If you’re an international contractor, where do you place your bets? Mature markets offer familiar procurement models and clearer legal frameworks, but flatter pipelines. Growth markets offer momentum and government-backed infrastructure, but bring currency, political and delivery risk.North America shrunk by 2.1% in 2025. North-East Asia and Latin America were also expected to decline. Meanwhile, South Asia, South-East Asia and the Middle East and North Africa were each forecast to grow by more than 5%.One ...