His new powers extend beyond relief and reconstruction to cover areas including infrastructure, banking and finance, rural and urban land use, telecommunications, defence and security.

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Charging motorists for scarce road space, with most of the revenues being used to finance improvements in bus, rail or urban mass-transit systems, is the only sensible route to restraint.

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Mr Bush joined the Miami Urban League, a black-led organisation, to finance and run the school in the belief that its emphasis on basic learning and discipline would make it a model for the state.

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The following is the complete text of a statement by Robert K. Steel, Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, as released by the Treasury Department on Thursday, April 3.

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Migrants without an urban hukou spend 30% less than otherwise similar urban residents, according to research by Binkai Chen of the Central University of Finance and Economics, Ming Lu of Fudan University and Ninghua Zhong of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

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In terms of culture, finance, media and certain other transaction-based industries, a number of dense urban cores remain unassailable in their efficiency and appeal.

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