David McCorquodale, KPMG head of retail, said: "Whilst store sales continue to flatline, online sales remain the main driver of growth for the sector, contributing nearly three quarters of the uptick in non-food sales in the last quarter of 2013.
Minority talent represents a largely untapped resource, one that can prove to be an effective driver of not only tech sector growth, but of positive social and community change.
In particular, we found that the role of relatedness as driver of diversification into new sectors is stronger in the presence of institutions that focus more on 'non-market' coordination in the domains of labor relations, corporate governance relations, product market relations, and inter-firm relations.
In a private sector led economy – and I repeat, we are a private sector led economy with 75 percent of investment being in the private sector, which includes farmers, small businesses and the corporate sector – the driver of growth is indeed private investment.
The main driver of this is the oil sector.
The durable goods report was a sign of strength for the manufacturing sector, a crucial driver of economic growth.
Japan is still grappling with the fallout from a decade-long, seemingly unstoppable decline of its electronics sector, once a driver of growth and a bedrock of its economy.
TI do recognise with the much lower-profile Bribe-Payers Index that no government official is corrupt while sitting quietly in a room on their own, and hence that the private sector is the driver of corruption.
Interestingly, in 2008, the share of the agricultural sector is the driver of GDP growth.
With President Reagan's election, the majority of the American people embraced an economic and political philosophy enshrining the private sector as the driver of US life and values.
