51.   Economists consider that level the minimum required to create jobs for millions of workers being laid off due to reforms in the state sector.

52.   Egyptian officials say Washington wants Egypt to quickly privatize its ailing state sector and introduce more liberal trade, financial and investment laws.

53.   Enterprises that are covered by the state budget, meaning they belong to government ministries, account for only part of the state sector.

54.   Failure to meet the target could imperil his plans to turn the state sector around within three years and increase bureaucratic resistance toward other much needed economic reforms.

55.   He has said that his movement, called Fatherland, would advocate free-market principles yet preserve a strong state sector in the economy.

56.   He continued to dismantle the state sector, long a PRI power base, and had Congress make the electoral board fully independent of the government.

57.   He warned the state sector not to expect preferential treatment from the government in the future.

58.   High-level government contacts will be infrequent and economic aid to the Belarus state sector will stop, the statement said.

59.   Holding it back have been a series of dismal sugar harvests and still-sluggish performance by the dominant state sector.

60.   However the figures indicate that much of the momentum for growth came from outside the state sector.