"A capital-intensive infrastructure project aimed at cars when the focus should be on more sustainable modes of transportation, is not doing a favor to Mumbai, " said Bina Balakrishnan, a transportation and engineering consultant.
In both scenarios, the amount of electricity supplied through the power grid is lower during peak periods, which improves reliability, reduces rates by avoiding the use of high-priced power plants during peak hours and delays capital intensive infrastructure investments needed to maintain the grid.
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Since most emerging economies lack broad unemployment insurance, the main way they help the jobless is through labour-intensive government infrastructure projects as well as conditional cash transfers for the poorest.
For the present the rise of knowledge-intensive global industries favours centres rich in infrastructure and specialised skills.
He told CNN that Spain has a well-developed infrastructure for managing patients in intensive care and dedicated donor coordinators who are able to counsel the families of the deceased and discuss their consent to organ donation.
First, these tools are labor intensive and do not integrate with existing security infrastructure.
Their argument is that the exponential growth in web usage, particularly bandwidth intensive video applications, along with the rise in infrastructure costs, means that their business has become more costly.
New infrastructure -- it used to be that you had to have telephone lines and very capital intensive in order to communicate.
The lack of existing standards and infrastructure combined with the challenges of operating in emerging markets means that due diligence is costly and time intensive.
You're changing the infrastructure in rapidly growing countries, and you're locking into a future that is less carbon-intensive and coincides with our interests.
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