Sentence examples for modern sectors from inspiring English sources

Also of growing importance to the economy are modern sectors, particularly tourism and telecommunications.

"People in the countryside who live far from the modern sectors of Panama tend to think of death as a matter of God's will," he said.

A shift to rapid and pragmatic economic development occurred in the late 1970s, when China's educational system increasingly trained individuals in technical skills so that they could fulfill the needs of the advanced, modern sectors of the economy.

Higher education, which once had the primary purpose of educating religious leaders, now acts as a gateway to the modern sectors of national economies and often to a higher social status.

He is undoubtedly an effective and shrewd politician, in that he initially offered a programme and policies that appealed to both the traditional and the more modern sectors of society, to religious people and to the more secular classes, and to both ethnic Turks and to minorities, especially the Kurds.

As described previously, the average productivity of labor on marginal land determines the equilibrium wage rate in the economy, and employment in both the primary production and modern sectors equates their respective marginal productivities with w.

China's small modern sector, including railways, roads and industrial sites, was largely destroyed.

It was rebuilt after destruction by hurricane in 1927, with the modern sector centring on the tree-lined avenue Poincaré.

The economy that evolved in Sri Lanka under British rule consisted of a modern sector, the main component being plantation agriculture, and a traditional sector comprising subsistence agriculture.

Today it is a dual-structure economy: a huge modern sector of large paternalistic companies alongside small & medium sized enterprises which are labor intensive.

In the last year or so, though, as North Korea's still-small modern sector has risen impressively, the question seems to have shifted.