service sector

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service sector

that part of the economy concerned with the provision of a wide variety of personal and business services: hairdressing and tourism, transport and retailing, banking and insurance, etc. The service sector together with the PRIMARY SECTOR and INDUSTRIAL SECTOR form an interlocking chain of economic activities that constitutes a modern economy.

See STRUCTURE OF INDUSTRY.

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Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry acting chief executive Nabeel Abdulrahman Al Mahmoud stressed the importance of the Grand Prix in revitalising the national economy and the tertiary sector, extending congratulations to the leadership.

Businessmen hail 'Grand Prix boon'

Commercial banks, wholesale and retail trade, manufacturing industries and the tertiary sector grew tangibly, compared with 2009 results.

Bahrain's economy grows 4.5pc in 2010

'Nurse training moved to the tertiary sector almost a generation ago because the profession understood it needed highly trained nurses capable of delivering the highest quality care,' Brett said.

Hospital-based nursing schools won't fix a decade of neglect: the federal government's plan to establish new schools in hospitals is no solution to the nursing shortage

Recent changes within the New Zealand tertiary sector around the introduction of a performance-based system for funding research in degree-granting institutions have the potential to adversely affect both nursing scholarship and nursing education.

Editorial

The principle, which underpins the European Commission's January 2004 proposal to liberalise the tertiary sector, binds cross-border service-providers to follow the laws of their home country, not the ones where they provide their services.

PUBLIC ENTERPRISE LOBBY FEARS SERVICES DIRECTIVE WILL UNDERMINE TREATY

CLOSE TO three quarters of nurses who graduated in November 2015 were employed at March 31 this year, according to the annual Nursing Education in the Tertiary Sector (NETS) survey.

More graduates in aged care

Bahrain has also invested $11 million in 71 companies which are operating in the tertiary sector, followed by the IT and telecommunications with $2 million invested through 9 companies.

Bahraini investments in Egypt top $955 million

The PDES expects the added value in the tertiary sector would grow by about 9 per cent annually during the period 2012 to 2015, about 8 per cent in the commercial sector, particularly in transport, communication and trade.

Niger introduces ambitious programme to curb poverty

According to the data, wholesale and retail were the main contributors to the positive 6.5% growth the tertiary sector posted in 2012.

Average annual growth rate at 4.9%

Universities Australia has released research on perceptions of the tertiary sector on the eve of this week's higher education conference in Canberra.

Aussies overwhelmingly back foreign students to stay in country after studies: Survey

The added value in the government-funded tertiary sector grew by 3.8 per cent in constant prices and 3.2 per cent in current prices, as the expenditure on wages grew by 4.1 per cent, compared with the 2009 results.