Before long, it was financing the construction of roads and dams throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Can you show me anywhere in the industrialised world where development took place without the construction of roads?
Boucher acknowledged that more needed to be done, but pointed out progress in construction of roads and electricity grids in parts of the country.
However, both are now seriously threatened by deforestation and invasive practices, including intensive mining and logging, extensive livestock activity, water pollution, degradation of headwaters, unregulated processes of urban settlement, construction of roads, waterways and dams, drainage and diversion of rivers, burning of forests and illegal fishing and trade in wildlife.
Petrobras affirms the construction of the roads and the new port should take six months.
The construction of new roads could also be taken on by the private sector.
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.
The prospect of a bridge to Asia depends on the construction of three roads, each being built by Brazilian-led consortia, to connect Pacific and Atlantic Ocean ports.
Unlike existing motorways, the construction costs of future roads cannot be recouped through toll fees, explains the corporation, because traffic is expected to be light in the mountains.
Meanwhile construction of new hotels, roads, offices and factories-the nonresidential projects that account for 90% of United's business-is likely to improve.
The majority of usable reservoirs are located in remote, scenic wilderness areas where construction of plants, access roads, power lines and other infrastructure is perceived as an unwelcome intrusion on nature.
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And despite the never-ending stretch of road construction through the state of Virginia, many roads across the country need repair.
Let's create a Veterans Jobs Corps that can hire police officers and firefighters in communities that need them. (Applause.) Let's get a whole bunch of construction workers to rebuild our roads and our bridges, our ports and our airports. (Applause.) Let's rebuild our schools.
With China only having 75% of their roads paved, there will be years of more construction work and earth moving going on, according to the U.S. China Business Council in Washington.
Mr Stevenson also announced measures to minimise disruption during the construction of the new bridge, including reducing working hours for the building of associated roads.
The most visible link with China for both Tanzania and Kenya is in infrastructure development, where it seems that Chinese construction companies are building all of the new roads and major buildings in the two countries.
They said no to putting hundreds of thousands of construction workers back on the job repairing our roads and our bridges and our schools and our transit systems.
Congress should have passed a bill a long time ago to put thousands of construction workers back on the job rebuilding our roads and our bridges and our runways.
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I've been pretty vocal about how important it is to put these transportation investments into action and get hundreds of thousands of construction workers back on the job rebuilding our roads, bridges, airports, and transit systems.
For example, technical assistance on the construction of storage facilities such as silos and warehouses, irrigation, roads and agricultural extension programs could be provided.
Drive east and you see the same, an undulent landscape carpeted with buildings completed or under construction, roads thick with traffic, and a few forlorn patches of the original Atlantic Forest or more recently transplanted eucalyptus trees to break up the relentless jumble of concrete.
He could raise rural incomes by allocating more of the money spent on road construction to farm-to-market roads.
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Right now, there are millions of laid-off construction workers who could be repairing our bridges and roads and modernizing our schools.
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If one were to graph the pace of technological breakthroughs and resulting business structure changes and wealth creation throughout history, the graph would include little spikes to include the high points of Mesopotamian agriculture, Egyptian construction, Chinese paper, Athenian education, Roman roads and aqueducts, and so on.
Yet legions of skilled construction workers remain unemployed while we drive our cars over pothole-laden roads and creaky bridges.
Pass this jobs bill, and hundreds of thousands of unemployed construction workers will get back on the job rebuilding our schools, rebuilding our roads, rebuilding our bridges, rebuilding our ports, rebuilding our airports.
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The graph would include little spikes marking the high points of Mesopotamian agriculture, Egyptian construction and jewelry, Chinese gunpowder and paper, Athenian education, Roman roads and aqueducts, and so on.
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