It is not only politicians who see value in saving the sensible aspects of sustainable development.

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Yet what could be a sensible way of financing local development got out of hand in Marbella.

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At this week's conference in Brussels on economic development in south-eastern Europe, there was much talk some of it sensible about the need for bridges, roads, railway links and the like to create inter-dependence.

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