We recently published an article discussing how weak public sector demand is affecting Cisco.
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Others include low birth rates, pension and health-care reforms, corruption and weak public administration.
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The southern economies, such as Greece, have leant too heavily on consumer spending, have weak public finances and rely on foreign capital to supplement their low savings.
However, with this ADP report in mind, it is difficult to imagine robust private sector job growth and even public sector permanent hiring (excluding temporary census workers) is extremely weak as public deficits expand.
Job growth in the private sector is weak, and public-sector jobs are disappearing.
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But shame and beauty contests are still weak forces in the public sector.
In addition to weak primary and secondary public education, less than 10% of adults from 18 to 64 years old have had any entrepreneurship training.
"Koizumi, who relies strongly on high public approval because of weak support within his political party, feared the foreign ministry squabbles could hurt his public image, " it said, adding that the prime minister consulted with senior party members before making the move.
Internet piracy is growing at a faster rate in Europe than anywhere else in the world, the MPAA says, because of increased broadband use, weak laws, and lenient public perceptions.
" Moreover, "Kosovo's public administration remains weak and inefficient.
Like many small businesses, the company has had to deal with globalization, weak economic conditions, changing public policy, customer requirements to go digital and other forces that could easily have hampered its productivity and profits.
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In these and other developing countries with weak capital markets, underfunded public schooling, and inadequate judicial systems and contract enforcement, the poor are likely to be elbowed out of access to jobs, credit, and other opportunities to be productive.
Some of the main concerns that emerged were that existing data and monitoring systems in the region are perceived to be inadequate and weak and that stakeholders, the public, and even decision makers need to be better involved.
Mr. Obama clearly has a spring in his step these days, figuring that the public hates Congress and thinks Republicans run it, that the GOP will field a weak presidential candidate, and that he can fool the public into believing only Mitt Romney's taxes will rise if Mr. Obama wins a second term.
However, a weak economy and allegations of corruption by public officials have stoked dissatisfaction with him.
This, more than weak growth or the current level of public debt, is what has given the major ratings agencies cause for concern.
Big questions hovered: Would the 2003 wines be even more expensive than the sticker-shock 2000s, and if so, would a weak-dollar, recession-dogged public pay for them?
They need a strong government to defend their interests and reform public finances not a weak government concerned mainly with its own survival.
There is a real risk that the FDA could field a weak team and fail to settle the considerable public safety arguments about these drugs.
Indeed, public figures sometimes seem not just weak but malevolent.
Many Jews have long regarded Mrs Clinton as weak on Israel, and thoroughly dislike her public embrace of Palestinians and her calls for the establishment of a Palestinian state.
But data from the Investment Company Institute, a mutual-fund trade group, show that net U.S.-stock mutual-fund purchases in March have been inconsistent and weak, raising questions about how enthusiastic the public really is.
Given the sensitivity of the vulnerabilities highlighted by Matasano's researchers, he had mixed feelings about the public airing of his industry's weak points.
The city's unemployment rate (6.4%) is lower than the national average, and the plethora of public sector jobs insulate it against the weak private economy.
The MPs warned that "chaotic strategy" - "muddling through" - risked creating a vicious circle, where weak leadership led to bad policy, further undermining public trust in government.
At the same time, an expanded U.S. military role could fuel a public backlash against Yemen's already weak government and increase support for al Qaeda, experts have warned.
But the callous indifference of the public authorities to the fate of the weak and unprotected and the woeful response to the disaster are manifestations of the same system whose praises you so regularly sing.
The report said that towns and cities with less dynamic private sectors, such as Hull, Doncaster and Newport, would find it more challenging to offset the weak national economy and the ongoing shrinkage of the public sector.
But many public interest groups call the final version weak, because it omitted a provision in the Senate version that would have regulated "political intelligence, " the practice of gathering information from lawmakers and Hill aides that could be used to make investment decisions.
The government poured public money into banks, again pocketed by weak companies.
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