"real sector" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to the industry and production sector of an economy that produces real, tangible goods or services. For example, "The government is investing in infrastructure projects to encourage growth in the real sector."
Ozgur Orhangazi of Roosevelt University has found that investment in the real sector of the economy falls when financialization rises.
"While the real sector has raced ahead, growth within the financial sector has lagged significantly behind," he said.
Accordingly, in sharp contrast to the existing evidences, we conclude that the architecture of an economy's financial system matters for real sector performance.
The paper examines the relation between the architecture of an economy's financial system its degree of market orientation and economic performance in the real sector.
Minsky-like, crisis is shown to be endogenous to the model, working through the fragility of balance sheets in the real sector as well as in the financial sector.
The monetary side is important, of course — there is the inflation issue to deal with, there is the financial sector liberalization — but I think the real sector, in my mind, is the single most important thing right now.
He could offer no real sector-by-sector analysis of the effect of not having a common rulebook for banking and services because, although the department might once have considered the economic impact, their findings had got locked in a cupboard and no one could find the key.
Capital costs have been higher, and linkages between the financial and real sectors weaker, in the United States.
Now Thomas Piketty wants to aggrandize the non-real sector with fat taxation.
He has published numerous articles in international journals with a focus on economic development and finance-real sector relations.
And there has been a boom in government debt (thanks to dispensing with those gold rules), which has facilitated the flow of wealth from the real to the non-real sector.
