Employment dropped across all sectors of the economy, with both manufacturing and services suffering.
The important distinction is not between manufacturing and services, but between productive and unproductive jobs.
Africa could break into the global market for light manufacturing and services such as call centres.
Evening things up, the European composite PMI for January beat expectations (47.5 and 48.3 manufacturing and services).
An index of activity in both manufacturing and services edged up in January from a record low.
Now Japan needs productivity gains to grow, and this means opening domestic manufacturing and services to more competition.
India's growth has dipped in recent months, mostly due to a slowdown in its manufacturing and services sectors.
Two powerful, related technological and economic trends are making manufacturing and services jobs more closely related, rather than less.
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The composite purchasing managers' index for the manufacturing and services industries rose to 48.3 in December from 47.0 in November.
India's recent slow growth has been blamed on several factors, not least the sharp slowdown in its manufacturing and services sectors.
India's growth has been hurt by a variety of factors in recent months, not least the sharp slowdown in its manufacturing and services sectors.
Also, activity in the eurozone's manufacturing and services sector continued to contract in May, closely-watched preliminary data from Markit, a financial information services company, showed.
India's economy has been hurt by a slowdown in exports and subdued domestic demand, the combination of which has affected the manufacturing and services sectors.
Consumer and business confidence, which was expected to produce the improvement, instead deteriorated further in July, accompanied by unexpected further declines in both the manufacturing and services sectors.
But quickly re-energized to trade a session high as the same data from Germany, the backbone of Europe, showed strong activity (48.8 and 55.3 manufacturing and services PMI).
Although manufacturing and services continue to supplant farming as the dominant forms of South-East Asian output, much of the working population still relies on agriculture (see chart).
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Take a look at how important the electronics sector is to the Lion City: Manufacturing and services that support it make up 45%, or nearly half, of Singapore's total GDP.
That may seem a tall order, but with a competitive dollar and favourable growth in other countries, exports in which America already excels, such as high-value manufacturing and services, should do well.
In other words, restraining the role of government to its proper functions and nothing more would create the environment most likely to produce more Facebooks in both the manufacturing and services sectors.
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Manufacturing and services - which make up the bulk of the economy - had grown during 2012, seeing a similar performance to that in the US and considerably stronger than in Japan and the eurozone, he said.
Malaysian banks were for the most part not affected by the global credit crisis, and due to progress in manufacturing and services, Malaysia is garnering a Singapore-like reputation as a high-quality and investor-friendly place to do business.
With manufacturing and services going to China and India respectively, both countries overtime have been improving the living standards of its own people and developing their domestic markets but inconspicuously laying the foundations of their own innovation ecosystems that is funded through globalization.
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Anna Marie Detert, a director at KPMG Management Consulting, said the improvement was being driven by the private sector, in manufacturing and services, but it was too early to tell whether it was the first sign of real sustainable growth in the jobs market.
One of the world's most conspicuously successful centres of enterprise lies in that bit of California known as Silicon Valley: computing is today's knowledge-based industry par excellence (see survey) The new jobs in tomorrow's industries, in manufacturing and services alike, will call for more than button-pressing automatons.
Job losses in manufacturing and automotive services, two of the largest customers, have been devastating.
The Nebraska economy is well balanced among agriculture, energy, manufacturing and financial services.
In the rich economies too the mix of jobs is changing rapidly, away from manufacturing and towards services, ancient and modern.
Kenya has well-developed agriculture, manufacturing and financial services by African standards, the best roads in the region and, despite its tribal rivalries, is fairly peaceful.
That means that emerging countries are going to have to think are we only oriented towards exports, or are we also starting to produce manufacturing goods and services for the internal market.
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