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Great Cities and Ghost TownsHONG KONG – Many observers tend to regard the rise of unoccupied modern “ghost towns,” funded through risk-laden local-government financing vehicles (LGFVs), as symptoms of China’s coming collapse.
The United States had ghost towns and local bank busts once it began investing in railways, mining, and industrialization in the mid-nineteenth century.
Similarly, when viewed through the long lens of history, China’s ghost towns will prove to be potholes on the path to development.
China’s ghost towns and local-government debts are not harbingers of doom.
For example, the Group’s private-sector arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), has collaborated with Egypt’s government to develop a wastewater-treatment plant for the new satellite towns of Greater Cairo.
From Spain to China to the United States to Italy, these governments – regions, states, provinces, cities, and towns – face immense fiscal challenges.
Higher levels of government are “on the hook” to bail out local insolvent governments, and may even suffer bond downgrades as a result; in Spain, Italy, and China, that role falls to the national government, and for US cities and towns, to their states.
As a result, 8,000 villages got power for the first time last year, and 93% of Indians in towns and cities now have at least some access to electricity.
Abbas will be able to argue that he advised Hamas to renew the truce and to end its missile fire on Israeli towns, but that Hamas insisted on exposing Palestinian civilians to devastation.
It is time for the world to embed resilience to disasters into the industrialization process and the development of towns and cities, accounting for factors like seismic threats, flood plains, coastal erosion, and environmental degradation.
To build the largest existing hydroelectric project – the Three Gorges reservoir on the Yangtze River, which stretches for 600 kilometers (373 miles) – 1.3 million people were relocated, as 13 cities, 140 towns, and 1,350 villages were inundated.
Many militants in Punjab worked closely with the Pakistani intelligence services for years, and their infrastructure is dispersed and hidden in various towns and villages.
Nigeria’s Schoolgirls Are Under Attack AgainLONDON – They lie about 150 miles apart in the vast brushlands of northern Nigeria, but the towns of Chibok and Dapchi have a tragic bond: both have been targets of large-scale kidnappings of schoolgirls by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram.
Libya and Tunisia are far from settled, as the recent assassination of Tunisia’s leading opposition politician and the presence of unrestrained militia in Libyan towns show.
In this way, the first college towns were the equivalent of today’s golf-course developments – verdant enclaves that promised a better quality of life.
Most were highly accessible (there was one in nearly every town), inexpensive (competition kept a lid on tuition), and geographically specific (colleges often became avatars for towns whose names they took).
As Islamabad heads the way of Pakistan’s tribal towns, the next targets will be girls’ schools, Internet cafes, bookshops, and stores selling Western clothing, followed by purveyors of toilet paper, tampons, underwear, mannequins, and other un-Islamic goods.
Enormous demand will be created for construction of temporary housing and, later, for the reconstruction of lost towns.
If towns suffering from depopulation before they were destroyed are transformed in their reconstruction, they could mark the emergence of a new model for regional development that can decentralize Japan’s Tokyo-centric economy.
Indeed, the only way truly to honor those who lost their lives is to create a new-model Japan from the tsunami’s wreckage, rather than simply restoring towns and their economies to their previous decadent conditions.
Rare candid footage of Prime Minister Putin, displayed on government channels, depicted him visiting one of the towns in the region.
In many towns and villages, there was no electricity, so water pumps were not operable.
In towns, displays in shop windows illustrated the costs of tariffs to ordinary consumers.
Israel, meanwhile, is worried that Hamas has strengthened its military grip on Gaza, in terms of both fortifications and networks capable of launching Qassam rockets into neighboring Israeli towns.
The relative stability of the climate and predictability of seasons facilitated the emergence of agriculture, which, in turn, enabled the creation of towns and cities.
City Water for AllVEVEY, SWITZERLAND – How many people in the world’s towns and cities can drink the water in their tap without risking their health?
And yet, around the world, political and business leaders still make excuses for the lack of clean and safe drinking water in our towns and cities.
Hope dies when boats capsize at sea, when families freeze to death on hazardous mountain journeys into exile, or when food convoys fail to make it to beleaguered towns and villages.
The United Kingdom is deeply divided between a Europhile Scotland and a Euroskeptic England, between pro-EU English cities (including London) and anti-EU coastal and northern towns.
Regulatory reforms are beginning to mitigate shadow-banking risks, and even some ghost towns are being revived by market forces.
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