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Macroeconomic Analysis
Slovakia PESTLE Insights: A Macroeconomic Outlook Report
In 2025, the largest named share of total gross value added (GVA) came from mining, manufacturing, and utilities, accounting for 22.5%. Financial intermediation, real estate, and business activities followed with a 13.9% contribution, while wholesale and retail trade together with accommodation services accounted for 13.7%. Looking ahead to 2026, these sectors are projected to expand in nominal terms by 5.2%, 5.8%, and 5.8%, respectively. Three major cities in Slovakia were home to 40.5% of the country’s population and contributed to...
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Consumer Insights
Japan Destination Tourism Trends Insight by Type, Source Markets, Foreign Direct Investment and Future Opportunities, 2026 Update
Analysis of destination markets, infrastructure, and attractions, as well as risks and opportunities in Japan. This report explores the types of travelers that visit the region as well as a SWOT analysis.
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Sector Analysis
IDWeek 2026: Conference Highlights
The IDWeek Global Annual Meeting 2026 took place in Washington, DC, US from October 21–24. The IDWeek 2026 annual congress took place in Washington, DC, US, from October 21–24. GlobalData focused on scientific sessions where key therapies were featured and analyzed their contents to create this IDWeek 2026 Conference Highlights report.
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Thematic Analysis
Deep Dive into Open vs Closed Weight AI: Strategic Intelligence
The open-weight vs. closed-weight debate is about strategic and economic leverage, as well as global influence, in the AI era. China prefers open-weight; the US frontier AI labs choose closed-weight. Geopolitics clouds the open-weight vs. closed-weight debate. US AI labs want to maintain their dominance via closed-weight models. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have chosen to keep their frontier models closed-weight to protect revenue and intellectual property (IP). That said, OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and Google offer smaller open-source and open-weight models...
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Macroeconomic Analysis
United Arab Emirates (UAE) PESTLE Insights: A Macroeconomic Outlook Report
In 2025, the largest share of total gross value added (GVA) came from mining, manufacturing, and utilities, accounting for 35.8%. Financial intermediation, real estate, and business activities followed with a 15.4% contribution, while wholesale and retail trade together with hotels accounted for 14.8%. Looking ahead to 2026, these sectors are projected to expand in nominal terms by 8.8%, 8.9%, and 8.9%, respectively. The Emirates of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Sharjah contributed 84.7% of the UAE’s GDP and 86.9% of its...
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Consumer Insights
Turkiye Destination Tourism Trends Insight by Type, Source Markets, Foreign Direct Investment and Future Opportunities, 2026 Update
Analysis of destination markets, infrastructure, and attractions, as well as risks and opportunities in Türkiye. This report explores the types of travelers that visit the country as well as a SWOT analysis.
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Thematic Analysis
South China Sea: Strategic Intelligence
The "South China Sea "report is part of GlobalData's Strategic Intelligence series of reports on developments in the Asia-Pacific its impacts across different industries. Understanding trends and developments in the South China Sea is essential in the defense industry in order to be prepared for escalation and sustained maritime conflict. This report explores emergent trends as a result of the Ukraine conflict, examining use cases and the implementation of technologies such as innovations in anti-access/area denial systems and standoff weapons,...
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CRO Activity and Intel Report Q3 2026
This report offers an in-depth analysis of the contract research organization (CRO) industry, categorized by geography, therapeutic area, and phase of development for Q3 2026.
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Sector Analysis
Brazil Telecom Operators Country Intelligence Report
"Brazil Telecom Operators Country Intelligence Report," a new report by GlobalData, provides an executive-level overview of the telecommunications market in Brazil today, with detailed forecasts of key indicators up to 2030. Published annually, the report provides detailed analysis of the near-term opportunities, competitive dynamics, and evolution of demand by service type and technology/platform across the fixed telephony, broadband, mobile, and pay-TV markets as well as a review of key regulatory trends. The Country Intelligence Report provides in-depth analysis of the...