For a country with one of the fastest-growing economies in Latin America, rural Colombia has a shockingly deficient infrastructure, and the government is simply not present in wide swaths of the country.
Maybe you fall into the majority of Americans who believe our dangerously deficient infrastructure needs a ton of work.
The senators said the memorial would serve an additional purpose: As a reminder of the dangers of deficient infrastructure.
In developing countries, the risk for health associated infections is twenty times higher than in developed countries because of poor social environment, deficient infrastructure, rudimentary equipment, and a lack of national and local infection control policies [ 6].
In places where energy services are inaccessible - whether due to deficient infrastructure, high costs, or emergency conditions - Luci is a dependable source of light.
The point was deficient infrastructure, she says.
For most countries, the negative impact of deficient infrastructure is at least as large as that associated with crime, red tape, corruption, and financial market constraints".
It also includes stories on the country's deficient infrastructure, on fishing regulation in Chile and on the role of the army in Venezuela's presidential election.
Next year, for the first time, more than half the population is likely to be living in urban areas, implying a further boost to consumption, the country's main source of economic growth.Second, fiscal restraint in recent years has left the government with the resources to spend more on Indonesia's deficient infrastructure and public services.
The main losers from higher trade barriers will be consumers who have to pay higher prices for cars and other products, while industrialists pocket undeserved profits.The underlying problem in Brazil is that high interest rates and taxes, plus deficient infrastructure, make doing business in the country expensive.
Other pressing issues are: upgrading the deficient infrastructure of ports, airports and roads.
