The World Bank, by contrast, is urging it to spend even more on such projects, worried that the country's continued growth will otherwise be at risk.
The majors are the only companies with the scale to take on such projects, but they are also the only companies in which size obliges them to do so.
Large power companies such as NRG Energy Inc. and Mid American Energy Holdings Co. have been buying solar projects because the low prices of panels are improving the return on investment of such projects.
It is also focusing on infrastructure projects such as water, sewerage and rural electricity, as well as microfinance schemes.
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But its success led to other jobs, and before long he was taking on expansive projects such as the one where he lives.
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The bank began by focusing on individual projects such as new highways and dams, but now it also makes loans for general improvements in economic policies.
Before she was thrust under the national spotlight, she was an extremely popular governor who got on well with Democrats and worked with them on practical projects such as a gas pipeline.
For much of the 1980s and early 1990s, state legislatures cut appropriations to their public universities because they were in deficit and wanted to spend money on other projects such as building new prisons.
Conservative MPs have called for tax cuts in the Budget later this month, while Lib Dem Business Secretary Vince Cable has urged ministers to relax the stance on borrowing to allow more targeted spending on capital projects such as construction and transport.
One of a series of such projects on hold since 1982 because of the outlandish cost, the Nagano line was resurrected by the Olympics.
State and local governments could be forced to cut back on crucial projects, such as those for roads, schools and water and sewer systems.
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Eventually, other members of the SitePoint community jumped in and started offering cash awards for work on real projects, such as logos and WordPress themes.
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These include America's embargo on backing loans from the World Bank, which would impose higher environmental and other standards on big infrastructure projects such as Myitsone.
The government has come under pressure to increase spending on capital projects, such as roads and housing, with its critics saying it is not doing enough to help economic growth.
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These companies tend to focus on riskier loans such as construction projects and buildings with high vacancy that banks still shun.
Arguing for more films based on games is a shaky soapbox to stand on as the results of such projects have largely been bad, with only a few exceptions.
Planning decisions on big infrastructure projects, such as airports and major roads, should be (and are) made largely by national government, because they affect people beyond the area in which they are built.
Often such projects are kept on the drawing board not by lack of money but by politics and planning.
Other companies, for instance eWork and eLance, concentrate on specific projects: service jobs such as data entry, translation or programming.
He is now concentrating on relatively non-controversial projects such as a city-wide clean-up (though he tactlessly, and unsuccessfully, asked the workers to collect the rubbish after hours without charging overtime).
More than 20 field projects followed, on such themes as energy flows and recycling in Lae (Papua New Guinea), urban flora and fauna in Berlin (Germany) and in Xalapa (Mexico), children in the city of Toronto (Canada), urban green spaces in Dayton (USA), Seoul (Rep. Korea) and Valencia (Spain) and linkages between the urban and rural environments in Bangkok (Thailand) and Rome (Italy).
There are dozens of such projects and experiments going on across the company.
Admittedly, forecasting and cost-benefit analysis on big, long-term projects such as this amount to little more than complicated guesswork.
It has examined current demand and congestion forecasts on the Underground after 2020 and assessed the impact on the system of new national projects such as HS2.
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On the energy front we need many such projects, large and small, in this country and around the world to reduce the risks of our current energy systems.
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There will also be more practical projects on nature reserves, such as developing initiatives with schools, improving access for all, and getting volunteers involved with building ponds or planting woodlands.
Before the pipeline rupture, Turkmenistan did not pursue such projects vigorously because it could count on Russian consumption.
Still, we really liked a lot of the ideas and chose to focus on projects that could be done quickly, such as placing battery-operated lights in jars or vases in the windows instead of faux candles and filling clear-glass ornaments with confetti to hang on white tabletop trees as part of the dining-room-table centerpiece.
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