The industrial sector includes manufacturing, mining, and utilities.

Among industrial activities, the manufacturing sector contributes to the gross value added of the secondary sector with 64 of the total, while the building sector contributes 24 .

This difference in manufacturing's share reflects the changing industrial origin of Singaporean firms that engage in OFDI and the continuing importance of the manufacturing sector as a favoured industrial activity abroad.

There are few, if any, examples of high cost post industrial societies reviving their manufacturing sector on a large scale once it has declined.

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) focuses on initiatives to move women from subsistence agriculture to the manufacturing sector through off farm productive activities.

Switzerland's most important economic sector is manufacturing.

Jamaica has a considerable amount of industrial engineering, light manufacturing, including metal fabrication, metal roofing, and furniture manufacturing.

Foodstuffs form the largest industrial sector.

The flow of FDI should not only target specific sectors, but also aim at reaching stream activities which could result in a stronger manufacturing and industrial sector in those countries.

1 This programme review on industrial statistics focuses on the manufacturing industry although, conventionally, industrial statistics comprise mining and quarrying, manufacturing, gas, water and electricity and construction, as defined by ISIC, Rev.3.1.

Given this, China must continue to develop its manufacturing sector.

Industrial production is a measure of output of the industrial sector of the economy.

But Europe must do more to reinvigorate its own manufacturing sector.

With respect to foreign trade, the key economic sector is manufacturing.

His model depicts inter industry relationships within an economy, showing how output from one industrial sector may become an input to another industrial sector.

China s manufacturing investments, however, are often located in industrial parks or special economic zones (SEZs).

UNIDO disseminates general industrial statistics on manufacturing through its annual hard copy publication, The International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics, and CD ROM versions of the UNIDO industrial statistics database INDSTAT.

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

For example, the Government of Qatar, working with the Qatar Chamber of Commerce and Industry, established the Qatar Industrial Manufacturing Company to promote small and medium sized enterprises and downstream industries by stimulating and encouraging the role of the private sector and its investment in industrial development.

With little initial investment, industrial scale factories can make huge profits by manufacturing millions of tablets.

During the 19th century, the city was the site of industrial innovations and growth in manufacturing.

Asian policymakers must remember how they successfully developed their manufacturing sector through competition.

Recovery will also require re establishing at least a small scale manufacturing sector.

In the US, as the financial sector soared, the manufacturing base contracted sharply.

In the industrial sector, three Parties proposed projects to substitute natural gas for conventional industrial fuels (fuel switching).

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

Indeed, India has leapfrogged over the manufacturing sector, going straight from agriculture into services.

Economy Chennai's economy has a broad industrial base in the automobile, computer, technology, hardware manufacturing and healthcare sectors.

Indeed, productivity growth in India s service sector matches productivity growth in China s manufacturing sector, thereby reducing poverty by enabling wages to rise.

In the US, for example, the manufacturing sector employs less than 10 of all workers.

Indeed, the manufacturing sector is also where the world s middle classes take shape and grow.

But the potential for explosive growth has usually been seen only in the manufacturing sector.

Therefore, industrial energy efficiency is very important to increase productivity and to optimize energy intensity of manufacturing and services.

Economy The service sector is the largest component of GDP at 66 , followed by the industrial sector at 28.1 .

(b) Capacity building at the institutional and industry levels to enhance industrial productivity and marketing performance in the agro industrial sector

Service sector productivity growth in formerly manufacturing heavy Asian economies has been dismal by international standards.

The service sector is the largest component of GDP at 64.1 , followed by the industrial sector at 24.7 (2008 est.).

The country s military industrial sector suffers from limited domestic orders and extensive overcapacity.

(e) Capacity building services to support the increased competitiveness of the industrial sector.

The majority of project proposals in the industrial sector target energy efficiency gains, in particular the improved efficiency of industrial boilers and furnaces.

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.

But, even in Germany, the service sector remains twice as large as the industrial branches.

Labor costs in the US industrial sector are currently 25 lower than the European average.

The industrial sector employs around 14 of the workforce and accounts for 30 of GDP.

As a result of the premature decline of the manufacturing sector, unemployment is high in many Latin American countries.