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	NRES \| Illinois Green Industry Report: Service Sector (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The service sector is comprised of businesses that conduct or offer contractual services associated with the design, installation, construction, or maintenance of landscapes or interiorscapes for the purpose of enhancing human environments.
		The service sector labor force was predominately male (85%) and nonunion (88%).
		Service sector firms expected their annual gross sales to increase, on average, by 25 percent over the first year and by 83 percent to the year 2005 (Table 80).
	research.nres.uiuc.edu /report01-01/service.html (2841 words)

	The Service Sector: Give It Some Respect - 1994 Annual Report - FRB Dallas
		In fact, it is the strength of the service sector that has fueled the growth of the U.S. economy for the past several years-something else that hasn't gotten the respect it deserves.
		The service sector has its share of undesirable tasks, but they should be compared with the worst factory jobs—not, as so often is the case, with the best.
		Personal services are health services; amusement and recreation services; motion pictures; hotels and other lodging places; transportation; auto repair, service and parking (less car washes); depository institutions; food stores (less retail bakeries); wholesale trade; agricultural services (less landscape and horticultural services); social services; personal services; miscellaneous repair services; and services not otherwise classified.
	www.dallasfed.org /fed/annual/1999p/ar94.html (8340 words)

	The Service Sector in the Indian Economy
		The rise in the service sector's share in GDP marks a structural shift in the Indian economy and takes it closer to the fundamentals of a developed economy (in the developed economies, the industrial and service sectors contribute a major share in GDP while agriculture accounts for a relatively lower share).
		They say that service sector growth must be supported by proportionate growth of the industrial sector, otherwise the service sector grown will not be sustainable.
		Within the services sector, the share of trade, hotels and restaurants increased from 12.52 per cent in 1990-91 to 15.68 per cent in 1998-99.
	www.indiaonestop.com /serviceindustry.htm (436 words)

	Tertiary sector of industry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The tertiary sector of industry (also known as the service sector or the service industry) is one of the three main industrial categories of a developed economy, the others being the secondary industry (manufacturing), and primary industry (extraction such as mining, agriculture and fishing).
		Services may involve the transport, distribution and sale of goods from producer to a consumer as may happen in wholesaling and retailing, or may involve the provision of a service, such as in pest control or entertainment.
		The service sector consists of the "soft" parts of the economy such as insurance, government, tourism, banking, retail and education.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Service_sector (827 words)

	wjz.com - Service Sector Grows Faster In November
		The index for the service sector is one of the earliest readings on economic activity in the prior month.
		The service sector is not as sensitive to the problems in housing and the automotive industry that dragged down the manufacturing index, said Stuart Hoffman, chief economist at PNC Financial Services Group in Pittsburgh.
		The index for the service sector is one of the earliest readings on economic activity in the prior month (File).
	wjz.com /business/finance_story_339110455.html (349 words)

	WTO \| Understanding the WTO - Services: rules for growth and investment
		Services represent the fastest growing sector of the global economy and account for two thirds of global output, one third of global employment and nearly 20% of global trade.
		The General Agreement on Trade in Services has three elements: the main text containing general obligations and disciplines; annexes dealing with rules for specific sectors; and individual countries’ specific commitments to provide access to their markets, including indications of where countries are temporarily not applying the “most-favoured-nation” principle of non-discrimination.
		The guidelines are therefore sensitive to public policy concerns in important sectors such as health-care, public education and cultural industries, while stressing the importance of liberalization in general, and ensuring foreign service providers have effective access to domestic markets.
	www.wto.org /english/thewto_e/whatis_e/tif_e/agrm6_e.htm (2403 words)

	Service Sector Survey - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
		Employment in the service sector slowed in November compared to last month, with the index softening to 7 from 13.
		Service sector price growth moderated in November, to a 1.06 percent annual rate, compared to October's 1.26 percent pace.
		Within the service sector, retail price growth cooled to a 1.29 percent rate and service-producing firms reported price growth at a 0.85 percent annual rate.
	richmondfed.org /research/regional_conditions/service_sector/index.cfm (667 words)

	Global Labor Strategies: Service Sector Organizing and Globalization
		The second is made up of unions for the expanding service sector, which are upbeat and on the prowl for hundreds of thousands of nursing home aides, janitors, [and] supermarket cashiers….
		If service sector unions forget this they will repeat the mistake that the US labor movement has historically made by focusing on one sector of the workforce, rather than the workforce as a whole.
		When manufacturing was the driving force of the economy, manufacturing unions showed little solidarity with workers in the service sector thus allowing the growth of a huge low wage work force and foregoing the possibility of achieving social and political gains on critical social issues such as universal heath care, mandated vacations, or adequate pensions.
	laborstrategies.blogs.com /global_labor_strategies/2006/06/service_sector_.html (1379 words)

	Service sector in Sweden - SWEDEN.SE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the service sector, the “financialactivities and company-related services ”subsector was the largest, accounting for nearly 40% of total company startups in 2002.
		It is customary to divide the service sector into subsectors like retailing and wholesaling; hotels and restaurants; transportation and communications; credit institutions and insurance companies; property management; company-relatedservices; education, medical care and social and personal services.
		In the private service sector, the dominant areas are retailing and wholesaling (or the distributive trade), property management and household-related services, which botheach account for more than one fifth of value-added in private services.
	www.sweden.se /templates/cs/BasicFactsheet____3710.aspx (2029 words)

	Service Sector:Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This review of 14 case studies of large international services firms shows that three factors are common to their success, and highlights the importance of factors internal to a firm: notably, organisation of work, entrepreneurial management, motivation of workers and company culture, although these can differ considerably between companies.
		This report provides an overview of the role of services in economic performance, and the factors that affect the performance of the services sector.
		Services are the driving force in OECD economies, accounting for at least 70% of GNP in many countries.
	www.oecd.org /sti/service-sector (231 words)

	Apprenticeship in the service sector > Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
		The service sector takes in a wide range of jobs, from personal and business services to tourism and hospitality.
		Over the last thirty years, the proportion of Ontario workers employed in the service sector has expanded from more than half to nearly three-quarters.
		Growth in jobs in personal services is benefiting from the growth in the number of families in which both parents work and increasingly look to businesses to provide them with support for everything from personal grooming to gardening.
	www.edu.gov.on.ca /eng/training/apprenticeship/skills/service.html (193 words)

	Public Sector - ServiceDesignWiki
		However, service design is now recognised as a critical tool that can be used to create customer-facing public services that are used and are satisfactory.
		The application of service design can help providers analyse which part of their processes are really critical, and most importantly, how they interface with the customers own processes.
		By November 2006 the Service Transformation Board will have established itself as a clearing house for dealing with the obstacles to service transformation, identifying blockers through its networks, using the resources at the centre to clear them, and implementing agreed decisions in departments through individual members.
	www.servicedesign.org /index.php/Public_Sector (691 words)

	Public service: Background - Sectoral Activities
		The public service has played a key role in the social and economic development of any country, and has been considered as a guarantor of citizens’ rights to dignified participation within their society.
		Traditionally, such services have mainly been delivered publicly, but the private sector has increased its share in managing and delivering certain services against the backdrop of increased deregulation and reform of the public sector across the world.
		The public service personnel comprise persons employed by public authorities at central/federal, regional/provincial/state and local/municipal levels and include both public servants (to whom specific regulations apply) and public employees.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/dialogue/sector/sectors/pubserv.htm (573 words)

	metro.net \| Service Sectors - Home
		Service Sector Governance Councils oversee the planning and implementation of service within their area.
		Their responsibilities include: approving the sector budget within designated funding levels; calling and conducting public hearings for sector bus lines; approving and evaluating sector programs; implementing service changes; reviewing and developing policy recommendations to the Metro Board; ensuring compliance with Metro policies, procedures and legal agreements (e.g.
		Further information regarding the Service Sector Councils, such as membership, authority and responsibilities, is contained in the Service Sector Governance Policy, the Service Sector Bylaws, and Report 42 of the September 26, 2002 Board Meeting.
	www.mta.net /about_us/service_sectors/default.htm (230 words)

	Offshoring in the Service Sector: Economic Impact and Policy Issues Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City - Economic ...
		Offshoring of service jobs has actually been smaller than the headlines might suggest, but projections that offshoring will accelerate are plausible, though subject to considerable uncertainty.
		Government statistical agencies provide useful measures of international trade in services, which are described in the accompanying box, but there is no official measure of service jobs moved abroad.
		Recent estimates of job losses in the service sector caused by offshoring are small relative to total U.S. employment.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3699/is_200407/ai_n9434922 (899 words)

	SITrends.org - Service Industries Trends
		The countries that comprise the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) countries have recognized the economic benefits to be derived from autonomous reforms in sectors such as financial services, telecommunications and transport, which may be viewed as infrastructural backbones of any economy.
		These sectors have a significant impact on growth and efficiency across a wide range of user industries and overall economic performance.
		U.S. service sector grew for a fourth consecutive month in July and registered its highest ever level of activity since the index was produced in 1997.
	www.sitrends.org (412 words)

	How Important Is the "Service Sector Effect" on Productivity? — HBS Working Knowledge
		Management of the service sector has to develop a strategy to communicate the role of innovation within the company and decide how to use technology, processes, and people, and drive performance through the use of performance indicators.
		Workers in the service sector are better exposed to their customers than the ones in classic manufacturing or "smoke stack" industries.
		To that extent service sector workers are persuaded by their own concern for self-respect and appreciation to perform optimally.
	hbswk.hbs.edu /item/5362.html (3721 words)

	Service sector expands in June, survey says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		While signaling a slower rate of expansion overall, the report found that strength in the service sector was broad, with 14 of the 16 industry groups in the non-manufacturing sector reporting expansion.
		Ethan Harris, chief U.S. economist at Lehman Brothers, said the service sector report was in line with other trends in the economy showing a general deceleration in growth coupled with some indications of higher prices, something Harris called a "mini-stagflation" trend.
		While the reading of 57 in the main service sector index was still a clear indicator of growth, it was the first time the indicator fell below 60 since January.
	www.startribune.com /535/story/536288.html (782 words)

	Service sector jumps in January - Feb. 4, 2004
		The service sector is the economy's biggest employer, and service activity -- including banking, tourism, entertainment and more -- makes up about 80 percent of the total economy.
		While Wednesday's report from the ISM indicates consumers have continued to spend on services at a healthy pace, not all of the details in the report were moving in the same direction.
		On Friday, the Labor Department is scheduled to release its report on payroll growth and unemployment in January.
	money.cnn.com /2004/02/04/news/economy/ism_services/index.htm (432 words)

	Santa Rosa Press Democrat // News for California's North Bay and Redwood Empire
		But at the same time, it gained 1,600 service positions, including jobs in health care, accommodation and food service, education and mortgage banking.
		In the midst of the economic contraction that began in Sonoma County in March 2001, some people in the service sector saw opportunities.
		In raw numbers, the manufacturing sector never came close to rivaling service in Sonoma County.
	www.pressdemocrat.com /outlook03/news/08oservices.html (860 words)

	Policy Statement on the Weather Service/Private Sector Roles
		The policy statement is not intended to discourage or preclude the private sector from providing comments and advice on publicly issued warnings, but the distinction between the NWS "official" warning and these comments and interpretations of it must be clear to the public.
		The purpose of this policy statement is to define the relationship and respective roles of NWS and the private sector to ensure that Federal resources are focused on providing essential core functions and to encourage the private sector to provide those services which it is ideally suited to provide.
		The Assistant Administrator for Weather Services shall ascertain the facts and report promptly to the complainant the results of his inquiry and advise him of any remedial action that will be taken by the NWS to assure full compliance with this policy.
	www.nws.noaa.gov /im/fedreg.htm (2396 words)

	kutv.com - Service Sector Grows, Jobless Claims Fall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Also Thursday, the government reported that first-time jobless claims fell by 35,000 last week to 291,000, the lowest level in more than five years and a sign that labor markets are shaking off the effects of a string of hurricanes.
		The service sector's growth in December marked the 33rd straight month of its expansion.
		"The overall indication in December is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector with a cautiously optimistic outlook as we enter 2006," he said in a written release.
	kutv.com /business/finance_story_005105909.html (399 words)

	Partnership for Public Service - Private Sector Council
		The Private Sector Council (PSC) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization which brings leaders from America’s top companies together with federal decision-makers to improve the management, efficiency and productivity of federal agencies.
		By sharing modern business processes and solutions that drive innovation, effectiveness and efficiency in the private sector, PSC members help their federal counterparts improve the way government manages the nation’s resources and serves the American people.
		This effort received a major boost today when two major contributors to that momentum -- the Partnership for Public Service and the Private Sector Council -- announced that they were merging their organizations.
	www.ourpublicservice.org /psc (445 words)

	Public Sector Applications - Public Sector Service Management Software - Government IT Service Management Solutions
		Remedy’s Service Management product suites, including IT Service Management and Customer Service and Support, are widely acknowledged by our government customers as the superior solution to accomplishing their missions with fewer resources.
		As government budgets are reduced or re-prioritized, public sector organizations must improve both internal and external customer service and satisfaction and maximize their operational efficiency.
		Public sector executives who manage assets more effectively and deploy resources where they will have the greatest impact will continue to contribute significantly to the achievement of their organization’s mission, despite resource constraints.
	www.remedy.com /solutions/servicemgmt/public_sector.html (149 words)

	Service sector strong - Mar. 5, 2003
		NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The U.S. service sector, which makes up the bulk of the world's biggest economy, was strong in February despite a slight slowdown in growth, the nation's purchasing managers said Wednesday.
		The report, compiled from a survey of about 370 businesses in banking, real estate, entertainment and other service industries, had little impact on U.S. stock prices, which were slightly higher in early trading.
		The non-manufacturing sector is critical to the broader economy, providing more than 80 percent of all U.S. jobs.
	cnnfn.cnn.com /2003/03/05/news/economy/ism_services/index.htm (305 words)

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