There is no dominant employer in the city and recent economic growth has mainly come in the service industries to support the increased population.
He said a dominant employer in such plans could end up subsidizing competitors.
Service industries have replaced the defense sector as the Island's dominant employer in terms of both employment and income generation.
The motor industry is the dominant employer.
"Yale has a lot to learn about being the dominant employer," he said.
But the city has little money, little information and little political will to take on its dominant employer.
As elsewhere in Queensland, tourism has become a dominant employer.
Beyond that, this town contains Turkey's main oil refinery, a dominant employer in normal times but a perceived liability now.
"In parts of the North - like the coalfields - official rates have barely reacted to the disappearance of formerly dominant employers," the report said.
Agriculture is the dominant employer, and with mining employs 98% of all child labour in Zambia.
