community development journal of the society vol 37 no 2 summer 2006 economic sectors that do not directly support exports are little interest in traditional analysis though input output multipliers provide useful information about impacts changes export or exogenous demand they only reflect backward linkages many however can be thought as enabling whose importance lies their forward an economy increasingly dominated by local service this concept is especially important for developers based method hypothetical extraction offers empirical alternative describing unlike does privilege rests solely strength induced it also captures characteristics including those sell exclusively to households significance child care exemplar a non exporting household serving sector considered beyond looking key james e pratt and david l kay senior research associate extension department