The weaker currency has helped Japan's tourism sector overcome a number of setbacks in the past two years.
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.
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Value-added per person, a proxy for productivity, rose sharply in this sector, but the number of jobs actually declined between 2000 and 2008.
The result has been a loss of much of the country's production capacity, both in the private sector and in the petroleum sector, where a number of workers and managers were fired after a strike in 2003, she said.
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So the private sector, by increasing the total number of places available, can ease the mad scramble for the best schools in the state sector (bureaucrats, by contrast, dislike paying for extra places in popular schools if there are vacancies in bad ones).
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The number of public sector jobs set to be lost by 2017 has also been revised up from 400, 000 to 710, 000.
The number of private sector house starts has risen for the first time in Scotland in five years, according to official figures.
The figures released on Monday show the number of public sector workers in Wales remained unchanged at 344, 000 over the year from January 2009.
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. statistics show that the number of private sector defined benefit plans in the U.S. has plunged to 30, 000 from 112, 000 since 1985.
In a statement, it said: "A number of public sector pension scheme administrators, including Xafinity Paymaster, were not notified of the correct GMP data, " the company said.
The Belfast rally is one of a number of rallies taking place across Northern Ireland as part of a day of industrial action by a number of public sector unions.
Under the proposals, parents will be required to take responsibility for their foreign-born children learning English at home, and being able to speak English will be made mandatory in a greater number of public sector jobs.
He said that if this was not forthcoming, that would suggest the structure of the UK banking sector, with its small number of giant providers, was at fault and that a referral to the Competition Commission would be one way of investigating this.
Yet the state remains small by world standards, and the number of public-sector jobs has barely risen since 1990.
But it is still 120, 000 jobs short of the number working in that sector in 2007, and nearly 400, 000 jobs shy of the level in 2000.
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The number of people in public sector employment declined over the same period by 24, 000 to 6.16 million.
Typically also the number of firms in a sector declines as these keystone companies soak up innovation and markets.
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Since 2010, the number working in the public sector has fallen by 300, 000 more than the Office for Budget Responsibility predicted.
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Investors include some government and private sector pension and retirement funds, a number of charitable foundations, university endowments, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies.
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Telecoms is the only sector that showed a decrease in the number of information breaches - there were none in 2011-12 and only nine in the previous five years.
This is especially the case since there have been a number of other mining-sector acquisition announcements over the last year in which share prices of companies have declined, suggesting a lack of investor enthusiasm, he said.
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Obviously, if the private sector does not begin adding a meaningful number of jobs, expect the unemployment number to remain high and possibly rise in the second half of 2010, just in time for the November elections.
The latest count shows there are now roughly 480, 000 more - with a 1 million increase in the number employed in the private sector easily offsetting the fall in public sector employment since the middle of 2010.
Every dollar not spent by the government increases the number of dollars in the private sector.
The number of people working in the sector has risen by 30% since 1995.
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That's more than the total number of employees in the manufacturing sector of the economy.
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