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China’s determination to reestablish the ancient Silk Roads – including the overland route that runs through the Middle East – has led it to enter into strategic partnerships with eight Arab countries in recent years, and to sign agreements with six Arab countries to pursue the initiative jointly.
But, whenever the government has extra money, President Lula likes to give tax rebates and subsidies to people, instead of using it on the roads.
Ten farmers grow the bamboo, and 25 builders craft it into environmentally friendly bikes that can be used on Ghana’s bumpy roads or exported overseas.
In that opera, a prostitute named Su San, after being sentenced to death, pleads for mercy to unconcerned passersby as she is marched down the main roads of Hongdong County in shackles.
“But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”
Decision-makers must recognize that there is no such thing as a natural disaster; there is only the disastrous impact of natural hazards on infrastructure, including workplaces, homes, roads, schools, and hospitals.
True, there are beautifully paved roads all around, but they go nowhere.
These include clean water and sanitation, and roads and infrastructure that enable emergency care and delivery of services.
The Philippine government has proposed that half of all scheduled debt payments be withheld for a specified period, to be invested in reforestation, clean water, housing, food production, primary healthcare, sanitation, basic education, farm-to-market roads, ecologically sound tourism, micro-finance, and related MDG projects.
If not for expat populations in rural and remote areas, there would have been little reason to invest in roads, schools, and hospitals – let alone parks, libraries, and theaters.
Aid, I believe, is best focused on infrastructure – the bridges, roads, Internet cables, and power stations that will help our economies to grow and allow us to trade more easily with each other.
How can you have a viable state carved up by fences, military roads, and barbed wire?
The third challenge in establishing a Palestinian state is to create the institutions of statehood: hospitals, ports, airports, roads, courts, police stations, tax offices, and government archives.
At the back end, experts in education, roads, electricity, water, and health care design and analyze project loans.
Some 800 million people around the world have limited access to emergency services, and that will not change in the foreseeable future, because there will not be enough money to build roads to connect them.
Instead, they can augment existing distribution networks in remote regions of Africa, Asia, and Latin America where poverty and disease are pervasive, distances are great, and roads will never be built.
The same can be said today about Africa’s roads.
The cost of building ski slopes, ice rinks, roads, halls, and stadiums for winter sports in a subtropical Black Sea resort has been well over $50 billion.
These strategies will help to slow rapid urbanization, which entails dense construction, sealed roads, and private cars – all of which contribute to the “urban heat island” effect.
Tuna is more than a commodity here; it is what builds schools, pays teachers’ salaries, paves roads, and keeps hospitals open.
And new houses, roads, bridges, and other infrastructure, such as water systems, should be built to withstand extreme weather.
We estimate that the world could capture three gigatons of CO2 annually – equivalent to taking more than 600 million cars off the roads – simply by planting more trees.
The government’s initial policies aimed at raising aggregate demand focused on major infrastructure spending, including roads and mass transit.
Some new inventions, like self-driving car systems, will require heavy capital investment in new kinds of roads.
CAMBRIDGE – The steady stream of improvements in driverless cars has convinced me that before too long the roads will be filled with cars and trucks operating without humans at the wheel.
Thus, the government loses its chance to modernize Russian cities, roads, hospitals, and universities.
Who will repair Lebanon’s bridges and roads?
The first is development of a transport system — both railways and roads — that will connect the once disparate parts of the region.
Policymakers must therefore be involved at an early development stage if we are to reach the goal of “zero fatality” roads within our lifetimes.
Ultimately, China wants a total of five million EVs on the country’s roads, powered by an estimated 10,000 charging stations, by 2020.
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