Its industrial base lies shattered.

Today, however, China has decent infrastructure, impressive buildings, and an excessive industrial base.

He is now calling for the construction of a Self Defense Force base on Yonaguni.

In the last 20 years the industrial base of the region's economy has changed radically.

The question is how to increase the absorptive capacity of the region and build a modern industrial base.

Economy Chennai's economy has a broad industrial base in the automobile, computer, technology, hardware manufacturing and healthcare sectors.

Not surprisingly, then, Pakistani Defense Minister Ahmed Mukhtar s public comments about a naval base at Gwadar deeply embarrassed China s government.

For Beijing s central planners, however, the size of China s industrial base has become a cause for alarm rather than celebration.

The fragmented nature of European defense procurement, the Byzantine rules of the European defense trade, and industrial capabilities shaped by the Cold War legacy all sap Europe s ability to meet its military needs.

However, many countries lack the resource base necessary to conduct regular industrial enquiries on short term indicators and structural business statistics, which limits the number of countries reporting industrial statistics to international agencies.

Our people worked hard to recover from the devastation done to our country, to reconstruct our institutions and to rebuild our industrial base.

The problem is more than budgetary. The fragmented nature of European defense procurement, the Byzantine rules of the European defense trade, and industrial capabilities shaped by the Cold War legacy all sap Europe s ability to meet its military needs.

The silver lining is that the absence of a modern industrial base means that, unlike more developed economies, WANA has no ailing industries to rescue.

With most of Latvia's industrial base evacuated to the interior of Russia in 1915, radical land reform was the central political question for the young state.

The industrial base remains weak in sub Saharan Africa, and the region lags behind with respect to manufacturing activity and the level and speed of industrialization.

As shown in a previous study by the secretariat, these changes are underscored by a shift in the industrial base towards low productivity, low pay activities.

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Scott Base passed over to NZ Government ownership via the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), on March 5, 1958, at the conclusion of the TAE.

But how was China able to build a modern industrial base within a relatively short period of time from its traditional, patrimonial family contracts and archaic constitutional structures?

So what, then, are the possible policy options? The absence of a modern industrial base diminishes the WANA economies ability to absorb the surplus generated by oil revenues.

If the orders did shift to another company, Pratt Whitney could decide to move some of the industrial base work it is currently doing in Canada, Hess said.

Since the late 1990 s, China s government has gradually introduced elements of competition and globalization, with the aim of overcoming the entrenched monopoly of China s traditional defense industrial conglomerates.

The French economy, with its strong industrial base and dynamic private and public sector companies, benefited from these devaluations, thanks to increased exports (including to its former African colonies).

But rising CO2 emissions constitute what is really happening on the ground a rapidly growing industrial base in emerging markets is being hard wired to intensive use of coal.

During this period, there was rapid expansion among small and medium sized firms and a gradual retrenchment among the large firms which had hitherto characterised the region's industrial base.

This base was called Base Marret.

In Africa, the development of most countries was inhibited by structural constraints linked to high dependence on a small number of primary products and a narrow local industrial market base.

That wariness is reinforced by a new political factor a defense of Orthodoxy has become a pillar of the national idea on which Putin seeks to base the legitimacy of his regime.

Without a robust industrial base, African countries in general and LDCs in particular will remain disadvantaged and dependent on declining prices of natural resources and on largely agricultural, rural based economies.

The minister for national defense, acting in cooperation with the minister for interior, coordinates the work of the four major committees under the National Defense Council the Military Defense Committee the Civil Defense Committee the Economic Defense Committee and the Psychological Defense Committee.

One sensible pointer from surveying the experience of today's advanced economies, including the newest arrivals from East Asia, is that a broad and robust industrial base is a likely component of success.

Namibia s government, for example, while recognizing that the country will never build a strong industrial base, takes a clear, balanced, and determined approach to attracting, and getting the most out of, multinational corporations.

The Lebanese government approved on January 16, 2009 a request by the Lebanese Ministry of Defense to build a new naval base on the shores of Nahr el Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon.

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Medvedev recently warned that Russia s military industrial complex is starting to be affected by credit problems, stoking fears of a return to the paralyzing payment crises that plagued the defense sector during the 1990 s.

The arms race between Britain and Germany eventually extended to the rest of Europe, with all the major powers devoting their industrial base to producing the equipment and weapons necessary for a pan European conflict.

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It is governed by the Ministry of Defense, and primarily consists of the Japan Ground Self Defense Force (JGSDF), the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) and the Japan Air Self Defense Force (JASDF).

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