In services, foreign-owned companies generated double the value added per worker, and had labour costs 30% higher.
Software revenue was driven by 2% license growth, 16% support growth, and 65% growth in services.
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Software revenue was driven by 7% license growth, 17% support growth, and 72% growth in services.
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The forecast includes expectations for 6%-7% growth in products and 14%-15% in services.
Will Samsung summon up the nerve to invest in services the way it invests in components?
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"The figures show a strong increase in services output, " said Trevor Williams of Lloyds TSB.
But a greater number of new jobs have since been created, this time in services.
Mr Murphy said reductions in services were unavoidable in the light of the country's financial crisis.
It misses out trade's effects on productivity and the benefits of freer trade in services.
Immigrants and their offspring, by contrast, have found jobs in services and expanding public-sector activities.
Members are yet to agree on trade in services, competition policy and public procurement.
Efforts to free up trade in services may bring more benefits than calls to boost manufacturing.
Trade in services still remains far too restricted, and not only in emerging economies.
Trade in services has been getting freer, although many countries' WTO commitments are still patchy.
It has offered Sri Lanka a free-trade deal in services (a deal exists already for goods).
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Productivity in services, the largest and fastest-growing part of the economy, is notoriously badly measured.
For productivity is more difficult to increase in services than it is in manufactures.
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But in most countries it is now rising faster in services than in manufacturing.
For the most recent six months, HP's 10.7% average pretax profit margin in services exceeds IBM's 9.7%.
This is most striking in services, where employment has increased by almost 3% over the past year.
Hospital officials say that will result in cuts in services to the people who need it most.
Yes, of course: the difficulty of measuring productivity in services, now most of the economy, is well-known.
This would reduce Nokia to being a device-maker and render obsolete many of its investments in services.
Council leader John Burden warned there would be "deep cuts" in services if bills were not raised.
Other results included a 25% drop in enrollment in the individual market, and a reduction in services offered.
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The welfare state pretends to give citizens back more, in services and benefits, than they pay in taxes.
Government employees would need to take large pay cuts, and there would be other large cuts in services.
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For a start, America runs a large and growing surplus in services with the rest of the world.
At least business travelers can keep busy between transfers: O'Hare came in second in services for business travelers.
We really are moving ever closer to a world where all jobs done by humans are in services.
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