Chinese investment in fixed assets like roads and bridges have been on the wane since April 2009.
The power to take private property for the common good, typically for things like roads, schools and bridges, dates back to biblical times.
That includes obvious things like roads and dams, but also spending on wars and homeland security if those investments make us safer over the long run.
The bandwidth crunch would not mean users failing to connect at all, the report added, but mobile networks would suffer "rush hours" just like roads do.
And it says that it's going to follow up the military operations with development activity, things like roads and schools, to increase people's confidence in the central government.
Some of it is going on useful things like roads and schools and paying off debts, some gets recycled, flowing back to energy-thirsty countries in the form of higher demand for their goods.
Chinese states may also see some stimulus from Beijing in their initiatives to promote growth, even though Beijing is trying to stay away from abundant fixed asset investment spending on things like roads and bridges.
Sources say that the Obama team is urging Senate Democrats by phone and behind closed doors to remove some of the spending critics say won't stimulate the economy and add job-producing public works projects like roads and bridges.
Mountain View's digital cartographers are training residents to use equipment like the Street View tricycle to take in the isolated territory's natural beauty while letting locals fill in the finer details (like roads, lakes and rivers) at community Map Up gatherings.
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Historically, when that spending has gone towards projects with long productive lives (like roads, bridges or schools), it has worked out, but when the money is used for transfer payments, unneeded infrastructure (as in the case of Japan), or non-productive activities like war, the outcomes are less positive.
And that means competition is going to be much more fierce and the winners of this competition will be the countries that have the most educated workers, a serious commitment to research and technology, and access to quality infrastructure like roads and airports and high-speed rail and high-speed Internet.
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Why should it be held to be any different from other government-owned transport modes like public roads, the waterways system, public airports and air-traffic control?
The Welsh government is set to get some limited borrowing powers and it is exploring other ways of paying for key projects like new roads.
Infrastructure assets, like toll roads, airports, and power generation facilities also throw off income and appreciate during inflation, and are a top choice for larger investors.
Mr Clarke said that he did not like toll roads, but they were preferable to leaving the A14 "in the state that it is at the moment".
The AFJP system in Latin American has helped create a vast stock of domestic savings that can fund local capital markets and lend money for projects like toll roads.
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The question of just how fast states and other agencies can spend money to do things like fix roads and retrofit buildings to make them more energy efficient will remain central to the congressional debate in coming days.
Those costs get paid by increased premiums for the people who do buy insurance, or they get paid for through socialized costs and claim our tax revenues and come at the expense of other things that people might want to do, like building roads and bridges.
Not to invest in things that grow our economy, like education or roads or basic research.
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Wherever possible he tries to take roads like those on the original route--narrow, twisting and today largely untraveled.
You all used to like to build roads. (Laughter.) Right?
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The only way we are going to have progress is to have an independent inspectorate of roads like they have in America.
As the opening sequence of the video shows, drivers on main roads like Caledonian Road do not stick to the 30mph limit as it is.
Major trunk roads like the A1 are reduced to single carriageways.
"In the past, we waited for vehicles to come onto our roads like a hunter waiting for rabbits to die in front of him, " says Geng.
Immediately after the blast, there were also tips on where to seek shelter, whether to stay put in the office, and what the situation was like on the roads.
When the money inevitably runs out, states will retain permanently larger obligations and lose budget autonomy for a generation or two as health care crowds out other priorities like education and roads.
Meirelles said that representatives of the International Olympic Committee phoned him to try and convince him to take the post, which will oversee and approve of all investments and projects like stadiums and roads needed in the Olympic Park for 2016.
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