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

Manufacturing sectors include textiles, cement and plastics.17

The greatest growth in employment is in manufacturing and services.

Manufacturing occupations and administrative support used to employ millions.

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

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.

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.

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 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

The industrial sector includes manufacturing, mining, and utilities.

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

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 .

Much of that employment will need to come from manufacturing.

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.

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

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

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

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

The most frequently affected sector is the financial industry.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

62. A new global study of women in the manufacturing sector by UNIDO, summarized in the Survey, demonstrates that the participation rate of women in that sector has increased faster than that of men.

It is no accident that the tertiary sector, the service sector, is growing while the secondary sector (industry) stagnates and the primary sector (agriculture) nearly disappears.

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

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

Production sector support institutions were being strengthened, particularly in the small and medium scale industry sector.

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

FDI is negligible in primary activities and low in manufacturing. An exception is Mexico, from which relatively more outward FDI has been in manufacturing.

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

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

Some larger manufacturing units were established during this period, and operated mainly in the public sector.

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