Domestic chains such as the 500-store Xi-Shu franchise are taking market share from state-owned Xinhua, while foreign publishers such as Pearson (part-owner of The Economist) and Bertelsmann's Random House are looking for local distribution channels.
Private banks will keep gaining market share from state-owned banks in the next decade, he predicts.
Complacency is partly to blame: until recently few state-level politicians seemed to share Mr Singh's grave assessment.
The state-controlled bank's share price has slumped by more than 40% over the past year, and RBS has recently disposed of large parts of its investment bank, cutting thousands of jobs.
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First, a bull market, and the shining success of Deutsche Telekom, the former state-owned telecommunications monopoly whose share price has risen 50% since the firm's widely publicised flotation in November, has made German investors increasingly adventuresome.
About half of bank lending goes to state-owned enterprises, although that share is falling.
In France Lionel Jospin is looking more and more like Louis XIV--the French state's share of GDP now exceeds 45%.
Total state health-care spending as a share of the budget has grown from about 16% in the 1980s to 30% in 2006 to 40% today.
Spain's government for months argued with Brussels, ultimately unsuccessfully, to allow for some flexibility on state-aid rules that require investors share the burden with taxpayers.
She said she will ask Congress to give the oil-rich state its "fair share" of federal energy taxes to build stronger levees and restore Louisiana's receding coastline.
Baucus that the city-state's police would share "relevant evidence" with the FBI and that the Singapore coroner would consider findings from U.S. investigators during an inquiry into Mr. Todd's death.
Kalbe now has a 17.4% market share in generic drugs, almost even with Indofarma, the state-owned pharmaceutical company, which has a 17.6% share.
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The Romantic ideal of the soul-crunching beach is not hard to find outsidethe capital cities, since every state has their fair share of stunning coastal strips and semi-wilderness.
State-owned firms are trying to gain share online, with ventures by CCTV, public listing of the new media arms of state media firms etc.
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Here, grad students and entrepreneurs will share facilities, like a state-of-the-art water flow lab, with 30-year industry veterans.
Partnership schemes linking inner-city state schools with private schools to share facilities.
We continue to make clear to our partners internationally that premature action in the UN system outside the framework of direct negotiations will not bring us or the parties closer to a negotiated two-state solution, a goal we all share.
In part, this is due to a quirk of the rules that oblige Western oil firms to share the crude they produce with state-owned oil firms in many countries.
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To that end, I believe that federal lawmakers should expressly authorize the IRS to share taxpayer information with state and local law-enforcement authorities in any case where it appears that a fraudulent tax return has been filed.
Mr Clegg and Mr Cameron do share an analysis of the British state as over-centralised and bureaucratic.
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China's small and medium enterprises, for example, paid a dear price as state-owned entities and local governments received the lion's share of the limited supply of loans from commercial banks.
Trevor Little, a professor at the North Carolina State University college of textiles, reckons that the domestically-made share of the American clothing business will fall to about 25%, but stabilise there for the foreseeable future.
State-owned banks control 75% of total banking assets, a share second only to that of China (83%) among the large developing economies.
Her husband, Pradeep Kariyawasam, is being investigated over a questionable share transaction effected while he was chairman of the state-owned National Savings Bank.
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State spending per capita in Texas is among the lowest in the country, and the state already devotes a greater share of its general spending to pre-college education than the national average, so there is little wiggle room.
Perhaps many state pupils share Mr Brown's view that Oxbridge is stuffy and old-fashioned, and are drawn by the bright lights of the big-city universities instead.
Puerto Ricans are now the second largest Hispanic group in the state after Cuban-Americans, a Republican-leaning bloc that has seen its share of the statewide vote decline as other Latino communities grow at a faster clip.
Alas, it is not what is driving the rise in the non-EU share right now: that owes more to the enfeebled state of Europe than a boom in trade to the Brics (though exports to China did rise again in July).
Immediately after Scott's decision, state jockeying to take Florida's share of rail funding began in full force -- including immediate overtures from Illinois, California and New York.
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