Primary industry (farming/forestry) is less important.
Increasing numbers are employed in the tertiary sector: leisure and
tourism, teleworking, (associated with counterurbanisation), and office
work (associated with decentralisation).
Mainly tertiary employment in the post-industrial knowledge
economy
LEDC
Large primary sector (farming).
Large service sector. Many employed in the informal economy.
NIC
Large but declining primary (farming) sector. Growing secondary
sector (transnationals use cheap female labour in the countryside).
Large secondary sector (transnationals), with a growing tertiary
sector to serve the needs of the transnationals.
