Sentence examples for as an engine for development from inspiring English sources
In other significant departures from old U.N. positions, the Consensus highlights the importance of foreign direct investment for sustained growth in developing countries and approves meaningful trade liberalization as an engine for development.
What China above all - but also India, Brazil and Russia - are interested in is South Africa as an engine for development and a gateway for investment in Africa as a whole.
In 2008, the United Nations Environment Program UNEPP) launched the initiative of Green Economy, which encourages companies to regard environmental protection as an engine for development, instead of a burden.
We hope the studios will be an engine for development and will attract peripheral businesses such as set making and lighting supply".
It is the first new leg on the Qinghai-Tibetan railway, an engineering feat opened in 2006 that has been hailed as an engine for Tibetan development — and criticized by some as a conduit for the migration of Han Chinese from the rest of the country.
"Accompanying every financial crisis is a revolution in technology that serves as an engine for economic development.
An aggressive effort is afoot to reframe the Texas Commission on the Arts as an engine for economic development and to give Texas' designated cultural districts access to existing state incentive funds.
The governments may increasingly regard the Amazon as an engine for economic growth, but native groups are struggling to balance development with the desire to preserve a nearly primordial way of life.
As Mr Ghani writes, "South Asia resembles the growth patterns of Ireland and Norway, rather than that of China and Malaysia".Underlining their role as an engine for, rather than product of, development, exports have swelled from roughly 6% of services output in poor countries in 1985 to almost 10% in 2005.
