Concept information
Preferred term
Notation: 32525
Created: 1990-04-26T00:00:00Z
Definition
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Private sector companies are ones that are not owned by the government. This is opposed to the public sector that consists of industries such as education and unemployment insurance.
Created: 9/20/10
Last modified: 4/16/20
Source: http://economics.about.com/library/glossary/bldef-privatesector.htm
- The private sector covers: private individuals (including entrepreneurs, landowners, farmers, etc.); private companies (local, national and transnational) active at different stages of the food supply chain; commercial banks; cooperatives and other forms of organizations in the “social economy” with a private legal status; private foundations; other private organizations, institutions or federations – this category also includes publicly owned companies with a private legal status.
Broader concept
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Scope note
- The term covers: private individuals (including entrepreneurs, landowners, farmers, etc.); private companies (local, national and transnational) active at different stages of the food supply chain (e.g. production, storage and distribution, processing and packaging, retail and markets); commercial banks; cooperatives and other forms of organizations in the “social economy” with a private legal status; private foundations; other private organizations, institutions or federations – this category also includes publicly owned companies with a private legal status.
In other languages
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Notation: 32525
Created: 2002-12-12T00:00:00Z
Arabic
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Notation: 32525
Created: 2002-12-12T00:00:00Z
Last modified: 2021-02-16T11:12:42Z
Chinese
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Notation: 32525
Created: 2002-12-12T00:00:00Z
Last modified: 2021-02-16T11:12:42Z
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Notation: 32525
Created: 2003-03-27T00:00:00Z
Czech
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Notation: 32525
Created: 1990-04-26T00:00:00Z
Last modified: 2019-12-04T12:03:46.686+01:00
French
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Created: 2019-08-06T09:46:44.047+02:00
Georgian
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Notation: 32525
Created: 1996-12-24T00:00:00Z
German
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Notation: 32525
Created: 1990-04-26T00:00:00Z
Hindi
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Notation: 32525
Created: 2006-12-06T00:00:00Z
Hungarian
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Notation: 32525
Created: 2006-12-15T00:00:00Z
Italian
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Notation: 32525
Created: 2005-08-09T00:00:00Z
Japanese
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Notation: 32525
Created: 2005-12-16T00:00:00Z
Lao
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Notation: 32525
Created: 2007-04-20T00:00:00Z
Persian
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Notation: 32525
Created: 2006-12-19T00:00:00Z
Polish
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Notation: 32525
Created: 1998-08-04T00:00:00Z
Last modified: 2019-12-04T12:04:34.452+01:00
Portuguese
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Notation: 32525
Created: 1998-08-04T00:00:00Z
Last modified: 2019-12-04T12:04:34.452+01:00
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Created: 2023-06-19T20:25:23
Portuguese (Brazil)
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Created: 2016-02-20T14:25:55Z
Last modified: 2016-07-11T20:37:41Z
Romanian
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Notation: 32525
Created: 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
Russian
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Notation: 32525
Created: 2005-12-16T00:00:00Z
Slovak
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Notation: 32525
Created: 1990-04-26T00:00:00Z
Spanish
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Created: 2019-12-04T12:04:54.352+01:00
Swahili
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Notation: 32525
Created: 2005-08-19T00:00:00Z
Thai
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Notation: 32525
Created: 2011-11-20T21:03:05Z
Last modified: 2013-08-27T22:09:22Z
Turkish
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Created: 2021-02-03T21:42:18
Ukrainian