higher education is changing quickly and dramatically. An Economist Intelligence Unit research program explores the changes shaping the higher-education market and identify the steps that institutions are taking to flourish and remain relevant in the 21st century.
This case study looks at the key challenges facing the process of modernising the Serbian health system, including decentralisation, fragmentation, corruption and the lack of a transparent and comprehensive system for health technology assessment.
we explore the key challenges facing the process of modernising the Serbian health system, including decentralisation, fragmentation, corruption and the lack of a transparent and comprehensive system for health technology assessment.
This EIU report has been commissioned by Gilead Sciences. It looks at health outcomes of treatment relative to cost and at the structure of Spanish healthcare delivery, the process of making healthcare more accountable in Spain, and the growth and adoption of value-based measures.
By 2020 more than 7 billion people will be communicating and performing transactions over the web on over 35 billion devices. So how can companies effectively create a digital identity that promises security, ease and comfort for its customers? This study, sponsored by Oracle, assesses the role identity plays in the digital economy. Visit hub: http://bit.ly/1LKqXfN
Healthcare situations, burdens and solutions for Asia-Pacific. Report by EIU, sponsored by Janssen.
For more information, please visit: http://www.economistinsights.com/healthcare/analysis/shifting-landscape-healthcare-asia-pacific
The world of higher education is changing quickly and dramatically. An Economist Intelligence Unit research program explores the changes shaping the higher-education market and identify the steps that institutions are taking to flourish and remain relevant in the 21st century.
This case study looks at the key challenges facing the process of modernising the Serbian health system, including decentralisation, fragmentation, corruption and the lack of a transparent and comprehensive system for health technology assessment.
we explore the key challenges facing the process of modernising the Serbian health system, including decentralisation, fragmentation, corruption and the lack of a transparent and comprehensive system for health technology assessment.
This EIU report has been commissioned by Gilead Sciences. It looks at health outcomes of treatment relative to cost and at the structure of Spanish healthcare delivery, the process of making healthcare more accountable in Spain, and the growth and adoption of value-based measures.
By 2020 more than 7 billion people will be communicating and performing transactions over the web on over 35 billion devices. So how can companies effectively create a digital identity that promises security, ease and comfort for its customers? This study, sponsored by Oracle, assesses the role identity plays in the digital economy. Visit hub: http://bit.ly/1LKqXfN
Healthcare situations, burdens and solutions for Asia-Pacific. Report by EIU, sponsored by Janssen.
For more information, please visit: http://www.economistinsights.com/healthcare/analysis/shifting-landscape-healthcare-asia-pacific
Decades of economic growth and development along with better governance and nutrition-specific programmes had lifted hundreds of millions of people in Asia out of poverty, as well as starvation and malnutrition. However, due to the uneven development, while a large segment of Asian's population had changed their eating habits to over-nutrition diets and worrying about lifestyle diseases like diabetes, cancer and heart diseases, there are still some countries and regions suffering from lack of nutrition. For example, childhood malnutrition and stunting is still prevalent in South Asia, one Indian survey found that 21% of children suffer wasting, and a further 7.5% of children suffer it severely.
For more details, please visit: https://eiuperspectives.economist.com/sustainability/fixing-asias-food-system/white-paper/food-thought-eating-better?utm_source=OrganicSocial&utm_medium=Slideshare&utm_campaign=Amundi&utm_content=Slideshare_whitepaper
The report examines the opportunities and challenges for digital platforms and services in ASEAN countries. It finds that while countries like Singapore have created an accommodating regulatory environment, other ASEAN nations can provide major opportunities due to their large populations but also present regulatory barriers. Digital platforms can help stimulate economic growth, but data localization policies and unclear privacy rules hinder their potential. Public-private cooperation is seen as key to overcoming issues and maximizing the benefits of digital transformation.
The world’s top 100 asset owners (AOs) represent about US$19trn in assets under management. The largest, and potentially most influential, proportion is in Asia—more than a third of the total. Out of the top 20 largest funds, three out of the first five and nearly half of the total are in Asia.
For more insights, please visit: https://eiuperspectives.economist.com/sustainability/sustainable-and-actionable-study-asset-owner-priorities-esg-investing-asia?utm_source=OrganicSocial&utm_medium=Slideshare&utm_campaign=Amundi&utm_content=Slideshare_whitepaper
Internet connectivity has proven to be one of the most profound enablers of social change and economic growth of our time. Beginning with fixed narrowband internet connections and moving through successive generations of increasingly pervasive and powerful networks, connectivity has come to underpin our working and personal lives, empowering businesses to operate more efficiently and with wider reach. In turn, connectivity has sparked and fuelled countless new industries, products and services that are coming to define our modern age. Connectivity has proven to be a vital ingredient for business success.
This report examines the burden of lung cancer in Latin America and how well countries in the region are addressing the challenge. Its particular focus is on 12 countries in Central and South America, chosen for various factors including size and level of economic development: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
In the cyber world, many are attacked but not all are victims. Some organisations emerge stronger. The most cyber-resilient organisations can respond to an incident, fix the vulnerabilities and apply the lessons to strategies for the future. A key element of their resilience is governance, a task that falls to the board of directors.
To learn more about the challenges of governing a cyber-resilient organisation, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) conducted a global survey, sponsored by Willis Towers Watson, of 452 large-company board members, C-suite executives and directors with responsibility for cyber-resilience.
Among the findings:
-In the past year, a third of the companies surveyed experienced a serious cyber-incident — one that disrupted operations, impaired financials and damaged reputations — and most placed high odds on another one in the next 12 months.
-Many companies lack confidence in their ability to source talent and develop a cyber-savvy workforce.
-Executives cite the size of the financial and reputational risk as the most important reason for board oversight.
Artificial intelligence (AI) will profoundly affect the ways in which businesses and governments engage with consumers and citizens alike. From advances in genetic diagnostics to industrial automation, these widespread changes will have significant economic, social and civic implications. As such, Intelligent Economies explores the transformative potential of AI on markets and societies across the developed and developing worlds.
This report, developed by The Economist Intelligence Unit and sponsored by Microsoft, draws on a survey of more than 400 senior executives working in various industries, including financial services, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing,
retail and the public sector. Survey respondents operate in eight markets: France, Germany, Mexico, Poland, South Africa, Thailand, the UK and the US.
As businesses generate and manage vast amounts of data, companies have more opportunities to gather data, incorporate insights into business strategy and continuously expand access to data across the organisation. Doing so effectively—leveraging data for strategic objectives—is often easier said
than done, however. This report, Transforming data into action: the business outlook for data governance, explores the business contributions of data governance at organisations globally and across industries, the challenges faced in creating useful data governance policies and the opportunities to improve such programmes.
It wasn’t long ago that a work meeting meant gathering around a table to discuss an agenda. These days you may be using Slack, Hangouts or other digital collaboration platforms that blend messaging with video and allow real-time editing of
documents. Even with these tools, communication at work can still break down, potentially endangering careers, creating stressful work environments and slowing growth.
A survey from The Economist Intelligence Unit and sponsored by Lucidchart reveals some of the perceived causes and effects of these communication breakdowns. The survey, conducted from November 2017 to January 2018, included 403 senior executives, managers and junior staff at US companies divided equally and from companies with annual revenue of less than
US$10m, between US$10m and US$1bn and more than US$1bn. The survey research provides insights about what employees see as the biggest barriers to workplace communication, the causes of the barriers and their impact on work life. Complete survey results are included at the end of
this report.
Successful young entrepreneurial innovators have achieved something akin to rockstar status. They grace magazine covers and keynote global conferences, inspiring burgeoning
start-ups and Fortune 50 companies alike.
Collectively, young entrepreneurs are innovative by nature and their thinking is an important source of growth and job creation across the world. Today, with digital tools in hand, leaders are better positioned to expand their businesses across borders, seize niche opportunities and shape the global economic future.
Yet, most of today’s young entrepreneurs want more than status and a global corporate footprint. Their ideas of success arise from powerful social, political and economic convictions.
To find out what really makes young innovators tick, The Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by FedEx, surveyed more than 500 of these young entrepreneurs around the globe about their motivations, ideals and priorities. Our survey respondents were between 25 and 50 years of age and all founders, owners or partners of firms with fewer than 500 employees. They are living in North America, Europe, Middle
East, India and Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. We surveyed them on matters of globalization, technology and social values.
We then compared their views with a similar survey of the general public in the same regions. Side by side, these surveys enabled us to differentiate the outlooks of today’s young and innovative entrepreneurs.
Our surveys identified four key mindsets that guide young entrepreneurs: leading with passion; thinking globally; embracing social responsibility; and banking on connectivity. This report explores the similarities and divergences of today’s young entrepreneurs and the general public. It seeks insights into the elements of the business environment that matter most to entrepreneurs, as well as their views on a variety of issues including free trade and social responsibility.
Education systems across the world are grappling with the challenge of preparing their students for the rapid changes they will experience during their lifetimes. To this end, schools have a critical role in equipping students with the requisite skills and
competencies that will be in demand, particularly as digital technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly transform businesses and influence economies. In this report, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) discusses the results of a study that explores how to best prepare primary and
secondary school (referred to in this report as “K-12”) students for the 21st century workplace (“the modern workplace”), where
a mix of hard and soft skills are crucial for success. The research, sponsored by Google for Education, draws on a survey of 1,200 educators in 16 countries.1 It looks at the
strategies most effective in developing 21st century skills and how technology can support such efforts.
Gone are the days when marketing chiefs focused solely on the classic 4Ps: Product, Price, Promotions and Place - they now must take an integrated approach to drive company goals.
Corporate and shareholder sentiment towards MA has rebounded since the dark days of 2008. Low borrowing costs have coaxed many new buyers, including acquisitive Chinese conglomerates, into the market. The prices of prized assets have risen accordingly. It remains a sellers market in technology-driven deals, particularly in the consumer-goods, financial services, and media and telecommunications sectors.
Corporate treasury is now a top target for cyber-criminals. Treasury’s trove of personal and corporate data, its authority to make payments and move large amounts of cash quickly, and its often complicated structure make it an appealing choice for discerning fraudsters.
This document discusses cyber risks faced by corporate treasury departments. It finds that treasuries are prime targets for cyber criminals due to the large amounts of money they handle and authorize payments for. Sophisticated hackers use social engineering and inside information to execute scams like business email compromise, where they impersonate senior executives and trick treasury staff into making fraudulent payments. While companies are taking basic security measures, the research found gaps in defenses against third party risks. Nineteen percent do not verify identity authentication methods for suppliers and 14% do not extend security rules to subcontractors. Treasury departments can help by ensuring third parties are properly secured despite not being directly responsible for technical security.
In a low-yield environment, many Asia-Pacific investors are more actively monitoring their portfolios and willing to increase turnover and shift asset allocations in search of higher returns. However, they proceed cautiously with shorter time horizons due to fears of increased market volatility. Equities, new products, and diversifying across markets are seen as potential sources of returns and ways to mitigate risks. The survey also found that regulations are driving some investors to reallocate assets and take a more active approach to portfolio management, despite increased risk.
Asia-Pacific institutional investors are struggling to balance long-term liabilities with the need to secure yield in a world where it is increasingly scarce. They are also in the world’s fastest-growing region that has no shortage of volatility. How are they achieving returns while managing risks?
How are institutional investors in North America adapting to increasingly complex risks? Are these risks driving investors to make portfolio changes based on short-term goals or are they making tactical moves to stay focused on long-term objectives?
Political risks and the search for yield are pushing some North American institutional investors toward more tactical decisions. Investors are focused on reallocating to equities and using alternative investments to mitigate risks.
How are EMEA investors responding to changing macroeconomic and regulatory environments, stakeholder objectives and pressures, and market conditions? Based on a survey of 200 institutional investors in the region, this report takes a detailed look.