One was sponsored by nine TNCs eight SMEs in the non manufacturing sector participated.

In manufacturing sector

1 The definition of the service sector used in the present report, encompasses all non agricultural and non manufacturing industries.

OFDI was largely led by the manufacturing sector.

The agricultural sector remained important, but manufacturing exports should also be strengthened.

The recession hit above all the manufacturing sector, which largely employs men.

Secondary sector Mining and quarrying, manufacturing, electricity, gas and water, and construction.

His Government attached considerable importance to boosting investment, particularly in the manufacturing sector.

It is indispensable to pool public and private resources in the non oil productive sector, to create jobs in sectors such as tourism, manufacturing, agro industry and construction.

Non agricultural activities include manufacturing, trade, services and transport etc.

The table suggests that, in aggregate, the foods sector is not as dynamic as the manufacturing sector in world trade.

The other, using government funds, was joined by 12 SMEs from the manufacturing sector.

But depression in the construction sector and unemployment among its ex workers would be balanced by exuberance in the manufacturing sector, rising prices for manufactured goods, and long hours and high wages for manufacturing workers

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Service sector employment is sometimes viewed as more desirable than manufacturing since jobs in the service sector are seen to have higher status.

That cooperation would assist improved policy setting for the manufacturing sector, and identification of competitive subsectors.

The programme consists of six sub components namely, an enabling environment of informal sector development access to financial services education and training industrial and manufacturing activities rural non farm activities and infrastructures.

The survey showed that the judgment index for the boom of large scale manufacturing and non manufacturing was expected to remain stable in December.

Non governmental agencies and private sector

According to experts, from the trends of PMI in manufacturing and non manufacturing industries, the situation of steady economic growth in China is even more pronounced.

The local manufacturing sector includes printing, fish processing, ship repair, tourist related crafts and the manufacture of paint.

Investments were mainly oriented to the tourism sector and the expansion of the maquila (manufacturing for export) industry.

The speakers also raised the question of whether concentration in the service sector had been caused by the strength of developing countries in that sector or by their weakness in the manufacturing sector.

Non governmental organizations, including the private sector

While SMEs in the software sector are less export oriented in their OFDI activities, compared with larger ones, they are relatively more export oriented in the manufacturing sector.

Sri Lanka, which had relied on export crops in the past, was now seeking to develop a competitive manufacturing sector.

These services will assist the private and public sector institutions to remove POPs and persistent toxic substances from manufacturing processes.

Senior positions in profit and non profit sector

Asian policymakers must remember how they successfully developed their manufacturing sector through competition. The same logic should be applied to services.

It is followed by the manufacturing sector, which consists of petroleum refining, textiles, electronics, pharmaceuticals and watch and jewellery assembly.22

In addition, particular constraints faced agriculture, manufacturing and tourism, as well as the SME sector in developing countries, especially the LDCs.

This would indicate that the development of the manufacturing sector, in particular, will require more stable political conditions for investment planning.

Slow growth or a decline in women's share of job openings in the manufacturing sector have led women to either withdraw from the labour force or move into the service sector.

Intergovernmental and non governmental organizations and the private sector

Zhao Qinghe believes that the non manufacturing industry will continue to maintain a stable and good development momentum.

In the manufacturing sector the respective figures are 14 for FDI from developing countries and 2.5 for FDI from developed countries (WIR04).

Construction is becoming a more significant sector, employing 6.9 per cent of the labour force, compared to 3.2 per cent in manufacturing.

Moreover, its activities are concentrated in the principal industrial centres, mainly the capital, and in a few subsectors of the manufacturing sector.

35 See A. Adenikinju and S. Olofin, Economic policy and manufacturing sector growth performance in Africa , University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, 1998.

For example, in Kenya, while the formal manufacturing sector declined, the share of the informal sector in total employment increased from 18 per cent to 27 per cent between 1986 and 1992.

In the same month, the manufacturing production index and the non manufacturing business activity index, which constitute the comprehensive PMI output index, were 53.0 and 54.9 , respectively, with one decrease and one increase.

This practice almost exclusively exists in the non liner sector.

As mentioned already, gender centres have included the non governmental sector in their activities, and launched an initiative for designating at a regional level a person from the non governmental sector to act as a contact point between non governmental sector and gender centres.

Jebamalai, V. and K. Yumkella, Survival Strategies of firms in the Manufacturing Sector in Nigeria , Journal of African Economies, Oxford University, July 2003.

Companies in the manufacturing sector also ,have an opportunity to factor energy efficiency into product design and include it in consumer education programmes.