Manufacturing sectors include textiles, cement and plastics.17

Manufacturing occupations and administrative support used to employ millions.

For developing countries, the manufacturing imperative is nothing less than vital.

This institutions supports, encourages and organizes the establishment of manufacturing industries, agrifood and other kinds of SMEs.

The most developed manufacturing industries are petrochemical industry and machine building.

The greatest growth in employment is in manufacturing and services.

The service industries that have absorbed the labor released from manufacturing are a mixed bag.

Malaysian manufacturing industries have expanded to Indonesia and Viet Nam, where wages are lower.

(g) Development of industries and of indigenous technological capacities and manufacturing for export

CHICAGO It is well known that manufacturing employment has declined significantly in the United States, owing to the rise of manufacturing in developing countries like Mexico and China.

Much of that employment will need to come from manufacturing.

(d) Insufficient linkages between the primary (commodity) sector and the manufacturing sector.

Overall, NTBs have almost replaced tariff barriers in manufacturing sectors.

Local manufacturing industries include printing, fish processing and ship repair, as well as the manufacture of paint and pharmaceutical products.

For most countries, therefore, it remains a potent source of high wage employment.

Manufacturing may ultimately be central to the vigor of a nation s democracy.

Since 1990, manufacturing s share of employment has fallen by nearly five percentage points.

Typically, the productivity gap with the rest of the economy is much wider.

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

Table 7. Top ten SMEs and large sized enterprises from Indian manufacturing

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

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

Wood products, paper products, hides and furs, and non metallic mineral products also contribute to manufacturing totals.

OFDI by Indian manufacturing SMEs is visible in low technology intensive industries and in high technology intensive industries.

The principal sources of growth in the economy have been agriculture and mining, complemented by the service industry and to a smaller extent manufacturing.

The manufacturing sector can make a significant contribution to the task of post war reconstruction in Afghanistan.

However, SMEs, which are classified under organized manufacturing, are legally eligible to undertake foreign value adding activities.

At the high end, finance, insurance, and business services, taken together, have productivity levels that are similar to manufacturing.

Asian economies have opened up too, but policymakers there have taken greater care to support manufacturing industries.

Table 6. Export intensity, profitability and R D intensity of Indian manufacturing SMEs, 1991 2001

Manufacturing, on the other hand, can absorb large numbers of workers with moderate skills, providing them with stable jobs and good benefits.

The loss of US manufacturing jobs accelerated after 2000, with global competition the likely culprit.

In Latin America, for example, manufacturing productivity has grown by leaps and bounds since the region liberalized and opened itself to international trade.

Ford era Ford placed Aston in the Premier Automotive Group, invested in new manufacturing and ramped up production.

Overseas M As by Indian SMEs have been small, particularly in the manufacturing industry.

In the industrial and manufacturing sectors, women were emerging as a greater force on account of economic pressures and the expanded scope created in various manufacturing industries, such as garments, textiles, electronics, frozen food, packaging and processing.

For developing countries, expanding manufacturing industries enables not only improved resource allocation, but also dynamic gains over time.

Indian manufacturing SMEs invest in both developed and developing economies (annex table 5).

out as most promising in Africa are agro based industries, energy, minerals, tourism and manufacturing.

Food production is insufficient to supply the island apos s needs and this, together with the lack of manufacturing industries, results in the importation of the vast majority of its requirements.

In economics, the Dutch disease is the apparent relationship between the increase in the economic development of natural resources and a decline in the manufacturing sector (or agriculture).

These include, but are not limited to Agriculture Business and Economy Education Engineering Environment Healthcare Individuals, Society, Culture Manufacturing Science Technology Veterinary Medicine.

Lockheed Martin was awarded a contract to compete with Raytheon when there was a break in production caused by transferring manufacturing out of Texas.

The United States has experienced steady de industrialization in recent decades, partly due to global competition and partly due to technological changes.

A typical mistake in evaluating manufacturing performance is to look solely at output or productivity without examining job creation.