Sentences with phrase «largely by national governments»

National internal markets are structured largely by national governments, and international markets are structured transnationally by agreements between governments.

Not exact matches

The cost of the Crossrail project was largely seen as its most controversial aspect and fears that substantial government funding would place significant pressures on the transport budget led former transport secretary Alistair Darling to announce that the Crossrail project would not be funded entirely by the national taxpayer.

Speaking at the 21 st National Banking Conference, organized by the Charted Institute of Bankers, in Accra on Tuesday November 28, 2017, Vice President Bawumia explained that Ghana has one of the highest mortgage - to - income ratios in the world and high interest rates because of the largely informal nature of her economy, and the reforms being undertaken by the Nana Akufo - Addo government are meant to address this challenge.

The scale of this initiative, funded largely by Rotary International, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization (WHO), Unicef, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and many national governments, is unprecedented.

Since the 1940s, when the U.S. government began to invest seriously in civilian research, the work has been done largely at the nation's universities and paid for through competitive, temporary grants awarded to individual professors by federal funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

«The U.S. and Europe can not produce enough plant feedstocks to meet targets» for biofuel production — even with cellulosic corn — as defined by government mandates, which are largely being driven by a growing demand for energy independence and national security concerns, said Thurmond.

The opponents of climate change policies have largely succeeded in opposing proposed climate change law and policy by claiming that government action on climate change should be opposed because: (1) it will impose unacceptable costs on national economics or specific industries and destroy jobs, (2) there is too much scientific uncertainty to warrant government action, or (3) it would be unfair and ineffective for nations like the United States to adopt expensive climate policies as long as China or India fail to adopt serious greenhouse gas emissions reductions policies.

Similarly, the authors of a report on a Native Title Connection Workshop facilitated by the National Native Title Tribunal (NNTT) and the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in 2007 commented that «in most jurisdictions the current processes have simply relocated the evidentiary process from the Court to, largely, State or Territory governments».