The phrase 'productive sector' is correct and can be used in written English.
In economics, 'productive sector' typically refers to the part of a country's economy responsible for creating goods and services. For example, "The productive sector of the Indian economy comprises of manufacturing, services, and agriculture."
The olive oil industry is a significant productive sector in the European Union; indeed, three quarters of world production is concentrated in Europe.
"It's impossible for hard currency to flow to the productive sector of the economy.
Laissez faire economics would result in the evisceration of the productive sector, emigration of skilled workers and impoverishment of the masses.
Although the agricultural sector declined dramatically in the early 21st century, it is still an important productive sector of the country's economy.
Because the disease is sexually transmitted, it is decimating not the elderly and infirm, but the most vibrant and economically productive sector of the population.
At the U.N. building in Bogotá, Lozada told me that the FARC secretariat had appointed him to lead the former militia's new "productive sector".
Rather, critics on the right and the left have consistently argued that the concentration of power in a few large banks constitutes a threat to the vibrancy of our commercial banking system, and the growing profitability of the financial sector over the past decade or more has created a very real brain drain from the productive sectors of the economy to a non-productive sector.
And that's a non-productive sector of the economy.
To begin, we need to create awareness across all sections of society - from students to teachers to the socio-productive sector - that these systems are practical alternatives to university education.
The health sector in Albania has followed the same trends as other ex-communist countries where the health sector was underfinanced and considered a non-productive sector [ 15].
Bringing evidence to the negotiation table can also be a way for MoH to counteract the often prevailing perception of health as a non-productive sector which does not contribute much to growth and development.
