During the sharp selloff in February, there was market chatter of official sector activity.
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Gold demand includes its use in jewelry, technology, investment and official sector institutions (such as world banks).
Euro-zone officials said official sector involvement is now under active consideration.
Juncker, in contrast, concluded that all avenues would be explored apart from Official Sector Involvement (OSI) i.e. the Euro area member states writing down their debt.
The official sector, by contrast, holds principal highly sacred.
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The private sector holders are being shouted at to take a 70% haircut and smile about it and only great political pressure leads to the official sector even agreeing not to take a profit.
If the euro zone can resolve the Greek debt crisis, the markets would no doubt see this very positively, particularly if the deal included official sector losses since this would be welcome evidence of solidarity.
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Only by summer of 2011 did the Eurozone admit that a default on Greek debt was required but, by the time the default was implemented in early 2012, Greece now had a mountain of official sector debt.
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Athens has said that according to an agreement made with its creditors late last year, it could seek a reduction of the debt held by the official sector, such as governments and central banks, once it has achieved a primary surplus.
The German Finance Minister, Schauble, has reiterated his objection to haircuts for the official sector, while some other ECB members suggest that the group should agree to fund Greece for the next two years and then follow up with more official talks in 2015.
But exempting itself from losses in the event of what is euphemistically called "official-sector involvement, " or OSI, may not be that easy for the fund.
It is adamant there should be no official-sector involvement, and it opposes filling a growing gap in Greek finances by making more loans from governments.
The privately owned gold held in Turkish commercial banks has shown up on the balance sheet for the central bank, resulting in news reports of inflated official-sector reserves in the country, the consultancy said.
Certainly, the figures suggest that even in a weak recovery, the private sector has had no trouble absorbing a significant fall in the number of public sector jobs, which has actually outpaced the official forecast, with a fall of 143, 000 in public sector employment since last spring.
"People retiring in Canada and Europe often look for a second home, " says Gabriel Alvarez, the Cuban official charged with developing the new sector.
At worst, governments might opt for outright default: note that this week's Greek restructuring has been designed to punish private-sector creditors, leaving official creditors untouched.
Charles Clarke was quizzed about the shameless adoption of the term "independent" - the standard description, indeed the official description, for the private sector in the UK as opposed to schools that are state-run or "maintained".
Official figures show investment by the private sector in fixed assets such as factory buildings and machinery grew nearly threefold between 2000 and 2005 (see chart).
Scotland's exports grew slightly last summer following a strong performance from the food and drink sector, according to the latest official statistics.
So although the Bank has been able to draw on other sources of information, such as private-sector surveys, the lack of an official earnings series left a gap in its inflation-watching kit.
The official purchasing managers' index, a gauge of the industrial sector, edged down to 50.4 in January from 50.6 in December.
The Greek debt deal required private-sector investors to take a 50% hit, while official investors would be repaid in full.
Estimates based on business surveys have consistently pointed to stronger service-sector growth over the past year or so than the official figures.
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That is not official, but the latest jobs figures, which showed private-sector employment falling in each of the past three months, leave little doubt that the economy is contracting.
One of the main beneficiaries of a skilled workforce, the private sector, presently contributes the equivalent of 5% of total official aid to education.
The outlines of the sector reorganization began to leak out long ago, but the official confirmation by the state's Xinhua news agency Friday fleshed out the substance of the reform.
Participants in the Expert Meeting included experts from the fields of conservation and development, academia, representatives from the private sector and government officials from both the region and from their official development partners.
Official statistics show that 344, 000 people in Wales work in the public sector, or some 27.5% of all employees.
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