Government schools are generally poor in infrastructure and support facilities, such as toilets.

Community infrastructure will support, in the form of grants on a cost sharing basis, small scale community infrastructure sub projects to improve the quality of life of the poor.

38. We recognize the need to prioritise affordable and environmentally sustainable infrastructure that targets the needs of the poor.

And due to the poor infrastructure, only 25 percent of those are receiving the life saving drugs that they need.

They are, in addition, helping poor communities directly, especially in acquiring land, securing tenure and providing infrastructure and basic services.

Their responsibilities include the collection of water and fuel, activities that are particularly burdensome in areas with a poor social infrastructure.

Rural area is characterized by poverty related problems unresolved housing conditions, unemployment, poor infrastructure, the inexistence of institutions that would provide assistance.

All of this illustrates what is wrong with the World Bank, even aside from Wolfowitz s failed leadership. Unlike the Chinese, the Bank has too often forgotten the most basic lessons of development, preferring to lecture the poor and force them to privatize basic infrastructure, rather than to help the poor to invest in infrastructure and other crucial sectors.

Municipalities, often owing to corruption or poor management, are unable or unwilling to impose rigorous planning regulations. Infrastructure spending is either inadequate or poorly targeted.

1.45 Insufficient project funding for school construction and upgrading of camp infrastructure contributes to overcrowded schoolrooms, poor environmental health conditions and dilapidation of refugee shelters.

While increased investment in infrastructure at the national level is vital, there should be a clear recognition of the need for more affordable, smaller scale and environmentally sustainable infrastructure that targets the needs of the poor as the highest priority.

Infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure and discipline.

Challenges anticipated during polling included logistic problems due to the rainy season and the poor infrastructure, security problems, political challenges, and ongoing instability in the subregion.

Zambia was cooperating with UNHCR on the development of an initiative to alleviate the effects of the food deficit, poor infrastructure and limited access to public services.

Against this backdrop, physical infrastructure in Africa is in need of rehabilitation, upgrading and expansion in order to compensate for many years of neglect and poor maintenance.

The assaults of nature do not distinguish between the rich and the poor or the developed or less developed, in dealing devastating blows to human beings and infrastructure.

The poor quality of infrastructure imposes heavy costs on the producers of tradable goods and on the rest of the population, given the low population density in Africa.

All aspects of service delivery need to be strengthened, including qualified and motivated workers accessible to all communities, adequate physical infrastructure and sustainable and pro poor financing mechanisms.

The Fund seeks to alleviate poverty and empower the rural and urban poor, by providing them with access to resources and services and helping build community level infrastructure.

The Committee is concerned at the poor educational infrastructure and the insufficient number of schools and teachers, which constitute particular obstacles for the education of girls and young women.

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.

4. Urges Governments to promote pro poor investments in services and infrastructure, in particular water and sanitation, in order to improve living environments, in particular in slums and informal settlements

It also addresses the means by which such standards can be implemented in order to reduce the adverse effect of poor vehicle conditions on road users and on road infrastructure.

The commentator from Japan cited a JETRO survey in November 2003, which highlighted certain weaknesses, namely frequent change of governments regimes, the labour laws, slow VAT refunds and poor infrastructure.

Many challenges are being faced inasmuch as the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a huge country, much of which is densely forested, with very poor transport and communications infrastructure.

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.

The lack of appropriate institutions and infrastructure to conduct systematic data collection, and poor coordination within and or between different government departments and agencies, were also areas highlighted for further strengthening.

This is one of a number of options for relieving external debt burdens in poor countries, including debt cancellation, in order to free resources for investments in essential infrastructure and services.

Private sector growth is hampered by a fragile business environment characterized by poor physical and financial infrastructure, small scale industries with a limited contribution to GDP, and a vast black market.

For the most part, poor countries have been paralyzed by debt service payments and rendered unable to do little, if any, development infrastructure construction for the systems needed by their own people.

Stressing that corporations could profitably conduct business with the poor, she gave several examples of private sector investment in social infrastructure contributing positively to the socio economic development of host developing countries.

On the micro side, too little public investment means poor infrastructure and high export costs. Brazil has none of neighboring Argentina s hefty export taxes, but its heavy transport costs have the same effect.

Studies have confirmed other findings that attribute road accidents to a number of key factors, including speeding, driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, failure to use seat belts and poor infrastructure.

Modern physical infrastructure (roads, power, ports, water, telecommunications and electric power generation) can directly contribute to the improvement of living standards of poor people and encourage the growth of business activities in Africa.

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

17. Urges the donor community to support the efforts of developing countries to make pro poor investments in services and infrastructure in order to improve living environments, in particular in slums and informal settlements

The key to meeting the Millennium Development Goals in poor countries is an increase in investment in people (health, education, nutrition, and family planning), the environment (water and sanitation, soils, forests, and biodiversity), and infrastructure (roads, power, and ports). Poor countries cannot afford these investments on their own, so rich countries must help.

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Reiterating that natural disasters damage the social and economic infrastructure of affected countries, although the long term consequences of such natural disasters are especially severe for poor developing countries, including Malawi, and hamper sustainable development,

Third, Africa is economically isolated, owing to very poor infrastructure, large over land distances, and many landlocked countries. These geographical barriers keep much of Africa, especially rural Africa, out of the mainstream of international trade.

They were without seaports, geographically remote and isolated from world markets, had poor infrastructure, maintenance problems and inadequate institutional environments, and were solely dependent on a very limited number of commodities for their export earnings.

The governmental infrastructure, record keeping and archives were in such a poor state that the Panel also gathered financial information from private enterprises and quasi governmental organizations as well as from the Government agencies themselves.

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