Investment is needed to improve a wide range of areas from market access and financial services to setting up flood-proof communication networks, weather forecast information, drought and flood mitigation, social welfare systems, and cross-border government interaction.
When the Namibian President, Sam Nujoma, came on his first state visit to South Africa, in 1996, Mandela walked the surprised head of state out of a press conference, through the Tuynhuys gardens to the fence that borders Government Avenue, a tree-lined pedestrian thoroughfare in Cape Town.
The property borders government land that cannot be developed.
The new country needed a sovereign, borders, government and military police force.
Despite early warnings from such reputable organizations as Doctors Without Borders, government groups and major donors didn't really start emptying their wallets to help stop the worst Ebola outbreak in history until months later.
The brainless, robot aircraft reflects Washington's standard attitude toward border politics: two governments partnering mindlessly to keep communities divided and hostile. .
As investment has gradually spread across European borders, governments have come under fire from foreign shareholders, enlightened businessmen at home and the European Commission in Brussels.The tide of international capital is not about to retreat.
While corporations are enabled to work across borders, governments want to limit citizens' abilities to work together and respond to them.
For example, once such agreements have facilitated the reorganization of production across multiple national borders, governments' policy space is subsequently limited by the ability of a parent or lead firm to play off subsidiaries or independent contractors in multiple national jurisdictions against one another in order to minimize costs and maximize productivity.
In northern Yemen too, along the Saudi border, the government has withdrawn almost completely.
