Non-oil imports, however, remain weak, a sign that the economic slowdown continues in India.
The decision to put Mission Control in Houston back in 1961 kick-started that city's non-oil economy.
This discourages banks from lending to non-oil projects and raises the cost of doing business.
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For some years now, Gulf governments have struggled to build up their non-oil industries.
He says he wants the private sector to make up 70% of non-oil-and-gas GDP by 2020.
They account for only 6% of non-oil-and-gas exports and 14% of the value added by local manufacturing.
Non-oil business is also booming: a survey of some 114, 000 non-oil companies shows an average 43.9% increase in profits.
But you have built the largest non-oil, non-mineral based economy in sub-Saharan Africa.
Polar, which claims to generate almost 3% of the country's non-oil GDP and has 19, 000 employees, complains of harassment.
The Saudi government says one of its aims is to promote non-oil exports.
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These only work however, if a customer manufactures a moist, non-oil based product, (sodas, smoothies, yogurts etc.), as the dyes are water-soluble.
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Non-oil-related economic growth will occur, and civil institutions and customs will be established to meet the needs of an increasingly prosperous populace.
Non-oil imports are still low due to a generally weak domestic economy.
Its symptoms include not just bloated government revenues, but an overvalued currency that is making life impossible for firms in the non-oil economy.
Mr Khatami promises, like others before him, to boost non-oil exports, but both manufacturing and farming are in trouble, partly because of state interference.
This, together with restrictive labour regulations, means that there is little non-oil foreign direct investment in Iran, except for pilot projects in the free-trade zones.
Most economists expect non-oil manufactured exports to pick up more dramatically.
What the Gulf states want and need is a transfer of technology and know-how from long-term foreign investors so they can build up their non-oil economies.
This indicates that the factors that restrain dynamism in non-oil segments of the Angolan economy, also act as constraints on the very survival of the urban poor.
The non-oil industries, still partly state-owned, should soak up labour.
First, the non-oil sector of the economy is performing poorly.
For non-oil industry, a greatly improved infrastructure is a prerequisite.
The territory covered by this referendum has been functioning as an autonomous unit for five years, and in that time has brought in some non-oil investment, chiefly in agribusiness.
Seeking to ramp up production so fast, and relying so heavily on local supplies, also risks starving non-oil businesses of capital and skilled labour (which is in desperately short supply).
The plug is the physical and economic link that makes it possible, for the first time, to connect two nearly independent parts of our energy economy--the oil and the non-oil domains.
However, Carnegie notes that the fiscal budgets of many oil-exporting countries were rising prior to the citizen revolution due to a lack of non-oil revenues, rapid population growth and generous welfare systems.
This can only come about through measures that will help the development of a non-oil economy and so improve the living standards of Nigerians and sedate the desire to control oil revenues.
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