This will require better roads and more rural health clinics that are fully resourced and staffed.
However, it is not just the U.S. that hungers for more or better roads, rail, ocean- and airports, power, water and telecom networks.
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Big construction projects are good for the heavy and specialist truck industry, and better roads in emerging economies will eventually create new demand.
But the competitive transportation advantage declined with the construction of better roads around the country, and then with the onset of the silicon-based economy.
What we need is to make America a magnet for new jobs by investing in manufacturing, and energy, and better roads and bridges and schools.
Caste was still a factor, but voters overwhelmingly rewarded him for delivering better roads, schools and hospitals, improving law and order and lifting the economy.
They talk of their desire to see better roads, schools where their daughters can get an education and a reliable supply of gas for cooking and heating.
"Our bridges are not in very good condition in this country, " said Ruth Stidger, editor in chief of the trade publication Better Roads, which compiled the data.
France has a comparatively efficient public sector, thanks in part to years of investment in better roads, more high-speed trains, nuclear energy and even the restoration of old cathedrals (see article).
The argument tends to revolve around whether it makes more sense to use tolls and private enterprise to pay for better roads, or instead to keep charging taxpayers for a system that just limps along.
But that does not mean that competitors are not in a position to invest their own money to devise innovative projects that will help them build better roads and allow them to make most cost effective proposals.
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"In five years time if you come back I hope you are going to see better roads, better health facilities, better education facilities and a good living standard for every Ghanaian, " says Joseph Tandoh as he waits for his two fishing boats to return from several days at sea.
Better, wider roads have raised expectations among the rural population, too, and among those living close to the highways.
Ya'ir explained that short-cuts are not necessarily better than long roads.
Mr Curtis said the money the council spent on street cleaning "could be better spent repairing our roads or repairing our schools or even refurbishing our public toilets".
And, they say, there are now a few better drivers on the Indian roads.
Still, Democrats are asking whether the money wouldn't be better spent on schools and roads in America.
China's roads are much better, and railways must compete with booming airlines, too.
And while some people believe a heavy vehicle is better for snowy or slippery roads, Cox says they're wrong.
That shot a torpedo through the budgets for new roads and a better ferry system, and is going to make the Seattle area's traffic jams, already the country's third-worst, even more maddening.
Even in normal winter conditions, at anything below 7C, they are much better at gripping on cold roads - even dry and cleared, treated ones - because their rubber compound is softer and sticky in the cold.
Officers said this was down to more money being spent on improving roads and footpaths and better inspections by insurance and highways teams.
The investors promise a lot: new seeds, new marketing, better jobs, schools, clinics and roads.
The roads, bridges and mosques are better than you would find in an average Indonesian town.
On dirt roads the WRX STi actually handles better than on pavement.
Rich towns get the new school buildings, fire trucks, and roads, not to mention the better teachers and police officers and civil engineers.
That is why we are building so many roads now, so that we can communicate better.
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He said the money would be better spent on things like reinstating free swimming and fixing roads.
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