Like economic development, political reconciliation does indeed need to be part of the solution for Afghanistan.
Echoing Green, started in 1987 by General Atlantic co-founder David Hodgson and others, funds organizations that seek to create social change in fields like economic development, health and education.
As part of the conference, the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs is releasing a series of blueprints that highlight policies and programs New York City has undertaken in areas like economic development, language access and policing in hopes they will offer useful strategies other cities can use for their own purposes.
The learned body noted that biofuels like E85 may spur economic development and help reduce oil imports, but they do little to combat climate change.
Outside of oil and gas projects and a few specific infrastructure projects (ports like Jebel Ali and airports like Dubai), far less real economic development has happened in the oil-rich parts of the Arab world than would be expected based on their great endowment of human and natural resources.
The leaders of Japan wanted electric power generation to power their economic development and nuclear power seemed like a natural for a country without much coal or any oil.
Organized by UNESCO, it will address sustainable development and economic and social challenges like youth unemployment.
This integration has enabled hitherto disadvantaged people to gain equivalent qualifications with their counterparts in the formal education sector, an approach which has enabled the former to effectively participate in the cultural, economic and social development of the Kingdom like every other citizen.
And I think the President spoke in his remarks about the idea of evaluating proposals that we've seen introduced in Congress and that we've heard from leaders -- like Governor Granholm -- whether it's increased economic development assistance or programs to spur the purchase of automobiles -- that we look into that immediately, and not again wait for any 30- or 60-day period.
Makes you wonder how cities like Rochester and Syracuse have become such bad jokes of regional economic development.
Argentina, like many emerging markets, is a prime example of the paradoxes of economic development.
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Estrada wants Concord to lift provisions barring foreigners from owning land and controlling key industries like telecommunications - a step he says is essential to boosting investment and economic development.
Even normally cautious bodies like the International Energy Agency and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development are sounding the alarm, with the latter recently releasing a comprehensive report forecasting a world in 2050 that will be defined by resource constraint and its economic impacts.
Some people like Beau Taylor, who at 35 has dedicated his professional life to economic and rural development in places that have included Iraq, don't even want to think about this incident anymore.
And that would bring me back to those areas like education, and research and development, and infrastructure that are simply too important to our economic future to shortchange now because of what they can do for us going forward.
He cited cities like Denver and Phoenix, Arizona, where residents, motivated by traffic frustrations and the promise of economic development, approved massive transportation projects during the past few years despite the costs to their pocketbooks.
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The literally graceful and ballerina-like Warren, a creative writer, knew from her experience in Haiti where she had worked on economic development projects that income and jobs were the key to lifting the Ghanaians out of poverty.
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It has led to deforestation in countries like Brazil, for instance, and, in countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), intensive livestock production has become a major source of pollution.
And there I will discuss in greater detail our efforts to broaden and deepen our cooperation and make some specific announcements on important issues like counterterrorism and regional security, on clean energy and climate change, and on the advance of economic growth and development and democracy around the globe.
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