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Moreover, with coastal areas often densely populated and economically valuable, finding suitable seaside sites for new nuclear plants is no longer easy.
For these are the areas of foreign policy which come closest to containing the six essential ingredients of predictability.
At least 80% was to be invested in schools, healthcare, roads, electricity, and provision of potable water, while 5% would be allocated to the oil-producing areas and to settlements along the pipeline’s route.
Given that fog is very common even in dry areas, fog-harvesting systems amount to a practical, cost-effective way to deliver fresh water directly to rural communities.
Several projects in the Middle East and North Africa demonstrate the potential of this approach to sustain vegetation growth in very dry areas.
Yet another unconventional source of freshwater is used greywater and wastewater from urban areas.
Rather, once the Games are over, the North will likely use the current diplomatic opening to probe in other areas unrelated to its nuclear program, which, in turn, will raise a set of trying and familiar issues for the US-South Korea relationship.
Only those living in marginalized and remote areas remain unvaccinated for polio, typically owing to local hesitancy and refusals.
We are likely to see a recovery in some of these areas from the bottoms reached at the end of 2008 and the beginning of this year.
These skeptics pointed to the first Global Eradication Program, an ambitious effort in the 1950’s to clear malaria from many areas of the world (Africa was excluded).
Recent success in countries such as Ethiopia and Rwanda in expanding access to impregnated bed nets and slashing malaria rates is building confidence that the disease can be dramatically reduced around the world and, in some areas, eliminated entirely.
The approach is simple: a redoubled effort to reduce infections and deaths rapidly in the malaria “heartland” (i.e., equatorial Africa and a handful of other areas around the world) should be accompanied by a campaign to roll back the disease from its current margins.
Promising steps have been made in two critical areas: nuclear non-proliferation, especially through the nuclear deal with Iran, and the fight against climate change, exemplified in the encouraging preparations for the current climate summit in Paris.
It is a gap seen in areas as diverse as health care, education, and the fight against climate change.
Policymakers could look at tax incentives, including credits in key areas.
The absence of sustained military momentum by any side has led to a dizzying mix of new security realities and strategic demands (from the implementation of Sharia law in opposition-held areas to predictions of regional secession).
But, according to reports too numerous and too credible to discount, Assad’s regime (and to some extent his opponents) has not complied with the plan after signing on to it: troops were withdrawn from urban areas prior to inspection and returned when the monitors left.
Whole areas are now beyond its control, public services are unavailable, and the economy is in free fall.
New plantations could regenerate rural areas, as new factories created opportunities for investors and entrepreneurs.
The Bank’s loans targeting governance and related areas now amount to roughly $4.5 billion, or almost 20% of total lending.
But there are five areas in the Asia-Pacific region where governments, companies, and non-governmental organizations could start to make meaningful progress.
This could lead to a long-term reoccupation of Palestinian areas.
This year, for the first time in human history, more people will live in urban areas than rural communities.
Today, nearly 80% of Americans live in urban areas.
Although economic growth and poverty reduction in many developing countries has been impressive in recent years, a significant increase in investment in areas such as infrastructure is required to sustain such growth in the future.
A pilot version of this list has proved itself in Shanghai, Guangdong, Tianjin, Fujian, and other free-trade trial areas.
While diversification into new areas is always challenging, it is particularly difficult for tradable activities, which have to face foreign competition from the start.
It is virtually certain that many of the MDGs will not have been met by the end of 2015, but there have been striking successes in some areas.
A study by Charles Kenny and Andy Sumner for the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC, suggests that the MDGs not only boosted aid flows, but also redirected them toward smaller, poorer countries, and toward targeted areas like education and public health.
Much criticism has focused on the use of these numerical targets and indicators, which, skeptics argue, are misspecified, mismeasured, and divert attention from equally important areas.
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