Word: regionality
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...income, some communities have been scheduled for "ecological emigration," moved by the government from their native areas to less distressed land and, in the bargain, put in training programs to learn new trades. In Xinjiang, another remote province due west of Inner Mongolia, some 600,000 of the region's one million herders are scheduled to be switched to farming or blue-collar jobs by 2010. In Inner Mongolia, human rights groups have criticized the relocations, saying that sticking herders into unfamiliar jobs only exacerbates the poverty everyone is trying to fight, and that in the process, Mongolian traditions...
Indeed, the opportunity was closing quicker than he may have feared. A day later, the Catalonian government announced it was embracing the very technology Sarin had declared enemy No. 1. In a press release announcing the region's plan to extend broadband coverage throughout its territory, Telecommunications and Information Society secretary Jordi Bosch said, "The Catalonian government is a highly satisfied WiMAX user and believes in promoting the WiMAX advantage...
...project for months. She added that state subsidies for such networks are acceptable only in limited situations - for example, "if they address a well-defined market failure." The Commission has on several occasions approved state aid when it determines that market forces are failing to provide a region with broadband. In February it okayed a publicly-funded fiber-and-wireless broadband scheme in North Yorkshire in the U.K. because the area was underserved by private industry...
...looking at setting up institutions and tax regimes that are favorable to investors. And do all this not just looking at Rwanda. We are trying to present Rwanda as the heart of Africa, to [make Rwanda ] attractive as an access [point] to other markets in our region...
...estimate that their engineering costs alone are about half what they would be in Europe or the U.S. At the same time, Tata has tapped the skills of Italy's Fiat, with which it has a joint venture in India, and of engine designers from Britain's West Midlands region, some of whom had been jobless after closures in Britain's auto industry over the past few years. Indian producers are relentless cost cutters. Many, including Tata, buy parts through Internet auctions to get the best price. Industry analysts speculate that the One-Lakh Car may revolutionize assembly, with some...