Sentence examples for stagnant sector from inspiring English sources
To their credit these films make taxonomy tricky, but they could be bracketed under the rubric of Asian-American independent cinema, a diffuse and (until now) largely stagnant sector of the industry.
And innovation will mean that activities within the stagnant sector, like hand-delivered post, can be replaced by alternatives where productivity improvements are more likely, like texts and e-mail.Rising costs will also encourage hard thinking about whether a personal and tailored touch is needed.
School vouchers are seen as a way to bring market competition into this stagnant sector of the economy.
The main feature of the country's population is that a larger proportion of the people live in the rural areas which are characterised by a high degree of poverty, thus making them a stagnant sector and forgotten majority.
Kroes' saber-rattling on the stagnant sector comes after a recently concluded 16-month probe into the continent's gas and electricity markets identified "serious competition problems" and singled out Germany as a country where a couple of major players retain their stranglehold over key activities.
As the costs of production in stagnant sectors rise, firms are forced to raise prices.
So prices of goods from stagnant sectors must rise in real terms.
High costs could also lead to excessive rationing, slowing development over the long term.If it happens, such a reaction rests on a mistaken premise: that the rising costs in the stagnant sectors make people poorer.
He said that the economy continued to face stiff challenges, and that the stagnant banking sector was hampering growth.
Mr. Khatami has talked of creating what he calls a civil society, of reaching out to the West and of liberalizing the stagnant public sector dominated economy.
The failure to catch up cannot be attributed to any single factor, but areas such as a stagnant farm sector, governments' failure to diversify output and exports, and the widening technology gap with emerging markets all need to be addressed if African LDCs are to escape from the poverty trap.
