This means more overcrowding and inadequate infrastructure, schools, and medical and social services.
Indonesia still struggles with poverty and unemployment, inadequate infrastructure, corruption, a complex regulatory environment, and unequal resource distribution among regions.
Oil-rich Nigeria has been hobbled by political instability, corruption, inadequate infrastructure, and poor macroeconomic management, but in 2008 began pursuing economic reforms.
In comparison, all of Rakhine state, she said, is "highly vulnerable, " even if it isn't where the cyclone first makes landfall, because of inadequate infrastructure.
The costs to business from outdated and inadequate infrastructure is enormous.
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Last Tuesday Mumbai received more than 65cm (26in) of rain - the heaviest recorded in India's history, causing havoc in a city known for its inadequate infrastructure.
Habitat, 62% of the urban population in Sub-Saharan Africa lives in slums, which it describes as being typically characterized by deplorable living conditions, a feeling of insecurity and inadequate infrastructure for basic energy, sanitation and water services.
The centrepiece of its programme, public-private partnerships to tackle the inadequate infrastructure which is such a hindrance to all the nation's economic hopes, is only now stuttering to life after just one of the ten projects scheduled for approval last year saw contracts awarded.
Electric vehicles aren't popular in India due to lack of infrastructure and inadequate investment.
But 54% said current infrastructure is inadequate and 23% worried about the higher cost of the trucks.
America may boast highly efficient labour and capital markets, but these advantages are partly offset by poor primary and secondary education, run-down public infrastructure, and inadequate saving that makes the country dependent on foreign capital.
Many of the most desolate parts of America have terrible physical infrastructure: housing is bad, transport links are inadequate.
While both the London Plan and PlanNYC represent compelling efforts to re-invent the aging electric infrastructure in London and New York City, they ultimately seem inadequate given the scale of the challenge the cities face in this regard.
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