Extensive damage to local infrastructure caused delays in the most immediate response.

Local host organizations provide infrastructure and a support mechanism for the centres' operations.

Overall, there has been significant progress in rebuilding local government infrastructure and institutions.

Local governments rely on bank credit to invest in infrastructure and real estate development.

These local epidemics occur due to loss of infrastructure, such as hospitals and sanitation services, but also because of changes in local ecology and environment.

Local governments were encouraged to increase their spending on public infrastructure projects in order to maintain growth.

The UK is poised to take similar action, allowing local government pension funds to invest in infrastructure projects.

Local government employed academics I talked to bemoaned the lack of Internet access, which they attributed to the United States embargo, technical problems, or complications with the local infrastructure.

The authorities are undertaking modest infrastructure projects and NGOs continued their local human rights work albeit with little or no resources.

If local authorities and community based organizations are to undertake a sizeable share of the investment in sanitation infrastructure, national Governments could facilitate local resource mobilization where mechanisms are not already in place.

That, plus ongoing investment in local cell infrastructure kept connectivity charges low, and helping to make high speed Internet connectivity more affordable.

Studies have shown that women's representation in local decision making bodies has increased attention to schools, health care, housing and infrastructure.42

Notwithstanding these advances, the capacity of local councils to effectively deliver services to the local population is still hampered by lack of qualified personnel, as well as financial and logistical constraints, and the poor communications infrastructure.

Moreover, the Chinese government, at both the central and local levels, will remain keen to continue infrastructure investments aimed at further urbanization and industrialization.

And China s big banks have lent large sums, willingly or otherwise, to local governments for infrastructure projects many of them of dubious economic value.

For example, in India, there is a great need for financing large infrastructure projects a need that cannot easily be met by local banks.

A decade later, in response to the global financial crisis, China loosened credit quotas and planning controls on SOE run local government infrastructure projects.

Public expenditures must be focused on programs with strong employment content, such as in small and medium scale infrastructure projects and support to local governments.

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.

In Ecuador, local level gender responsive budgeting initiatives resulted in a municipal decree making it a priority to hire women for infrastructure projects funded by the municipality of Cuenca, and in the establishment of a fund for local women's microenterprise initiatives.

In the suburbanized, dual income United States, stay at home moms are actually missing the social infrastructure that comes from extended family and local, small scale neighborhoods.

There is a need for major investment by the Government in logistics, infrastructure and training of personnel, if central and local government structures are to function effectively.

In addition, WFP provided food assistance to 26,000 beneficiaries under agriculture, infrastructure and training programmes in support of local community initiatives for recovery and reconstruction in Liberia.

National Governments may also be able to enhance local authorities' direct access to capital markets, domestic and international, by granting authority to municipalities to issue infrastructure bonds.

Given that it is in local governments interest to maintain high economic growth rates, many are borrowing to fund large scale investment in real estate and infrastructure projects.

Governments and local authorities could assist in creating employment opportunities and in enterprise formation in the vicinity of informal settlements through appropriate land development policies and infrastructure investments.

For example, Chinese local governments became highly adept at attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) by providing attractive infrastructure and supporting services that facilitate the expansion of global production chains.

a massive direct government fiscal stimulus that includes public works, infrastructure spending, unemployment benefits, tax rebates to lower income households, and provision of grants to cash strapped local governments

The active involvement of poor people in infrastructure and service planning through community based organizations is an approach that has proven effective in ensuring that solutions meet local needs.

(a) Conducting analysis and assessments of needs in selected local governments, including a review of available infrastructure, barriers to women's access and existing indigenous women's groups and connectivity initiatives

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In fact, GDP growth may be slowing precisely because existing investment in manufacturing and infrastructure, undertaken largely by local governments and SOEs, does not match the pattern of domestic demand.

Public infrastructure

Construction started in December 1999 and was completed at the end of July 2001, with work on the stadium itself and improvements to local infrastructure cost a total of 32 million.

Sub goal 1 is to increase sustainable access of the poor to basic infrastructure and public services and to productive livelihoods opportunities through good local governance and enhanced natural resources management.

Infrastructure banks that finance needed public infrastructure should be created as well.

The organized criminal groups, of which the Monitoring Group has identified two local and two transnational criminal groups, have existing infrastructure or clandestine pathways to move the arms from source to recipient.

Public health infrastructure

Conformity Assessment Infrastructure

Infrastructure, 2004 2005

Infrastructure, 2006 2007

Emergency infrastructure support

The increase in domestic heroin production has provided a massive boost to the local retail market, giving rise to concerns about HIV AIDS spreading in a country with poor infrastructure and nonexistent health services.