And imagine a national business model that creates local jobs and smart infrastructure to improve local economic stability.

Extensive damage to local infrastructure caused delays in the most immediate response.

Overall, there has been significant progress in rebuilding local government infrastructure and institutions.

The local authorities spoke with some pride of their accomplishment in housing, infrastructure, and relations with Stepanakert Khankendi and Yerevan.

Local authorities and interviewees frequently stressed that the Armenian diaspora provides support for infrastructure, medical care, social welfare and housing.

First, many policies including support for local infrastructure, land zoning, facilitation of industrial production and training, traffic ordinances, and environmental regulations can largely be determined at the local or metropolitan level and reflect the wishes of a local electorate.

The authorities are undertaking modest infrastructure projects and NGOs continued their local human rights work albeit with little or no resources.

If local authorities and community based organizations are to undertake a sizeable share of the investment in sanitation infrastructure, national Governments could facilitate local resource mobilization where mechanisms are not already in place.

Studies have shown that women's representation in local decision making bodies has increased attention to schools, health care, housing and infrastructure.42

Notwithstanding these advances, the capacity of local councils to effectively deliver services to the local population is still hampered by lack of qualified personnel, as well as financial and logistical constraints, and the poor communications infrastructure.

Infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure and discipline.

Throughout Lachin District, the FFM often found only basic infrastructure, which usually included a local administration and school, but not always electricity and running water.

In Ecuador, local level gender responsive budgeting initiatives resulted in a municipal decree making it a priority to hire women for infrastructure projects funded by the municipality of Cuenca, and in the establishment of a fund for local women's microenterprise initiatives.

The ERZ, focused exclusively on producing goods for export, would provide tax incentives, basic infrastructure and services, security, and a stable legal framework to investors. In exchange, investors would commit to train local workers, create employment by purchasing local inputs and services, improve corporate practices and local providers standards, facilitate technology transfers, and establish links with local technical schools and universities.

In the suburbanized, dual income United States, stay at home moms are actually missing the social infrastructure that comes from extended family and local, small scale neighborhoods.

There is a need for major investment by the Government in logistics, infrastructure and training of personnel, if central and local government structures are to function effectively.

In addition, WFP provided food assistance to 26,000 beneficiaries under agriculture, infrastructure and training programmes in support of local community initiatives for recovery and reconstruction in Liberia.

National Governments may also be able to enhance local authorities' direct access to capital markets, domestic and international, by granting authority to municipalities to issue infrastructure bonds.

at present, the trade between Russia and China has enjoyed good growth momentum and that cooperation in energy, transport infrastructure, agriculture and local areas has been actively promoted.

Settlement incentives offered by the local authorities include free housing, access to property, social infrastructure, inexpensive or sometimes free electricity, running water, low taxes or limited tax exemptions.

Governments and local authorities could assist in creating employment opportunities and in enterprise formation in the vicinity of informal settlements through appropriate land development policies and infrastructure investments.

On the other hand, elements of social welfare and infrastructure such as schools, medical care, and electricity have gradually been growing, albeit mainly as a result of local demands.

The active involvement of poor people in infrastructure and service planning through community based organizations is an approach that has proven effective in ensuring that solutions meet local needs.

(a) Conducting analysis and assessments of needs in selected local governments, including a review of available infrastructure, barriers to women's access and existing indigenous women's groups and connectivity initiatives

A single hazardous event can destroy the social and economic infrastructure, including communications systems, that may have taken years to develop and upon whose vitality local and national economies depend.

Sub goal 1 is to increase sustainable access of the poor to basic infrastructure and public services and to productive livelihoods opportunities through good local governance and enhanced natural resources management.

It's the same. We need infrastructure, infrastructure and discipline.

The organized criminal groups, of which the Monitoring Group has identified two local and two transnational criminal groups, have existing infrastructure or clandestine pathways to move the arms from source to recipient.

Local governments rely on bank credit to invest in infrastructure and real estate development. A report released early this year by the People s Bank of China showed that close to one third of the country s total outstanding loans, or 14 trillion renminbi ( 2.2 trillion), were owed by local governments.

Considering the constraints faced by developing countries in terms of infrastructure, human capacity and limited local adoption of e business, public authorities and DMOs at the national, regional and local levels should play a central role in encouraging the participation and inclusion of tourism enterprises in global tourism markets.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure

Infrastructure

Another factor holding back recovery has been weak growth in spending on goods and services by both state and local governments, and more recently by the federal government. Indeed, since the recession s onset, state and local governments have cut nearly 600,000 jobs and reduced spending for infrastructure projects by 20 .

Even though many of them might not have studied the local culture, they can nonetheless provide guidance that has been informed by the world s most expensive infrastructure. At the same time, relief efforts should be managed by a local science center that is known and trusted by those in danger.

Similarly, infrastructure for a long time, infrastructure was not a priority.

Because mobile satellite communications systems are independent of the local telecommunications infrastructure, they are not affected by natural disasters and they are frequently the only means of communications to and from a stricken area.

We are undertaking responsible business practices, such as conducting transparent transactions, investing in local infrastructure and implementing programmes to combat HIV AIDS and other diseases, which are part of the Millennium Development Goal objectives.

Because of the typically high infrastructure investment that is required for constructing and managing space based programmes, national, and local, systems are out of reach for most of the countries hardest hit by natural disasters.

There is more state and local budget cutting has slowed America s pace of investment in human capital and infrastructure, adding a third percentage point to the downward shift in the country s long term growth trajectory.

Training programs, including for green jobs, should be significantly increased. Public expenditures must be focused on programs with strong employment content, such as in small and medium scale infrastructure projects and support to local governments.

It is concerned at the State party's failure to engage in meaningful consultation with the concerned communities, and about the deleterious effects of the oil production activities on the local infrastructure, economy, health and education.

Infrastructure everywhere.

Public infrastructure

From January 2004 to February 2005, ILO and UNHCR personnel worked side by side in the Gash Barka region of Eritrea for the rehabilitation of public infrastructure projects employing local workforces and creating employment service centres.