Switzerland's most important economic sector is manufacturing.

The industrial sector includes manufacturing, mining, and utilities.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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

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.

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

With modern manufacturing underdeveloped, many young workers with fewer skills and less education are consigned to the informal sector.

The manufacturing sector, squeezed by stagnating productivity and competition from China and other low cost producers, is no longer competitive.

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.

The problem is more than just the tendency of productivity to grow more slowly in services than manufacturing. Service sector productivity growth in formerly manufacturing heavy Asian economies has been dismal by international standards.

It is relatively easy to manage a structural shift out of manufacturing during a real estate boom, but it is much more difficult to re establish a competitive manufacturing sector once it has been lost.

Every commentator today highlights India s poor infrastructure, excessive regulation, small manufacturing sector, and a workforce that lacks adequate education and skills.

The manufacturing sector consists of handicrafts and a few other very small scale industries, which contribute only about 3 of GDP.

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

In the first half of 2013, services output (the tertiary sector) expanded by 8.3 year on year markedly faster than the combined 7.6 growth of manufacturing and construction (the secondary sector).

The growth was fuelled by strong private investments in bauxite alumina, tourism, manufacturing industry and, to a lesser extent, the agricultural sector.

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

Why is this? In countries that have traditionally emphasized manufacturing, the underdeveloped service sector is dominated by small enterprises mom and pop stores.

In the service sector, the decline is even worse than in manufacturing, because services are heavily regulated and partially closed to foreign competition.

Employment in the manufacturing sector has tended to increase (as a share of total employment), even in India, with its services driven growth.

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

China s services sector requires about 35 more jobs per unit of GDP than do manufacturing and construction the primary drivers of the old model.

In addition to information technology, investments have gone to the energy sector, manufacturing (beverages, air conditioners, pharmaceuticals) and services, such as tourism and transportation.

To accelerate economic growth, the priority has been to stimulate investment and recovery in manufacturing, the sector that was hardest hit by the international crisis.

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.

A vibrant rural sector can generate demand for locally produced goods and services, thereby stimulating sustainable employment growth in agro processing, services, and small scale manufacturing.

The vast majority of manufacturing businesses in this subregion fall into this category and they are the major source of private sector employment and economic growth.

Post bubble economies thus face a fundamental mismatch between the skills available in the existing work force and the requirements of a modern export oriented manufacturing sector.

Whereas an employee in the old EU s manufacturing sector on average earns 26.09 per hour, in Romania the average is 1.60 and in Bulgaria a mere 1.39.

In terms of activity abroad, the share of the manufacturing sector remained fairly consistent, hovering between 18 per cent and 25 per cent in the same period.

Abolition in 1846 of the Corn Laws, which had propped up the declining agricultural sector, facilitated structural shifts, first toward manufacturing and then toward services, notably financial services.