11.   The state productive sector is at the centre of a web of current policy concerns, for a mixture of economic and political or ideological reasons.

12.   Asian tigers tend to be noted for fiscal caution, small state sectors and high levels of investment.

13.   But corruption flourished in the state sector and political renewal was stifled by the secret police.

14.   But the state sector is hardly healthy.

15.   Chirac and former Premier Alain Juppe made a stab at reducing welfare-state pension benefits for workers in the huge state sector of the economy.

16.   His strategy of wringing out bloated state enterprises is intended to save the state sector, not liquidate it.

17.   Last year, Prime Minister Zhu Rongji vowed to turn around the sinking state sector within three years.

18.   Of late, ideas about how to do it have been few, while the problems of unemployment and a bankrupt state sector have mounted.

19.   Or is he, as he describes himself, a nationalist who wants a strong state sector with the benefits of democracy?

20.   Paradoxically, the manufacture of satellite dishes, a growth industry for the state sector, was legalized after an appeal from senior administration officials.