National and local government agencies need to be supported to develop their capacity to design and implement low cost appropriate systems that are efficient, sustainable, managed by local communities, targeted at those most in need and that address multiple needs of the poor.

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But the key to economic growth is not just the low cost of production, it's the value added--the innovation, design or better architecture, or the sheer intangible of exciting fashion.

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Goldwind, Coda, and the Thermal Power Research Institute are hybrids of Western design and Chinese production, and no nation has yet mastered both the invention and the low-cost manufacturing of clean technology.

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