Expatriate Influx Creating Two-Tier Market With Opportunities For Respiratory Medicines

BMI View: The recent increase in immigration to the UAE is good for total market size but increasingly it is becoming divided between indigenous nationals/expatriate professionals and low-skill expatriate workers, predominantly from the South Asian subcontinent, who spend less on average on healthcare. The addition of this lower-paid workforce is distorting some of the UAE's per capita pharmaceutical and healthcare expenditure figures, but the new migrants have different healthcare needs. This presents new epidemiological opportunities, especially for medicines to treat respiratory

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