21.   Selling-off the state sector is slow work in Vietnam.

22.   Skeptics like Simon Cartledge wonder how ambition alone can transform a state sector burdened by so many problems.

23.   Such collectives now employ, nationwide, more Chinese than the state sector does.

24.   The big difference, Sachs argues, is that China could carry its state sector because the business sector outside the state was so large and growing so rapidly.

25.   The Communist Party seems intent on preserving a large state sector through invigoration with foreign capital, but skeptics about this policy abound.

26.   The costs of unification, of a huge state sector, of an aging population, of high unemployment have finally come home to roost.

27.   The final solution depends on how successfully we reform the state sector.

28.   The greatest remaining challenge near the end of his life has been transforming the state industrial sector.

29.   The money-losing state sector, for example, has become an obstacle to economic reform.

30.   The state sector sucks in four-fifths of investment, clogging the banks with bad debt and starving private firms of cash.