The 18% is a working-class phenomenon, due to de-industrialization and the elimination of low-skilled jobs.
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The canals were primarily built during the 19th century to accommodate Britain's rapid industrialization and manufacturing boom.
India and China have demonstrated an enormous appetite for coal, riding on a high level of industrialization and urbanization.
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Its experience mirrors those of other established Asian lenders, most of which started as conduits of funds for early industrialization and infrastructure.
This will be a foundation for Viet Nam to develop high quality human resources for international integration and national industrialization and modernization.
Through all of the panics and wars and industrialization and social changes, the economy grew in real terms an average of 3.9% a year.
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Their dream was to establish a small inn and cultural center where visitors might experience China as it was before the onslaught of industrialization and tourism.
Duplicative investment in China, and the consequent low utilization rate of capital investment, led to widespread industrialization and an explosive growth of human capital in modern manufacturing.
When the North Texas Oil business took off in 1911, Electra was at the center of the boom as a symbol of American industrialization and prosperity in small town America.
The objective of World Water Day 2011 is to focus international attention on the impact of rapid urban population growth, industrialization and uncertainties caused by climate change, conflicts and natural disasters on urban water systems.
This week's fifth BRICS summit is concentrating on Africa with the theme "BRICS and Africa: A partnership for development, integration and industrialization" and South Africa has invited more than 20 African leaders to join the discussion.
Like medicine, drug discovery was described as something that used to be an art but now was a science, and thus amenable to industrialization, and well-positioned to reap the associated benefits: economies of scale, benefits of standardization, robust metrics, etc.
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For 77 years, from the 1868 Meiji Restoration to its 1945 defeat, Japan set and pursued national goals of modernization, industrialization, and entrance into the league of major nations.
Even relatively water-rich countries of the region, such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Bhutan and Papua New Guinea, now face water supply and quality constraints in their major cities because of population growth, growing water consumption, environmental degredation, damaging agricultural activities, poor management of water catchment areas, industrialization, and groundwater overuse.
Both Chrysler and Carharrt share a history in the industrialization of Detroit, and the country, for that matter.
"China and the industrialization of China is what is propelling the mineral boom and its one of the major areas in which Africa is experiencing a growth surge which is, in fact, placing Africa as the next growth story after China, India and Brazil, " he said.
Finally there is Living Earth, which covers data on the environmental impact of technology and industrialization.
Worldwide energy demand, driven by the population growth and industrialization of the developing world, will expand by 40% in the next 20 years.
Global demand for coal has been on the rise as Asian economies, especially China and India, demand massive quantities to power its cities and industrialization projects.
But what's happened obviously since 1992 is that you've got emerging countries like China and India and Brazil that have seen enormous economic growth and industrialization.
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Technology and the shifting patterns of global industrialization have helped the world and its largest oil consumer, the U.S., wring more economic growth from each barrel of oil consumed.
The Luddites wished to return to a more natural way of life, in which skilled craftsment could ply their trade and make a living, and in which civilization was not ravaged by all the ills of industrialization (including heavy metals and other factory-produced toxins poisoning millions).
However, increasing industrialization, economic pressures and new media are leading to a decrease in collective participation with communities becoming disconnected from their roots.
My 90-year-old grandmother has experienced in her lifetime what one would imagine happening over centuries: colonialism, a war, industrialization, the rise and fall of a military dictatorship, and maturing democracy.
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Free Korea today faces economic challenges like it hasn't since the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, or perhaps even since it overcame mass poverty with the great industrialization of the 1960s and 1970s.
Even before the economy went south, however, Indiana was experiencing the sort of rapid de-industrialization that devastates working families and their communities.
After all, their abundant inheritance is not limited to the benefits of industrialization, mobile devices, and free online education and collaboration tools.
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Industrialization was proceeding rapidly, and a middle class was emerging.
Later Gandhi took steps to ensure such glorious scarcity: His economic program, such as it was, consisted of de-industrialization, withdrawing from technology and substituting the most inefficient labor methods.
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