The city has, time and again, reinvented itself, focusing on design and creativity to build economic growth.
The South Korean capital city, awash in economic exuberance, is developing as a design, fashion and technology centre, and is breaking out as a key business hub.
In contrast, universities have expertise in all the areas relevant to fracking social, environmental, human health and economic impacts, technological innovation and sampling design as well as a commitment to and reputation for rigor and objectivity in research.
Since the financial industry is at the heart of Thailand's economic problems, and as Mr Tarrin helped design the plan to sell assets to foreigners, a two-day mud-slinging match could turn many voters against him.
Through his patio shop he reminds us that design can and should be a catalyst for economic empowerment, and that in Kibera, like everywhere, location matters.
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At the country level, the meeting noted that the development of African LDCs had continued to be constrained by shortcomings in physical infrastructure and human resources development, low levels of domestic resource mobilization, shortcomings in macroeconomic policy design and management, and severe socio-economic consequences of local or regional conflicts.
What matters here are the economic and geopolitical benefits from (a) not having to design military and foreign policy objectives based on energy security to the degree the US has over the last 30 years, and (b) being able to reap the growth, employment and current account benefits of domestically sourced-oil and natural gas.
He's been working hard behind the scenes with the New York City Economic Development Corporation to develop a new hub of clothing manufacturing and design in Manhattan.
Deveshwar is referring to a new economic reality that has corporate India grappling for answers today: How can we design businesses that are financially viable yet benign?
In a very uncomfortable way, Sandy points out the dangers of our devotion to economic efficiency: when you engineer your economy to cut out waste, you design with lowest costs in mind, and redundancy is eliminated.
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Outspoken on world economic policies and an unapologetic proponent of European integration, Soros has recently called the design of the euro "very flawed" and described the situation as an "existential crisis" for Europe.
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