However, more steps are needed, such as to cut down the delays in environmental clearances and improving infrastructure for reducing power shortages, it said.
Most projects are small, taking one week or less to complete, and are geared toward installing or improving infrastructure for basic human needs, such as water projects.
He believed the answer lay in improving infrastructure - which had "remained static" despite growing demand - and for a joined up approach to cycling within government.
Donation rates in Britain could be increased by at least 50% over the next five years by improving infrastructure and publicity as Spain did, the report holds.
What was supposed to be a deal that brings in more jobs in the short term could potentially harm long-term job growth in Rhode Island if the cost of borrowing for schools, roads and improving infrastructure goes up.
Two-thirds of Chicago residents want the Olympics, according to a Chicago Tribune poll, but the city is also seeing opposition from the likes of blog nogameschicago.com, which thinks its Olympic investment would be better spent on improving infrastructure and transport.
As we continue to work within existing authorities to fortify our country against cyber risks, comprehensive legislation remains essential to improving infrastructure security, enhancing cyber information sharing between government and the private sector, and protecting the privacy and civil liberties of the American people.
An ongoing programme, due for completion in 2015, is improving airstrip infrastructure across the country.
But he also aimed to assuage businesses' concerns, talking about improving creaky infrastructure.
If it did, improving the infrastructure and public services of the country's underdeveloped interior might really do some good.
And folks who think spending really is our biggest problem should be more concerned than anybody about improving our infrastructure right now.
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Road builders chief Ruane says the truckers have indicated some support, provided the money raised was entirely dedicated to improving freight infrastructure.
And he can use his power and influence to facilitate new building while improving municipal infrastructure to encourage economic growth and population expansion.
The US president's executive order on Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity was issued in conjunction with his State of the Union address on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, FIFA has continued to make inroads in centralizing the administration of Indian football through its two Goal Projects and in improving footballing infrastructure.
The UN's Top Ten list of "slum upgrading actions" ranks "installing or improving basic infrastructure" as No. 1 and makes no reference to government-subsidized replacement housing.
He said Mayor of London Boris Johnson would work with the boroughs to develop plans that may include redeveloping land for commercial use, improving transport infrastructure in Tottenham and establishing Croydon as a retail centre.
As the region's population goes on growing, several plans for improving its infrastructure have emerged, ranging from a central-area project developed by the city's planners to a more ambitious regional scheme that comes from a group called Metropolis 2020.
Now the theory is that delays to building fast-track rail lines through countryside or new runways in residential areas of the south east would shrink - creating jobs in the short term and improving productive infrastructure in the medium term.
The report mentions other long-term priorities such as ensuring transport links, improving island infrastructure such as the roads, harbours and broadband access and speed, security of energy supply and planning for increasing health and pension costs due to an ageing population.
And that's going to require improving our schools, that's going to require improving the infrastructure in Haiti, that's going to require providing the ability of Haitians to sell their products like textiles into advanced countries at an advantageous situation so that they can start rebuilding their commerce and their industry.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Holds a Town Hall in New Hampshire
Improving the opportunities of the youth is as important as improving the Haitian infrastructure.
Other aims include offering more opportunities to the long-term unemployed, improving the transport infrastructure and creating better public transport.
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China needs to first find popular support if it is to take a role in managing and improving the global infrastructure.
They came back with recommendations that included joining the World Trade Organization, passing laws to protect intellectual property, improving the telecom infrastructure and beefing up the education system.
They returned with recommendations that included joining the World Trade Organization, passing laws to protect intellectual property, improving the telecom infrastructure, changing 25 laws to make doing business easier and beefing up the education system.
This will benefit not only unions, who will build and operate these systems, but companies like Siemens who push for greater rail expansions at the expense of maintaining and improving such critical infrastructure as roads.
Now, it appears that they want their leaders to focus on the basics: creating better-paying jobs, protecting the population, expanding trade, improving access to technology, developing infrastructure in rural areas, and improving relations with foreign countries and trade partners.
Savings can come through retrofitting products to make them more efficient, upgrading already-planned purchases, building a more efficient infrastructure and improving current operations at little or no cost.
His top three: education, energy and improving America's infrastructure.
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