Its development plays a critical role in shaping a country's technological capabilities.

Institutional economics focuses on understanding the role of the evolutionary process and the role of institutions in shaping economic behaviour.

The media plays an important role in recreating and reinforcing gender stereotypes as well as shaping new attitudes.

UNDP could play a leading role in shaping an informed gender mainstreamed approach to post crisis development strategy.

It is not only in central banking, of course, that we see the role of historical experience in shaping policymaking.

The banks institutional personalities reflect the role of collective memory in shaping how officials conceptualize the problems that they face.

A study by Sorin Matei in 2005 used mental maps to reveal the role of media in shaping urban space in Los Angeles.

While new media plays an important role in shaping people's opinions, new means of communication play an important role on the ground where they also help in organizing the masses in protests and demonstrations.

I have repeatedly stressed the critical role that Wen s Four Uns have played in shaping the pro consumption strategy of the Next China.

But, ever since the sixteenth century, the center has played the main role in shaping Russian history, and now looks to be no different.

Although a strong sense of modern nationalism exists in both, ancient ethnic and religious communities play a critical role in shaping political identities and public life.

At the same time, in order to ensure continued progress toward financial inclusion, representatives from developing and emerging economies must play a greater role in shaping future standards.

History The conceptual origins of software studies include Marshall McLuhan's focus on the role of media in themselves, rather than the content of media platforms, in shaping culture.

Under the Evian approach, the Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) undertaken by IMF for each debtor country plays a critical role in shaping the outcome of debt restructuring.

When gender equality was made a cross cutting issue, it often became invisible, as did the effect of development policies on women and their role in shaping them.

He has drawn attention to the fact that the attitudes and outlook of youth on life and society play a determining role in shaping our destiny and our future.

The problem with globalization today is precisely that a few may benefit and a majority may be worse off, unless government takes an active role in managing and shaping it .

The US and the international community must acknowledge that today s fast rising China has earned the right to play an important role in shaping how the twenty first century unfolds.

Shaping the Post Carbon Economy

Most importantly, the summit reaffirmed the role of the transatlantic community of democratic nations and shared values as the most powerful force for shaping our future.

In the field of Justice and Home Affairs, for example, the UK has so far played a major role in shaping EU policies that all member states must adopt in less than two years.

NEW DELHI Competition for strategic natural resources including water, mineral ores, and fossil fuels has always played a significant role in shaping the terms of the international economic and political order.

Second, we've been able to look at that interaction of how supermassive black holes interact, and understand, maybe, the role in which they play in shaping what galaxies are, and how they work.

These changes are shaping our future in a positive way.

It should assist emerging economies in shaping sound domestic financial markets.

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Shaping you into any form He pleased ?

Developing and implementing criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management. Criteria and indicators play a key role in the shaping of a common vision of what constitutes sustainable forest management and in measuring and monitoring progress.

The shift is aimed at ensuring that the US plays a larger and long term role in shaping this region, where it has long helped to maintain stability and contributed to unprecedented economic growth.

Just as important will be Europe's interests in shaping the global rulebook.

But his advisers, some of whom played a key role in shaping Nigeria s foreign policy in the 1970 s, are keen to use the gas flaring issue to demonstrate Yar Adua s resolve and standing as a pan African leader.

Liu played an important role in shaping the recently adopted 12th Five Year Plan, with its emphasis on urbanization and service sector development as a means to increase personal incomes and the share of consumer spending in GDP.

They long for peace, stability, and a say in shaping their country s future.

To call interests geopolitical underscores the influence of geography in shaping those interests.

Thus, Ireland might yet play as significant a part as Germany in determining the future of any amendments to the EU constitutional order, with each country s top court playing as important a role as politicians in shaping Europe s future.

Therefore, the United Nations must pursue a far reaching and comprehensive vision of change and play a more decisive and effective role in shaping a broad development policy that contributes to improving life in all parts of the world.

This is why, in global economic governance and the shaping of policies affecting international economic relations, it is important to ensure the existence of an inclusive process of decision making in which developing countries can play a meaningful role.

Several developments and forces are now shaping this arena.

Away from the rarefied atmosphere of EU summits (which, so far, have been shaping the Union s response to events in Greece), other institutional actors have been and are shaping the EU system.

In short, the moment has arrived for shaping events instead of simply marking anniversaries.

This is a commendable effort on their part if it's indeed intended to honor outstanding Syrian blogs, encourage and support a blogging culture and expose the role of blogs in the making and shaping of a civil society in Syria.

It has an important role to play in shaping attitudes and civic values, as well as in building a State based on the rule of law and concerned to promote and guarantee citizens' basic rights and universally accepted democratic principles.

After all, it conducts a comprehensive triennial Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), which provides a detailed assessment of the role that wealth and balance sheets play in shaping the behavior of a broad cross section of American consumers.

Ms. Hampson stated that standard setting was not only about creating binding legal norms, but also about creating standards or guidelines for the implementation of these norms, which played an important role in shaping the interpretation of norms.

Fire and humanity long ago began shaping each other s realm.