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Meanwhile, the cost of renewable energy is falling; energy efficiency is improving, both for generating equipment and for the machines to be powered; and innovative digital technologies are facilitating the management of electricity services.
Budget deficits and the resulting national debt are important not only in themselves; they also contribute to a country’s current-account deficit, which is the difference between its level of domestic investment by businesses and households in structures and equipment and the amount that it saves to finance those investments.
Journalists face threats, attacks, damage to equipment, unfair fines, firing, bans, and other forms of censorship, often soon after publishing some kind of criticism of regional authorities, law enforcement, or wealthy businesspeople.
But this rather innocuous meeting did not go off without problems as, until the very last moment, the customs office at Moscow's international airport refused to approve the import of electronic equipment for the televised transmission.
Soldiers from different countries operate almost as a single unit with shared objectives, similar methods, compatible equipment, and complementary skills.
Firm commitments at Riga of more allied troops and equipment for the ISAF and fewer national “caveats” must be part of the answer.
As General Eugene Habiger, a former commander-in-chief of the United States Strategic Command who was the US Department of Energy’s “security czar,” once put it: “Good security is 20% equipment and 80% people.”
A research paper by Stephen Vosti of the University of California, Davis, and colleagues shows that 95% of Haiti’s wheat flour could be fortified for a decade with an investment of just $5.1 million in premixed micronutrients, equipment, and training.
One successful UNESCO initiative is the creation of multipurpose community telecenters throughout the developing world, providing communication and information facilities – phone, fax, Internet, computers, audio-visual equipment – for a wide range of community uses.
Of course, US forces had better equipment, but well-trained forces can sometimes offset technical disadvantages to score kills if not to win.
A country that saves more than it invests in equipment and structures (as China does) has the extra output to send abroad as a current-account surplus, while a country that invests more than it saves (as the United States does) must fill the gap by importing more from the rest of the world than it exports.
Some global companies are already working with their small suppliers, providing technical know-how and even access to capital for new equipment and technology.
In any country, the current-account balance is the difference between national saving and national investment in plant and equipment, housing, and inventories.
Any increase will depend entirely on improvements in education and training, which are absent from the data, and from investment in equipment and structures, which is depressed relative to historical levels.
Of course, equipment like cameras, motion sensors, drones, helicopters, and vehicles allow agents to watch long sections of the border.
Indeed, border guards and their equipment can be equally effective without a physical barrier.
Digital DreamsA few years ago, a local Internet entrepreneur was arrested in Ghana, her employees jailed and her computer equipment confiscated.
It's not a lack of equipment or of local knowledge.
Institutions matter at least as much as equipment if developing countries hope to join the global digital economy in any meaningful way.
According to an Associated Press report, citing Foreign Office statistics, Libya purchased from the United Kingdom “about £40 million ($55 million) worth of military and paramilitary equipment in the year ending September 30, 2010.”
The approved goods included nearly 400 shipments of explosive and incendiary materials, 25,000 aircraft parts, 56,000 military electronics components and nearly 1,000 items of optical targeting and other guidance equipment.”
This lack of certainty undermined investment in plant and equipment or R&D.
The subsidies are too small and too complicated to inspire capital outlays for expensive specialized equipment, including jack-up barges, heavy-lift cranes, pneumatic hammers for pounding the foundations into the sea bed, and high-strength gearboxes that will not corrode in humid, salty air.
German precision instruments and optical equipment, for example, lost their competitive edge when Japan entered the game.
Exports of machinery and transport equipment, embodying higher technology, claimed only 10% or so of exports and only 1% of GDP.
Natural resources, such as tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold – all minerals that have been linked in some parts of the world to conflict and human-rights abuses – are found in our jewelry, cars, mobile phones, games consoles, medical equipment, and countless other everyday products.
The proposal, furthermore, focuses exclusively on raw ores and metals, and excludes products that contain the relevant minerals, such as mobile phones, vehicles, and medical equipment.
There are structural and infrastructural explanations: lack of training facilities, gymnasiums, running tracks, equipment, financial resources.
Doing so also allows young people to develop hard skills on modern equipment and learn soft skills – including teamwork, communication, and negotiation – through real-world experience.
Though the equipment was adequate, infection control and staff training were not.
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