The New Partnership for Africa's Development is particularly encouraging.

Despite encouraging progress since the Johannesburg Summit, sustainable development remained a major challenge.

International trade has a central role to play in promoting, encouraging and supporting development activities.

Their influence on public opinion is not yet significant but they represent an encouraging development.

Encouraging countries to create a supportive legal, institutional and regulatory climate for sustainable energy development.

Encouraging and facilitating the development contributions that transnational corporations can make is an essential ingredient of the development and investment interface.

(k) Encouraging the development and strengthening of educational programmes to promote sustainable consumption and production patterns

(d) Encouraging greater private sector involvement in the development effort to stimulate growth, economic development and employment generation (see sect. V below)

(e) The Development Journal of SID the quarterly Journal has been encouraging a global interdisciplinary debate on the cutting edge issues in development.

Likewise, other proposals on innovative forms of development financing to generate additional sources of finance are encouraging.

Attracting development assistance is in some respects as competitive as encouraging foreign direct investment by developing countries.

(a) Encouraging the development of basic space science such as astronomy and geoplanetary research through mutual cooperation

Several measures can be envisaged, such as incentives aimed at encouraging the development of urban public transport

Encouraging the development of initiatives to promote private sector engagement in technology transfer and technological and scientific cooperation,

To sum up, it is not about encouraging development with one hand and impeding it with the other.

Encouraging Work

Therefore, the IDNDR secretariat is seeking ways of encouraging the development of cooperative approaches for sharing space based resources.

The recent reduction in negative rhetoric and increase in high level contacts in the region is an encouraging development.

An encouraging development was the increase in the number of cases being handled by the courts currently in operation.

47. An encouraging development in recent years has been the almost universal pursuit of increased economic openness and integration.

It's very encouraging.

(b) Encouraging multilateral, bilateral, donor and development agencies to include in their programmes of assistance activities that strengthen national machineries

In parallel with economic achievements, the reform process in Viet Nam has also seen encouraging development in the social field.

(b) Encouraging multilateral, bilateral, donor and development agencies to include in their programmes of assistance, activities that strengthen national machineries

There was now an encouraging trend among international organizations towards making the development dimension an integral part of work programmes.

Working with schools is another important vehicle for disseminating information to youth and encouraging their involvement in sustainable development activities.

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is among the most supportive and encouraging RAED organization and funded many collaborative initiatives.

Measures should include enhancing the efficiency of domestic sectors by encouraging human resource development and by ensuring appropriate investment policies.

But everything else should be turned into a way of encouraging production and research and development and introducing sophisticated technologies.

The initiative by citizens to create the multi ethnic Coalition for Return has been a very encouraging development in this process.

Encouraging telecommuting? What works?

Dad's always encouraging him.

Recognizing the importance to all countries of strong, effective and efficient insolvency regimes as a means of encouraging economic development and investment,

Mr. Kasanda highlighted the importance of encouraging the full and equal participation of Afro descendant women in decision making and policy development.

(c) Encouraging the inclusion of the promotion and protection of the right to development in technical cooperation assistance to countries, upon request

The withdrawal of Israel from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank is indeed an encouraging development in the region.

The programme contains a number of measures aimed at encouraging the development of small and medium size towns in the border region.

It is encouraging to note that the articulation of the road map for the implementation of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme was the most important development during the year.

The convergence of agendas between the Ministry and peasant organizations concerning the implementation of the rural development strategy advocated by the Peace Agreements is an encouraging development which deserves support.

These are hardly encouraging signs.

This is all very encouraging.

The results have been encouraging.

This was an encouraging start.

This is an encouraging sign.

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