Sentences with phrase «infrastructure challenges in»

A Civil Society Group, SEND - Ghana, is questioning government's commitment towards addressing infrastructure challenges in various second cycle schools across the country, considering the inadequate budgetary allocation to the sector.

Talk to anyone my age or older and they wring their hands at the seemingly infinite number of infrastructure challenges in the Middle East.

Not exact matches

Building business ecosystems in places such as China actually creates a buffer against cultural and infrastructure challenges that hamper entrepreneurs.

Doing business in less - developed country is always going to pose a range of challenges, from corrupt officials to bad infrastructure to non-existent environmental regulations and shoddy labour conditions.

«I think many states would have a serious challenge in providing 80 % of funding for viable infrastructure projects,» said one lobbyist closely involved in tracking the issue, referring to the component of the White House plan that caps federal investment at 20 %.

Finding those ingredients — especially in parts of the world with limited infrastructure and poorly developed distribution systems — poses a major challenge.

Passed amidst bitter partisan division and an ambivalent public... the right depends on private actors, private health insurance companies, and willing states to administer and participate in a newly transparent, competitive, and streamlined private health insurance market, while these same actors hesitate to invest in the infrastructure of this market due to uncertainty from legal and political challenges to the ACA.

Starting a social business presents its own set of challenges, but couple that with the security risks, poor infrastructure and lack of resources found in a disaster area and you have the perfect recipe for failure.

Transportation policy experts say that high - speed transit in the United States has been stymied not so much by technological challenges as by the challenges of acquiring rights of way and getting enough money for the required infrastructure.

She maintained that 70 % of infrastructure that will be needed in cities by 2016 still has not been built, and that without these improvements, cities will face major challenges in accommodating fast growth.

It also faces the challenge of any greenfield infrastructure project in this day and age, convincing stakeholders (in this case, all the way down the Great Plains states) to let it pass.

The challenge in prompting change — broadening the classic definition of «infrastructure,» and investing in initiatives aimed at adapting to a turbulent planet — is heightened by partisan divisions over climate policy and development.

In fact, the P3 approach does nothing to solve the fundamental infrastructure funding challenge faced by governments at the local, state, and federal levels.

Trump's tax cuts and planned $ 1.5 trillion in infrastructure spending, which are expected to boost the economy while escalating the budget deficit, could pose a challenge for Powell.

The resources they produce could be used to relieve capacity problems in the Northeast, but continued legal challenges and political opposition have stalled or slowed planned infrastructure projects such as the Constitution Pipeline and Access Northeast pipeline.

Canada can provide a significant amount of that supply, but there are huge infrastructure and environmental challenges in getting these products across the Pacific.

As Tonbo explains, modern - day battlefields, critical infrastructures, unmanned reconnaissance, transport vehicles driving in the dark — all offer challenging environments for effective visualization.

Regardless of the climate challenge, policymakers and development banks in developed and emerging economies are facilitating more cities to tap into bond markets for their infrastructure requirements.

Leslie Palti - Guzman (Rapidan Energy Group) discusses the impact of Chinese demand for LNG, the outlook for markets in South Asia, South Korea's proposal to phase out nuclear energy, and challenges to constructing the infrastructure needed to support growing LNG demand.

Fixing damaged infrastructure has been an insurmountable challenge for responders in Puerto Rico.

Many of the countries and communities in which they operate face significant challenges in health, education, economic development, and basic infrastructure.

However, the business model in India is a little more challenging since its infrastructure and ability to sustain development is still questionable.

In a state with serious infrastructure challenges, CES has been able to provide a bridge between Alaska - grown foods and the students who are eating them.

This report focuses on one crucial set of challenges that school districts face in meeting nutrition standards for meals: the need for improved equipment and infrastructure.

This report presents findings about the challenges districts face in implementing the updated meal standards, specifically as they relate to equipment and infrastructure needs.

School food authorities, * or SFAs, are managing to serve healthier meals despite challenges, such as limitations in their existing kitchen equipment and infrastructure and in the knowledge and skills of food service staff.5 As of September 2013, USDA data confirm that 80 percent of schools reported meeting the standards.6 These changes are a huge step forward for child nutrition and, therefore, children's health.

I asked Willie to offer insight into the funding, infrastructure, challenges and successes of feeding kids in the morning.

Question: You travelled to see for yourself the challenges that poster services are facing, in terms of infrastructure, what do you think needs improvement?

«While I expect this fight to continue, it is my hope the administration can put this destructive chapter behind them and focus on solving our country's important issues, including funding infrastructure, creating jobs for working - class Americans, and developing a meaningful urban agenda to tackle the serious challenges facing America's cities,» said Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner in a statement.

The challenges and current issues imposed on Local Authorities are an opportunity for innovation and efficiency in the way that services are designed, managed and provided for taxpayers and the travelling public to deliver the infrastructure the UK needs.»

Partnership, if precisely planned and structured, can be a powerful tool not only to keep public company viable but also to address cost and investment challenges, improve efficiency and service quality, increase expertise, attract more rapid and substantial investments in infrastructure and new energy technologies.

Village of Mineola Mayor Scott Strauss said, «Governor Cuomo has shown a willingness to work with and include local governments to establish his record of achievement in tackling large infrastructure challenges and to deliver the transportation options that all New Yorkers deserve.

New Roadmap for Tourism Investment: The governor said a gap analysis will help identify transformative tourism infrastructure and marketing challenges and opportunities, and create a roadmap for public and private investment in the tourism sector.

In Mozambique, the development of infrastructure to support the coal assets is more challenging than Rio Tinto originally anticipated.

Speaking at the 22nd Congregation of the University of Education, Winneba, on Saturday 21st April, 2018, H.E. Dr Mahamudu Bawumia said government had been mindful of the expected increase in tertiary admissions, and was working assiduously to provide the necessary funding to address the infrastructure challenges before the first batch of the FSHS complete in 2020.

Higher Heights» Glynda Carr said black women in New York face the same challenges as black women in other states: navigating the political infrastructure and gatekeepers, being prepared to raise the necessary amount of money — particularly in a «major media outlet» like New York — to be a viable candidate and navigating where the entry points will be.

Puerto Rico faces many challenges in the coming months and years of storm recovery, with its pre-Maria financial crisis and infrastructure issues deepening those challenges and increasing the cost and difficulty of long term rebuilding.

We are so grateful to have such strong leaders as Assemblymen Tedisco and McLaughlin who recognize the precarious state of our aging underground and forgotten infrastructure, and who understand how we can incorporate cost effective, new technologies — such as UV cured - in - place pipe lining — to provide New Yorkers with safe solutions to what is possibly the greatest challenge to our life - sustaining underground infrastructure that we have seen in generations,» said Mara Killburn, Managing Member, Precision Trenchless.

«By investing in New York's transportation network today and equipping it to meet the challenges of tomorrow, we are cementing our state's position as a national leader in 21st century infrastructure and cutting - edge innovation,» Governor Cuomo said.

London Mayor Boris Johnson says he has been dealing with a transport challenge in London - trying to modernise the city's Victorian infrastructure during an economic crisis, when expenditure has had to be cut.

We must not ignore the commitment and relentless efforts of Governor Shettima, who is pumping large chunk of state's share from the Federation Account to address the security challenges, the plight of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) as well as the rehabilitation and reconstruction of infrastructure destroyed by the terrorists in the state (Link: https://goo.gl/P6n5XH).

«Secondly, the university should tailor its researches into immediate and prospective challenges of mankind in health, food, housing, infrastructure, societal organisation and the seemingly unknown aspects on nature», Aregbesola said.

«He will need to employ all of these qualities and more to deal with the current transit crisis, and I look forward to him tackling the tremendous challenges facing the Long Island Rail Road and Penn Station infrastructure issues in particular.»

«We definitely need a much fairer tax code in New York state because right now the major challenge in New York state is how we're going to pay for our schools, our water systems, our infrastructure and just basic services the state is providing,» said Karen Scharff, the executive director of Citizen Action and a state co-chair of the Working Families Party.

Take Ivory Coast.I find it difficult understanding why an academician or to be more specific, an accomplished economist of Dr Bawumia's calibre.Let me quote here a statement made by Madam Christie Lagarde the IMF director «Mediocre economic growth could become the new reality leaving millions stuck without jobs and increasing the risk to global financial stability» she said this after she has explicitly stated the global economic challenges and how certain structural reforms in Ghana including infrastructure investment as well as trade reforms were going to impact positively on Ghana's economy.

The President acknowledged that in every new endeavor, there are bound to be challenges, citing the logistics, infrastructure and resource constraints since the take - off of the Free Senior High School programme, but was thankful that the programme did take off.

«The poor performance of industry and the business sector in general, could also be attributed to other challenges they faced, including, but not limited to, lack of access to finance, high interest rates, an unstable exchange rate, high import duties on raw materials and machinery, poor facilitation of import and export trade, particularly at our ports, inadequate and poor quality of raw materials for industrial processing, a poorly developed domestic trade infrastructure, lack of effective collaboration between research institutions and industry, limited access to serviced land for industrial production activities and poor standards of regulation and certification.»

Like many towns nowadays, Rosendale has been struggling in recent years with the logistical and fiscal challenges of upgrading aging infrastructure.

Amputee football has been faced with lots of challenges ranging from the lack of equipment, poor infrastructure, social stigmatization, low self - esteem, in - fighting among stakeholders and exploitation of the athletes involved in the sport.

They added: «If the IDC refuses to accept this offer, the State Democratic Party infrastructure would be prepared to unite in presenting primary challenges to IDC members.