Relying on foreign resources may also assuage government concerns about having enough food, he said.
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Quite simply, countries like Greece, Spain and Italy have always found themselves too dependent on foreign resources to meet their energy needs.
The company is part of a growing movement to use low cost local resources rather then potentially un-reliable and increasingly costly foreign resources.
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Faced with fragile access to foreign resources and little domestic potential on the books, Rome realized that offshore options had to be on the table.
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But if the foreign resources are badly employed, or if the current-account deficit grows too fast, a country may not be able to meet its obligations to foreign creditors.
In addition to helping establish Greece as an energy producer for the rest of Europe, tapping into those reserves could help the country ease its heavy dependence on foreign resources, estimated to cost about five percent of GDP a year.
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It goes without saying that achieving such a transformation would also be very much in the interest of developed nations facing immense demands on limited foreign aid resources.
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The emerging superpower has essentially built its foreign policy around securing resources needed to sustain its economic growth.
Yet the war in the western region of Darfur, which reached its most violent stage as the CPA was being finalised, has eaten up most of the foreign diplomatic and financial resources that were promised to bolster the north-south agreement.
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As a result, the company might not expend resources to challenge foreign tax assessments.
"A substantial enhancement of the resources of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is fundamental to the successful conduct of foreign policy in the world in which we live, " he declared.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield is the Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources.
In the past, U.S. regulators have conducted "selected reviews" of foreign listing applications because of limited resources.
China is the lead consumer of Brazilian soybeans and iron ore, not to mention a new foreign direct investor in Brazilian natural resources and infrastructure.
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In other words, the foreign companies incur the risk of investing resources into a project with none of the potential rewards associated with high oil prices.
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Green says different ministries are promoting different investment priorities, from foreign stocks and companies to oil and other resources.
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"The Golos association receives no foreign funding and is funded solely by Russian resources, " it said in a recent statement.
Cheap land, cheap labour and rich natural resources have attracted big inflows of foreign investment, especially from Asian neighbours like China, Vietnam and Thailand.
In July, the Foreign Office Minister Mr Bellingham said limited military resources meant it was not possible to free up Royal Marines for a ship protection role.
The Initiative will provide enhanced coordination of Federal activities in order to increase the impact of Federal resources that support both domestic and foreign investment in the United States.
But renewing our leadership also meant rebalancing our foreign policy to ensure that our focus and our resources matched our priorities.
Lord Bates is delighted about having access to the resources of the U.K. Foreign Office, which has done everything from arranging meetings to getting a salt bath for his tired feet.
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And Russia has a strong incentive to rewrite the rules, since it agreed to generous terms for projects like Sakhalin back in the 1990s, when it had no money to develop its resources itself and was desperate to attract foreign investment.
Foreign aid workers affirm that the government tries to spread its resources as widely as possible.
Some Singaporeans feel that too many foreign workers put a strain on the island state's resources causing problems such as an overcrowded public transport system.
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But he warned the government against cutting the Foreign Office budget, which already lacked "anything like the resources" it needed to pursue the UK's policy objectives.
And that is the big difference between the foreign giants and their Asian competitors: the foreigners have the resources to stick to their expansion plans, while local firms are pulling back further with each additional piece of bad news.
Families or small villages pooled resources to send a young man to the bidesh (foreign land).
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