Sentences with phrase «even the service sector»

Nonetheless, even the service sector has witnessed productivity gains of about 1 percent a year during the past three decades.

Not exact matches

The SBA, in partnership with the GSA, pulls info from SAM to populate the SBA's Dynamic Small Business Search (DSBS) so that government agencies — or even private sector corporations — that are interested in a service or product your business offers can search for and find your company.

Things look even worse if you're in the food service sector where the National Restaurant Association says 30 percent of new restaurants fail in the first year, with another 30 percent failing within the next two years.

The event caused a knock - on effect across the country's exchange sector, the Financial Services Agency (FSA) subsequently inspecting, punishing and even shutting down various operators over noncompliance with regulations.

The Progressive Era developed the view that public utilities and other natural monopolies rightly belonged in the public sector, where governments would provide their basic services at a subsidized price or even freely as in the case of roads.

Many of those jobs have been in service sectors which, unlike manufacturing, have been growing and even putting upward pressure on inflation in those sectors.

Within this sector, SaaS - based solutions (Software as a Service) represent even more dramatic growth.

Even if China's debt and real estate bubbles don't pop, resulting in a global recession, slowing economic growth from China could have a detrimental effect on long - term energy prices and result in prolonged weakness in the entire energy sector, including oil services suppliers such as U.S. Silica.

Tighter jobs and inflation: From a macro standpoint, the consumption tax hike appears to have lent firms additional pricing power, even as they face a looming skill shortage, particularly in the services sector.

Structural reform and productivity: Our own in - depth research of Japanese total factor productivity demonstrates the widening gap between the manufacturing and services sector (alongside one even greater sectoral gap).

Growing sectors of the populations are denied access to education, basic health services, or jobs that would allow even a precarious subsistence, The poor, the marginalized and the excluded are not significant consumers, much less players in the global market; they have no access to information highways and hardly a chance to shape any of the other significant byways of the process of capitalist globalization.

And to illustrate both the international dimension of this revolution in automation and its impact even on the newly growing service sector, a German multinational firm's study estimated that by 1990, 40 per cent of the jobs in the office could be rationalized and 25 per cent automated.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

«We're here to provide services; the idea is to break even on them,» Nance said, adding that with the private sector involved, «it may deprive some people of the opportunity to participate because of the fees involved.»

Even if the recovery had been progressing as well as ministers might have hoped, we would still have seen the clashes over public sector pensions, tuition fees and cuts to public services - police, schools, the NHS - currently driving the government's popularity downwards.

At the same time, while there tends to be little ostensible evidence in the UK of the blatant buying off of politicians and officials, the murky networks that connect political parties with private funders, and see the frequent movement of officials across the private and public sector, raise serious questions about the integrity of the public service ethos at the highest levels of power (as even Conservative commentators recognise — e.g. Ferdinand Mount, The New Few).

The figures that we see for this year are even more outstanding because the figures we see for the first quarter for the agriculture sector in terms of growth is showing 3.8 % according to the statistical service quarterly newsletter and for the second quarter it is showing 4.1 %.

President Mahama noted that «A sector that is growing at 2.5 percent can not be said to be in decline and the figures we're seeing for this year are even more outstanding because the figures we see for the first quarter for the agricultural sector in terms of growth for first quarter 2016 is showing 3.8 percent, according to the Ghana Statistical Service quarter newsletter.

In Q4, agriculture, crude petroleum and natural gas, construction, transport, utilities, hotels and restaurants, professionals, administrative and support services, arts, entertainment and recreation were all growing at disparate rates of growth, some marginal, but growing all the same, unlike the poor state of sectors even as at the end of the third sectors.

«It is my assertion that, even when government is providing a service that only it can provide, it can still learn from the private sector's best practices.

Public sector workers have their pensions protected, even if another provider takes over the service, under «fair deal» rules agreed by Labour in the late 1990s.

The capital gains environment may have an even bigger impact on the commercial real estate sector, said Robert Knakal, chairman of Massey Knakal Realty Services, noting that several of his clients have decided to sell this year because they anticipate the rate will go up in the new year.

My public service experience allowed me to work cooperatively with diverse stakeholders from the local community, businesses, government and private sector, and left me with an even stronger understanding that public service and consensus building are critical to improving and supporting our communities.

However, even where a sector of service providers already exists, its offerings may not be well tailored to the charter context.

The payments sector has changed hugely within the last 10 years, with the introduction of Faster Payments, which processes internet and phone banking payments within seconds, contactless cards and even being able to pay friends, family and small businesses using just their mobile number through Paym — the mobile payment service offered by 17 banks and building societies.

Where disabilities are severe, private schools may not have the necessary facilities, and even in less severe instances, parents may prefer the legal entitlements and the greater range of funded services in the public sector.

Apple didn't sell 17m iPads in one year because they weren't delivering a workable product to buyers, and if you spent even a moment to Google «iPad + enterprise» you'd see stories which emphasize the high adoption rate of the iPad by corporate IT, especially in the healthcare and financial services sectors.

The ebook subscription service business looks to be a sector where it's virtually impossible to make a decent profit, even where you dominate the market.

It's much more likely that this is a break - even business for Amazon in a sector it felt it had to enter to defend its core Kindle business and which still offers it the chance to cross-sell other products and services.

However, the true exent of Amazon's dominance in the self - publishing print sector is likely to be even higher as the Bowker research doesn't appear to include titles published through Amazon's second print - on - demand service KDP Print which was launched in 2016.

The good news is that even if Jonas sells his business, he will be able to stay on at a salary of $ 140,000 — a salary he figures he'll be hard - pressed to duplicate if he finds another job in the tech or financial services sector.

And, if you don't fancy the entire voyage, we are offering shorter sector cruises and even the opportunity to mix and match with our voyage services to and from Australia on board Astor.

One does not trim down the departments in the public service which used to deal with such projects, systematically subcontract an increasing number of tasks to the private sector (often less on the basis of technical skills than favors for politically well - connected campaign supporters), or engage in a policy of «let the private sector figure it out for the best» without arriving at a stage where even dedicated teams can not do things, because they simply no longer have the experience required to do things.

What mattered was that the restrictive covenant A was trying to enforce would have stopped the employee from providing insurance - specific recruitment services to C, even though A did not engage in this sector at all and would not have had the slightest commercial interest in such prohibition.

Embracing this overall openness, AI and technology companies and even educational institutions are taking unprecedented steps towards making legal services the most technologically advanced of all chinese industries — recognising the need for greater advancement not just for those working in the sector, but for society at large.

When one thinks of merger and acquisition action in Canadian business, typically it's the resource sectors, followed by financial services as the heavy hitters with the most going on, even in tough times.

While many talk of robots replacing lawyers — a report from professional services firm Deloitte has even predicted 114,000 legal sector staff could lose their jobs to artificially intelligent programs — the reality may prove to be more complex.

But, if guest worker programs are allowed to flourish, the ghettoization creeps up the wage scale to areas like food service, retail sales, construction and even sectors like IT and health care.

As with all things Brexit, there is no certainty surrounding whether or not jobs will be relocated, and even senior financial services titans disagree on the current state of the City: when HSBC chairman Douglas Flint compared London's post-Brexit financial services sector to a Jenga tower, poised to collapse, Lloyds Banking Group chairman Lord Blackwell was quick to disagree.

Even with the optimism that CETA will go ahead in some fashion, Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP senior strategic adviser Derek Burney says in - house counsel should be cautious about investment planning, in particular for those in the service sector such as investment services.

«With on - demand access to earned wages, Walmart associates will be able to save more, avoid the financial traps that reduce their take - home pay, and get a level of stability that few service sector employers provide,» said Safwan Shah, founder and CEO of PayActiv, which partnered with Walmart on the Even app.

You will surely need the help of business insurance, even if you are involved in any sector like manufacturing, construction, hospitality, transportation, retail, services, and even wholesale.it is mandatory to take help from a reliable insurance company, which has years of experience under their sleeves.

With a strong line - up of innovative life insurance products and services, the company has been able to maintain a stronghold in the Indian life insurance sector even with the presence of 22 other life insurance companies.

Taxpayer dollars allocated for information and technology are subsidized and even replaced by the private sector through our partnership programs, enabling all stakeholders to enjoy the benefits of our services.

The event caused a knock - on effect across the country's exchange sector, the Financial Services Agency (FSA) subsequently inspecting, punishing and even shutting down various operators over noncompliance with regulations.

To increase efficiency even further, KPMG will also be involved in this initiative by developing a repository program to solve common problems in the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) sector through blockchain - and technology - based solutions.

Governmental implementation of a national health service is boosting investment in the Life Sciences sector, giving it even greater scope for expansion in future.

Even when you've picked a sector and secured a position, Jonathan Black of the University of Oxford's careers service says that graduates can find it hard to adjust to the world of work.

The rapid review researchers concluded that KidsMatter Early Childhood is a highly successful model of online professional learning which should continue to be promoted to the early childhood sector and expanded to reach even more services, including those in diverse settings.

Optimism prevails in the hospitality sector for 2015, as experts say all product types are showing improving fundamentals, from posh New York City properties to beach resorts, and even select - service assets in tertiary cities.