Now, the Chinese government is trying to build an urban middle class while retaining a dominant public sector.

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He said India's dominant farm sector was poised to grow as well.

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The inadequacies of Asia's capital markets, where corporate-bond markets are even less developed than stockmarkets, are the flipside of a dominant banking sector that intermediates four-fifths of the region's investment, compared with just a quarter in America.

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The UK's financial sector has a dominant position in Europe, handling by far the highest number of trades daily.

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Once Lockheed integrated its various legacy cultures, it became the dominant player in the defense sector during the first decade of the new millennium.

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The Chinese firm said that InterDigital had been trying to take advantage of the dominant position it enjoys in the sector and despite negotiations the two firms had not been able to reach an agreement.

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To the European competition authorities, it is arguing that the closure of private-sector nuclear plants unfairly boosts the dominant market position of the state-owned utility, Vattenfall.

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Alibaba Group is the dominant e-commerce player in China today and the entire e-commerce sector there is going to go up 5x in the next 4 years.

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But it faces two big challenges - the dominant position of JustGiving as the recognised brand for online fundraising, and the inertia of the charity sector.

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Financial and insurance services are another sector watching the independence debate very carefully, because there is so much cross-border regulation and the dominant share of markets south of the border.

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