evidence: Of particular interest is the relative importance of the flows of new employment in the secondary and the tertiary sectors. The importance of the secondary sector even in the most recent period is higher in the urban areas as whole, and in large towns. In 1990 – 2000 the share of manufacturing was 27 percent in large towns compared to 19 percent in small towns and only 7 percent in the rural areas. But it is apparent from the figures on incremental flows in Table 3.8 that a redistribution of employment in the secondary sector has been taking place in the recent period in favor of small towns, and also the shares of the rural and the urban sectors in the new employment has been almost the same. The importance of the small towns in the tertiary sector has, however, been increasing faster. The small towns have clearly witnessed a substantial swing away from employment in the primary sector. The redistribution of employment to small towns, which has been noticed, has been driven by non-agriculture. [...] 7 For a poor country spent and still spends much more on tertiary education. In 2000 India spent 86 percent of per capita GDP per student on tertiary education, and only 14 percent on primary education. The corresponding percentages for China were 10.7 and 12.1 respectively. The Indian level of expenditure on tertiary education was even higher than Korea or Indonesia.