But China is not the only power interested in securing greater access to Latin American raw materials and other resources.
In Malaysia, the industry-backed Insurance Info Programme since 2003 has provided easy-to-understand materials, online resources and financial education in schools to promote financial inclusion.
Securing the prodigious raw materials, natural resources, and energy reserves that it needs to do so leaves it with little choice but to scour the world and negotiate agreements wherever it can.
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This enrolment expansion was not, however, accompanied by an increase in the provision of essential materials and teaching resources to schools or by the training of more teachers, an aspect which compromised the quality of education.
External funding has facilitated reciprocal visits and workshops which have enabled teachers from both continents to work closely together in identifying resources and materials which can be used in both places as well as producing new resource materials.
High quality resources are pooled together in a multilingual website, which holds an inventory of annotated, classified resources and structured materials intended for use by trainers and end users.
Chen made his fortune in the 1990s through his company Huangpu Renewable Resources, a construction materials recycling firm.
And you need resources to turn those raw materials into Olympic-level gold medal winning athletes, and that's income.
In Pakistan, through the project "Mobile Learning for Teachers" Nokia's Education Delivery application will help UNESCO to enable the delivery of high-quality educational materials to teachers who lack training and resources though mobile phones giving an opportunity to teachers to train themselves on the same level as professionally competent teachers.
The manual includes session plans, teaching materials, assistance in teaching techniques and other resources to run informal training in media and journalism.
Open educational resources are any type of educational materials in the public domain or released under an open-content license that allows for free use, re-use and sharing.
Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning or research materials that are in the public domain and released with an open license (such as Creative Commons).
We created ZenRobotics to establish an intelligent recycling process for commercial and demolition waste and begin to change the balance of waste and resources and increase the volume of recycled materials.
Despite continued sluggishness in major markets and a rise in the cost of raw materials, the company will continue to efficiently allocate resources and develop differentiated products such as the Blast Chiller refrigerator.
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It is recognised that the ability to decode individual words is not sufficient, hence the materials simultaneously attend to fluency which promotes comprehension by freeing cognitive resources for interpretation.
UNESCO: Kha Ri Gude (Let Us Learn) Adult Literacy Programme (KGALP)
But a quarter of the resources come from the supply chain, from sourcing raw materials.
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Local governments often lack the resources to provide the promised training, or even tools and materials.
It is worth noting that the materials produced by UNESCO will be accessible to all teachers through the pedagogical resources portal of the Ministry of Education and therefore easy to use and to upscale in a cost-effective manner.
So the SEC has enlisted the considerable resources of thousands of firms, and the voices of their disclosure materials, for the climate change cause.
Indeed, for big, high-value choices, that seems obvious: when Starbucks introduced its instant coffee, or when Applied Materials moved its manufacturing and engineering base to Asia, those decisions involved sizable amounts of resources and significant risk.
Despite the early financial support from wealthy investors and the backing of well-known space-exploration researchers, Planetary Resources faces many technical questions and uncertainties about costs and the technology required to extract materials from asteroids.
The organizations claimed that the project introduced potential risks of hazardous materials and emissions, wildfires and noise which would degrade air quality, prime farmland, cultural resources and endangered species (the blunt-nosed lizard, San Joakin kit fox and giant kangaroo rat).
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However, the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of these programmes has been undermined by a lack of adequate resources, an acute shortage of trained manpower, a severe lack of educational and other instructional materials, a shortage of learning spaces and insufficient motivation for teachers and literacy facilitators due to poor working conditions.
UNESCO: Integrated Intergenerational Literacy Project (IILP)
These are important raw materials for the steel industry, among others, and China restricts their exports on the grounds that they are exhaustible resources.
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