This study is the most comprehensive assessment to date of the value of the natural world to global economic development.
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These radical proposals threaten not only the Internet as we know it but also innovation and national and global economic development.
The presentation of the Report was well received, with discussion including reference to the vital role of engineering in social and economic development, global issues of poverty reduction, sustainable development and other UN Millennium Development Goals and issues facing engineering.
James S. Henry is a leading economist, attorney and investigative journalist who has written extensively about global development, economic, technology, and tax issues.
Indeed, renewables development is now reshaping global economic security calculations, offering new catalysts for growth and providing a springboard for technological development.
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President Fernandez of Dominican Republic joined many leaders of global development agencies including the World Bank to drive sustained economic development.
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.
The right price, he said, is low enough to facilitate global economic growth but high enough to incentivize development of not just marginal oil and gas fields but even renewable energy sources.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development also offered some positive economic commentary, saying that the global recession is close to bottoming out.
Earlier in the day the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said the global recession is nearing a bottom, but warned that the recovery will be weak unless governments do more to remove uncertainty from bank balance sheets.
Going forward, the United States, consistent with the G-20 development plan and its own global development policy, will work to more effectively leverage its development resources and achieve better economic growth outcomes for developing countries.
Talks began again in 2008, but development plans were slowed by the global economic meltdown.
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We clearly need a new model of production and consumption if economic development is to continue on a global scale.
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The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development will release their global growth forecast figures on Tuesday, along with U.S. existing home sales and Euro zone consumer confidence survey results.
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Romney continued the conversation about the Middle East, albeit in a less confrontational way, when he spoke at the Clinton Global Initiative on Tuesday, tying his plan for economic development through trade and free enterprise to stability in the region.
It was the first attempt by the global community to really address how the economic pillar of sustainable development should be integrated into the other areas.
For example, the payoffs of focusing our priority attention on the dynamic economies of the Pacific Basin and revitalizing economic development in our own hemisphere will likely be enormous in terms of U.S. employment, global economic growth, and enhanced Western security.
F4D, supported by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), leads a global campaign to support social and economic growth while simultaneously contributing to UN Millennium Development Goals.
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In this regard, the community that is built upon an Asia, an East Asia also, and also a framework now through the East Asia Summit framework, we have the responsibility to -- in one area, to ensure that the cooperation in the region, especially in the area of economic cooperation, can contribute significantly to the development of the global economy that will bring benefit for all humanity.
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We discussed economic challenges that pose threats to global economic recovery, food and energy security, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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Mr Alexander added that the government, together with Germany and France, was putting additional funds into the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, to aid work on establishing global agreements to prevent companies avoiding tax by moving profits from one country to another with a lower tax rate.
During the World Economic Forum, the Director-General will attend several high-profile sessions on the global development outlook and the post-2015 agenda, as well as on urban development and bolstering ocean resilience.
But BBC international development correspondent David Loyn says engaging politicians and the public will be harder this time round amid the global economic downturn.
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The survey shows overwhelming support for the belief that if the information society is to be one in which all citizens throughout the world can equally access and use information resources for sustainable economic and social development, that cyberspace should be declared a resource to be shared by all for the global public good.
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