The poverty in this situation is that as we switch focus from national to local we kid ourselves that these are not linked and that for as long as we focus on one the other will take care of itself.
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Although the move would only shift the ability to discriminate from the national level to the local, it would be an important step in the right direction.
He went on to say there had to be "some form of democratic accountability and a link back from the national authority back to the local areas".
Officially launched by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO and Michel Jarraud, Chair to UN-Water and Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, the event brought together government representatives, local communities, NGOs, UN organizations and eminent specialists in water security to discuss how to harness cooperation at all levels, from the local to the national and international levels, and across all socioeconomic sectors.
This acquisition complements our high touch portfolio of radio, digital, mobile and live event assets and helps us to balance our media footprint from local-to-national.
She wants her investments to be able to break loose from their local boundaries and become national brands in order to think more broadly about their programs.
He thought to generalize this observation from local and state governments to state and national governments.
The mechanism by which news filters up from the local to the national level is badly broken.
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The victory was particularly sweet for the Scot as a highly partisan crowd cheered his transformation from local boy to national hero.
At the general election in May, both Labour and the Conservatives had to resort to sending targeted mailshots from their national centres in an attempt to capture the feel of a local campaign.
Lastly, the government has also discovered that media, especially social media, can be an effective tool in gauging public opinion on everything from broader national topics like inflation down to very local issues like land redevelopment.
Just to recap the analysis in the previous post, over the past 20 years from FY1990 to FY2011 outstanding national and local government debt grew by JPY 500 trillion, 127.8 percent of GDP on a net basis (229.1 percent on gross), the highest among OECD countries by far.
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Their role in water cycles is integral to water resource management from the level of a local pond right up to trans-national river basins.
What's happening in Pakistan is also occurring in Afghanistan where, despite the removal of the Taliban from the control of the national government, local teachers and pupils are under pressure to stay away from school.
At the end of each course, a graduation ceremony is held to which members of the community, family members of the course participants and representatives from the local and national authorities are invited in order for them to witness and share in the success of the graduating learners.
This gives local authorities veto power, and since their operating budgets come largely from the national government, there is little incentive to grow the local economy.
Global warming will shift from vague concern to serious business opportunity, as local and national governments worldwide use taxes, regulations and incentives to push less carbon dioxide-intensive technology.
Now serving a national audience from its headquarters in New Delhi, NDTV wants to offer local news in cities around the country in collaboration with local networks.
That is the premise of Code for America, a budding national organization of software programmers who use public information from local governments to create better civic services.
Democratic hopes in the mid-term elections are perhaps best served by keeping to local issues, diverting attention away from a bleak national economy, unpopular wars and a president with dragging approval ratings.
"The whole Atlantic seaboard from Normandy to the Pyrenees is missionary territory for the National Front, " says local party leader Jean-Marc de Lacoste-Lareymondie.
While this might be someone's first outing in the orthographic Super Bowl, it takes many rounds -- from school bees to local to regional -- to qualify for the National Spelling Bee.
Despite the fact that the programme received insufficient funding from the national government, partnerships established with the municipal and local governments have helped to sustain it.
The new National Network for Manufacturing Innovation will work to leverage new investment from industry, state and local government, and the research community.
But following the outbreak of the second intifada in 2000, and the imposition of restrictions for residents of the West Bank by the Israelis, the local league was cancelled and national team players were prevented from traveling abroad to fulfil their fixtures.
At the global level, The Ramsar Convention has called for local to national governments to recognise wetlands as the primary sources from which humans derive water and that they are a major and critical component of the water cycle that keeps us supplied with water.
But many of the new councils are out in the sticks, well away from the national media's spotlight, and such local press as exists is not always keen to tangle with local bosses.
Steve White, vice-chairman of the Police Federation, attempted to distance the national organisation from the fierce criticism of Mr Mitchell that came from some of its local spokesmen at the time.
Fifty-five percent of election news consumers said they went to local or national online news organizations for coverage, while 27 percent got news from major commercial online services and 19 percent used specialized political, government, candidate or issue-oriented web sites.
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Loan customers are mostly medium-sized local businesses, which might be too small to get much attention from a bank with national aspirations.
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