The listing, designed to provide a barrier to development in areas where koalas are threatened, is aimed at halting a precipitous drop in numbers that has seen the species decline by 40% in Queensland and by one-third in NSW over the past two decades.
The fundamental barrier to development in Haiti, and the reason so much international aid has failed, the World Bank says, has been two centuries of terrible government controlled by "a small elite" that always monopolized money and power, and "often used force to control the country".
The group has been a strain on the country's security forces and a barrier to development in the vast mineral rich region in eastern India known as the "Red Corridor". Today, the Naxalites heavily influence a third of the country, and India is no closer to eradicating the insurgency than it was 50 years ago.
Junior Doctor One of the recurring barriers to development identified in the interviews was how difficult and time consuming the process of guideline development was when undertaken rigorously.
This analysis builds on a series of country-specific studies published in the Nature Biotechnology journal [ 9- 12], which focused on products and services, partnerships, intellectual property (IP) portfolios, business models, financial environments and barriers to development for companies in each country.
Nationalism and identity politics – of which Brexit is one of the latest examples – are barriers to development among the most marginalised groups in society, according to a UN report.
Social and economic exclusion are major barriers to development for millions of Indonesian children in areas such as education, health and protection.
"Socio-economic inequality is the key barrier to development, particularly in reducing poverty," said Prof. Abdul Barkat, President of the Bangladesh Economic Association, in concluding remarks at the seminar.
