Families are main agents of sustainable development.

Growth is the main engine that drives development.

The main brake on development lies in these countries economic institutions.

Development remains the main political and moral issue of our time.

Main elements of gender policy in the context of Dutch development cooperation

Petrodollars are Russia s main resource for the development of an information based society.

This framework reflects three main aspects of urban development planning, connecting, and financing.

The main benefits of that development are improved quality assurance and data integration.

The transition from macro to micro level is one of the main (if not the main) tendency of the development of modern technical systems.

(c) A global partnership established on alternative development with the main development agents in countries affected by illicit crop cultivation

Official development assistance (ODA) remains the main source of external finance for landlocked developing countries.

The main constraint to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is the lack of a congenial global trading system for agricultural products, which are among our main exports.

Narrowing the gap with industrialized high income countries continues to be the world s main development challenge.

(a) Inequality, which is the main obstacle to achieving the Millennium Development Goals in the region.

Governments will continue to be the main investors in the development of large scale water infrastructure.

This important development is covered in more detail in the main body of the report below.

Development was and would continue to be one of the main responsibilities of the multilateral system.

Noting that the human person is the central subject of development and that development policy should therefore make the human being the main participant in and beneficiary of development,

Implementing the Monterrey Consensus, the main outcome of the 2002 International Conference on Financing for Development, remains critical for furthering the global development agenda, including the Millennium Development Goals.

In both cases, the development of the concept is cited as a main motivation behind the prize.

The Permanent Representative of Afghanistan rightly called that the main challenge to stability and development in Afghanistan.

Supplemental oxygen exposure, while a risk factor, is not the main risk factor for development of this disease.

Main steps of this conceptual framework are information development and awareness raising planning and design implementation and monitoring.

Developing countries' main challenge is how to strengthen domestic supply capacity and reconcile trade, development, social and equity considerations.

However, other ways of funding social development must be sought since ODA alone could not be the main source.

UNGEI was increasingly recognized as the main partnership framework for girls' education within EFA and the Millennium Development Goals.

Poverty eradication should remain the main pillar of operational activities for development, which could play an important role in the development process, especially by means of capacity building.

Note that States have the primary responsibility for their own economic and social development, that the human person is the central subject of development and that development policy should make the human being the main participant in and beneficiary of development

Indeed, observation of this inherent, cumulative error in digital systems was the main catalyst for the development of chaos theory.

His life story was the main inspiration for the development of the lead character in Orson Welles's film Citizen Kane.

Mongolia fully supports the equal emphasis placed by the Secretary General on three main areas development, security and human rights.

(b) Serves as the main general economic and social development forum within the United Nations system for the ESCAP region

Thailand has always attached great importance to the work of UNCTAD as a main agency for trade and development policies.

In fact, the United States policy regarding Cuba constituted the main obstacle to the achievement of Cuba's social development goals.

Landlocked developing countries are in greater need of technical and financial assistance for their physical infrastructure development which remains one of the main bottlenecks for economic growth and development.

This, at any rate, is the main risk that democratic countries face, for the politics of values is a dangerous development.

According to his theory, people pass through three main stages of moral development as they grow from early childhood to adulthood.

For many developing countries, such as Ghana, the main challenge to building a global partnership for development lies outside their control.

The lack of financial resources had been the main cause of the failure to achieve an adequate level of general development.

T his is a moment of opportunity for making progress in Africa's development for which NEPAD is the main policy framework.

We in Africa recognized the need to assume primary responsibility for addressing our development challenges and took practical steps through the adoption of the New Partnership for Africa's Development as the main framework to pursue sustainable development.

A further decree of 2004 on social and economic development has focused on the development of the provinces, with one of the main goals being support for the non oil sector.

In the U.S., the three main media development implementers are Internews, International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), and International Research Exchanges Board (IREX).

(b) It is important to emphasize that poverty reduction is becoming the main force driving the reforms of United Nations development assistance.

Among the main causes are climate change, environmental degradation, increasing levels of vulnerability, inappropriate development patterns and inadequate mitigation and preparedness systems.