The development of infrastructure and access to education and basic public services are not only necessary for sustainability and development in the long-term but also to serve as the foundation and catalysts for entrepreneurial opportunities today.
On the other, they need to maintain profitability and limit risk, and traditionally, reaching these populations has required the development of costly infrastructure with little guarantee of return on investment.
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In fact, I have a vision that when the G20 meets later in the month in Seoul, that the world needs a new balance between deficit countries and surplus countries, and that balance has to be restored by paying more attention to the development -- of the development potential, including infrastructure development and energy infrastructure agricultural infrastructure in the poorer countries of the world.
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It aims to ensure that local people can take on the jobs created by anticipated development of various infrastructure projects in west Cumbria.
That requires the development of an infrastructure, or the pipelines necessary to carry the fuel to the utilities that would burn it to make electricity.
In April 2007 when Poland and Ukraine were announced as joint hosts amidst roaring celebrations in Cardiff, Uefa hoped that the decision would aid the development of football infrastructure in central and eastern Europe where it isn't as developed as in the west but where the passion for the game is equally strong.
Leading his party's debate in the chamber, Mr Davies called on the development of a transport infrastructure and specifically the improvement of the road between Cardiff and the airport to attract more air passengers.
Lawmakers from both parties are also wary of losing more control over decisions on the scope and pace of infrastructure development, a key area of federal spending that they can direct to their states and districts.
Corrado Passera, CEO of the Intesa Sanpaolo banking group, was named to head the new ministry of development, infrastructure and transport.
But prior to its obliteration by Apple, mobile phone giant Nokia was a major player in the development of emerging market infrastructure, applications and capability raising.
"Member states shall have equal rights to manage the internet, including in regard to the allotment, assignment and reclamation of internet numbering, naming, addressing and identification resources and to support for the operation and development of basic internet infrastructure, " it said in a document submitted on 17 November.
And in the next version of the National Infrastructure Plan, it might want to provide a proper vision for the development of the country's infrastructure networks covering energy generation and transmission, South East runway capacity, national and international freight connectivity and high-speed communication networks.
Apart from that, there is widespread development of critical social and physical infrastructure, and there is an increasing pool of well-educated, English-speaking, enterprising workers in most countries across the continent.
How does the vision take into account the level of the ICT infrastructure development in the country, the availability of unified ICT-based information-educational environment, the approaches to curriculum development and the diversity of educational settings, and the ICT competencies of teachers and learners, and educational staff?
Mr Perkins called for the co-ordinated development of the land with infrastructure such as schools, medical facilities and public open space.
Economists say India's slowdown is driven by the country's slow pace of infrastructure development because of bureaucratic hurdles and policies unfriendly to business.
"I came to show France's willingness to take part in the economic development of Iraq, in the rehabilitation of its infrastructure, " he said.
However, out there on the cutting edge, innovative urban planners, policy-makers, social entrepreneurs and impact investors are advancing the development of natural or green infrastructure (GI).
Achieving that could take many years, for it will require technological advances in drugs and pesticides, as well as a development of public-health infrastructure in poor countries.
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Malaysia's central bank governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz highlighted the ability of infrastructure development to support global economic activity, but also stressed the need for such projects to be carefully managed, given the risks involved.
Bangalore took nearly two decades to get to this place, but Mahathir and Li are hoping that, by spending billions of dollars on infrastructure development, they can cover that ground in a couple of years.
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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.
The first phase of development will include demolition of existing buildings, essential infrastructure work, new buildings and refurbishment of facilities.
That data will influence how hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on the roll out of electric charging infrastructure as well as the development of future electric vehicles.
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"We believe the successful development of the Simandou project will greatly quicken the pace of local infrastructure construction and economic development, " Mr Xiong Weiping said.
The installation of drilling platforms, increase in shipping, onshore infrastructure development could affect the ecosystem of the region and the Atlantic walrus in particular.
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"We have started the planning and development of Sansha, including basic infrastructure, at full speed, " Tan was quoted by state-run Xinhua News Agency (Chinese).
"We have started the planning and development of Sansha, including basic infrastructure, at full speed, " Tan was quoted as saying by state-run Xinhua News Agency (Chinese).
If we were to succeed in leveraging mobile technology to leapfrog decades of traditional infrastructure development in just a few years, Afghans would need the capacity to take on significant leadership roles.
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