We recently published an article discussing how weak public sector demand is affecting Cisco.
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Others include low birth rates, pension and health-care reforms, corruption and weak public administration.
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The southern economies, such as Greece, have leant too heavily on consumer spending, have weak public finances and rely on foreign capital to supplement their low savings.
However, with this ADP report in mind, it is difficult to imagine robust private sector job growth and even public sector permanent hiring (excluding temporary census workers) is extremely weak as public deficits expand.
Job growth in the private sector is weak, and public-sector jobs are disappearing.
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But shame and beauty contests are still weak forces in the public sector.
In addition to weak primary and secondary public education, less than 10% of adults from 18 to 64 years old have had any entrepreneurship training.
Internet piracy is growing at a faster rate in Europe than anywhere else in the world, the MPAA says, because of increased broadband use, weak laws, and lenient public perceptions.
" Moreover, "Kosovo's public administration remains weak and inefficient.
Like many small businesses, the company has had to deal with globalization, weak economic conditions, changing public policy, customer requirements to go digital and other forces that could easily have hampered its productivity and profits.
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In these and other developing countries with weak capital markets, underfunded public schooling, and inadequate judicial systems and contract enforcement, the poor are likely to be elbowed out of access to jobs, credit, and other opportunities to be productive.
Some of the main concerns that emerged were that existing data and monitoring systems in the region are perceived to be inadequate and weak and that stakeholders, the public, and even decision makers need to be better involved.
This, more than weak growth or the current level of public debt, is what has given the major ratings agencies cause for concern.
Big questions hovered: Would the 2003 wines be even more expensive than the sticker-shock 2000s, and if so, would a weak-dollar, recession-dogged public pay for them?
There is a real risk that the FDA could field a weak team and fail to settle the considerable public safety arguments about these drugs.
Indeed, public figures sometimes seem not just weak but malevolent.
But data from the Investment Company Institute, a mutual-fund trade group, show that net U.S.-stock mutual-fund purchases in March have been inconsistent and weak, raising questions about how enthusiastic the public really is.
Given the sensitivity of the vulnerabilities highlighted by Matasano's researchers, he had mixed feelings about the public airing of his industry's weak points.
The city's unemployment rate (6.4%) is lower than the national average, and the plethora of public sector jobs insulate it against the weak private economy.
At the same time, an expanded U.S. military role could fuel a public backlash against Yemen's already weak government and increase support for al Qaeda, experts have warned.
The report said that towns and cities with less dynamic private sectors, such as Hull, Doncaster and Newport, would find it more challenging to offset the weak national economy and the ongoing shrinkage of the public sector.
But many public interest groups call the final version weak, because it omitted a provision in the Senate version that would have regulated "political intelligence, " the practice of gathering information from lawmakers and Hill aides that could be used to make investment decisions.
In Venezuela, like in many countries in Latin America, the natural vehicles of political debate and opposition-the political parties- have become weak as a result of ongoing corruption, disconnection from the public, aloofness from sources of societal support, and lack of social and political vision.
The bigger point that Mr Cable is making here is that Mr Osborne has defined his strategy in terms of the current, structural deficit: that is, borrowing that is not due simply to the weak state of the economy and that is NOT used for public investment.
Resolving a systemic financial crisis requires recapitalising weak financial institutions and moving their bad loans from the private to the public sector.
Liquorice, who is actually a young male grey seal, was weak and very thin when he was found by a member of the public.
Foreign central banks buy U.S. public debt not because of its investment prospects (which are weak in the long-run) but because of its mechanical purposes in the banking system.
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The two parties agree on the most pressing issue facing the country, which is how quickly to cut public spending to ease the fiscal crisis (not while the economy is weak, they concur).
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The weak reception for this deal, in particular, could spook other companies planning to come public early in 2012.
Legislation significantly increased the public funds available for bank restructuring, and established a general framework for recapitalizing weak but solvent banks, as well as for dealing with insolvent banks through temporary nationalizations and bridge banks.
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