The retail sector is characterized by economies of scale and scope as well as vertical integration and the existence of large retail chains.

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It will, one hopes, provide a detailed blueprint for the development of large scale transactions intensive industries such as wholesale and retail trade, domestic transport and supply chain logistics, health care, and leisure and hospitality.

However, with a growth rate significantly higher than for total retail trade, the share of e commerce in total retail trade is also growing.

As large scale regional free trade arrangements take shape, the EU continues to signal unequivocal commitment to free trade through sophisticated bilateral agreements.

Thailand has gradually liberalized its retail trade since the late 1980s.

Instead, under the new Plan, China will adopt a more labor intensive services model. It will, one hopes, provide a detailed blueprint for the development of large scale transactions intensive industries such as wholesale and retail trade, domestic transport and supply chain logistics, health care, and leisure and hospitality.

Large scale pelagic drift net fishing

Local, large scale solutions are emerging.

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It was agreed that the scope of distributive trade statistics should include wholesale trade, retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles.

In the area of retail, the increasing popularity of modern format large shops, for example retail outlets outside city centres, has given rise to concerns about small shops vanishing.

A full scale trade war is unlikely.

(g) Determine the asteroid large scale mineralogical composition.

There are also cases involving large scale trafficking in hazardous waste, often involving money laundering activities as well as links to the illegal trade in arms.

Smaller enterprises exist, but are typically retail or service establishments with one or only a few employees. Firms get to be large by exploiting economies of scale, refining and mass producing the radical innovations developed by entrepreneurs (discussed next).

A critical factor is large scale, non destructive creation.

The most significant sources of employment in 2008 were manufacturing industry, wholesale and retail trade and construction.

Grid energy storage (also called large scale energy storage) refers to the methods used to store electricity on a large scale within an electrical power grid.

By April 2004 all trade related restrictions had been removed by and large, with the adoption of a new law that specified how foreign firms might conduct business in the retail, wholesale, franchise and commission agency sectors.

And large scale market interventions funded and guided by the Treasury never came to pass on a sufficiently large scale to have any tangible effect on jobs.

In China, fear of inflation is unleashing large scale discontent.

As in Iraq, the conflict could provoke large scale bloodletting.

Services account for just 43 of Chinese GDP well below global norms. Services are an important piece of China s pro consumption strategy especially large scale transactions based industries such as distribution (wholesale and retail), domestic transportation, supply chain logistics, and hospitality and leisure.

WASHINGTON, DC The world economy has just been through a severe recession marked by financial turmoil, large scale destruction of wealth, and declines in industrial production and global trade.

One very serious problem is the lack of coordinated activity to fight the drug trade, which is conducted on a large scale in Afghanistan and is continuing to grow.

Another tool to mitigate the disappearance of SMEs (including by diminishing the spread of large retail outlets) is zoning regulations.

Five large foreign retail chains are operating in the Vietnamese market at present, while many others are waiting for approval.

Economies of scale tend to favour uniform approaches in large scale centralised schemes for the restoration of degraded lands.

Expressing concern at the continuing large scale existence of these practices,

(The historically persecuted Hazaras, for example, suffered several large scale massacres.)

Translating policies, legislation, plans and budgets into large scale accelerated action

In practice, these stipulations are not fully observed, especially with private employers in some areas, like catering or retail trade.

Special attention was given to the need to develop a set of recommendations regarding the compilation of indices of distributive trade, such as the index of retail trade and the index of wholesale trade.

In response, Israel is visibly preparing for a large scale ground operation.

Our business representatives came with me to present large scale investment projects.

Some now argue that large scale engagement in Afghanistan was a mistake.

The IMF is at the epicenter of large scale global coordination challenges.

Very large banks in small territories with small scale governments are vulnerable.

In some countries, such 'cottage industry parking has become large scale business.

This is a list of megaprojects, i.e., extremely large scale investment projects.

The large scale illegal fishing off the vast unguarded Puntland coast continues.

(c) Strategic result 3 large scale acceleration of effective coverage of interventions.

The construction of the wall is giving rise to large scale dispossession.

These twin benefits complement the scale advantages of free trade areas.