It may be that they will move towards a service economy without ever having a large industrial sector.
Other large service sector companies, like McDonald's, will pay workers at company on locations for the next two weeks.
The result is a disproportionately large public sector that provides one in three jobs and two-thirds of economic output.
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Its large banking sector has suffered losses on Greek bonds, and its biggest power station has been knocked out by munitions exploding on a naval base.
Mr. Sarkozy was elected in 2007 on the promise that he would energize France's economy, shrink its large public sector and halve the unemployment rate to 5%.
Nor is it the willingness to go onto part-time working to preserve jobs in the downturn, the Protestant work ethic, the large manufacturing sector or any of the other things that people are musing about.
My colleagues in parliament and in government can vouch for the fact that I have been a longstanding champion of reform, swift privatisation and liberalisation of Italy's then very large state sector to the extent that I ran into some opposition from the left of my own party in the past.
While I do think a recovery plan is needed, and that any recovery plan will require a Greek bailout, I also believe that if Greeks do not want to pay the necessary taxes to sustain a very large public sector and if Greek officials are incapable of undoing a culture of corruption, any bailout will only stem the bleeding.
They could, however, offer huge efficiency gains, in particular deals between the large public-sector banks (the so-called Landesbanken) and smaller savings banks.
The Pentagon was clearly not prepared for dealing with such a large private-sector workforce supporting the troops and KBR needed to protect its people.
The country has already borrowed 2.5bn euros from Russia, whose business people are important customers of Cyprus's relatively large offshore financial sector which offers low tax rates.
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In such circumstances, it was impossible for a large private-sector defense industry to exist, so most military production between wars was conducted in government shipyards and depots.
Fatal fires are common in Bangladesh's large garment manufacturing sector.
In Greece, for instance, the hard-pressed Socialist government of George Papandreou talks up social cohesion as a reason to avoid unduly large public-sector pay cuts in its urgent fiscal retrenchment.
Scotland's large public-sector workforce, restive after years of privatisation and spending stringencies, is much keener on devolution than it was when the issue was last put to a referendum in 1979.
The large cap telecom sector continues to be dominated by the wireless business, with the effect of a first full quarter of a Verizon iPhone marking second quarter results for the biggest players, as companies balance margins and net additions ahead of earnings season.
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How to reconcile the reality of this large and increasingly conservative sector with its swash-buckling and secretive image?
Other analysts stress splits within countries between the modern, internationalised, economy and the large and growing informal sector.
Additional pressure is being brought to bear on the sector by large private-equity firms looking to find new places to park investor cash.
While almost every other large state lost private sector jobs in the 2000s, Texas had a net gain of 9.3 percent.
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Serbia has a transitional economy mostly dominated by market forces, but the state sector remains large and many institutional reforms are needed.
Though the fallout from the crash has weighed on the cruise sector at large, Carnival and smaller competitor Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
The computing portion of our business was also lower than our expectations as we saw reduced purchases by multiple large customers in this sector.
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Richard Lambert said a combination of pay freezes and job losses in the public sector with large City bonuses would be "toxic in the extreme".
More large enterprise and public sector organizations are turning to small businesses to outsource many of the operations and services that they used to handle in house.
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The opportunity costs borne by the private sector are large.
Britain wanted the right "to impose higher capital requirements on certain institutions to reflect the potential call on U.K. taxpayers of the U.K.'s large and international financial sector, " the paper said.
"I appreciated the chance to hear about the scope to broaden the framework for oversight and risk-sharing in line with the euro area's large and interconnected banking sector, " Mr. Lew said during his news conference.
Alternative and experimental educational and social services programs were discussed -- many of which involve large elements of private sector support -- and so-called "Profiles in Courage" presentations featuring people who described themselves as products of such endeavors.
Angela Merkel also believes the banking sector is too large and also unsustainable.
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