Sentence examples for development and modernisation from inspiring English sources

With poverty redefined in terms of the environment and infused with pro-rural socialism, large-scale projects to industrialise or modernise are not the priority – indeed, western-style development and modernisation are seen as part of the problem.

Companies fostered loyalty to the firm and kept trade unionism at bay by providing for their employees' welfare.Mr Jacoby traces the development and modernisation of welfare capitalism from the 1930s to the 1960s by looking closely at three firms: Eastman Kodak, Sears Roebuck and Thompson Products.

However, China's main priority at the moment is economic development and modernisation of its infrastructure.

Independent assessment of the site confirms that significant development and modernisation of elements of the complex will be necessary to make the most of the buildings and riverside area for the future.

As China's first phase of development and modernisation comes to a close, the new leadership might wonder how its restive citizens would react to an economic setback – one that collapsed the bargain of the last 20 years in which political stasis was accepted in return for economic advance.

The first of them is the bloc's perceived competence, that is, the available knowledge, technologies and investment which Nazarbayev needs for Kazakhstan's economic development and modernisation.

26 32 Additionally, sociocultural changes including economic development, urbanisation and modernisation have been shown to contribute to this problem through the increased availability, affordability and consumption of unhealthful foods and adoption of a sedentary lifestyle.

"China's economic development and military modernisation programmes have witnessed dramatic progress since the early-1980s," said Karl Eikenberry in the American Interest.

Juscelino Kubitschek, president from 1956 to 1961, led a program of rapid economic development and urban modernisation, epitomized by the construction of Brasília, the new capital – and it was against this backdrop that Clark made some of her most iconic art.

But younger novelists were surely right when they criticised him for projecting to the world an archaic vision of Latin America, as an exotic and provincial place, incapable of successful modernisation, development and democracy.On the other hand, Macondo still co-exists with the modern world in many parts of Latin America.

It can be viewed primarily as a development issue, as it is both a direct consequence of increasing industrialisation and modernisation and a huge constraint on development itself (Hyder and Ghaffar, 2004; McMahon and Ward, 2006; World Health Organization, 2009).