The principal manufactures are automobiles and auto parts, metalworking, precision machinery and instruments, optics, electrical equipment, a much diminished textile sector, and biotechnology.
"I think there is a growing recognition that a diminished manufacturing sector will undermine our economy," says Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody's Analytics.
With a large public deficit and a sharply diminished manufacturing sector that has eroded under globalization, "France can already be considered part of the south," Mr. Lefeuvre said.
Since the Second World War however, Salford has experienced decades of growing unemployment as these sectors diminished and new sectors chose to locate in out of town locations with better transport links.
As these dynamics play out, most care providers have opted for a similar strategy of expanding the self-pay market to try and off-set the effect of diminishing public sector funding.
For instance, Plebani [ 34] observes that medical students are reluctant to pursue careers as laboratory specialists due to public sector and state inadequacies in recruiting registrars, the escalating costs of training in the public sector, diminishing budgets for public sector hospital laboratories, poor wages, and a lack of career growth and advancement in the public sector.
That's the impact of its bailout package, with its banking sector diminished and capital controls preventing Cypriots from withdrawing large sums of money from their accounts.
The total number of physicians working in the German clinical sector diminished drastically during the past decade.
Federal spending undercuts economic growth because it diminishes private-sector activity.
Health leaders and managers report that they are mired in layers of civil service rules, highly centralized and fragmented HR management systems, poor incentives, underuse or misuse of existing staff, and external pressure to diminish social-sector expenditure.
Growth in residential housing swelled by 19 percent, the fourth consecutive increase in that much-diminished sector and the first time it has shown a straight year of growth since 2005.
