One independent study for the World Bank a decade ago found a surprising link between projects the bank financed and civil liberties: projects in countries with strong civil liberties had far higher rates of return than those in countries with weak traditions of liberty.
Some 130 million are used as fuel, and 53 million go into civil engineering projects.
They also enjoy a continuing monopoly over construction and civil engineering projects, from dams to bridges, and highways to metropolitan underground light railways.
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The second argument is that big civil-airliner projects are so expensive and risky that, without government support, they would never be financed at all.
He is an experienced chartered civil engineer, used to running projects worth millions of pounds.
In that capacity, she oversees the work of the Employment Litigation and Educational Opportunities Sections of the Civil Rights Division and spearheads interagency policy projects related to combating discrimination and promoting equality of opportunity in education and employment.
The project is also intended to build and strengthen the capacity of 180 youth-led, innovative projects which will in turn help build civil society.
It eased restrictions on foreign direct investments in sectors such as retail and civil aviation and took steps to fast-track industrial projects.
In a settlement, Koch Industries paid a record thirty-million-dollar civil fine, and agreed to spend five million dollars on environmental projects.
With a degree in civil engineering, Lee-Chin returned to Jamaica to work on highway projects.
My father, a civil engineer, is being affected because some of his clients have cancelled projects because of the Argentinean crisis.
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One reason for the investment shortfall may be that government lacks the ability to manage big investment projects, following sharp cutbacks in the senior ranks of the civil service in the mid-1990s.
Indeed, one of the innovative aspects of the projects is the bringing together of youth and educational institutions on the one hand and civil society actors on the other, around a concrete project in order to develop local communities and effective civic engagement.
It eased foreign investment restrictions in retail and civil aviation to attract overseas capital, and set up a panel of ministers to clear large industrial projects caught in bureaucratic red-tape.
Projects to make debates more enlightening, ads more honest, journalism more highbrow and politics more civil have been tried and tried.
It eased restrictions on foreign investment in retail, civil aviation and television broadcasting and took steps to overcome bureaucratic hurdles that have been delaying several large industrial and infrastructure projects.
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