To promote the creation and strengthening of sustainable TNC business linkages, this programme also provides policy advice on improving the environment for sustainable business linkages and helps in identifying business linkage opportunities.

Patriotism could generate business opportunities.

Furthermore, many people engaged in the informal sector lack business know how and have limited opportunities to access business information and business support services.

Such partnership schemes sometimes involving business associations and international institutions also exist with a view to identifying business investment opportunities in LDCs.

But, in exchange, the Chinese expect business opportunities and, to some extent, political influence.

Malawi offered a good business climate and many investment opportunities that should be tapped.

In March 2005, ESCAP co organized a seminar on electronic business opportunities for women.

Moreover, large chains tend to integrate backwards, offering new business opportunities to local manufacturers.

Providing sustainable energy for all will create new opportunities for women elsewhere as well.

There probably is not a sustainable business model for newspapers like the Post.

(f) Promote opportunities for self employment, entrepreneurship, the development of cooperatives and starting one's own business

JOHANNESBURG Nowadays, Africa s economic potential and the business opportunities that go with it is widely acknowledged.

They fail to build long term markets and long term opportunities, the crux of business success.

Trade with China is keeping those market forces supplied with goods and business opportunities across the border.

Ms. Jacqueline Cote, Senior Advisor, Advocacy and Partnerships, World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Inspired by the Global Compact's 2002 policy dialogue on business and sustainable development, this initiative facilitates business led enterprise solutions to poverty reduction.

(b) Take further steps to sensitize the business community to procurement opportunities within the United nations system, including

(b) Take further steps to sensitize the business community to procurement opportunities within the United Nations system, including

political entrepreneurship through which the state opens up overseas business opportunities for private capitalists and negotiates the institutional framework for such opportunities to be tapped by these Singaporean firms, and

The Growing Sustainable Business (GSB) initiative for poverty reduction, adopted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) aims to facilitate and increase investment and business activities that have a positive impact on sustainable development and the Millennium Development Goals.

Runaway population growth becomes controllable when women have access to literacy and business opportunities as well as to contraception.

The AVALI (Business Opportunities from Space Technology) programme is also described in document A AC.105 816 Add.1.

Sustainable Economic Opportunity The 30 indicators in the Sustainable Economic Opportunity category are divided into four sub categories Public Management, Business Environment, Infrastructure and Rural Sector.

South Korea has excellent opportunities to build up health care services and to compete in the global medical tourism business.

(iii) Promoting economic freedom and social development and pursuing active policies to provide opportunities for productive employment and sustainable livelihoods

Likewise, there was no comprehension of the innovation and opportunities entailed in pursuing more sustainable paths of inclusive economic growth.

I don t pretend to possess journalism s Holy Grail a sustainable business plan for the newspaper of the future.

This was done by identifying and improving relevant policies and developing practical programmes to support sustainable business partnerships.

One of the more successful programmes aimed at increasing sustainable livelihood opportunities and community empowerment is the Afghan National Solidarity Programme.

At the fourth session, challenges and opportunities for sustainable forest management in small island developing States and African countries were addressed.

The initiative results from the work of the World Business Council on Sustainable Development Sustainable Mobility Group and is being facilitated and implemented by the Global Road Safety Partnership.

Patriotism could generate business opportunities. The great Florentine liberal statesman, Bettino Ricasoli, concluded that Tuscany was simply financially unviable on its own.

It nurtures a pro business environment that encourages enterprise formation and growth, facilitates the growth of industries, enhances the productivity, innovation and capabilities of enterprises, and helps increase access to markets and business opportunities.

For example, those engaged in commercial agriculture can choose to extend business partnerships with companies committed to sustainable operations.

Experience shows that it is possible to close the gap between relief and development and transform disasters into opportunities for sustainable development.

Trade unions see opportunities to promote implementation of sustainable development goals in the thematic cluster of issues of the current implementation cycle.

It offers the prospect of enhanced social and economic development through diversification and expansion of opportunities for sustainable use of forest resources.

Both Brazil and Mexico see business opportunities on the island, especially since Raúl Castro has already made Cuba more open to foreign investment.

Already, industries that have traditionally operated independently from energy to utilities to transportation are moving quickly toward cross sector collaboration, radically altering the business environment, and creating opportunities for new low carbon business models to thrive.

Moreover, Doing Business helps to break down barriers particularly in developing countries that can discourage the establishment of small and medium size enterprises, provide opportunities for corruption, and drive small business owners to the informal sector.

But, partly because several African countries have escaped the hang over from the global credit crisis, more investors are focusing on business opportunities there.

These training have provided opportunities to enable women to gain access to human rights training, business skills, management and a host of other trainings.

In an effort to diversify the economy, Guam has begun to develop fish farms.23 Horticultural development, aquaculture, small scale aquarium fish trading and pearl farming were highlighted as potential business opportunities at a conference on business opportunities in Guam, held in 2004 by the United States Department of the Interior, Office of Insular Affairs.24

A recent initiative was proposed under the Global Compact umbrella in Johannesburg entitled Growing Sustainable Business in the Least Developed Countries .

In terms of outward FDI policies, several developing countries have established outward investment agencies (OIAs), whose primary function is to promote and facilitate investment abroad by helping domestic enterprises develop international business links and pursue overseas business opportunities.