The world s major cities are clogged with traffic jams and pollution.

(c) The grossly insufficient flows of resources into the sector resulting in important strangulations affecting input factors

The secretariat will review the process before the next round in 2006 2007 to identify possible synergy and remove any organizational bottlenecks.

As the volume and pace of operations has increased, new bottlenecks in receiving, inspecting, testing, integrating, consolidating and dispatching of materials have emerged.

87. Many countries in the region continue to experience transportation bottlenecks at times, compounded by a lack of security.

Our cities are exploding in size, depleting water resources and creating horrific traffic congestion.

To avoid such an outcome, Brazil s leaders must increase the efficiency of government spending and use the freed up resources to clear infrastructure bottlenecks.

This is needed to address the infrastructure bottlenecks that are holding back investment by companies in other sectors and slowing the development of agriculture.

At the same time, infrastructural bottlenecks are emerging in some countries of the subregion in terms of transport, communications and energy constraints.

Moreover, India has developed a tendency for chronic inflation, owing to an unhappy combination of supply bottlenecks (caused by poor infrastructure) and excessive demand (thanks to persistent public deficits).

Health sector specific bottlenecks and other institutional and macroeconomic absorptive capacity constraints often preclude the effective use of available external funding.

The combination of faster household spending growth and the existing level of exports would cause production bottlenecks and strain capacity, leading to faster increases in the prices of domestically produced goods.

My days back in Russia were divided between official meetings, hours wasted in traffic jams, and nights spent with old friends who tried to show me the best of Moscow nightlife.

While deleveraging is ongoing in advanced economies, many developing countries will be able to explore untapped investment opportunities infrastructure bottlenecks being a glaring example.

It s a phenomenon familiar to urban planners, who long ago discovered that building more roads doesn t ease traffic jams it merely encourages more people to get in their cars and drive.

Long standing issues relating to land property, land scarcity, and the lack of economic alternatives to agricultural activities are important bottlenecks in the economic reinsertion of returning refugees, the majority of whom are of rural origin.

Debt relief will open doors for the financing of critical projects in electric power, roads, and ports. This is needed to address the infrastructure bottlenecks that are holding back investment by companies in other sectors and slowing the development of agriculture.

33. Several problems present potential bottlenecks to the holding of elections in accordance with the schedule set down in the Agreement. To date, not all representatives of the Elections Commission have been nominated, the Executive Director of the Commission has not yet been chosen and the Elections Commission is not operational.

14. The Meeting found ample evidence that the implementation of population programmes could be impaired by over reliance on the governmental sector and that bottlenecks were likely to occur without the support of community organizations and other grass roots, non governmental institutions.

This surprising lack of change is the result of something economists call the rebound effect. It s a phenomenon familiar to urban planners, who long ago discovered that building more roads doesn t ease traffic jams it merely encourages more people to get in their cars and drive.