The Ethiopian government seems to have elected to bet on large-scale concessions of fertile arable lands to foreign investors.

UNESCO: Madiodio Niasse on the risks associated with large-scale foreign land aquisitions | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Large-scale land concessions often generate a planning blight effect, which here refers to the uncertainty and deleterious effects on the social fabric and economic activities in targeted areas once a land allocation decision is made, or once negotiations between government and prospective investors have begun.

UNESCO: Madiodio Niasse on the risks associated with large-scale foreign land aquisitions | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

It would also have to decide what concessions to make to Slovakia's large Hungarian minority - and where to draw the line.

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Workers refused to make concessions, now they will have to make large ones.

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It is always easier to make the sort of concessions needed to secure agreement among such a large number of countries (141 will be represented in Doha) when the economic outlook is buoyant and governments feel freer to look beyond their own short-term interests.

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Large fleets would be allocated transferable catch shares, called "concessions", which they would be able to trade, in response to local conditions.

BBC: Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee

Under the proposals, large fleets would be allocated transferable catch shares, called "concessions", which they would be able to trade, in response to local conditions.

BBC: Scottish govenment's Common Fisheries Policy debate