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Exports of machinery and
transport
equipment, embodying higher technology, claimed only 10% or so of exports and only 1% of GDP.
The recently announced EU-Canada Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA) aims to deepen bilateral ties in “all fields of cooperation,” including education, transport, energy, the Arctic, and science and technology, as well as provide for enhanced foreign-policy cooperation, with a focus on crisis management and security.
The risk was that the seed might grow moldy during the long, humid ocean
transport
to Iraq if it was not dressed with some fungicide.
Indeed, US military spending exceeds the sum of federal budgetary outlays for education, agriculture, climate change, environmental protection, ocean protection, energy systems, homeland security, low-income housing, national parks and national land management, the judicial system, international development, diplomatic operations, highways, public transport, veterans affairs, space exploration and science, civilian research and development, civil engineering for waterways, dams, bridges, sewerage and waste treatment, community development, and many other areas.
Israel is now expected, for example, to ease its blockade of Gaza and allow the
transport
of humanitarian and construction supplies.
Better
transport
infrastructure, for example, would not only create jobs, but would also reduce the costs of commuting to work.
For example, Indonesia is seeking to establish a Green Corridor in Kalimantan (the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo), where deforestation is not only fueling greenhouse-gas emissions, but also diminishing river flows, making it difficult in some months to
transport
goods by barge.
Starting in the country’s Amansie West District in the Ashanti Region, about 330 kilometers (200 miles) northwest of the capital, Accra, we sought to improve the quality of care in isolated areas, reduce
transport
times to hospitals, and lower patient costs.
The revolution in
transport
and communications, we hear, has vaporized borders and shrunk the world.
As large as the decline in
transport
and communications costs has been, it has not obliterated geography.
According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the livestock industry is the second largest source of greenhouse-gas emissions, ahead of the entire
transport
sector.
Is it supporting real development needs, such as growing more food, fighting disease, or building transport, energy, and communications infrastructure?
An unstable South China Sea would impede the cost-effective
transport
of goods and materials that are vital to global supply chains, while disruptions to the flow of oil and natural gas from the Persian Gulf to Asian markets would prove particularly damaging.
Four-star generals also fill top ministerial positions, from commerce and
transport
to labor and education.
When well-intentioned pledges fail to reach those in need, the result is measured in a lack of resources – from a shortage of doctors to a lack of vehicles to
transport
the sick and bury the dead.
Superconductors are being used for levitated trains in high-speed rail transport, and as microwave filters for improved signal bandwidth in cellular base stations.
The monsoon has been good and will spur consumption, especially in rural areas, which are already growing strongly, owing to improvements in road
transport
and communications connectivity.
According to a 2013 study by the RAND Corporation, more than 80% of Chinese aid and official financing underwrites raw material extraction and the construction of the roads, bridges, and ports needed to
transport
these resources to China.
Governments must invest in
transport
and communication networks; counteract asymmetric information, externalities, and unequal bargaining power; moderate financial panics and recessions; and respond to popular demands for safety nets and social insurance.
The problem is that a succession of railway ministers, viewing the trains as poor people's only affordable means of transport, have refused to raise passenger fares, squeezing freight instead.
Though freight
transport
still accounts for 67% of railway revenues, with 2.65 million tons carried every day, the higher fares needed to subsidize passengers have deterred shippers.
An additional $14 trillion should allocated to renewable or nuclear energy, or to buildings and
transport
systems to deliver improvements in energy efficiency, offset by a decline of more than $6 trillion in investment in oil, gas, and coal production.
An efficient supply-side response to this large and growing source of demand requires regulatory reform in many services, including finance, product safety, transport, and logistics.
The third challenge is to alter citizens
' transport
habits.
Transport
systems that favor cars and trucks cause accidents, pollution, and chronic congestion.
Moreover, the
transport
sector accounted for 23% of all energy-related CO2 emissions in 2004, and it is the fastest growing source of emissions in developing countries.
The fourth challenge is to change how we produce, transport, and consume energy .
Delhi's barely breathable air has become tolerable, following a big move to compressed natural gas in public transport, retirement of old vehicles, and higher emissions standards in new ones.
No magic wand will empower leaders to
transport
more than a million people back across the Aegean and the Bosphorus to Mosul and Aleppo, or across the Mediterranean to Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan.
The top priorities include modernizing the country’s
transport
and energy infrastructure, reforming an underperforming education system, improving the labor market, bringing order to an overly-fragmented fiscal structure, enhancing the provision of public goods, and safeguarding America’s interests abroad.
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