States are creating business incubators and focusing efforts around the nation's big public research universities.
He said officials are focusing efforts on building dikes to protect critical infrastructure.
Understanding what places are most vulnerable to natural disasters can be vital to focusing efforts on making cities more resilient.
He said that the Intel program was a step forward, but that focusing efforts on training teachers had serious drawbacks.
Construction on new lines has slowed since the new team leading the ministry began focusing efforts on improving safety.
This month, the Obama administration has begun focusing efforts in Central America to dissuade more families from sending their children on such perilous journeys.
In addition, city planners are focusing efforts to make sure traffic and parking problems do not spiral out of control with the new construction.
Focusing efforts on these areas could bring down remittance prices, and increase the amounts that reach migrant worker's families by millions of dollars each year.
Over the January break, opposition activists began focusing efforts on the Duma, hoping that outrage over the adoption ban would re-energize flagging protests.
With no end in sight to the crisis, Unicef is focusing efforts on providing care Two women die every week from violence in the home.
That brings us back to maternal and child health, where governments and development agencies have been focusing efforts and seeing impressive results.
