Greater Manchester has made huge efforts to promote itself as the most promising development region outside London and the south-east.
"We are working with north Wales to see if we can put in place a development region, " Lewis told the Western Mail.
But Lewis has now raised the possibility of a fifth "development" region being set up in north Wales.
As for economic and social development, the Sahara region has recorded higher development rates compared with many other regions in Morocco.
Its size means it could be a hazard to shipping and offshore development in the region.
Ahmadinejad has also failed to live up to his promise of helping spur economic development in the region.
We looked forward to further consultations on RDR concept development in the region.
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Among those supporting Dent was popular Governor Ed Rendell, who praised Dent for his work in creating economic development in the region.
Madanjeet Singh created the South Asia Foundation in 2000 as a youth movement to promote sustainable cultural, educational and economic development throughout the region.
Mr. Bratislav Petkovic, Minister of culture of Serbia, and the Director-General underscored the critical role culture plays for social and economic development in the region.
The report points out that despite the varying levels of development across the region, countries there are committed to the modernization and reform of their education systems.
New land policy is reducing the amount of available parcels for single-family development in the region and pushing developers to build more-dense high-rise projects on remaining land, he said.
Several other programmes address social development in the region.
It was unanimously stated that a high performance network would be a key tool for strengthening Research and Development in this region and for facilitating the integration of SEE countries into a pan-European scientific network.
The participants agreed to the need to develop more robust ICH information systems both for institutional knowledge management and also for the enhanced visibility of ICH for sustainable development in the region, and identified several constraints including technological infrastructure.
And he said that there was a need for the world to demonstrate to the rest of the Middle East - which was feeling frustrated and humiliated - that they are appreciated by speeding development in the region as a whole.
This English-language workshop is one of the key components of the Capacity-Building Programme of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, which is being piloted in Africa in order to support the implementation of the 2005 Convention at the national level and to boost the potential of the dynamic cultural sector for sustainable development in the region.
And we also will have discussions about how we can continue to strengthen development in Honduras and the region so that people have opportunity, we will see economic growth, see economic development, and expand trade and further interactions between our two countries.
To promote training and professional development in the Balkans region by providing distance learning.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development helped stabilise the region's banks, bringing foreign lenders together to ensure an orderly deleveraging instead of a rout.
Last week I was in Pemba, a sleepy port town in northern Mozambique, which is waking up quickly to the large scale gas development underway in the region.
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Published recently, the Asian Development Outlook 1999, the Asian Development Bank's annual examination of development problems facing the region, provides a comprehensive review of the various proposals and blueprints.
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Since such technologies would have to be essentially based on the integrated development of the total region, the concept becomes more wide in its economic, social and political perspective.
The discussion was opened by Jean-Luc Margot-Duclot, senior VP of the Paris Region Economic Development Agency, who reminded the audience of its position as a major economic hub, with the highest GDP in Europe, and its leading position in international exhibition and conference organization.
Participants in the Expert Meeting included experts from the fields of conservation and development, academia, representatives from the private sector and government officials from both the region and from their official development partners.
The arrival of Yorkshire Forward, the region's development agency, however, seems to have caused both cities to co-operate more.
Plan, organize and provide technical backstopping to projects, workshops, publications and other activities and events of relevance to science and sustainable development in the sub-region.
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For the early French explorers who arrived in Quebec province in the 1530s, the Saint Lawrence was key to the development and success of the region.
They are a large group, a vital group in the development of any community or region, and provide both the critical mass, ideas, and energy to grow our metropolitan regions.
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