31.   The winners are to prevail through stock sales, layoffs, mergers, and bankruptcies of the state sector.

32.   This was the first state sector to be broken up.

33.   Vietnam Communist Party chief Do Muoi opened Parliament with an attack on corruption and renewed support for the state sector as a key plank in upholding the economy.

34.   Perennial problems include the moribund state sector and a growing income gap between wealthy coastal provinces and the lagging hinterland.

35.   Although private business is the fastest growing part of the economy, the reforms are not supposed to lead to privatization of the state sector.

36.   An entirely new function was represented by the Ministry of Transition, which would assist any person scheduled for redundancy out of the state sector.

37.   Although few workers actually are paid the minimum wage, the figure is used as a multiplier to calculate wages and benefits throughout the state sector.

38.   Another factor is concern that the ideologically important state sector maintain its leading role in the economy.

39.   Bank credit has been tight for three years and a full-scale revamping of the state sector was launched in September.

40.   But EU criteria would also mean tough medicine for many Maltese, including manufacturers used to government subsidies and those who work for the sprawling state sector.