Cost overrun is common in infrastructure, building, and technology projects.

(d) Building infrastructure and installing security equipment

Technological learning through infrastructure projects Building the railway network in Indonesia.

The Americans did this in Vietnam by pouring in consumer goods and building up infrastructure.

Foreign direct investment is one of the important sources for building infrastructure.

Sub Theme 1 Infrastructure building as a foundation for scientific and technology development

The needs are substantial for the building of the social and economic infrastructure.

Services are a fundamental economic activity, with a key role in infrastructure building, competitiveness and trade facilitation.

D. Public Private Partnership Alliance programme for capacity building in infrastructure development and provision of basic services

Simply put, it is far from clear that marginal infrastructure projects are worth building, given that China is already investing more than 45 of its income, much of it in infrastructure.

Therefore, we believe that increased investments in the area of capacity building and infrastructure development will yield long term benefits.

Institutional and technical capacity building may be required to manage and maintain large scale infrastructure projects.

The Southern African Development Community continued building a regional power grid and infrastructure for regional development corridors .

UEFA is unhappy with Ukraine s progress in building the necessary infrastructure, but Ukraine should be given time to get its act together.

We are ready to provide assistance in building legal and administrative infrastructure, sharing our experience of implementation and training respective national authorities.

We have also been focused on building a solid infrastructure to support this network, comprising the following components

Several major countries have agreed to increase their contributions this year to building infrastructure, productive capacity, and know how in the developing world.

African countries have made progress through the Short term Action Plan in infrastructure development, covering facilitation studies and investment and capacity building projects.

Governments might consider, in consultation with civil society, the nature of infrastructure that will be most effective in building up the potential for volunteerism in their countries.

Activities include building schools and hospitals, improving the infrastructure of roads, water and sanitation, and removing landmines and unexploded ordinance.

Support the building of an international infrastructure consortium involving the African Union, NEPAD, the World Bank and the African Development Bank to be recognized by NEPAD as the lead agency for facilitating infrastructure investment

These activities serve a specific purpose and some of them will form the building blocks of the emerging Kyoto Protocol infrastructure.

Building the infrastructure of a State with the capacity to govern takes time, and all of us must redouble our efforts.

Two reasons for this failure stand out the institutional weakness of Palestinian civil society, which lacks the infrastructure necessary for nation building and the impossibility of simultaneous nation building and peace making.

Over the last few decades, the CCP has succeeded in building the hard physical infrastructure of a modern state, but the creation of the soft infrastructure institutions and practices consistent with the rule of law and representative government is only beginning.

This project has two goals (a) to assist in the building of the governmental mental health infrastructure and, (b) to offer direct assistance to target groups.

Similarly, in Istanbul, the auction of an old bus station and government building in 2007 generated 1.5 billion more than the city s total expenditures and infrastructure investments in 2005.

Convinced that education in Earth sciences provides humankind with tools for the sustainable use of natural resources and for building the scientific infrastructure essential for sustainable development,

Many of the poorest countries will need major capacity building investments to put in place and maintain the necessary infrastructure and to train and employ qualified personnel.

Convinced that education in Earth sciences provides humankind with tools for the sustainable use of natural resources and for building the scientific infrastructure essential for sustainable development,

Convinced that education in Earth sciences provides humankind with tools for the sustainable use of natural resources and for building the scientific infrastructure essential for sustainable development,

We should always keep in mind that it is much more cost efficient to invest in modern infrastructure than to pour money into peace enforcement and peace building operations.

(c) To support the building of an international infrastructure consortium involving the African Union, the World Bank and the African Development Bank, with the New Partnership for Africa's Development as the main framework, to facilitate public and private infrastructure investment in Africa

Financing for the most expensive projects implementing green energy systems, building transport infrastructure, and developing modern cities must come from foreign institutional investors.

The Panel urges the international community to support the building of infrastructure in support of the NEPAD goal of enabling trade within Africa to grow to mutual advantage.

Is it being stolen? Is it supporting real development needs, such as growing more food, fighting disease, or building transport, energy, and communications infrastructure?

(ii) explore establishing an export enhancement fund for commodity dependent countries to focus on institution building, developing key infrastructure and upgrading private sector capacity

The Department is therefore building its technical infrastructure and internal capacities through training to enable the staff to conduct systematic media monitoring and analysis.

In particular, the reforms should be designed to facilitate China s transition from its traditional supply based growth model, which assumes that building hard infrastructure leads automatically to demand growth.

(a) Reinforcement of the building's structure and foundations due to unforeseen geotechnical conditions, including incorporation of a 1,280 square metre basement to house the building infrastructure required by the repositioning of the building some 150 metres away from the existing building and the previously suggested site

It is evident from the current report that lack of technical capacity is a major impediment that requires urgent, time bound remedial measures to accelerate the capacity building programmes and thereby move the infrastructure building agenda forward.

Services account for a growing share of GDP and employment and play a key role not only in infrastructure building, competitiveness and trade facilitation, but also in poverty reduction and gender equality.

When China began this transition, its central and local governments focused on building physical infrastructure, such as roads and electricity grids, which delivered tangible gains.

Given the difficult current fiscal situation, public private joint ventures should be explored here too, building on a large body of experience with growth supporting infrastructure investment in developing countries.

We draw attention to the actions and the outcome of the meeting of Ibero American Ministers of Transport and Infrastructure, in particular the coordination of existing training and capacity building programmes in that area, and we urge the Ministers to continue working together on the important issues of infrastructure and transport.