According to Vahram Nercissiantz, President Serzh Sargsyan's chief economic adviser, " Businessmen holding state positions have turned into oligarchs who have avoided paying sufficient taxes by abusing their state positions, distorted markets with unequal conditions, breached the rules of competition, impeded or prevented small and medium-sized business ’ entry into manufacturing and thereby sharply deepened social polarization in the republic.

Ajaccio has a small manufacturing economy of cigars, macaroni, and similar products, and carries on shipbuilding, sardine-fishing and coral-fishing.

Base stealing is an important characteristic of a particular style of baseball, sometimes called " small ball " or " manufacturing runs ".

There has been considerable controversy in the United States and elsewhere about the lack of regulations in the manufacture of such jewelry — these range from human rights issues surrounding the treatment of labor, to the use of manufacturing processes in which small, but potentially harmful, amounts of toxic metals are added during production.

In recent years the Island's residents have been attempting to diversify the area economy by investing in tourism developments, call centres, and small businesses, as well as manufacturing ventures in such fields as auto parts, pharmaceuticals, and window glazings.

The Inquirer noted that the continued low return on investment and small margins of HP's personal computer manufacturing business, now named the Personal Systems Group, " continues to be what it was in the individual companies, not much more than a job creation scheme for its employees ".

In addition, DARPA began to pursue new concepts for small, lightweight satellites ( LIGHTSAT ) and directed new programs regarding defense manufacturing, submarine technology, and armor / anti-armor.

By the late 19th century manufacturing focused on standard grades of black powder from Fg used in large bore rifles and shotguns, through FFg ( medium and smallbore arms such as muskets and fusils ), FFFg ( smallbore rifles and pistols ), and FFFFg ( extreme small bore, short pistols and most commonly for priming flintlocks ).

The city is known as a center of manufacturing for recreational vehicles and accessories, the home of Goshen College, a small Mennonite liberal arts college, and home to the Elkhart County 4-H Fair, the second largest county fair in the United States.

In 2006 the European Food Safety Authority ( EFSA ) stated that the SSC opinion was confirmed, that the BSE risk of bone-derived gelatin was very small, and removed support for the 2003 request of excluding the skull and vertebrae of bovine origin older than 12 months from the material used in gelatin manufacturing.

Hundreds of small manufacturing firms, the traditional backbone of Honduran enterprise, began to go out of business beginning in the early 1990s, as import costs rose and competition through increasing wages for skilled labor from the mostly Asian-owned assembly industries strengthened.

The country's manufacturing sector was small, contributing only 15 percent to the total GDP in 1992.

The export textile manufacturing industry all but wiped out small, Honduran manufacturers, and food processors, whose goods were historically aimed at the domestic market, were also adversely affected.

Heckler & Koch GmbH ( HK ) () is a German defense manufacturing company that produces various small arms.

In addition, Morocco has rich fishing waters, a tourist industry, and a small manufacturing sector.

These include molding and plating, wet etching ( KOH, TMAH ) and dry etching ( RIE and DRIE ), electro discharge machining ( EDM ), and other technologies capable of manufacturing small devices.

Families often had small nail manufacturing setups in their homes ; during bad weather and at night, the entire family might work at making nails for their own use and for barter.

Namibian manufacturing is inhibited by a small domestic market, dependence on imported goods, limited supply of local capital, widely dispersed population, small skilled labour force and high relative wage rates, and subsidised competition from South Africa.

It has only small manufacturing and high-tech sectors, being strongly focused on tourism and primary industries such as agriculture.

There are a handful of small manufacturing concerns in the area, located mostly along the Michigan Avenue corridor.

The sale of the Tayto company made the owner and the small family group, who had changed the face of potato chip manufacturing, very wealthy.

Due to its small size and relative lack of geological resources, its 2000s economy relies primarily on the sale of banana crops, and the income generated from tourism, with additional input from small-scale manufacturing.

Many of the other industrial activities are limited to small scale manufacturing, particularly agro-processing and import substitution.

The economy of Bulgaria functions on the principles of the free market, having a large private sector and a small, but strong public sector.

Other telephone companies, many of which were publicly owned, were regulated by provincial authorities until court rulings during the 1990s affirmed federal jurisdiction over the sector, which also included some fifty small independent incumbents, most of them in Ontario and Quebec.

In an attempt to regulate the retail sector, the government has recently reformed taxation laws, so that small shops pay taxes on a regular monthly basis.

Production is overwhelmingly of a subsistence nature, and a large part of commodity exports are provided by the small agricultural cash-crop sector.

The mining sector is small in Ethiopia.

The government sector is small and shrinking, with its business activities limited to public utilities — some of which have been privatized -- ports and airports and several development-oriented financial institutions.

About 15 % of all spending on health in the UK is still privately funded but this includes the patient contributions towards NHS provided prescription drugs, so private sector health care in the UK is quite small.

Few new jobs have been generated in the formal sector, however, because domestic private sector and foreign investment has dropped and coveted public-sector jobs have been reserved mostly for the small Honduran middle-class with political or military connections.

The small Honduran shops, most of which had manufactured clothing or food products for the domestic market, traditionally received little support in the form of credit from the government or the private sector and were more like artisans than conventional manufacturers.

The Honduran financial sector is small in comparison to the banking systems of its neighbors.

In 1968, Stalinist self-sufficiency was replaced by the " New Economic Mechanism ", which reopened Hungary to foreign trade, gave limited freedom to the workings of the market, and allowed a limited number of small businesses to operate in the services sector.

Luxembourg's small but productive agricultural sector is highly subsidized, mainly by the EU and the government.

Agriculture accounts for about 6 % of GDP and the small industrial sector for 11 %.

Agriculture accounts for about 6 % of GDP and the small industrial sector for 11 %.

Montserrat ’ s domestic financial sector is very small and has seen a reduction in offshore finance in recent years with only 11 offshore banks remaining.

The exploration sector is typically made up of individuals and small mineral resource companies (" juniors ") dependent on venture capital.

There is also a large retail sector in the shopping malls around Seef, while the center of Manama is dominated by small workshops and traders.

There are almost 210, 000 registered economic entities operating in the voivodeship, mostly small and medium-sized, of which 234 belong to the state-owned sector.

The role of market allocation is sharply limited – mainly in the rural sector where some peasants sell produce from small private plots.

Therefore, though the petroleum sector is important, it remains in fact a small part of the country's overall vibrant and diversified economy.