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Les agences internationales ayant vivement conseillé à Dakar d'améliorer l'environnement des entreprises, le gouvernement sénégalais cherche à accélérer le rythme des réformes qui visent à consolider l'économie et le rôle du secteur privé.

Indonesia's heavy gauge railway network is in line to get a boost in the coming few years, with a series of new projects designed to support major development schemes to be completed by 2013.

Steps by the Bank of Thailand (BOT), the central bank, to ease regulations governing foreign exchange movement, aimed to boost capital outflows and reduce pressure on the local currency are expected to have a positive effect on the country's capital markets, helping to raise its profile in the international investment community.

After nearly a decade of false starts in the sale of its state telecommunications company, Nigeria recently announced it had found a buyer. However, the privatisation appears to have hit a rocky patch, with a member of the winning consortium denying that its involvement had been finalised.

The past decade has seen India become a significant trading partner for Oman, with bilateral trade rising from $200m at the start of the decade to almost $2.5bn last year. The year 2010 will see those trade relations become more important, as Oman becomes the first foreign country to establish a joint fund to invest in India.