Yet both have suffered losses in recent years, and have witnessed growing dissatisfaction among doctors and patients, increasing government regulation and rising health-care costs.

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Where changes are taking place, it is often a result of rising costs and, to an increasing extent, growing environmental concerns.

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What we see out in Asia is a growing consumer base with rising income levels that are starting to look for increasing amounts of financial services.

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It explains that rapidly rising resource prices will result from by the increasing demands of the growing global middle class against supply side constraints.

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It also indicated a growing divergence between Germany and France, with output rising in Germany but declining at an increasing pace in France.

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However, the rising costs of coal and oil and the increasing focus on sustainable sources of energy amidst growing environmental concerns has triggered a change in this trend.

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