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We are destroying habitats to make way for farms, pastures, roads, and cities.
Located just a couple of miles from downtown Nairobi, Kibera is a heavily polluted, densely populated settlement composed of informal roads and shacks with corrugated tin roofs.
McKinsey calculates that the country requires between 700-900 million square meters of new residential and commercial space each year; 350-400 kilometers (217-248 miles) of metros and subways (20 times what has been achieved in the past decade); and 19,000-25,000 kilometers of annual road construction (equivalent to all the roads built over the past ten years).
Likewise, to rein in pollutants from motor vehicles, China’s government has made adoption of electric vehicles a high priority, setting a target of five million on the country’s roads by 2020.
To upgrade, solar customers do not just have to buy the car; they have to re-build the roads.
Government investment in roads, traffic signals, and parking infrastructure built the platform that engendered a global auto industry, and that today supports continuous upgrades in gas, diesel, electric, and hybrid vehicles.
Checks and Balances Before Roads and BridgesWASHINGTON, DC – In the 2016 American presidential election, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump agreed that the US economy is suffering from dilapidated infrastructure, and both called for greater investment in renovating and upgrading the country’s public capital stock.
Building new metro-railway networks, instead of roads, would help to reduce carbon dioxide emissions for decades to come.
What does not bring in money – roads, schools, hospitals, and kindergartens – will suffer.
Infrastructure includes roads, railways, power and water systems, fiber optics, pipelines, and airports and seaports.
The key to development was basic education, a network of roads and power, a functioning port, and access to world markets.
Furthermore, we support infrastructure-development projects, enabling countries to build the roads, bridges, and ports that link traders to markets.
They will also save on investments in new roads, power plants, schools, and other public services.
His business activities include brokering sales of oil-field equipment to Iraq (causing huge losses for Chinese state-owned oil companies); construction of hydroelectric power stations in Sichuan (where his father was the provincial party boss from 1997 to 2002); providing information technology for 8,000 state-owned gas stations; and investments in real estate, oil exploration, and toll roads.
It has also launched a crash program to improve its logistical capabilities by constructing new roads, airstrips, and advanced landing stations along the Himalayas.
What governments ought to do is “stimulate” an innovative economy, not endless roads, wind energy and other building projects.
An estimated one out of every nine US bridges is structurally deficient, and 42% of urban roads are congested, costing the economy an estimated $101 billion a year in wasted time and fuel consumption.
In a 2013 survey of economists by the University of Chicago, 75% of the respondents agreed that, “because the US has underspent on new projects, maintenance, or both, the federal government has an opportunity to increase average incomes by spending more on roads, bridges, railways, and airports.”
In a recent survey, more than half of the respondents expressed a willingness to pay more for gasoline to finance improvements in roads, bridges, and mass transit.
EULEX is investigating whether Limaj and other ministry personnel accepted bribes in exchange for contracts to build roads.
India is simultaneously tackling the “hardware” of development (ports, roads, airports) and its “software” (health care, education).
Just consider: each town has its own schools, library, police, roads and bridges, businesses, and, of course, people.
As with the Quantified Self, the tools for collecting and analyzing data about everything from public health to potholes in roads, real-estate prices, school attendance, and more are beginning to emerge.
Here the task is to build roads, air links, and internet connectivity to help these distant regions create productive ties with the world.
The floods, which displaced a million people, left Kerala with 39 collapsed bridges, some 6,000 miles of ruined roads, significant agricultural losses, and more than 50,000 homes either damaged or destroyed.
All roads to power in America lead through TV, and all access to TV depends on big money.
It is far from ports and international trade, lacks basic infrastructure such as roads and electricity, and is extremely arid.
This is plain bad economics: Countries with first-world roads and bridges but fifth-rate education systems are heading nowhere fast in terms of long-term economic growth and human development.
Improved rural productivity or better market access would do little good if roads and harbors were lacking.
Americans, like many citizens of rich countries, take for granted the legal and regulatory system, the public schools, health care and social security for the elderly, roads, defense and diplomacy, and heavy investments by the state in research, particularly in medicine.
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