And zombies are most prevalent in the service sectors of the economy, especially construction, property and wholesale and retail distribution.The unholy alliance between zombies and banks has proved one of the most durable, distorting and debilitating compacts in modern economic history.
Through its subsidiaries BAM is active the sectors in construction, property, civil engineering, public private partnerships, mechanical and electrical contracting, consultancy and engineering and facilities management.
At the height of the boom, in 2006, construction, property finance and related services accounted for at least a third of the local economy, says Kathy Baylis, the head of Sarasota County's economic development corporation.
The Construction segment engages in the building design and construction, property development and building maintenance.
Self-healing agent can improve the low-temperature property, construction property and anti-aging property of asphalt.
Its banks, having expanded during the construction and property booms, are now dangerously weak.
Where are the construction and property interests, the doctors and big pharma, the beef and barley barons, the defence suppliers and the bankers?
Yet banks, faced with margins eroded by deregulated interest rates, responded by lending even more, especially to small and medium-sized companies in the construction and property industries.
Corruption scandals have implicated many key members and former colleagues of the government, including the prime minister, in taking undeclared money from the construction and property development industries responsible for the housing bubble.
In the past year, India has allowed foreign firms to enter the construction and property industries, signed an "open skies" agreement with America and passed a patent law that meets WTO standards.
